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== Problem ==
The music industry in flux again, there appears to be a mounting effort to eliminate downloads in favor of streaming by the major services.
# CD-Baby does not sell CDs anymore, they are honoring downloads purchased earlier, but going forward, they are distributing exclusively to streaming services.
# Pressing Following a search result a link to most iTunes search result links URLs no longer takes you to presents the download page, it will take you to the Apple Music streaming service.
# Amazon has developed a high quality streaming service; however, they still offer downloads and CDs.
# Google Play has announced they will be shutting down their download service.
This development can have harsh consequences to independent musicians, instead of receiving seventy cents on the dollar for a download, the artist share is reduced to hundredths of a penny per spin on a streaming service and hope that fans will spin the stream repeatedly.
== Tradition (indie) path ==
The "traditional" path for independent artists has been to create quality content for YouTube and simply provide a link to iTunes for monetization, many artists did not monetize their content