This month in digital music libraries - January 2024
January 26, 2024 in digital music by Dan Gravell
This month - moving off streaming services and considering music as cultural consumption!
Just a note about our last post about a release pause. We’ve now integrated a new code signing certificate, so we should be good to restart releases next week. A new build is already in testing!
Cutting the cord
A few posts about moving away from streaming services. First, u/MortimerMcMire315 shared his workflow in the r/DataHoarder subreddit:
How I migrated my music from Spotify https://t.co/J9wQfyPH4z pic.twitter.com/CepXnBpE7P
— bliss (@bliss_music) January 5, 2024
Some good tips and recommendations there.
And once you’ve organised all that music here’s a new, beautiful music player to play it via (assuming you’ve gone the music server route):
A new desktop music player designed to work with your #selfhosted music server https://t.co/YG2X2XRUh6 (#Subsonic support coming soon hopefully). pic.twitter.com/MccVzCbUoF
— bliss (@bliss_music) January 3, 2024
Music, media, culture
A really well written history of how music has affected a family, and a reminder that our relationships with culture and art are shaped by way we experience that art.
A family musical history https://t.co/WQjNRI62Qk - one that @Hickeywriter might appreciate. pic.twitter.com/MFIJn3jXvV
— bliss (@bliss_music) January 11, 2024
Meanwhile, how do you record and remember what art you’ve enjoyed?
Keeping track of the things you've watched, read, listened to... https://t.co/MK53d7u3hn pic.twitter.com/ajbNihFgby
— bliss (@bliss_music) January 16, 2024
And stepping back and considering just music, how are music sales going?
Review of music sales in the UK for 2023. Continued increase in streaming, but ever concentrated toward established acts. Further declines in album sales, but individual songs holding up. https://t.co/mBDUQSz6kk pic.twitter.com/IFyrkdQwPL
— bliss (@bliss_music) January 13, 2024
Free music!
A couple of links I found this week of free music, should you want something novel to divert you…
An alternative browser for @internetarchive 's live music recordings https://t.co/Aa3ipzvQNg
— bliss (@bliss_music) January 1, 2024
Moby has made a library of recordings available for music creators to re-use https://t.co/Z3d9PzKy6w
— bliss (@bliss_music) January 24, 2024
Photo by Bruno Bučar on Unsplash
