All true. One independent musician that I like, Kevin Reeves, made the tracks from his first album available for free download for a while. But he published the

All true. One independent musician that I like, Kevin Reeves, made the tracks from his first album available for free download for a while. But he published them as WAV files. So, of course, one could only create one's own mixes, not easily reproduce his. But if he had just posted the files saved by his DAW (or his mix engineer's DAW), that would have been useless to just about everyone. Aside: Though the album was completed in mid-2006, it was recorded with DAW software that was obsolete even then, specifically an old version of Pro Tools for Mac OS 9, because both Kevin and his mix engineer (for that album) are blind, and Pro Tools for OS X was inaccessible to blind users at the time. BTW, I'm merely a dilettante when it comes to recording and especially mixing.