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Music

Music Player Applications

Criteria1: supports FLAC+XSPF, updates in <2y, cross-platform or on GNU/Linux

where to buy?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/apr/03/how-much-musicians-make-spotify-itunes-youtube

Service approx. portion of revenue which goes to the artist ↓
Bandcamp 80%
Spotify
(streaming instead of buying)
70%
iTunes (single track) 70%
Reverbnation 66%
Google Play 65%
Amazon 53%
iTunes (Album) 53%

where to sell?

Service approx. portion of revenue which goes to the artist ↓
cdbaby 66%
Tunecore 66%

Playlists

Formats

M3U simply a list of files, supported by nearly all software and hardware players in existence
XSPF XML-based, currently the cleanest format

see also:


[1] not considered: DeadBeeF (no XSPF), Clementine (dead)