Catalog, streaming infrastructure, and royalty accounting — so any platform can offer music inside its own app. Your engineering team integrates against one REST API and goes from zero to streaming in weeks, not years.
A company that wants to offer music streaming today faces years of work before a single track plays. Niche DSP removes all three barriers so your team can ship instead of negotiate.
Negotiating direct deals with the major labels is an 18–24 month process before you can legally stream a catalog. Niche DSP sidesteps this entirely by integrating standard distributor feeds from day one — the same mechanism every modern DSP uses.
Transcoding, encryption, key delivery, a global CDN, and scale represent millions and years of engineering. Niche DSP is a finished platform that your team calls through one REST API.
Qualified-play calculation, statements, payments, fraud detection, and audits are an ongoing operational burden. Niche DSP handles royalty accounting end to end, from the raw play event to the rights-holder statement.
Niche DSP runs the full path from raw label delivery to a track playing in your player — and captures every play along the way for royalties and reporting.
Catalog arrives via standard distributor feeds. Every track is registered, fingerprinted, validated, and de-duplicated on identifiers like ISRC — redeliveries update, never duplicate.
Source WAV/FLAC is transcoded to multi-bitrate HLS with AES-128 encryption — just-in-time on first play, or pre-transcoded for popular catalog. Tracks that are never played are never transcoded.
Every stream passes through one access-decision chokepoint. On approval, a signed manifest and session-bound key unlock playback at the edge in under 5ms. Decision and enforcement are the same place.
Every play start, heartbeat, skip, and seek is captured as an append-only event — feeding qualified-play royalty calculation, fraud detection, and rights-holder reporting. The data is always yours to query and export.
Niche DSP fuses keyword and semantic similarity search in a single query. There is no separate search store — the row queried and the vector ranked are the same row, in the same transaction.
Because search runs inside the access-decision framework, region-locked or restricted tracks are filtered within the query itself. A subscriber is never ranked a result they aren't permitted to play.
Niche DSP Core is mechanism, not product domain. It knows assets, identities, policies, deliveries, and events. It does not know about labels, releases, royalties, or playlists — those live in your management middleware.
You keep absolute authority over billing, subscriptions, identity and login, catalog curation, and reporting. Niche DSP Core reads only the entitlement you assert and enforces the policy you set.
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Niche DSP integrates content from independent distributors via standard feeds. The catalog is deliberately indie-focused — Niche does not pursue major-label deals, and major-label content is not part of the offering. Partners get the full curated indie catalog from day one. Niche pays distributors per standard rate cards and handles the §115 mechanical obligation directly at the statutory rate.
AES-128 HLS with session-token-bound signed manifest URLs and key delivery handled at the edge. This is the same approach the major streaming platforms use and is confirmed acceptable in label licensing context. It plays natively on every HLS-capable device — iOS, Android, web, smart TV, automotive — with no additional DRM enrollment required.
You integrate the Niche DSP REST API into your existing application. Niche DSP provides licensing, streaming, and royalty accounting; you provide the user interface, the player, and the subscriber relationship. You already have a mature player — you don't need an app built for you, just a licensed catalog and a streaming API you can call. A single stream-authorize call returns a signed manifest and session token in one round trip.
Every asset carries a composable access policy evaluated at a single chokepoint. The edge checks the request's country against the asset's territory rule in under 5ms, including per-track per-country rules. If a subscriber's location conflicts with the asset's allowance, the key is withheld and playback never starts.
Entirely in your product middleware. Niche DSP runs no login, stores no credential, and has no concept of a subscription or payment. You manage payment collection and assert the resulting entitlement to Niche DSP — which reads it, caches it with a TTL, and fails closed if it can't verify. Your commercial logic stays flexible and never bloats the streaming substrate.
20% platform fee, 80% pass-through to rights holders. The 80% flows through distributors on their standard rate cards. The §115 publishing mechanical and performance royalties are paid by Niche directly to the relevant collecting societies, separate from distributor settlement. This is the same shape as every modern DSP — the differentiation is in the consumer product, not in artist economics.
Niche DSP is onboarding a first cohort of distribution partners. Authenticate a user, search the catalog, start a stream, and play a track in your own player — using nothing but the REST API.