Post #565185

2026-03-04 08:46 UTC

We are thrilled to announce the public availability of Fairplayer for Faircamp, the first step in our vision of a #decentralized #music platform. After a few months of building, and the generous help of artists who have participated in our trial period, https://fairplayer.band is open to the world. If you are an artist that has a #Faircamp site, or someone wanting to listen to music from independent artists, come and tell us what you think! Special thanks to @radisolar @blankfosk @helenbellmusic @maciac @sofisoft @kidlightbulbs @aymanhamad @laribal @txels @james @Omar @choan who have already contributed their music in this very early stage!

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@maciac@mastodon.social 2026-03-04 09:04

@fairplayer Dear @mirlo, take a look! We've been creating a new member of the independent music distribution family. <3

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@Wtebbens@social.coop 2026-03-04 12:20

Dear @fairplayer and Faircamp community, I love your work to giving back control to the artists, the musicians. How can we as listeners give back, make a donation as a token of our appreciation? I mean beyond the Kofi/patron/liberapay links that some artists publish on their site. Ultimately the economics are important, so I'm curious what's your vision/plans for that. I guess it's different from the pay2own model from https://resonate.coop Amazing what you are doing. This helps with the #boicotspotify

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@liaizon@social.wake.st 2026-03-04 13:13

@fairplayer wow this looks amazing! Are you also working on Bandwagon support? cc @benpate

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@wjmaggos@liberal.city 2026-03-04 13:45

@fairplayer @radisolar @blankfosk @helenbellmusic @maciac @sofisoft @kidlightbulbs @aymanhamad @laribal @txels @james @Omar @choan I've been dying to see this vision take off. decentralized Spotify where the music comes from artists' websites and some version of your friends' boosts replace their algorithm. then maybe we can support them via a monthly donation that gets automatically and directly paid to them based on the percentage of our time we spend with their work. #PublicPatron

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@NonPlayableClown@postnstuffds.lol 2026-03-04 14:12

Cc @jeffcliff

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@dmd@mastodon.social 2026-03-04 18:02

@fairplayer Looks great! Is there an API?

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@fbulow@mastodon.social 2026-03-04 18:32

@fairplayer @radisolar @blankfosk @helenbellmusic @maciac @sofisoft @kidlightbulbs @aymanhamad @laribal @txels @james @Omar @choan What about DRM?

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@jamesmarshall@sfba.social 2026-03-04 19:35

@fairplayer glad to see projects like this! To echo others, some kind of artist payment is critical before being adopted by most artists. I've long been thinking about an open source, decentralized Spotify alternative that pays the artists the vast majority of all revenue, maybe metered by the minute rather than per stream, up to a maximum monthly payment from the user. Another option is Bandcamp-style purchasing of music. Artists I know like the Bandcamp model. Purchased music would go into one's local library, and would be playable by the streaming app for free, integrated seamlessly with the non-owned (metered) content. Good luck with this project!

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@benpate@mastodon.social 2026-03-06 16:01

Fantastic! @fairplayer

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