‘Technology’ for making music is nearly as old as music-making itself – construct own ‘banging rocks round a campfire in the stone age was the GarageBand of its day’ Ted Talk […]
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BandLab adds ‘Sounds’ library of royalty-free music samples
There’s a decent business in selling beats, loops and samples to musicians – and growing appeal to artists and producers capable of producing that content. Splice paid out $11m in […]
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Musician bodies team up to attack Epidemic Sound again
Production library Epidemic Sound is taking flak from musician bodies again, in what’s becoming a regular, one-sided war of words. European bodies Aepo-Artis, Ecsa and FIM, who represent composers, songwriters […]
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Adobe adds production music from Epidemic Sound and Jamendo
Adobe is the tech company behind creative software like Photoshop and video-editing tool Adobe Premiere. It also has a library of royalty-free images and other visual assets called Adobe Stock. […]
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Startup Mixo launches public beta of its cloud DJ library
Mixo describes itself as “the smart library” for professional DJs and has just launched in beta. It lets users sync their libraries and mixes across all the connected devices they use, […]
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Shutterstock launches a subscription for its music library
Back in July 2014, we reported on photo and video library Shutterstock’s move into music, with a catalogue of 60k licensed clips from partner Rumblefish, which it was selling to online video […]
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AI-music startup Amadeus Code launches royalty-free music library
There are more people now talking about music-generating AIs as tools for musicians to use, rather than existential threats to their livelihoods. But if there’s one obvious area where AI […]
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Twitch doubles its music catalogue size
Live-streaming video service Twitch has doubled the size of its pre-cleared Music Library to 1,000 songs, including more than 100 tracks from hip-hop label Rhymesayers. The library, which launched earlier […]
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Games-streaming service Twitch adds music library for creators
We wrote about Twitch quite a lot last year: it’s the service for livestreaming games – as in people playing games – that was attracting 45m monthly viewers when Amazon […]
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Rumblefish catalogue tops 1m songs
Music licensing service Rumblefish says it now has more than 1m songs in its catalogue, which it claims makes it the largest pre-cleared music library in the world.