‘The next major music platform should give people something to do with the music’: Spotify’s former Head of Innovation on his plans to launch an interactive music service, and whether AI features will help or hinder streaming
 ‘The next major music platform should give people something to do with the music’: Spotify’s former Head of Innovation on his plans to launch an interactive music service, and whether AI features will help or hinder streaming

Mauhan M. Zonoozy was Head of Innovation at Spotify, and now he’s taking on the world of music streaming with his own interactive platforms.

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Miss your CD collection? This wall-mounted display for Spotify and Apple Music promises to bring back its ‘feeling of connection’ — but its maker insists he doesn’t want to kill off physical media
 Miss your CD collection? This wall-mounted display for Spotify and Apple Music promises to bring back its ‘feeling of connection’ — but its maker insists he doesn’t want to kill off physical media

Spine Music founder Ricardo Amorim is putting his love for albums and CD collecting into a new digital music display.

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I found my 2006 iPod nano during a clearout and honestly, I think we’ve lost something beautiful in the streaming age
 I found my 2006 iPod nano during a clearout and honestly, I think we’ve lost something beautiful in the streaming age

From iTunes to Spotify: what recovering my iPod nano 2006 during a clearout revealed about how my music listening habits have changed

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‘You’ll notice I do not call it AI music, because I don’t think it’s music’: Qobuz’s Managing Director Dan Mackta on music streaming’s biggest problem, and how he hopes to tackle it
 ‘You’ll notice I do not call it AI music, because I don’t think it’s music’: Qobuz’s Managing Director Dan Mackta on music streaming’s biggest problem, and how he hopes to tackle it

‘The whole thing is just a really, really big bummer’ — Qobuz’s Managing Director on the scourge of AI-generated audio in streaming, and why he still refuses to call it music

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‘What we’re really fighting is people scripting computers to generate thousands of songs and uploading them in batches to overwhelm, flood and replace’: Deezer’s Head of Research on that industry-leading AI-filter — and why we need it now more than ever
 ‘What we’re really fighting is people scripting computers to generate thousands of songs and uploading them in batches to overwhelm, flood and replace’: Deezer’s Head of Research on that industry-leading AI-filter — and why we need it now more than ever

‘Just by relying on some plain signal processing and mathematical tools, we were able to actually detect these artifacts for most models out there’

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Spotify’s rumored song ID tool could upstage Apple Music and Shazam in one fell swoop, and solve my biggest song-saving headache
 Spotify’s rumored song ID tool could upstage Apple Music and Shazam in one fell swoop, and solve my biggest song-saving headache

Spotify is tipped to launch a built-in song identifier tool to one-up Apple and Shazam.

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My favorite music streaming site just got a big update that makes me even happier I quit Spotify six months ago
 My favorite music streaming site just got a big update that makes me even happier I quit Spotify six months ago

The high-res audio streaming service Qobuz has got an app upgrade that makes it much easier to use. Here’s what’s changed.

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Spotify just launched its first ever music video charts, bringing MTV’s classic format into the streaming era — but I think it’ll be a long time before YouTube users make the switch
 Spotify just launched its first ever music video charts, bringing MTV’s classic format into the streaming era — but I think it’ll be a long time before YouTube users make the switch

Spotify’s new Music Video Charts Global brings back the nostalgia of classic music TV channels, but it still won’t beat YouTube.

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Pop singer Lorde slammed Spotify’s AI ‘About the Song’ feature, claiming it’s full of nothing but false details — and now subscribers are starting to catch on
 Pop singer Lorde slammed Spotify’s AI ‘About the Song’ feature, claiming it’s full of nothing but false details — and now subscribers are starting to catch on

Lorde called out Spotify’s About the Song tool, saying its details were incorrect and that it ‘limits free interpretation’.

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Apple is putting up prices on Apple Music and Apple One, and says ‘rising licensing costs’ are to blame — here’s how much you’ll pay now

Apple has put up the prices for its music streaming subscription service for the first time in four years.

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