MusicTech Rewinder - Issue #78

Dear reader,

I am keeping it short this week.

Check out those 10 forgotten audio file formats and enjoy reading this week's news.

Have a fabulous weekend.

Cheers,

Matt

AI can teach us about patterns and processes, theory and extrapolation, math and aesthetics. But what it communicates will not be sensient, self-aware, rooted in profound emotional experience, or conscious of its audience.

We find out why some electronic music artists are removing their catalogues from Spotify and other streaming platforms.

Troy Carter, the co-founder and CEO of Q&A, came on the Trapital Podcast.

The essential web3 toolkit for sharing and funding anything. From writing about your latest idea, to building a home for the next big DAO.

Prince's Final Payday. Bowie's Exclusive Remixes. Who Evaluated the Valuations?

The same A.I. technology that runs Jason Barnes' prosthetic arm can teach people how to read Braille or play the piano in a matter of hours.

It's a sad fact that most people today are putting up with substandard audio when it comes to music. Even sadder is that they don't care.

As the live entertainment industry moves back into gear, the advantages that blockchain can deliver appear to be front and centre. Gordon Masson reports

Dariacore, sigilkore, robloxcore, maplekore...We investigate. As the internet continues to decentralize culture, letting us choose which streaming services video games and social media we want to base our lives around, some of the most intoxicating new music is coming from these tiny SoundCloud pockets, which you can only access if you already know to look there.

All these stories have the same source: the release of the 2021 MRC Data Year-End Report, and an accompanying article in Billboard on January 6 (Billboard is a co-sponsor of the MRC report). But just reading that Billboard article all the way through is enough to debunk the idea that CDs are back.