Phone-Based Connections Lead Car Audio Listening; Spotify Tees Up a Splashy SXSW Shindig
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Apple Music adds ‘transparency tags’ for uses of AI with music
The four tags are: Artwork, Track, Composition and Music Video, relating to the different ways AI might have been used by an artist.
Spotify Tees Up a Splashy SXSW Shindig—And ‘You Oughta Know’ the Marquee Performer
Spotify turns 20 in April, and to celebrate, the Stockholm streaming giant is holding an event at South by Southwest (SXSW) in Austin, featuring headliner Alanis Morissette. Other performances include Ella Langley, St. Vincent, and conversations with Lainey Wilson and Nick Jonas.
How a Music Streaming CEO Built an Open-Source Global Threat Map in His Spare Time
Frustrated by fragmented war news, Anghami’s Elie Habib built World Monitor, a platform that fuses global data, like aircraft signals and satellite detections, to track conflicts as they unfold.
Study: Phone-Based Connections Lead Car Audio Listening
But motorists are frustrated when radio is not easy to find, says Futuresource Consulting
Drawing a Line in the Sand on AI — the Human Curation Counterweight
Qobuz is the latest streaming platform to launch proprietary AI detection system, putting its AI Charter into action to safeguard human creators and listeners.
Charlie Puth Becomes Chief Music Officer at Moises AI
The Grammy-nominated artist and songwriter will help shape the future of music technology in this role to develop AI tools that amplify human artists' creativity.
She Sounds. wants to bring the female gaze to branded audio
“When women are underrepresented in creative leadership or only wheeled in for the quote, you do not get a female gaze…”
KEXP Builds Around Human Power
Sophisticated playout and asset management platforms support the station’s human-based approach
Seatfun Debuts: Human-First Alternative to Ticketing That Puts the Box Office in Your Pocket
Seatfun is transforming ticketing from a software to a service by acting as a trusted partner that directly impacts client’s operations and bottom lines.
The developer of Tweakbench wants to remake the DAW without linear time
The Digital Audio Workstation can never quite escape the timeline and its roots in multitrack tape. Tweakbench’s new Noemi, which entered alpha last month, starts from scratch. What if music in the DAW could constantly evolve and change? What if the DAW were non-deterministic?
Create Music Group completes latest funding round securing more than $450m for continued expansion
The company remains majority-owned by its founders, with institutional investors Ares Management, 2 Mile and Flexpoint Ford each holding minority stakes.
TopFan opens up its fan-clubs tech to independent artists
The music industry’s current superfan fever has sparked the launch of numerous apps and startups hoping to help artists connect with their stan communities.
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