Dave Brubeck Collection Launches 1st Digital Archive For International Jazz Day

one of the world’s premier jazz archives, The Brubeck Collection at Wilton Library (Wilton, CT), announced the launch of its enhanced and interactive digital archive, making the 22,000+ item collection catalog easily searchable and browsable online for the first time to everyone worldwide. This new digital archive also includes more than a thousand digitized photos, recordings, scores, and documents.

Spotify’s getting serious about its enterprise and dev tools business play

Music-streaming giant takes a cue from Red Hat's open source playbook with enterprise support and services

Bon Jovi’s Music Is Shooting Up The iTunes Charts

Interest in all things Bon Jovi is growing at the moment–especially the band’s music. The group was profiled in a new docuseries titled Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story, which premiered on Hulu on April 26. Following the four-part production arriving, several of the band’s most beloved singles are on the rise once again.

SiriusXM Loses 445,000 Sat Radio, 64,000 Pandora Subscribers

The audio entertainment company pointed to a “promising” takeup of its revamped app.

AI Music Revolution Sets Stage for ‘Dataset Ethics’

While it’s easy to get caught up in the excitement of AI-generated music circulating online, the real work of creating ethical AI happens behind the scenes, deep within the AI supply chain. At the heart of this process lies the creation of massive datasets, meticulously labeled and annotated, which serve as the foundation for training AI models.

Artist used AI, synesthesia to compose music from paintings

Shane Guffogg is a multi-media abstract artist with synesthesia, meaning he "hears color." Guffogg worked with AI experts and musicians to compose music that corresponded with his paintings. 

Maximizing Music Catalogs: A Strategic Shift For Sustainable Success

Categorized as 'catalog music,' a song earns this distinction six months after being released. Luminate's 2023 data reveals a seismic shift in music consumption: global music streams surged by 34% to 7.1 trillion, with catalog music securing 72.6% of the U.S. market share—overshadowing the mere 27% held by newly released music

Spotify’s 100 ‘greatest’ modern R&B tracks have been streamed 43.2bn times

Spotify’s recently-launched ‘Classics’ initiative has compiled a list of “the 100 greatest R&B songs of the streaming era”.

ByteDance would rather shut TikTok in the US than sell if legal challenge against ban law fails

Citing sources, Reuters reports that TikTok’s parent ‘would prefer’ to shut the app down in the US if court challenge is unsuccessful.

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