Are Bots Taking Over Music?; Suno Distorts the AI Music Conversation; SlopTracker Reveals AI's Grip on Spotify Royalty Pool
#271 | Your Weekly Dose of AI Music News
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Are Bots Taking Over Music?
From hip-hop to K-pop and beyond, fraudulent streams, AI tracks, and juiced charts are changing how songs are made and consumed.
Suno Is Distorting the AI Music Conversation
Suno’s influence, fair or not, has colored the entire conversation surrounding AI music. For many, the association assumes slop, theft, laziness, legal risk, and a lack of craft, and it’s shaping how everything else is received.
"Are We Doomed to Be Banned Everywhere?" Asks AI Artist Who Is Baffled That Real Musicians Don't Support Him
A new AI music creator discovered that the path to an online audience runs directly through a gauntlet of people who would prefer that path not exist.
AIMPRO Launches as the First PRO for AI Music
AIMPRO was announced Saturday, March 28, at the AlgoRhythms conference in Bloomington, Indiana, as the first PRO built specifically for generative AI music. It enters one of the core systems of the music industry: how creators get paid when their work is used.
SlopTracker Reveals AI's Grip on Spotify Royalty Pool
The website meticulously tracks AI-generated artists on Spotify, quantifying the royalties that these artists divert from human creators through a data-driven lens. By analyzing patterns, the tracker can identify pure AI music with 99.9% accuracy, though tracks processed with AI present greater challenges to identify.
Directing Creativity in the Age of AI
The modern creative is beginning to look less like a technician and more like a director.
Tech firm FiEE says it will spend $3m to expand into AI music
The debate about whether AI-generated music is unfairly sluicing royalties away from human artists and songwriters is in full swing. But where there’s money, there’ll be more companies looking to take a share of it.
Suno launches v5.5 AI model with voice cloning tool: ‘The best music starts with a human.’
The voice capture feature lets users record or upload audio of themselves singing and incorporating that vocal identity into tracks generated by Suno.
⚙️ Tools
Which Apple Mac computer should you buy for music production?
Collabhouse Go is an ‘essential toolkit’ for independent artists
How to use Apple's Playlist Playground to make AI-generated mixes
Your ears, your mix: Personalised Dolby Atmos headphone monitoring lands on mobile
🎼 Innovation
Audiio Loudly Rejects AI-Generated Music in Lieu of 'Human Made'
Stranger Things composers Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein are taking the soundtrack on tour
SoundCloud to help artists drop exclusive tracks for superfans
Major labels to challenge recent copyright-termination ruling
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