Music & Tech
Spotify expands audiobooks service to more than 180 countries
Spotify’s bundling of audiobooks with music – and the impact on its royalty payouts – continues to be a hot-button topic among US publishers. The post is from Music Ally.
Audiotool reveals six winners from its ‘Let’s Build!’ hackathon
We’ve been fond of a music-tech hackathon since the heyday of Music Hack Day in the early 2010s. Audiotool continued that tradition with its recent ‘Let’s Build!’ series of online and in-person events. Now the winners have been announced. The post is from Music Ally.
Google launches AI-powered ‘experimental gaming’ platform Playground
AI’s use in the creation of games is causing just as much debate in the games industry as its use for music is provoking in our world. And in both cases, Google is at the centre of things building technology. The post is from Music Ally.
News Organizations Challenge DoJ Stance on AI Fair Use
Many of the music industry’s AI legal battles swing on whether or not AI training is ‘fair use’ under US copyright law. Donald Trump’s DoJ recently intervened in a dispute between newspapers and OpenA
AI Licensing Principles: Equal Value for Song and Recording Rights
As the music industry enters into ever more deals with AI platforms, the indie publisher community has again insisted that - with AI - song rights and recording rights must be valued equally, unlike i
PROJECTOR's Unique Sound Explored
With Brighton quartet PROJECTOR industrial drum machines, angular post-punk and rant-pop share the same space. New track ‘I Need A Lie Down’ was designed to “make people feel sick and culminate in a h
AI and Music: Voice Clones and Fair Use Rulings
There have been two judgments this week of relevance to the ongoing AI debates in the music industry. A Japanese court ruled that publicity rights allow performers to stop unapproved AI voice clones.
ARIA Warns Australian Lawmakers Against Big AI's Proposed Training Methods
“Done the way that Big AI is proposing," says ARIA's Herd, frontier training "would devastate the music industry and make Australia a pariah for rights holders globally.”
ARIA Warns Lawmakers That Australia Could Be Used as ‘Trojan Horse for Big AI’
“Done the way that Big AI is proposing," says ARIA's Herd, frontier training "would devastate the music industry and make Australia a pariah for rights holders globally.”
Jabra Evolve3 75 Gets Prime Deal
The Jabra Evolve3 75 is currently on Prime Big Deals on Amazon, bringing the on-ear wireless headset down to $288.15 from its typical $323 price. That is not the kind of massive headphone discount tha
ARIA Boss Warns Australian Politicians on AI Lobbying Demands
Australia is one of the countries where the music industry is slugging it out with some tech companies to win the ears of politicians, as the latter mull what rules to put in place covering AI technol
Fender updates website with AI and artist features
Fender has been more than just a maker of instruments for some time now. In the last decade we’ve written about its moves in music education, its Fender Studio music-making app and its Fender Next art
Jabra Evolve3 75 Gets Prime Deal
The Jabra Evolve3 75 is currently on Prime Big Deals on Amazon, bringing the on-ear wireless headset down to $288.15 from its typical $323 price. That is not the kind of massive headphone discount that jumps off the page on percentage alone, but it is worth a look because the Evolve3 75 isn’t trying
EDC Las Vegas 2027 Expands Across 12 Days
Above Image Cred: Demian Beccera EDC Dusk and EDC Dawn will place two festival weekends inside a citywide program running May 13 to 24. EDC Las Vegas 2027 has spent years increasing the scale of a single festival weekend. In 2027, Insomniac is changing the calendar instead. The Las Vegas Motor Speed
AI licensing principles emphasize equal value for song and recording rights
As the music industry enters into ever more deals with AI platforms, the indie publisher community has again insisted that - with AI - song rights and recording rights must be valued equally, unlike i
PROJECTOR's 'I Need A Lie Down' blends industrial and post-punk
With Brighton quartet PROJECTOR industrial drum machines, angular post-punk and rant-pop share the same space. New track ‘I Need A Lie Down’ was designed to “make people feel sick and culminate in a h
AI and music: Court rulings on voice cloning and fair use
There have been two judgments this week of relevance to the ongoing AI debates in the music industry. A Japanese court ruled that publicity rights allow performers to stop unapproved AI voice clones.
Rihanna Uses Some Fenty Math to Reveal She Has ‘At Least’ 170 Unreleased Songs in the Vault
A$AP Rocky said RiRi was in the studio in August.
Kim Kardashian x Beats Pill Speaker Price Drop
The Kim Kardashian x Beats Pill collaboration is down to its lowest price yet on Amazon.
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Baby Audio HyperWarp Review: Why Less [Processing] Is More
A decade ago, getting a granular plugin to do something I actually wanted could take longer than I cared to spend on one small detail. I loved the textures, especially those short, bright fragments that added something different to a track, but getting there could be frustrating. Omnisphere 2 became