Tag: metadata

We’ve written about AI-curation startup Musiio several times this year: its CEO Hazel Savage pitched the company impressively at our NY:LON Connect conference in January as well as at Midemlab in June, raising $1m of...

The Verge has run a lengthy piece on the existential crisis around metadata that the music business is currently facing down and why the longer it continues, the more money is being lost. “Metadata sounds like one of the...

Bob Moczydlowsky has made a success of the Techstars Music accelerator, working with some of the most interesting music/tech startups to have emerged in the last three years. Now he’s been talking to analytics firm Soundcharts...

One of the favourite video clips we’ve seen from friends at SXSW was footage of a band playing a cover of Abba’s ‘The Winner Takes It All’, with the camera panning back towards the audience to show a watching… Björn...

Gracenote is taking its ‘Global Music Data’ catalogue to a new market: India. The collection of metadata is already available in the US, Europe, Latin America, Australasia, South Korea and Japan, but the company hopes...

The legal clarification comes early in Spotify for Artists’ blog post about metadata: “This material has been prepared for informational purposes only, and is not intended to provide legal or accounting advice. Those...

Individual executives from British collecting society PRS for Music have been publicly complimentary about metadata-creating startup Auddly in recent months. Now that relationship has been formalised. PRS has signed a...

Startup Auddly’s service aims to help songwriters and musicians to start creating metadata around their songs from the earliest stages of writing and recording. Now it’s launching a campaign to promote these practices,...

Swedish startup Auddly has been building what it describes as a “song data hub”, initially for songwriters to store details on their songs as they work on them – including co-writer and producer details, split agreements...

When Spotify agreed a $43.4m deal in May this year to settle a class-action suit brought against it over mechanical royalty payments – in a case combining lawsuits filed by David Lowery and Melissa Ferrick – it was no...

The latest initiative to tackle the music industry’s metadata problems is a collaboration between American PROs ASCAP and BMI. Focused on the US - put away those ‘Global Repertoire Database’ comparisons now please...

Music collecting societies ASCAP, SACEM and PRS for Music are teaming up for an ambitious partnership based on blockchain technology. The societies said the project will "prototype a new shared system of managing authoritative...