Judge rejects bid to block Anthropic from using song lyrics for AI training
The music publishers say they still intend to pursue damages
Napster, the original P2P file sharing service, just sold for $207 million
Napster is still making noise a quarter-century later
YouTube Premium Lite debuts at $8/mo - watch ad free, but with fewer perks
Essentials without any extras
Over 1,000 musicians release silent album to protest AI copyright changes
Kate Bush, Tori Amos, and others can't be heard on the album
Spotify's long-awaited HiFi tier is finally coming, but it'll cost you extra
Stop us if you've heard this one before
Latest Windows 11 build adds full MIDI 2.0 support and improved performance
What could possibly go wrong?
Spotify sets record $10 billion payout to music industry in 2024
500 million people now pay for streaming music worldwide
Vinyl is crushing CDs as music industry eclipses cinema, report says
The analog sound storage is making an epic comeback
Nvidia's Fugatto AI sound model claims to transform audio production
The model can create sounds that have never been heard before
Nearly half of young Norwegians are fine with piracy to save money, survey shows
High costs cited as the main reason for piracy acceptance
The first ever "rickroll" occurred on 4chan, disguised as a trailer for which popular video game?
Never gives you up. Never lets you down.
The music industry's latest problem: Archive hard drives from the 90s are failing
TL;DR: The music industry is grappling with a looming crisis regarding its archive of 90s recordings stored on aging hard drives. According to data storage experts at Iron Mountain, around 20 percent of drives from the era are now unreadable. The company is raising concerns that, due to deteriorating formats, insufficient metadata, and increasing disk failures, a significant portion of these historic recordings could be lost forever if urgent action is not taken.
Artist tells Rockstar to "Go f**k yourself" after lowball offer to use band's music in GTA VI
Not very generous, considering GTA V has grossed $8.5 billion in lifetime revenue
Man charged with streaming his AI-generated music billions of times using bots, generating $12 million
Crime does pay, until you're caught
What just happened? In what appears to be a devious use of generative AI and bots, a man has been accused of conning music services out of $12 million by uploading AI-generated music tracks and using an army of over 1,000 bots to repeatedly stream them. Unfortunately for the man in question, he's been arrested for his actions and faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.
Sony Walkman: The First Personal Entertainer
The Sony Walkman was not only a revolutionary device, it was revolutionary on a cultural scale. With the Walkman you could play any song, anywhere, anytime, before the same was possible for movies, e-books or video games.
AI companies to music labels: scraping copyrighted tracks on the internet to train algorithms is "fair use"
Udio and Suno say you can't own styles or genres
NASA beams hip-hop song to Venus at the speed of light for the first time
Missy Elliott's 'Supa Dupa Fly' gets interplanetary premiere
Spotify is adding two-factor authentication to everyone
A security update gradually rolling out to music streaming fans
YouTube unveils AI-powered tool to cleanly remove copyrighted music
Less time fighting claims, more time creating fresh content
The Apple iPod: Pocket Music Before That Phone
These days, everyone has a phone in their pocket that can stream music. But two decades ago, you needed a dedicated player to listen to your favorite songs on the go. Enter the iPod.
Hobbyist revives the beloved Winamp player into a polished physical marvel
The big picture: Teenagers and young adults of the late 1990s will remember Winamp as the de facto music player on their Windows PCs. If tinkering with electronics and fabrication is your jam, give Linamp a look. It brings Winamp to the physical plane, allowing you to touch this piece of history. It is a testament to one's passion and creativity, taking something old and giving it a new lease on life.
Sony doesn't want companies to use its music to train generative AI algorithms
One of the largest record labels is warning hundreds of companies over data scraping
Winamp music player will soon become an open-source project
Holy Llamas!: Winamp is being relaunched as an all-around music platform for creators and artists, but the old desktop player isn't disappearing anytime soon. The corporation owning the brand has now announced that the program's code will soon be offered through an open-source license.
OpenAI's Sora AI shapes Washed Out's newest music video
Every scene, actor, and second of the video was created by AI
Bang & Olufsen brings back iconic 6-disc CD changer from the 90s
Cheaper than a Bitcoin, but just barely