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Cantilever, Lissen and Other Niche Services: Streaming Without Algorithms

There is a particular kind of fatigue that sets in after years of algorithmic listening. You open the app, and it already knows what it wants you to hear. The autoplay queue slides seamlessly from one track into the next, each one a fractional variation on the last, until you look up an hour later […]

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4 August 2026
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Open-Source Music Players in 2026: From Feishin to Spotube

There has never been a stranger time to love recorded music. The major streaming platforms have never been more convenient, more algorithmically fluent, or more comprehensive — and yet the sense of unease around them has never been louder. Prices creep upward. Catalogs shift under your feet as licensing deals expire. “Your” library is a […]

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4 August 2026
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Why Major Streaming Services Are Killing the Long Tail of Indie Artists

In 2004, a Wired editor named Chris Anderson looked at the sales data of online retailers and saw the future. Digital shelves were infinite. Freed from the physical constraints of a record store that could only stock the hits, an online catalog could carry everything—and, Anderson argued, the aggregate demand for all the obscure, niche, […]

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4 August 2026
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SoundCloud vs Spotify: Where Indie Music Finds Its Audience

For an independent artist in 2026, the question is rarely “should I put my music online?” That decision made itself years ago. The real question is more subtle and more consequential: where does my music actually find the people who will care about it, and which platform’s economics reward the way I make and share […]

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4 August 2026
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From Code to Stage: How Indie Developers Write Subsonic Clients and Save Their Music Collections

There is a particular kind of quiet rebellion happening on laptops and single-board computers around the world. It does not make headlines. It does not have a marketing budget. It rarely trends. But if you follow the trail of self-hosted servers humming in closets, of Git repositories with names like Feishin and Amperfy and Supersonic, […]

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4 August 2026
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How Independent Programmers Build a Personal Spotify on a Raspberry Pi

Commercial music streaming services offer convenience, massive catalogs, and polished apps. They also come with monthly fees, opaque algorithms, sudden licensing removals that gray out tracks, limited control over data, and royalties so low that many independent artists earn almost nothing from streams. For programmers who value ownership, privacy, and independence, there is a clear […]

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16 July 2026
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How to Set Up Unlimited Streaming for Free: A Self-Hosted Music Guide

There is a particular kind of frustration familiar to anyone who has spent years on commercial music streaming. An album you loved quietly disappears because of a licensing dispute. The playlist you built gets reshuffled by an algorithm that would rather sell you a podcast. The monthly bill creeps up again. And through it all, […]

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24 June 2026
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Funkwhale and Decentralized Streaming: Music Without Algorithm Censorship

There is a particular kind of fatigue that comes from modern music streaming. You open an app, and before you have chosen a single song, the software has already chosen for you. A “Made For You” mix greets you. A row of algorithmically generated playlists scrolls past. The home screen is a slot machine of […]

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17 June 2026
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How an Indie Programmer Built His Own Streaming Service and Left Spotify Forever

A note before we start: the “I” in this essay is a composite — an archetypal indie developer stitched together from countless real threads on r/selfhosted, Lemmy, and Hacker News, and from the very real software and tradeoffs those communities live with. The frustrations are real. The tools are real. The steps are real enough […]

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30 May 2026
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Why Bandcamp Pays Artists Dozens of Times More Than Spotify

Independent musicians have long complained that streaming economics leave most of them with almost nothing. Spotify, the dominant platform, generates billions in royalties overall, yet the typical independent artist sees only fractions of a cent per play. Bandcamp operates on a fundamentally different model. Instead of pooling subscription revenue and dividing it by total streams, […]

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14 May 2026
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