This article has been imported from chorus.fm for discussion. All of the forum rules still apply. Claire Woodcock, writing at VICE: Over a dozen public libraries in the U.S. and Canada have begun offering their own music streaming services to patrons, with the goal of boosting artists and local music scenes. The services are region-specific, and offer local artists non-exclusive licenses to make their albums available to the community.The concept originated in 2014 when Preston Austin and Kelly Hiser helped the Madison Public Library build the Yahara Music Library, an online library hosting music from local artists. By the time they completed their work on Yahara, they were confident they had a software prototype that other interested libraries could customize and deploy.“That became kind of the inspiration for building MUSICat,” Austin told Motherboard, referring to the software platform he and Hiser created under a startup called Rabble. more Not all embedded content is displayed here. You can view the original to see embedded videos, tweets, etc.
This is actually super interesting to me. I hope the implementation goes well enough that the concept doesn't just fizzle out.