At the “Music & Metadata: Do Songs Remain The Same?" panel at South by Southwest, academics held forth at length while music industry execs in the audience asked, how can we streamline the use of meta ...

Inaccurate and missing metadata isn’t just a pain for music lovers – it can also cost artists, songwriters, and others billions in unpaid royalties from streaming music services, suggests a new report ...

Metadata (aka data about data) has become a huge part of achieving musical success in the digital age. So huge, in fact, that to ignore it, or to have incorrect metadata, can ruin your chances of ...

Metadata is the grease that makes the music industry run smoothly. Metadata helps artists and labels describe their offerings; it helps digital music services organize their catalogs; and most ...

TiVo Corporation announced today that Google will use TiVo Music Metadata to provide metadata and images for select artists on Google's music platforms, which includes YouTube Red, YouTube Music and… ...

The big announcement from the government about a music industry working group on creator remuneration from streaming landed yesterday. Today the second part of the industry agreement has been ...

So declares a comic from The Oatmeal, whose biting satire rings regrettably true for creators in the digital age. The attention economy has compelled artists to trade dollars for pageviews, making a ...

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While streaming is quickly becoming the most popular way to enjoy music, many of us prefer to own our favorite tunes, rather than lease them. Purchasing and ripping CDs, or buying digital tracks to ...

Apple Music has added metadata tags which will serve as the platform's AI-labeling practice for generated content.