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tahti.live
A home for your music, and your live shows.
Nonprofit broadcasting for independent artists — built to support artists, not algorithms.
What we are
Two things at once.
Release system
A real discography & release engine
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Broadcast
A proper live platform for performers
You make the music. We take care of the rest — the tedious, mechanical work automated, drawn from two decades in streaming.
Built for broadcasters
Live is the heart of it.
OBSMixxxTraktorbuttbrowser
→
Green room → live
check levels off-air, then on
Tahti Radio
24/7 meta-stream, slots back-to-back
TwitchYouTubeKick
One live broadcast, mirrored out to every platform at once — and every show recorded automatically, ready to publish now or schedule for later.
“The music never stops between shows — past sets and community-chosen tracks keep the signal live, so dead air never gets a slot.”
For listeners
Free listeners hear the real thing.
A free listener on a member's channel hears the same lossless FLAC the artist streams. No pay-to-hear-it-properly. (Free-tier artists broadcast at 192 kbps MP3 — still cleaner than most platforms give away.)
Publishing & releases
One upload, everywhere it should be.
Your library
you choose who sees it
Spotify · Apple · Bandcamp
Stores via distributor
Mixcloud · hearthis.at
Embed anywhere on the web
Embed any player — channel, release or show — on your own site or a forum post. The distributor charges its own delivery fee; that's the only cost in the chain. We take no cut of any of it.
The toolset
Everything in one place.
Auto-record & scheduleevery show captured — publish now or later
Green room → livecheck levels off-air, then go on
Audio editoreffects & plugins, in the browser
DSP smart linksone page, every store button
Embed anythingchannel, release or show, anywhere
Import & exportSoundCloud, Bandcamp, hearthis.at…
Your channel, your rulesdesign & control it top to bottom
Private stashyour storage — keep it private or sell access
Talk to fanslive chat + private messaging
Newsletter & press kitreach them, look the part
Discuss & votemember proposals shape the roadmap
Moderatorsrun a shared channel together
Where the money goes
It's tipped your way — by design.
A fan sends €1
subscriptions €1–€100/mo
2¢
card + running costs; surplus rolls back to artists
Our yearly surplus
subs + support + grants
90%
back to artists as grants
Reserve
capped 6 months — overflow returns to artists
Ways fans pay you
Channel subscriptions
Buy your private stash
Fan-only pre-releases
How you get paid
Count your stars.
Fan-sub euroa real person, paying you
★★★★★
weighted heaviest
A downloada deliberate act, once per account
★★★★★
counts
Background playmusic left running
★★★★★
counts for nothing
Give it away or sell it — both win. Only doing nothing earns nothing. Early on the pool is small; it grows with the membership.
Keeping it honest
Hard to game, by construction.
Passive earns nothing
The classic bot-farm trick — streams left running — simply doesn't pay here.
Counted once
Downloads count once per account, with rate limits.
Pattern detection (building)
Real fandom is messy; fake activity is too tidy.
Always a human
Nothing docked silently. We flag, we tell the artist, and there's a right of appeal.
Open by design
Open source, all of it.
01The code we run is public — under AGPL, and every page links to its own source.
02We welcome forks — not just tolerate them.
03No lock-in. Your releases, archive and fan records export any time.
You stay because we're good — not because leaving would cost you everything you've built.
Built to be extended
A platform, not a fixed menu.
Almost everything on the surface is a plugin — switch on only what fits how you work, and leave the rest.
Visualisationsreactive visuals for your stream
Discovery dashboardbuild the front page you want
Listener widgetspull in the other services you use
Audio editor pluginseffects & tools in the editor
Import / exportconnectors to more platforms
Themesskin your space your own way
Anyone can build one
Share it with everyone
Always free
Use only what fits you
The guarantee
It can never be turned against you.
If prices ever crept up
fork it and run it your way
If ads or data-selling slipped in
the constitution forbids it — public source can't hide it
If we were sold, or folded
the platform lives on; export everything
If a feature you rely on was removed
keep it alive in a fork
There is no version of this where you're trapped anywhere but your studio.
Rooted in Helsinki
Finnish nonprofit, Finnish infrastructure.
Our own hardware
In Helsinki, with UpCloud's Helsinki region for overflow — and no third-party CDN.
No account to listen
No analytics cookies; identifiers hashed and rotated daily.
No data to sell
We don't collect it in a form that would let us.
No vanity metrics
Our constitution bars listener-hours as a headline number.
Plans
Free to listen. €40 a year to be an artist.
Free · everyone
€0
- Full lossless on member channels
- Follow, live chat, support artists
- Start a channel — ~1 hr/week live @ 192 kbps
Artist membership
€40 / year
- Lossless FLAC broadcast — you and your listeners
- No weekly airtime cap
- Full release + distribution, own space & design
- Newsletter, DMs, storage
- A vote at the AGM
How we're funded
The cleanest possible money.
Money in: member subscriptions, direct fan support, and cultural grants. No VC, no equity, no exit — it's written into the constitution.
~200 members
Year one
A planned deficit, covered by a founding grant. Pool to artists: €0.
~600 members
Break-even
Costs are covered; a surplus begins, and the first grant pool opens.
1,500+ members
Growth
The pool grows with the membership — shared out weighted by engagement.
90% of surplus → artist grants · 10% → reserve, capped 6 months (overflow back to artists)
Finnish Cultural Foundation
Kone Foundation
Creative Europe
Governance
Not a company you upload to — an association you own.
✦One member, one vote. Proposals run continuously; formal decisions at the AGM.
✦Core promises locked — no cut of fan support, no data sold, no ads — changeable only by a two-thirds vote, 60 days' notice.
✦No exit, no shareholders. Surplus flows to artists; the board becomes artist-majority as it matures.
You make the music, and you steer the ship.
Transparency
The books are open.
Public bylaws
The rules aren't buried — they're published.
Monthly ledger
Append-only and audited — not a once-a-year PDF.
Salaries public
What we pay the people running it is on the record.
Grant pool in the open
Runs on the same public ledger.
You don't have to take our word for it — you can just look.
Roadmap
Already running — not a someday project.
Still coming, so you hear it from us: multitrack + stems on top of the editor, the next anti-gaming layer, and more distribution options.
Honest risks
What could go wrong — and our answer.
Stay small
Why we start with real communities, not the void.
Funding timing
Break-even ≈ 600; year one a deficit on a founding grant.
Small team
Succession & artist-majority board written in from day one.
We'll err
You hear it from us first — and vote on the fix.
Infrastructure
Fibre upgrade arrives with the growth that pays for it.
The promise isn't perfection — it's that the promises are constitutional.
Invite round opens soon
Don't imagine it.
Come through our door.
The beta is running now. Join the first wave of artists — set up a channel, run a show, and help steer what we build next.
tahti.live