Music Tech

PlayTreks Establishes Proof-of-Concept In the Indie Music NFT Space — Thousands of Musicians Are Now Using ‘The Playgrounds’

May 5, 2022

Photo Credit: Playtreks Who says superstars get to have all the music NFT fun? As jaw-dropping NFT-minting headlines abound, PlayTreks has been quietly building its blockchain solution for indie and DIY artis... Read More...

PlayTreks Establishes Proof-of-Concept In the Indie Music NFT Space — Thousands of Musicians Are Now Using ‘The Playgrounds’

Paul Resnikoff

May 3, 2022

Avid Pro Tools Drops Its Longtime Perpetual License, Goes Subscription Only

Ashley King

April 28, 2022

Photo Credit: Avid Pro Tools Avid Pro Tools is dropping its perpetual license to go subscription only. Here's what you should know. The Avid website no longer has an option to buy a perpetual license for Pro... Read More...

AI-Powered Music Adaptation Is Coming to Gaming Soundtracks — XdMind Is One Startup Pushing the Possibilities

Paul Resnikoff

April 20, 2022

Subway Surfers, one of several games being reimagined by AI music innovators XDMind. The machines are getting smarter — which means the music industry is taking AI and the metaverse more seriously. According ... Read More...

Sonos Acquires Mayht, Who Showcased New Audio Transducer Tech at CES 2022

Ashley King

April 12, 2022

Photo Credit: Mayht Sonos has announced it is acquiring Mayht, a Netherlands-based company that showed off new audio transducer tech at CES this year. Mayht's Heartmotion technology replaces conventional dri... Read More...

Thematic Is Officially Blowing Up Musicians on YouTube With Its Game-Changing Licensing Approach

Paul Resnikoff

April 6, 2022

Photo: Fiji Blue’s Valentin Fritz (l) and Trevor Derin (r). Several years ago, Thematic set out to fix YouTube's licensing hurdles for musicians and content creators while creating a marketing platform that d... Read More...

How Upstart Streaming Music App Plern Took on Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube Music In Thailand

Paul Resnikoff

April 4, 2022

Plern wraps a Bangkok subway car, part of a localized, artist-focused branding blitz throughout Thailand (photo: Digital Music News) Never heard of Plern? Here's how an upstart Thai streaming music platform ... Read More...

What If Artists Could Finally See Their Data? Chartmetric Introduces ‘Artist Plan’ for Direct Data Access

Paul Resnikoff

March 22, 2022

Spanish guitarist Bryan Lubeck. Who says labels get to have all the fun? Now, Chartmetric is aiming to upend music marketing by giving artists direct access to a trove of their own data. If an artist is gain... Read More...

South Korea’s KOMCA Taps Nashville-Based Muserk to Collect US-Based Mechanical Royalties

Marsha Silva

March 17, 2022

Photo Credit: KOMCA The Korea Music Copyright Association (KOMCA) has just tapped Muserk to help collect US-based mechanical rights royalties. It's been a long road towards recognizing and collecting mechani... Read More...

PROs Are Quietly Reinventing Themselves — By Potentially Counting Every Single Song Played

Paul Resnikoff

March 14, 2022

Photo Credit: Marcus Herzberg What if performance rights organizations (PROs) counted nearly every song played – in every bar, cafe, restaurant, shopping mall, and public place? That’s a future being etched b... Read More...

LimeWire Is Back — This Time as an NFT Marketplace

Ashley King

March 10, 2022

Photo Credit: LimeWire The old piracy platform LimeWire is back — this time as a digital collectibles marketplace. The platform says it is re-launching as a "mainstream-ready" digital collectibles marketplac... Read More...

Ye’s ‘Donda 2’ Ruled Ineligible for the Billboard Charts — Here’s Why

Ashley King

March 8, 2022

Photo Credit: Stem Player Rapper Ye debuted his latest album, Donda 2, on exclusive hardware. The move makes the album ineligible for the Billboard charts. 24 hours after announcing that Donda 2 would be exc... Read More...

Burt Bacharach Dazzles at the Guild of Music Supervisors Awards in LA — Here’s Who Took Home Trophies

Is Sync the New Radio? ‘Running Up That Hill’ Isn’t the Only Track That’s Finding New Fans After Scoring a Major Placement

Unauthorized Music Usage on TikTok Can Cost Brands Big — But There’s a Way to Avoid Expensive Licensing Headaches

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pCloud Is Angling to Become the “Dropbox Killer” for the Music Industry — With Critical Differentiating Features

Chartmetric Pushes Its Music Data Footprint Further With a ‘V2’ Release – Including Stepped-Up TikTok and Short-Form Video Tracking

Amazon to Lay Off Thousands of Employees — Unclear if Amazon Music Properties Affected

The Music Industry Is Moving at a Million Miles Per Hour — Is GPU Audio Building the Engine to Power It All?

Reprtoir Evolves: New Solutions and Pricing Plans Focused on Facilitating Labels and Music Management Companies

PlayTreks Establishes Proof-of-Concept In the Indie Music NFT Space — Thousands of Musicians Are Now Using ‘The Playgrounds’

PlayTreks Establishes Proof-of-Concept In the Indie Music NFT Space — Thousands of Musicians Are Now Using ‘The Playgrounds’

Avid Pro Tools Drops Its Longtime Perpetual License, Goes Subscription Only

AI-Powered Music Adaptation Is Coming to Gaming Soundtracks — XdMind Is One Startup Pushing the Possibilities

Sonos Acquires Mayht, Who Showcased New Audio Transducer Tech at CES 2022

How Upstart Streaming Music App Plern Took on Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube Music In Thailand

What If Artists Could Finally See Their Data? Chartmetric Introduces ‘Artist Plan’ for Direct Data Access

South Korea’s KOMCA Taps Nashville-Based Muserk to Collect US-Based Mechanical Royalties

PROs Are Quietly Reinventing Themselves — By Potentially Counting Every Single Song Played

LimeWire Is Back — This Time as an NFT Marketplace

Ye’s ‘Donda 2’ Ruled Ineligible for the Billboard Charts — Here’s Why