Tag: metadata

Abba's Björn Ulvaeus has kicked off the latest attempt to cure the music industry's metadata headaches, with an initiative called Credits Due.

Metadata is important across the whole music industry, and that includes the production music sector, with its clients invariably pushed for time as they hunt down the right tracks for their projects.

Blokur CEO Phil Barry has been talking about the startup's evolution, in an appearance at the Music Ally China Digital Summit this morning. The company now processes data for around 70m songs from "trillions of streaming...

We're caught between 'painting the Forth Bridge' and 'playing whack-a-mole' as the best metaphor for the music industry's work fixing dodgy metadata.

In its original incarnation of Dot Blockchain, Verifi Media was one of the first startups to explore what blockchain technology might bring to music and other media industries. Post-rebrand, the company launched a music...

The metadata debates around recorded music have been raging for as long as there's been a digital music industry. Time to apply them to music livestreams too? Startup OnNow·tv thinks so. It's the company founded earlier...

RightsHub is one of the companies developing technology for managing music rights data and assets. It's just announced five partnerships with music recognition technology (MRT) companies to help its customers get their music...

Music recognition app Shazam had its rivals in the past, but they trailed in its wake up to and beyond its acquisition by Apple, which completed in 2018. Now a new challenger is stepping forward: startup Deepr, whose founders pitched...

Music Ally has done its time in the blockchain trenches: our reports on the technology’s potential for music from 2016, 2017 and 2018 are evidence of that. One of the conclusions we’ve drawn: the ‘sweep...

Spotify, Pandora, Deezer and other music services are thinking hard about how to make it easier for listeners to discover podcasts that they might like. Now tech firm Gracenote is launching something that could help: “a...

Earlier this year in our piece about how we worked with Atlanta rapper K Camp to capitalise on the TikTok success of his track ‘Lottery’, we explained that changing its title on streaming services to ‘Lottery...

AI-music analysis startup Musiio has had a good 2019: it recently raised $1M in seed funding, is already working with a slew of clients, and is looking to raise money again in 2020. Musiio’s technology is a mixture of...