It’s a New Year, and digital audio and music seems to be carrying on in the same vein as the past year. There are concerns about AI and old catalogue music dominating newer music. More commonly, opinion pieces, if not usage figures, reflect a growing reaction to streaming services’ misaligned incentives in promoting attention rather than deep listening.

But there remain positive stories for the music-attentive intentional-listener.

This month we’ve seen articles about streaming services and the various ways they engage and embed themselves into our everyday lives, some end-of-year musical analysis stuff and a great resource for free music.

A first build of the new year with some useful improvements… this week we’re concentrating on some performance improvements and tweaked how DISCNUMBER is treated when fixing tags.

This month: game music, the 90s and 00s in computer music and some big hi-fi news.

This month: music download site Qobuz gets hit with possible future redactions, new music players for Linux and building an organ with GPU fans (not a typo).

This month: storing music, critiqueing it, and ‘casting’ it!