Thousands of rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive -- listen now | TechCrunch Chicago-based music superfan Aadam Jacobs has been recording the concerts he goes to since the 1980s, amassing an archive of over 10,000 tapes.

More concert recordings heading to the Internet Archive techcrunch.com/2026/04/13/t...

Backblaze has quietly stopped backing up your data | Robert Reese's Website TLDR: Despite claiming to backup all your data, Backblaze quietly stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders - along with potentially many other things.

Be careful if you use #Backblaze to backup #OneDrive or #Dropbox data rareese.com/posts/backbl...

Just landed: Sonos search Pleased to say we've now passed Sonos's testing process for search:

Just landed: Sonos search!

You can now search your cloud hosted music library via #Sonos apps, controllers and devices.

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This month in digital music libraries - March 2026 March 2026's digital music library roundup covers streaming service updates, self-hosted software improvements, music health research, historical computer music experiments, and fascinating data…

This Month in Digital Music Libraries - March 2026 - music streaming, stat-attack, #Sonos, and listening, beyond the grave. www.blisshq.com/music-librar...

Just 24 minutes of specially designed music could significantly reduce anxiety A clinical trial found that listening to specially designed music with auditory beat stimulation can significantly reduce anxiety. Among several listening lengths tested, a 24-minute session…

A tune a day keeps the doctor away www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Restoring the first recording of computer music Listen to the earliest known recording of computer-generated music, captured in 1951 with a BBC portable acetate disc cutter.

Alan Turing's side-hustle: computer music www.bl.uk/stories/blog...

'The company was, demonstrably, spread too thin': Sonos' CEO reveals he's still frustrated with the 'peculiar' app just like users, but is 'now at the place' where the company can fix it 'If I'm candid…' — Tom Conrad talks things he still doesn't like about the app, and why the company's been quiet for a year

Sonos CEO Tom Conrad talks about "righting the ship" - quite a candid and honest interview. www.techradar.com/audio/multi-...

Astiga Build 20260317 🔧

Stability update with improvements across play queue, sync, storage accounts, #Subsonic & #Sonos .

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Billy Corgan Believes Rock Music Was "Purposely Dialed Down" in Late '90s Billy Corgan has a theory as to why rock music hasn't been as prevalent in mainstream culture in the 21st century as it used to be.

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We've posted our 2026 roadmap - let us know what you think! community.asti.ga/discussion/8...

That's the impression I got... I suppose you could run a cable to it if it's on a shelf...

Spotify and Liquid Death Bring Music to the Afterlife With the Eternal Playlist Urn and Playlist Generator — Spotify Life needs music. So does the afterlife. That’s why Spotify has partnered with Liquid Death to create the Eternal Playlist Urn, the world’s first wireless speaker designed to bring your music…

No judgements. No comment. All I would say is: it's not April 1st yet. newsroom.spotify.com/2026-02-24/l...

New Astiga build 🚀
Library enhancement is now configurable:
- No enhancement
- Supplementary info only (bios, images)
- Full enhancement

Plus Web, Subsonic, 2FA & play queue fixes.

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Metal Archives Graphs - Data Visualizations Interactive visualizations of global metal music production from Metal Archives data

#STATPORN this time for #metal metal-archives-graphs.neocities.org (gotta admit it was the neocities domain that made me click)

Introducing the Musidex: A physical music library for the streaming era A tangible music library of streaming service URLs, served by a Rolodex.

Love the playback link via QR code... hannahilea.com/blog/musidex/

This month in digital music libraries - February 2026 February 2026 brings innovations in music player UX, self-hosted streaming solutions, and thoughtful explorations of music culture—from hardware experiments to discussions on artist economics and…

This Month in Digital Music Libraries - February 2026.Hardware experiments, software experiments, listening economics www.blisshq.com/music-librar...

Astiga Build 20260224 🎧
- Fix play queue repeating last track
- Artist name added to album list
- Folder add fixed on public player
- Reduced sync memory usage

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TILES Add a description for facebook

Experiments in (hardware) music player UX emilechuffart.com/project/tiles

Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are already sold out for the entire year, says Western Digital AI companies have bought out Western Digital's storage capacity for 2026. It's only February.

The increased demand of AI on hard drive costs mashable.com/article/ai-h...

We've worked with Rob for many years; his integrity, honesty, belief, drive and enthusiasm for @MetaBrainz were an inspiration.

Backblaze Drive Stats for 2025 Backblaze's 2025 Year-End Drive Stats Report provides an in-depth analysis of hard drive failure rates for Q4, the full year, and lifetime performance across its data center fleet.

Backblaze drive stats, 2025. Annual failure rates down, lifetime failure rates stable. www.backblaze.com/blog/backbla...

Fake 7-Zip downloads are turning home PCs into proxy nodes A convincing lookalike of the popular 7-Zip archiver site has been silently turning victims’ machines into residential proxy nodes.

Be careful which version of 7-Zip you download! www.malwarebytes.com/blog/threat-...

New Astiga build 🚀
- Major Web play queue refactor (faster large playlists)
- Library enhancement now adds release dates, genres & cover art
- Profiles UI in Web settings
- Multiple Sonos, sync & sorting fixes

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been on the hunt for one of these, did not expect the one i found today to have 100+ CDs left in it

Very nice (and the free CDs were a bonus!) #cdcollectors www.reddit.com/r/Cd_collect...

Claude Composer What happens when you ask Claude Code to compose music? Five experiments later: original songs, music videos, and a full album, all built from scratch.

A nicely written and presented series of experiments getting #ClaudeCode to write music www.josh.ing/blog/claude-... thanks @jshchnz

moltdj - Music by machines, for machines API-first music platform for AI bots. Generate tracks and podcasts via REST API. Agents: read https://moltdj.com/SKILL.md

AI bots' musical tastes are undeniably #Radio2 moltdj.com/discover

Oh cool, Subsonic compatibility! That means you could connect it to... me! And see reccos in your own/Subsonic/Astiga collection...

From the selfhosted community on Reddit Explore this post and more from the selfhosted community

Be careful blindly using AI skills... www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted...

I'm back to building my own digital music collection Hidde's blog about web accessibility, standards, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and more.

Some good tips on musical acquisition and discovery post-streaming here... hidde.blog/owning-music/

I would guess so. Is it a problem of matching, or are they definitely not in your library? I think this something that should be addressed - but it would require some knowledge of what's in your wider library.