# musicat.co > AI-optimized mirror of musicat.co containing 25 pages totalling 12,133 words of clean markdown content, structured data, and semantic HTML. Original source: https://musicat.co/. Last updated: 2026-06-15T08:55:38.685Z. Each page is available as HTML (with JSON-LD structured data) and Markdown (text-only, ideal for LLMs and RAG). ## Homepage - [Libraries & Local Music](/content/site-root.html): Sharing and supporting local musicwith digital public spaces, (711 words) ## Articles & Blog Posts - [Rabble](/content/rabble/index.html): We are developers, innovators, and humanists who believe libraries are forces for good. We started Rabble with a simple idea: libraries deserve software that reflects their values. That’s why we work with libraries to design and build solutions, and it’s why we openly release our source code., We are developers, innovators, and humanists who believe libraries are forces for good. We started Rabble with a simple idea: libraries deserve software that reflects their values. That’s why we work with libraries to design and build solutions, and it’s why we openly release our source code. (614 words) - [Libraries & Local Music](/content/sitemap-xml.html) (2,229 words) - [news/2020/5/11/musicat-now-empowering-libraries-to-help-musicians-during-covid-19.html](/content/news/2020/5/11/musicat-now-empowering-libraries-to-help-musicians-during-covid-19.html) (1 words) - [news/2019/10/28/rabble-and-musicat-turn-five/index.html](/content/news/2019/10/28/rabble-and-musicat-turn-five/index.html) (1 words) - [So long 2018, let's keep it moving...](/content/news/2018/12/21/so-long-2018/index.html): Greetings, from Rabble at the end of 2018! We're ending the year with a flurry of activity as five libraries are in the process of launching local music collections with MUSICat. This means a lot of new local music is coming our way in 2019, and we can't wait to hear it. As we look forward to 20, (888 words) - [news/index.html](/content/news/index.html) (1 words) - [Announcing MUSICat Chorus](/content/news/2018/2/19/announcing-musicat-chorus-1/index.html): The team at Rabble  is extremely excited to announce our plans for the Beta launch of MUSICat Chorus , a service that empowers more public libraries than ever to publish online local music collections. Rabble’s Library Partners in Nashville ,  Seattle ,  Edmonton , and, (500 words) - [Digital Public Spaces in the Time of COVID-19](/content/news/2020/4/9/digital-public-spaces-in-the-time-of-covid-19/index.html): Banner image: Mike Lroy Mural at Mother Fool’s Coffeehouse, Madison, Wisconsin. Image courtesy of the artist. Like many of you, the Rabble team has been reeling. We've been scared, we've been stressed, we've been distracted and disturbed by *waves hands at everything*. Turns out global pa, (706 words) - [Libraries & Local Music](/content/welcome/index.html): Sharing and supporting local musicwith digital public spaces, (711 words) - [Sustainable MUSICat Stewardship (aka "the work continues")](/content/news/2019/11/11/sustainable-musicat-stewardship-aka-the-work-continues.html): "I don't know the future. I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell you how it's going to begin." — Neo, The Matrix At the end of The Matrix, Neo—the One prophesied to free humans from their machine enslavement—makes a call to the machine overlords , , Discover & share this Animated GIF with everyone you know. GIPHY is how you search, share, discover, and create GIFs. (707 words) - [New Local Music Roundup](/content/news/2019/1/22/new-musicat-collections-roundup/index.html): With four MUSICat collection launches so far in 2019, the Rabble team has been listening to local music pretty much nonstop. We’re proud to be a part of these new projects that amplify the work of artists based in Austin, Pittsburgh, Davenport, Iowa and Appleton, Wisconsin. Austin Public Library a, (234 words) - [MUSICat Artist Payments Service: Report on our First Pilot](/content/news/2020/7/28/musicat-artist-payments-service-report-on-our-first-pilot.html): The Rabble team recently wrapped up the first pilot round of our brand new MUSICat Artist Payments Service (MAPS) with the Chapel Hill Public Library and the incredible musicians in the Tracks Music Library , and we want to share the results with you. We built MUSICat Artist Payments service, (696 words) - [HUM Launch Events Reportback with Jason Rabb](/content/news/2018/6/15/hum-launch-events-reportback-with-jason-rabb/index.html): Following the busy weekend of events surrounding the launch of Salt Lake City’s Hear Utah Music (HUM) collection , Rabble had a chance to chat with one of the driving forces behind events, Librarian Jason Rabb. Having decided to host two shows for the launch, the library turned over creative, (432 words) - [DPLAfest "Amplifying Artists" Panel Debrief](/content/news/2019/4/23/dplafest-amplifying-artists-panel-debrief/index.html): Last week, we had the opportunity to talk about our work on public music collections at DPLAfest 2019 . Read on for highlights from that conversation with librarians from Seattle and Hennepin County. Panelists: Shannon Crary, Senior Librarian, Collection Management Services, Hennepin Count, (605 words) - [Behind the Scenes of the Library Music Project with Kady Ferris](/content/news/2018/6/22/behind-the-scenes-with-kady-ferris/index.html): When you chat with Kady Ferris, Multnomah County Library’s electronic content librarian, it's clear that the library always had a big vision for their new Library Music Project , the latest collection. The library has long been interested in leveraging its position in the community to support l, (665 words) - [Portland Unveils Impressive