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A short, licensed clip offered by stores like Apple so listeners can sample a so…

A collected release of several tracks by an artist, traditionally on vinyl, CD, …

The secondary track on a single, historically the flip side of a vinyl record.

An album built around a unifying theme, story, or musical arc.

An extended play: longer than a single but shorter than a full album.

A category that groups music by shared style, origin, or audience. Useful for br…

A capture of a performance as it happened, as opposed to a studio recording.

A reworked version of a track with altered arrangement, tempo, or production.

A standalone track released on its own, often to promote an album.

Music performed with non-electric instruments, or unplugged versions of electric…

Atmospheric, often beatless music designed for background listening and mood.

Music from Latin America and Spain, spanning reggaeton, salsa, bachata, and regi…

A relaxed production aesthetic with deliberate imperfections, popular for studyi…

A broad label for traditional and popular music from outside the Western pop mai…

The amount of audio data per second. Higher bitrate generally means better sound…

Reducing a file’s size, either losslessly or by discarding some audio detail (lo…

A tool that adjusts the balance of frequency bands in audio.

International Standard Recording Code: a unique identifier for a specific record…

Compression that preserves the full original sound quality, such as FLAC or Appl…

The descriptive data attached to a track — title, artist, genre, and release dat…

How many times per second audio is measured when digitized. CD quality is 44.1 k…

Delivering audio over the internet on demand, rather than as a downloaded file.

The underlying musical work — melody, lyrics, and harmony — separate from any pa…

A set of public copyright licenses that let creators share work with flexible, p…

The specific recorded version of a song, distinct from the underlying compositio…

Permission to reproduce and distribute a musical composition, typically paid per…

The right to perform a song in public. Collected by PROs such as ASCAP, BMI, and…

Works whose copyright has expired or never existed. They can be streamed, downlo…

Payments made to rights holders each time a work is sold, streamed, or performed…

A license to pair music with visual media such as film, TV, or advertising. Sepa…