“Listening is not the same as hearing and hearing is not the same as listening.” Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening: A Composers Sound Practice, 2005 Link to FRFT Winter 2025 Mix.

It's hard out there. It's virtually impossible to keep track of what companies are engaging in extractive business practices, either as ad-tech surveillance to auction your info to the highest bidder, and/or feeding your content into the juicy maw of a proprietary LLM. Thus- we thought it might ...

Reading Please Kill Me on the middle school bus. Dumpster diving in high school for Pepsi bottle caps because Apple was doing a “free song with every bottle” Pepsi promotion around the Super Bowl. (LimeWire was too taboo for the family computer.) Collecting literal change in a styrofoam cup with ...

A friendly reminder that Tape Trade is a lossless streaming and storage platform. After you upload, you can send your collections to anyone, anywhere, for easy streaming and download, or just review your own music anywhere the way it was meant to be heard.

First, I want to address that, yes, it's a little on the nose for a tech company, no matter how small, to come out strongly in favor of having customers pay for services. Imagine! The conspicuous conclusion of paying us for our software in particular would be a nice by-product, but at a level ...

Art is not made on a grand scale in some mythological process. It's made with long hours and attention to detail, and shaped in small, crucial exchanges and inputs over weeks and months or longer. These exchanges happen everywhere, from listening to a work in a new space, hearing thoughts from a ...

We're excited to debut v2 "Tweed" today, on all platforms.

Our Conspicuous Absence in the Drone Market At Tape Trade, Inc. we've built our reputation on a singular, unwavering commitment: safeguarding the delicate, ephemeral beauty of sound. From the raw demo to the mastered album, we are digital custodians of artistic expression. So, it might come as a ...

So much ink has been spilled everywhere about generative AI tools, and I almost hate to spend more airtime on it, but given the state of the music industry and artistic expression at large, it's impossible not to address. Tape Trade is for the artists- this means a lot of things in different ...

Today is a big day for us. While you could have previously signed up and used Tape Trade, the product wasn't really "complete" until now. Having finally secured approval from the Apple App Store, you can now sign up and subscribe on the web or App Store and use Tape Trade from anywhere. We're ...