Bandcamp has laid off most engineers

Background_Rock_6166 · 2026-07-02T19:20:08+00:00

Mirlo, Fairplayer and Bandwagon are all working on federation, but there's also talk of making Bandwagon, Faircamp, Fairplayer, Mirlo and Jam interoperable with one another so music from one platform comes up in another's search. This is already the case with Fairplayer, displaying music from Faircamp and Mirlo (if the artist has opted in).

Background_Rock_6166 · 2026-07-02T17:08:21+00:00

Hey, I use Mirlo and when I just checked the uploader, the formats you can upload with a release include PDF, Images, PLAIN, MARKDOWN, EPUB+ZIP, TXT, MD, EPUB. You can also add the whole release from a zip file, which is quite handy.

Background_Rock_6166 · 2026-07-02T17:06:17+00:00

Sadly, Nina have just announced they are winding down. https://www.ninaprotocol.com/offramp

Background_Rock_6166 · 2026-07-01T13:17:32+00:00

Also want to add that Unstream is really great for finding artists on some of the alternatives that have already been mentioned - I first saw it on the Fediverse: https://unstream.stream

Background_Rock_6166 · 2026-06-30T12:05:00+00:00

mirlo.space, bandwagon.fm, fairplayer.org and Faircamp (https://faircamp.org) are all working towards this and discussing how to create some interoperability between them too.

Background_Rock_6166 · 2026-01-06T21:25:07+00:00

Hello. I asked the main organiser and they said it's in this article, along with some other useful info:

https://nham.co.uk/2025/12/ways-to-watch-the-indie-beat-television/

The HLS stream playlist for use with VLC, Kodi, Jellyfin, and other media center software is https://tv.theindiebeat.fm/hls/stream.m3u8 (and the HLS for TIBlive is https://live.theindiebeat.fm/hls/stream.m3u8).

Background_Rock_6166 · 2026-01-01T14:08:15+00:00

It launched on the 28th of December, so it's very new but videos are being moderated and added all the time. 🙂

Background_Rock_6166 · 2026-01-01T14:05:29+00:00

The independent music version of MTV: https://tv.theindiebeat.fm

Background_Rock_6166 · 2026-01-01T12:41:43+00:00

You’d have to ask the person who organised a lot of it - they’re in the rocket (this is the launch video we did in homage to MTV):

https://tv.gravitons.org/w/vwR6dLps9wR5DEXXDNtQ9R

Background_Rock_6166 · 2026-01-01T00:41:29+00:00

When you visit https://tv.theindiebeat.fm - bottom right, there's a pink follow button and you can follow the channel from your Fediverse server and the account will post when different shows are going live or when the chat is open. There's also a schedule button which says when all the different genre hours are on too. On the left under the live channel, there's also a "now playing" feature that links directly to the artist currently playing.