MusicTech Rewinder - A mixed bag of music (tech) industry news

Happy Friday,

I hope you are doing fine and you are getting to enjoy the beginning of spring with plenty of sunshine.

Before you dive into this week's articles, here are some interesting discoveries, I made on the web the last week:

1) Lightyear.fm lets you hear how far various songs have traveled into space. The farther away you get, the longer the waves take to travel there—and the older the music you’ll hear.

2) Songfinch is a platform where you can order custom songs from musicians for every possible occasion or purpose.

3) Open Source Alternative lets you discover 250+ popular (often free) open-source alternatives to your proprietary SaaS products.

Now, enjoy reading the latest music tech news and have a wonderful weekend,

Matt

We caught up with Kevin Breuner of CD Baby to discuss the role a music distribution company plays in today's music industry.

This is an email you're gonna want to read…

The topic of ‘fake artists’ refuses to go away. For those who have been on Mars for the last couple of years, fake artists refer to artists who release under a streaming pen name but do not build any artist profile around the music.

The promise of exposure can lead artists to sign deals they otherwise wouldn't consider.

A new rock music and pop culture website. Editorial independent music website offering news, reviews, features, interviews, videos and pictures

Dave Rossum, Easy Mo Bee, Nick Hook and Cookin Soul guide us through the influence of the E-Mu SP-1200 sampler and into the next chapter of Rossum Electro.

Artists are experimenting with performing in a virtual world. We explore the new creative landscapes the metaverse has to offer

Tom Allen, founder of Curve Royalty Systems, urges caution and patience for those pinning their hopes on a tech-driven miracle…

The U.S. Copyright Office has launched a website for the first copyright small-claims tribunal – the Copyright Claims Board.

It has been introduced that Soundwise is now the brand new father or mother firm of iZotope and Native Devices,

Playlists can be listened in two ways: from start to finish and at random.  This seems insufficient. Why can’t we have “maps” instead of "lists”?  The maps can give you the same itinerary that a list does, but they allow you to choose where to go and and see where you have b