Deezer, Sonos Renew Partnership; Are UK Radio Airwaves Falling Behind the Streaming Charts?
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Deezer and Sonos Renew and Expand Long-Term Collaboration
Fresh streaming music DSP Deezer and Sonos have just announced the renewal of their longstanding partnership, expanding their collaboration to include its revamped Deezer for Business. Deezer cited a panoply of distribution partnerships as helping the platform finally achieve profitability.
Café Nashville Gets Local Through Radio.Cloud
The syndicated country show used the platform to broadcast from Nashville's CRS.
Why I Built a Music Discovery Platform That Finds, Not Buries, Niche Artists
The founder of BlackTape on how streaming platforms are a broken system, designed to feed listeners artists that already have a community.
Are UK Radio Airwaves Falling Behind the Streaming Charts?
Does radio truly reflect listening tastes in the streaming era? New data shows Spotify hits can take weeks to reach UK radio’s Top 10, revealing a gap between viral chart momentum and slower, programmed airplay cycles.
Warner Music signs multi-year Netflix first-look deal for documentaries and films
The exclusive multi-year first-look deal will see Netflix make documentary series and films exploring the lives, music and legacies of Warner Music’s legendary and contemporary artists and songwriters.
The Next Big Digital Listening Trend Might Make You Feel Like a DJ
At its core, Crates is less like a traditional streaming app and more like a personal music workstation. It’s a next-generation music workstation built for selectors, collectors, and music obsessives — designed to run locally on a user’s device.
Keeping Private About Your AI Creations?
Why artistic experimentation can feel isolating.
WNYC Invites Musicians to ‘Reimagine the Public Domain’
Artists of any level are encouraged to “adapt, remix, or reimagine works published in 1930 or earlier.” Selected submissions will featured by WNYC and preserved in the Internet Archive’s digital library, where they’ll become part of a permanent, publicly accessible collection.
ChatGPT can now Shazam songs, as Apple brings music recognition tool to OpenAI’s chatbot
OpenAI has previously integrated Spotify and Apple Music into its app ecosystem.
The Human Creator is Squarely at the Center of AI Music
Whether you’re at a conference or in a subreddit, you’ll hear the refrain: AI music threatens “real” musicians. It takes away the creative process, so it goes, and humans are optional in a process that’s rather automated.
Apple Music Is Adding Tags to Identify AI, Will It Help?
Apple Music has added tags that use the honor system to identify music created with AI.
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