This month in digital music libraries - June 2025
June 26, 2025 in digital music by Dan Gravell
This month: the history of the “Internet Radio” feature seen on on many devices, home brewed vintage players, toilet music(!) and the more serious nature of the legal challenges of the music and tech industries, tested by Musi.
Streaming
Musi’s functionality - streaming from YouTube while restricting advertising - is clearly problematic to both the tech and music industries. It blunts both advertising and streaming income. It seems like there is questionable behaviour on both sides here… Is there a conspiracy between big tech and the music industry? Are Musi overstepping the mark in terms of their product and the way they are fighting this battle?
The banning of Musi (an app that streams from YouTube and restricts adverts) from the #AppStore resurfaces arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
— bliss - automated music library management (@blisshq.com) 3 June 2025 at 16:04
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Hardware and devices
How the Internet Radio feature of your hi-fi works - an interesting and maybe overlooked history of the Internet Radio providers!
Under the covers of the "Internet Radio" function on your hi-fi www.hifinews.com/content/inte... thanks @HiFiNewsmag
— bliss - automated music library management (@blisshq.com) 1 June 2025 at 16:02
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WiiM have made great progress with their affordable streamers and amps. Now they are licencing their OS to other hi-fi companies:
Interesting that @wiimhome.bsky.social are now reselling their OS www.whathifi.com/hi-fi/pro-je...
— bliss - automated music library management (@blisshq.com) 20 June 2025 at 16:05
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But how about this if you want something a little more home-grown and… vintage?
Modding a vintage #RadioShack tape deck with a #RaspberryPi www.reddit.com/r/raspberry_...
— bliss - automated music library management (@blisshq.com) 13 June 2025 at 16:04
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How about not just embedding album art inside a file, but actually burning the art onto a CD?
This could take embedded album art to the next level! github.com/arduinocelen...
— bliss - automated music library management (@blisshq.com) 11 June 2025 at 16:06
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And don’t say you’ve never wanted one of these…
Only tangentially music related but I had to post this... loodio.com Maybe an @asti.ga integration is required?
— bliss - automated music library management (@blisshq.com) 9 June 2025 at 16:05
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See you next month!
Photo by Bruno Bučar on Unsplash
