Spotify Hits 50 Million Mark; A Pay-per-Play Blockchain

Spotify Clocks 50 Million Paying Subscribers — variety.com 
 The service grew by 20 million subscribers in one year.

A Pay-per-Play Blockchain Aiming to Benefit Fans and Musicians — ajournalofmusicalthings.com 
 Filtering what’s happening in music to save you time, money and effort.

Doppler Labs Makes a Huge Splash in the Innovation of Personal Sound — www.forbes.com 
 High fidelity is becoming more important to more people. The world continues to get louder. The well-funded Doppler Labs is shipping a product that addresses these realities.

Can Music Exec Lyor Cohen Bridge the Divide Between YouTube and the Music Industry? — www.billboard.com 
 One February afternoon, Lyor Cohen shows me around the soundstage at YouTube Space LA.

How the Blockchain Lets Musicians Connect with Fans (and Get Paid) — bitcoinmagazine.com 
 Bitcoin Magazine is the original source of information, news and commentary about Bitcoin, the blockchain and digital currencies.

Amper Music raises $4 million to jazz up AI — venturebeat.com 
 Artificial intelligence (AI) is often associated with complex algorithms and automation — nothing that screams creativity. Amper Music, a New York-based startup, wants to change that and today announced a funding round of $4 million to help people create music using AI.

Audio File: The tide is turning and streaming services are finally adding Hi-Res music — www.coloradodaily.com 
 ‘Member the computer program Stuffit? An oldie but a goodie. I remember the early days of the internet when the size of files was just as important as the content within.

The Right Tune: Marketing Startup Music Audience Exchange Raises $6M — www.xconomy.com

If you think about it, executing a successful marketing campaign is similar to a match-making exercise done well. But to try to ensure that a mutually beneficial relationship is formed, entrepreneur Nathan Hanks has added some data analytics to the match-making mix with his music-focused startup.

How will AI and chatbots have an impact on the music industry? — musically.com 
 AI and bots are two of the technological buzzwords currently at large in the music industry, but what impact will they really make?

Pandora appoints Carat as media agency — mumbrella.com.au 
 Music streaming platform Pandora has appointed Carat as its new media agency after a competitive five way pitch, Mumbrella can reveal. The appointment come

Eventide want to change how you think about processing audio — cdm.link

Digital signal processing is some futuristic stuff. It may not be able literally to let you traverse space and time as relative dimensions, but it can treat time and frequency separately and mash them back together. And that’s already freaky enough.