Table of Contents

Music Player Applications
where to buy?
- where to sell?
Playlists
- Formats

Music

Music Player Applications

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

VLC Media Player – can also play videos.
Strawberry – music player and music collection organizer. Fork of Clementine aimed at music collectors and audiophiles. Written in C++/Qt.
Quod Libet – GTK music player

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:

Playlist Format Survey (Gonze, 2003)

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