Music Tech

Pandora's newly debuted 'Modes' feature is aimed at offering more options and better control over recommendations. A departure from the traditional 'Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down' recommendation system, the six new... Read More...

Session CEO Niclas Molinder (l) with ABBA member and Session co-founder Bjorn Ulvaeus (r) at SXSW. Let's give these artists some credit. Last week, a consortium of industry and artist associations banded tog... Read More...

photo: MelodyVR  As music-related VR sets sail, four very important publishing groups are on board. At this early stage, music-related VR is mostly about unknowns. For starters, it's nearly impossible to ... Read More...

Thanks to a new partnership with Muzooka, Gracenote will now feature photos in the music metadata it offers to providers. The partnership was announced today to allow artists more control over how their musi... Read More...

photo: Doctor Popular (CC 2.0) Musiio has raised $1 million from several investors. Wavemaker Partners, Exponential Creativity Ventures were the two biggest names to jump into this initial round.  Several ot... Read More...

Apple has updated its guidelines for in-app subscriptions and how they should be displayed. The guidelines lay out how in-app purchases should appear and when they should be shown to the user. Apple is ai... Read More...

Max Martin (photo: Martina Huber/Regeringskansliet (CC 2.0)) The messy state of metadata is getting cleaned up — at least a little bit. Talk to artists, songwriters, indie labels, and publishers on the groun... Read More...

Facebook has been working on a Musical.ly competitor for months.  Now, it's ready. The app is called Lasso, and it was first reported to be in development back in October.  Today, the head of the Facebook La... Read More...