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MusicTech Rewinder - AI, Licensing, Metaverse, Web3, and the wheel of fortune
Dear Reader,
it's Friday again and here comes your weekly digest.
If you feel like discovering a couple of new niche videos, check out Here Before A Million. It is a curated streaming site that features the best music videos with less than one million views on YouTube.
Other than that, enjoy reading this week's music tech news, and have a wonderful weekend.
Cheers,
Matt
Sounds from the Fediverse: an introduction to Funkwhale, a decentralized, community audio platform — ins-rt.net
Written by Jake Colvin (NKC) New platforms for community and music. Since the pandemic began, I’ve joined about 20 Discord servers. That’s probably small-scale compared to many people, but even so, there’s a lot to keep up with when the communities on these servers number into the hundreds.
Apple discontinued the iPod this week, sparking nostalgia for many whose personal musical history was entwined with the device. Rob Sheffield wrote a particularly emotional and hyperbolic reminiscence for Rolling Stone: “The best damn listening device in the history of human ears.”
Hello, hello, and again hello. The sun is shining and the temperature is creeping up in New York City, so my smile is getting wider by the day. Last week, my favorite fashion podcast Nymphet Alumni arrived twice in my feed with an appearance on the Default Friend podcast and
Ben Gilbert explores the emergent tools and profiles two AI music metadata companies to assess how it can take the industry forward.
‘What is currently an opaque black box of song royalties, needs to be transformed into a glass box.’ — www.musicbusinessworldwide.com
The following op/ed comes from Annabella Coldrick, Chief Executive of the UK'
Samsung x Roblox Launch Unique Metaverse Music Experience With Charli XCX: Offering fans a chance to virtually perform alongside the artist.
You’ll probably have read about the current, let’s say, zesty vibrancy in the crypto market. There’s a lot of volatility on offer to munch your popcorn along to: NFT trading has “collapsed”; Trillions of (real-world) dollars have been wiped off the value of cryptocurrencies; people have been openly wondering what might happen if crypto exchange […]
Spotify is testing a new profile feature that lets select artists promote their NFTs — techcrunch.com
Spotify is testing a new feature that allows select artists to promote their NFTs on their profiles, the company confirmed.
Describing Major Music NFT Platforms as Music Products — Part 1: The Rise of Curators + The Push for Product Metadata — musicdatapro.medium.com
Recently, I was on Twitter and saw a bunch of tweets about a Music NFT offering from super producer Diplo via the Royal.io platform. The language “I just bought of piece” of “X song” didn’t seem…
What Y2K Music Brands Could Bring To Web3
Sharing music recommendations could be a much easier, efficient and richer
experience.