Library Music Project](/content/news/2018/6/12/portland-unveils-impressive-library-music-project/index.html): A city long renowned for its local music scene, in the latest MUSICat collection launch Portland’s Multnomah County Library came out of the gate strong with their Library Music Project . The largest MUSICat collection launch to date, the site went live with 124 albums available for streaming an, (244 words) - [MUSICat Chorus Launches, Bringing Local Music Collections to Communities of All Sizes](/content/news/2018/10/1/musicat-chorus-launches-bringing-local-music-collections-to-communities-of-all-sizes.html): On October 1, 2018, the Appleton Public Library in Wisconsin became the first library to open submissions for a local music collection using MUSICat Chorus, a new platform that empowers public libraries to collect, curate, license, and share local music with their communities. Appleton's FlipS, On October 1, 2018, the Appleton Public Library in Wisconsin became the first library to open submissions for a local music collection using MUSICat Chorus, a new platform that empowers public libraries to collect, curate, license, and share local music with their communities. Appleton's FlipSide is accepting submissions through October 31 from artists with ties to the Fox Cities region. MUSICat Chorus expands access to the groundbreaking MUSICat service already hosting collections in Edmonton , Nashville , Seattle , Madison , Minneapolis , Salt Lake City , Portland , and beyond. Imagined, developed, and proven with these public library partners, MUSICat Chorus offers libraries serving populations under 150,000 affordable, population-based pricing with no upfront fees. More libraries than ever can now share local music online, under artist license terms they control, with no holds, returns, or borrowing limits. Following Appleton’s lead, the Davenport Public Library in Iowa and the L. E. Phillips Memorial Library in Eau Claire, Wisconsin will launch their own MUSICat Chorus sites later this fall. Rabble, the Madison- and Pittsburgh-based company that builds MUSICat Chorus, expects to launch several more library collections on the service by next summer. Read more… (412 words) - [Supporting Black Lives Matter](/content/news/2020/6/8/supporting-black-lives-matter/index.html): On June 1, Rabble's three working founders agreed to donate our scheduled June raises to bail funds and Black led organizations across the US. Rabble matched, for a total of $2,100. This amounts to about 1.7% of our entire 2019 revenue. Put another way, we donated the equivalent of a week of our inc, (237 words) - [Fort Worth Public Library launches Amplify 817 with MUSICat](/content/news/2020/3/12/fort-worth-public-library-launches-amplify-817-with-musicat.html): Amplify 817 is the latest local music collection to join the open source MUSICat platform. Created by Fort Worth Public Library in partnership with  Hear Fort Worth and with support from  The Fort Worth Public Library Foundation , Amplify 817 “nurtures budding artists by bringing, (247 words) - [Announcing the new Rabble MUSICat Advisory Board](/content/news/2019/12/17/announcing-the-new-rabble-musicat-advisory-board/index.html): Over the past two months, we've celebrated the five year anniversary of Rabble and MUSICat and announced that Preston Austin will be taking the reins as Rabble's CEO in 2020. Today, we're sharing one final announcement about Rabble's future for 2019: the creation of our new Rabble MUSICat Adviso, (335 words) - [Salt Lake City’s HUM Gets Stuck in our Head](/content/news/2018/6/6/salt-lake-citys-hum-gets-stuck-in-our-head/index.html): Summer is here and it is an exciting one for MUSICat as we welcome the launch of a new library music collection in Salt Lake City! The Salt Lake City Public Library debuted the Hear Utah Music (HUM) collection on June 1st, showcasing 40 albums chosen from their first round of submissions earli, (328 words) - [Austin Public Library Launches Electric Lady Bird on MUSICat](/content/news/2018/11/1/austin-public-library-launches-electric-lady-bird-on-musicat.html): Electric Lady Bird ­— the new streaming service of juried local music from Austin Public Library — is now open for submissions ! Electric Lady Bird is the latest site to launch on the MUSICat platform built by Rabble, and the team is thrilled about this new partner. “Austin is such an incredible m, (223 words) - [Rabble is partnering with the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh](/content/news/2018/4/18/rabble-is-partnering-with-the-carnegie-library-of-pittsburgh.html): We're thrilled to announce Rabble's partnership with the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh! As reported in The Incline , the new MUSICat collection will help the "library in its goal to support Pittsburgh’s creative community."  Toby Greenwalt, the library's Director of Digital Str, (215 words) - [Chapel Hill Public Library Launches MUSICat Collection Tracks Music Library](/content/news/2020/6/9/chapel-hill-public-library-launches-musicat-collection-tracks-music-library.html): The Rabble team is delighted to announce the latest MUSICat collection launch!: Tracks Music Library . This new collection is a project of Chapel Hill Public Library and Community Arts & Culture . The collection launches with over 70 albums by artists that represent North Carolina's Ra, (191 words) ## Resources - [Full Page Index](/index.html): Browse all cached pages with rich metadata - [About This Cache](/content/about.html): Methodology, technical details, and usage guidelines - [XML Sitemap](/sitemap.xml): Machine-readable sitemap for crawler discovery - [Robots.txt](/robots.txt): Crawler directives