GeekWire

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Founded in 2009, Audiosocket is seeing growth of its music licensing software products used by social media creators, movie production studios, and others. Now the company is making a play to startups that need music for their games, apps, creator tools, metaverse worlds, and more. Audiosocket Image) The company has raised $3.5

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TechSpot

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Or to be more precise, you're not a confrontational person who doesn't appreciate the musical stylings of reggaeton music blasted at full volume through a wall you share with a neighbor at 9 in the morning? Not a confrontational person? That was Raspberry Pi maker and developer Roni Bandini's predicament, Read Entire Article

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

4-5, a full rock band and orchestra will put on a live performance of an assortment of fan-favorite music from the Sonic the Hedgehog video game series. A significant amount of Sonic’s success as a franchise can be attributed to the games’ music. That was the turning point,” Nakama said.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

At the end of January, when Universal Music Group (UMG) failed to negotiate a new licensing deal with TikTok , it removed its entire music catalog from the app. Just like that, thousands of videos featuring music by artists like Drake, Taylor Swift, and Bad Bunny were suddenly silent. Nilay Patel TikTok is built on music.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Amazon is cutting an unspecified number of positions in its music division in the latest layoffs to hit the tech giant as it looks for ways to trim costs. Bloomberg reported the news Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter, who said that targeted jobs are on Amazon Music’s editorial and audio content team.

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TechSpot

APRIL 28, 2023

Podcast recommendations and unfinished episodes can be accessed from the Home tab in the YouTube Music app. You can also tap the Podcasts tab at the top to filter suggestions. Read Entire Article

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Venture Beast

APRIL 25, 2022

Nowadays, music companies aren’t limited to audio-only releases or music videos. What new opportunities exist as they move to the metaverse? Read More.

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Venture Beast

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Tencent Music Entertainment Group (TME) has invested in virtual concert company Wave to explore the potential of online music. Read More.

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Dataconomy

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Get ready to experience music creation like never before with Adobe’s latest innovation – Project Music GenAI Control. This cutting-edge tool is designed to make creating music easier and more fun than ever. What is Adobe’s Project Music GenAI Control? Featured image credit: Adobe

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GeekWire

JUNE 19, 2023

A Bing Image Creator illustration made from the prompt “musician creating music with generative AI.” ” During a recent appearance on Conan O’Brien’s podcast , Smashing Pumpkins lead singer Billy Corgan offered a gloomy prediction for the future of music. Keep reading for their insights.

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Gizmodo

JULY 5, 2021

People talk about the break between rock ‘n roll and punk, or punk and post-punk, but they almost never talk about micro-fluctuations in musical taste circa ten thousand years ago. Music history tends to start, for the non-musicologist, with the big-deal classical composers, progressing onwards through swing, big… Read more.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Key players behind Shibuya Hi-Fi, a new cocktail bar and audio experience in Seattle, from left: managing partners Brian Rauschenbach and Quentin Ertel, and music director Supreme La Rock. GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) The term “Seattle sound” often refers to the heyday of grunge music in the city.

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TechSpot

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Seth Forsgren and Hayk Martiros adapted the Stable Diffusion (SD) algorithm to music, creating a new kind of weird "music machine" as a result. Riffusion works on the same principle as SD, turning a text prompt into new, AI-generated content. The main difference is that the algorithm has been specifically.

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TechSpot

APRIL 12, 2023

Universal Music Group wants music streaming platforms like Apple Music and Spotify to block AI services from scraping melodies and lyrics. Read Entire Article

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Venture Beast

OCTOBER 13, 2021

in funding to reimagine music for the metaverse by combining music, games, mixed reality, and digital collectibles. Stage11 has raised $5.7M Read More.

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Dataconomy

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

As we approach the end of 2023, it’s time to uncover the musical gems that defined your year with Spotify Fanalytics. While we eagerly await Spotify’s Wrapped feature, a third-party tool called Spotify Fanalytics is here to give you a sneak peek into your music preferences. What is Spotify Fanalytics?

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TechSpot

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Apple Music recently added its 100 millionth song, a milestone that comes just over seven years after the streaming music service launched in the summer of 2015.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Today, Apple launches Apple Music TV , which is exactly what it sounds like: Apple Music on television. It’s a free, curated, 24-hour live stream of popular music videos (though it’s only available to US residents); you can watch it in the browse tabs of the Apple Music app and on the Apple TV app.

