BBC to Engage Younger Viewers with Immersive Music Gigs; TuneCore Debuts AI-powered Mastering Product
BBC to Engage Younger Viewers with Immersive Music Gigs; TuneCore Debuts AI-powered Mastering Product
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BBC aims to appeal to younger viewers with immersive music gigs
The BBC has partnered with Bristol-based tech company Condense to engage with younger audiences via immersive live gigs. Over the last year, BBC Radio 1’s New Music Show with Jack Saunders has been hosting an innovative series of immersive live gigs with artists like Gardna, Charlotte Plank and Sam Tompkins.
AI and Streaming Fraud: The Consequences for the Music Industry
The creation of generative AI has changed the music industry by offering unprecedented tools for music creation and production. However, alongside these advancements, a new challenge has emerged: streaming fraud.
55% of people in the Nordics now pay for a music service
A group of collecting societies in the Nordics region, allied as Polaris Hub, have published their latest survey of music listeners.
The RIAA's lawsuit against generative music startups will be the bloodbath AI needs
Like many AI companies, music generation startups Udio and Suno appear to have relied on unauthorized scrapes of copyrighted works in order to train their models. This is by their own and investors’ admission, as well as according to new lawsuits filed against them by music companies.
Randy Travis talks to Congress about AI, fair pay in music industry
The Travises testified before the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet at a hearing called “Radio, Music, and Copyrights: 100 Years of Inequity for Recording Artists.”
beatBread Introduces Funding Network and Deal Comparison Tools to Help Artists and Labels Choose Better Funding Options
The beatBread Funding Network provides quick and easy side-by-side comparisons of multiple offers from a range of distributors and music companies, along with beatBread’s own capital sources.
TuneCore rolls out its AI-powered TuneCore Mastering product
They upload their unmastered track, process it and listen to a preview, then pay when they’re happy with the results before pushing the final version out to DSPs.
AI doesn’t mean human-made music is doomed. Here’s why
Human music-making isn’t going anywhere, argues the University of Melbourne's Alexander Crooke.
Bandcamp expands PRO with Private Streaming
Bandcamp Pro subscribers can now create and name links for private streaming of albums and tracks.
The Basics of the Spotify Algorithm
Spotify is a platform beholden to its users. Think about it. It hosts content that enters an algorithm to determine how to place the most appropriate music in front of the right people. And based on how users interact with it, it will amend the content you see…or listen to.
American Radio On The World Stage
Radio is resilient and fighting for its place in the cars of the future. That battle is taking on different shapes depending on where you go. In Europe in particular, much of this one-day conference was focused on the adopting of DAB throughout the continent.
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