Recorded music used to move through records, radio, stores, studios, and labels. Then DAWs, MP3s, Napster, iTunes, streaming catalogs, recommendation systems, TikTok, and direct-to-fan tools rearranged the whole circuit. Mira and Theo trace how the internet changed who could make music, who could find it, and who got paid when listening became data. Created with NotebookLM.

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