MusicTech Rewinder - AI voices and copyright, music in AR, Ticketing, merch on streaming,..

Happy Friday,

you may have recognized that I have been sending out this newsletter only on a bi-weekly basis, lately.

I am going to send it out every week again when I am back in Berlin.

Until then enjoy reading and have a wonderful weekend.

Cheers,

Matt

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

GPU Audio is placing a powerful and underexploited parallel processor at the center of music production — here's how it works.

Libraries Are Launching Their Own Local Music Streaming Platforms — www.vice.com

It's not Spotify, but some cities now host music platforms with their own local flavor.

Games have raced ahead to build Web3, but it’s not too late for music — www.musicbusinessworldwide.com

The following MBW op/ed comes from Bruno Guez, CEO of Digital rights administration company Revelator…

Council Post: Sound Is Becoming An Increasingly Important Component Of AR/VR — www.forbes.com

Realistic audio is expanding in VR and AR as businesses and creators learn how to implement it.

Artists Can Now Sell Merch Through Their Amazon Music Profiles — rootnote.co

Amazon Music for Artists just announced its own merch integration to allow artists to sell merch directly to fans on the platform.

Over 1,000 songs with human-mimicking AI vocals have been released by Tencent Music in China. One of them has 100m streams. — www.musicbusinessworldwide.com

TME's Cussion Pang confirms firm has made a lot of progress with its Lingyin Engine.

Why Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour Is Breaking Ticketmaster, the Fandom, and Possibly Reality Itself — slate.com

There’s a reason that demand for tickets is “historically unprecedented.”

The scary truth about AI copyright is nobody knows what will happen next — www.theverge.com

Generative AI models have taken off in 2022. They can generate code, text, art, and more. But there are serious questions about their use of copyrighted data for training. Are these models legal? It’s a difficult question to answer.

Make Peace with Metadata: Part II (Release & Post-Release) – Ditto Music — byta.com

Ditto Music discuss why music metadata matters for artists during the release process and post-release. From royalties to discoverability.

Recession Looms Over the Music Industry (Part 2) — pennyfractions.ghost.io

Hello, hello. First off, thank you so much to everyone that came out to see me, Art & Labor, Money 4 Nothing, and our many wonderful guests at Nowadays last week. Maybe we’ll do it again in five years. Seriously though, I’m so grateful to all of you readers!