MusicTech Rewinder - The latest news in music tech and more

Hey,

here comes your weekly digest with the latest news in music tech.

Just two other things before you dive into the featured articles:

1) After a long summer break, I am finally organising a Berlin Music Tech Meetup to bring the music tech community here together again. Please come and join us if you are in Berlin next week, Thursday, Oct. 6. It's gonna be inspiring and fun. -> All info here <-

2) I believe that a blockchain-driven music ecosystem could solve a lot of the present problems in the music industry. Although, I don't think that selling songs as NFTs is in any way anything that will contribute to it. There are bigger opportunities. In order to foster the development of actually useful solutions, I am hosting an "Ideation Camp" next Saturday, together with the people from TZ Connect. The most promising concepts will get a grant of 5k to build a prototype on the Tezos blockchain. If you are in Berlin and would like to participate, please follow this link.

Now, please enjoy reading and have a wonderful weekend.

Cheers,

Matt

It is vital that the economics of the music industry change to challenge exploitative power, support independent artists and benefit society. Tom Gray, founder of the #BrokenRecord campaign, explains what can be done.

In addition to the groundbreaking news that YouTube would begin to monetize Shorts videos and revamp its Partner Program, the company today also announced a new offering for creators who leverage music to back their videos: Creator Music, now in beta testing.

The State Of Vinyl (from someone who works at a vinyl pressing plant) Your Morning Coffee guest post by Sean Rutkowski, VP at Independent Record Pressing Everyone’s talking about vinyl like it’s 1970,...

Today’s era of hyper-fragmentation raises all sorts of questions for the music industry, in particular marketing and A&R departments. In a landscape where it is harder than ever to have a mainstream...

Spotify’s official technology blog

According to Spencer Kornhaber at 'The Atlantic' TikTok artists are taking the spectacle out of music videos and maybe the musicians themselves.

This is a guest post by an established independent artist and songwriter, with tens of millions of streams to their name. After researching a number of platforms in the micro-sync (or micro-licensing) space for their own music and career, they contacted Music Ally to share their thoughts on the state of this burgeoning sector. With […]

Could Spotify's locked play button model used for audiobooks be applied to artist content?

The American Music Fairness Act, which would require terrestrial radio to pay royalties on recorded music, was introduced today by Senators Padilla and Blackburn.

YouTubers who upload public domain classic Night of the Living Dead are currently surrounded by Content ID claims. No one hears their screams.

Paraphrasing the famous quote, perhaps the future of music streaming apps already is here, and the problem is that it is way too spread out among different and conflicting apps and services. Consider that: Several DSPs (mainly Apple Music, Amazon Music, TIDAL and Qobuz) offer high-definition audio.

Former streaming service subscribers on why they have ditched mod cons for MP3s, CDs and other DIY music formats