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✘ Societal value, artist empowerment, inclusion, equity - Remixing our industry
And: Clubbing x Science; Hallucination as imagination in LLMs; Tencent's superfan clues; Viral songs aren't good; Create acquires Monstercat
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✘ The changing face of distro
And: YouTube's virtual creators report; Udio x Audible Magic to create fingerprinted output; Robot dexterity still seems hard; What's winning global…
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✘ The musical body, listen closely
And: Quiet time; get recommended more through chatbots; Connection is the whole point; The humans behind the streams; AI is evolving
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✘ Can music even be ethical?
And: The slow streaming movement; Is streaming music's final form?; India's DSP market today; 9 steps to building super fans; Are the 80s back?
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✘ From MySpace to Content ID to AI Slop
And: Is Bandcamp the answer?; Why listeners interpret songs differently; Make something heavy; Open models, closed networks; Lo-fi art, human tools
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✘ Not so loud and not so clear - operating in the gray zone
And: Loud, angry, and indigenous; Data co-ops; Buying to belong; Limp Bizkit's UMG lawsuit proceeds to court; Computopia
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✘ The complexity of sound and making a playlist with a stranger
And: Musicians and suicide; Celebrating women in music; Sony Music removed 75k deepfakes; Music on social problematic for brands; Beyond superfans
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Regular insights about the future of music, media & tech. Team: Maarten Walraven.
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