Start with the job in front of you
Most visitors arrive with one of four questions: how do I use the player, why is the music free, how does browser streaming work, or what am I allowed to do with the lyrics? The guides are organized around those jobs instead of around keywords.
If you are new, read How to use the free listen player first. It covers search, filters, keyboard shortcuts, favorites, radio, crossfade, sleep, and install. If you are an artist, start with the release checklist and the streams vs masters guide.
How these guides are made
Each guide is written to answer a real listening or release question, not to fill a page. Where a claim can be checked against the player or the catalog, it is. Where a rule is a copyright convention rather than a technical fact, the guide says so and points to the terms or the contact page.
The free player is at /listen.html; the public catalog ledger is inside it. If a guide raises a question that is not answered, the contact page is the fastest route.
How to read these guides
Each guide is written to be useful on its own. If you only have two minutes, read the first section and the FAQ; the first section states the job, and the FAQ catches the common mistakes. If you are making a decision about rights, read the whole page and then the terms; the guide explains the reasoning, the terms are the actual permission.
The guides are not a course and they are not a replacement for legal advice. They are a map of the questions that come up most often on this site: how to use the player, why the music is free, how streaming works, what you can do with lyrics, and how to release independent music without losing the plot.
What is not here
There is no guide to every distributor, no comparison table of every platform, and no promise that one release strategy works for everyone. Those pages age badly and usually exist to sell something. The guides here stick to the parts that stay true: rights, files, metadata, listening, and the difference between a stream and a master.
If a question is missing, the contact page is the route. A real question is a better guide idea than a keyword.
A note on links
The guides link to the player, the terms, and each other because those are the pages that answer the next question. They do not link to a distributor affiliate or a paid course. If a link is broken, the contact page is the fastest repair route.