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Venture Beast

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Roblox has partneed with music event promoter Insomniac to create electronic music festivals for its platform. Read More.

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TechSpot

JUNE 22, 2023

The growing list of individuals and organizations that don't like generative AI in the slightest now includes the Recording Academy, a learned society made up of musicians, producers, recording engineers and other professionals from the music industry. The Academy has recently updated its rules and guidelines governing the entire award.

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Dataconomy

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

TikTok users noticed their favorite songs disappeared and asked, “Why did TikTok remove music?” ” You may remember the ongoing dispute between TikTok and Universal Music Group over AI music, and things took a wild turn with UMg pulling out of the platform. Why did TikTok remove music?

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Venture Beast

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Facebook Gaming expands streamers' access to licensed music, giving creators more freedom to play music while livestreaming games. Read More.

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TechSpot

MARCH 4, 2024

billion) over its rule that forbade music streaming apps from informing users of subscription options outside the company's platform. The European Commission fined Apple nearly €1.8 billion ($1.92 Spotify, the case's lead claimant, praised the decision, while Cupertino vowed to appeal it. Read Entire Article

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Venture Beast

JANUARY 27, 2022

Animoca Brands' The Sandbox has partnered with Warner Music to create a music-themed world in the metaverse. Read More.

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TechSpot

JANUARY 20, 2022

MIDiA in its latest music subscriber market share report said Spotify was the top digital service provider with a market share of 31 percent as of Q2 2021. Apple Music trailed far behind with a 15 percent market share followed by Amazon Music and Tencent Music, each having captured 13.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Amazon is adding a large vault of music videos to its Amazon Music Unlimited service. Unlike some competitors like YouTube Music, Amazon’s videos are only available to paying subscribers, according to Android Police — not listeners on the ad-sponsored free tier. There will also be music video playlists to watch through.

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TechSpot

AUGUST 16, 2023

Amazon has become the latest streaming provider to raise the price of its streaming music service. Here's where things currently stand, as best I can tell. Read Entire Article

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TechSpot

AUGUST 3, 2023

Meta recently launched AudioCraft, its framework to generate "high-quality," realistic audio and music, with an open-source license. The technology is designed to address a gap in the generative AI market, where audio creation has historically lagged behind. While some progress has already been made in this area, the company acknowledges.

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TechSpot

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Existing Primephonic members were given a free six month subscription to Apple Music to hold them over while developers prepped a dedicated classical music app to launch this year. The company stopped accepting new subscribers and took the service offline on September 7.

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TechSpot

JUNE 16, 2023

The Tennesse lawsuit alleges that Twitter "fuels its business with countless infringing copies of musical compositions, violating Publishers' and others' exclusive rights under copyright law." Read Entire Article

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The Verge

APRIL 16, 2021

Announcing a penny-per-stream rate is a nice PR win for Apple Music, since it is 1. It is important to note that Spotify runs a massive ad-supported music service with very different economics to the paid Spotify Premium tier, while Apple Music only offers a paid service. very simple and 2.

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Venture Beast

JULY 23, 2020

Researchers at MIT and the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab developed a system -- Foley Music -- that infers music from videos of silent musicians playing instruments. Read More.

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Venture Beast

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Roblox unveiled listening parties for music artists, and its first one will be hosted by Grammy-nominated artist Poppy. Read More.

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Venture Beast

JANUARY 27, 2022

Meta Music Studios is unveiling The Apollo Project as a metaverse for music and games. Read More.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 30, 2023

A trial program now under way in some Amazon warehouses lets workers listen to music, podcasts, and other audio using Bluetooth-enabled earplugs, when working on tasks where it’s deemed safe.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 27, 2021

What if the mix tape — or your musical taste — was the reason you were dating? That’s the premise behind Beatmatch , a new dating app for music lovers who can make a potential love connection over a particular song or artists or upcoming concert. “Music is so important, so instrumental in our lives,” he said.

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Gizmodo

MAY 13, 2020

YouTube Music was supposed to be the successor to Google Play Music , when it launched in 2018 , but it lacked a number of core features, including the ability to transfer your music library over from Google’s previous music streaming app.

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