AI Comes for Music Mastering
Cheap AI mastering by music distributors is pricing out a modest but important side hustle in the music industry.
The Record Labels vs AI: Sony, Warner, UMG sue for copyright infringement
The companies behind Suno and Udio stand accused of using unlicensed music to "copy an artist's life work and exploit it for their own profit."
Apple cracks down on streaming fraud
Fraudsters pumping up their streams with fake traffic have been getting their royalties taken away.
Dropbox puts a hard limit on “unlimited” storage
DJs and producers and others pooling storage were violating TOS all along.
The AI music company shitting up your streams
A single AI music company claims it has created 14% of the world's recorded music and are flooding streaming platforms. Who, or what, is Boomy?
EU might be taking on Spotify over artist payments again
An influential legislator in the European Parliament calls streaming platforms "unbalanced" when it comes to paying artists.
LALAL.AI is AI-aided sampling that actually works (until the RIAA takes it down)
AI-based sampling apps are proliferating but the music industry is sharpening their knives.
Zippyshare is depressed about its imminent closure and it’s mostly your fault
The mysterious folks behind file sharing site Zippyshare have announced the imminent closure of the site along with an emo message about who's responsible. It's basically you.
How Spotify turned dance music into dance muzak
Streaming has spawned a new format for dance music that's hostile to DJs, and seemingly unaware of what a DJ even does.
Mixcloud imposes DJ mix limits amid lack of profitability
Mixcloud is "not currently profitable" and has imposed new upload limits on basic tier account members, restricting the number of mixes to 10.
It’s Bandcamp vs. Google & artists are in the middle again
Just three months after its purchase by Epic, Bandcamp is engaged in legal warfare with Google over fees on Android devices.
Getting your shit together with sample management tool Cosmos from Waves
Free tool from Waves for managing billions & billions of samples
Computers cannot be assigned copyright & it’s mostly because of a monkey
Despite increasing adoption by music producers and visual artists, the US copyright body affirms that computers are not human and cannot be "creators."
Spotify promotes fan support for artists – to better target their rivals
The music streaming platform is luring livestreaming artists back from Twitch and YouTube by leveraging fan donations.
Your AirPods Are Tiny Bombs
Your AirPods will last longer on this planet than your bones, if they doesn't explode first.
Sonicly promises a fair deal for crowdfunding projects
After PledgeMusic's demise, a new platform emerges, designed specifically for musicians. Will it be any different than the last?
Spotify releases the dumbest product of the year
Did you want better royalties? How about a remote control for your phone instead? Meet "Car Thing," Spotify's latest proof of the Dunning-Kruger Effect.
Would you give 5% of your DJ fee to producers?
Aslice aims to "equalize" the monetary disparity between music producers and the DJs that play their music.
Bandcamp acquired by Fortnite’s Epic Games
Shocking the industry, Epic Games - publisher of Fortnite and Unreal Engine - has purchased Bandcamp, the leading independent artist platform. What now?
Frisking HitPiece, the NFT platform that wasn’t
What is HitPiece, who is behind it, and just what the holy hell did they think they were doing?
