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Spotify Partners With United Airlines To Enable Personal Audio Streaming At Altitude
Spotify is integrating personal user account access into United Airlines' seatback entertainment systems. By scanning a QR code on Starlink-equipped flights, passengers can now stream their own playlists, podcasts, and audiobooks directly through the aircraft’s display screens during their journey.
Spotify Takes to the Sky with United Airlines Partnership
Spotify is bringing personal account streaming to United Airlines seatback displays using a simple QR code scan on Starlink-equipped aircraft. Today, Spotify has announced a new partnership that brings personal account streaming to United Airlines seatback displays. Spotify listeners can resume content directly from their seatback screen on United Airlines flights, whether it’s a trip-specific […]
Logic Pro 13 Introduces Conversational AI Assistance and Advanced Stem Separation Tools
Apple is integrating natural language AI assistants into its latest Logic Pro update, aiming to streamline DAW navigation while enhancing stem separation and library management for professional music producers and creative studios.
Apple brings AI assistant and smarter production tools to Logic Pro 13
Apple’s latest Logic Pro update introduces an AI assistant that can control your DAW, more advanced stem separation, intelligent sound search and new production resources. Apple is taking AI further into music production with Logic Pro 13, introducing an intelligent assistant that can interact directly with a producer’s digital audio workstation (DAW). As part of a wider Creator Studio update, Apple announced last week that the new version also brings improved stem separation, a redesigned sound
Industry Publication Hypebot Transitions Into Visual Storytelling With New Instagram Account Launch
The long-standing music industry news outlet Hypebot has officially expanded its digital footprint by launching an Instagram presence, aiming to adapt its editorial focus to the increasingly visual nature of modern music business communications and artist promotion strategies.
We (Finally) Started an Instagram Account
Follow Hypebot on Instagram and we'll see you in the feed!
The American Federation of Musicians Launches Campaign for AI Consent and Compensation
The American Federation of Musicians has introduced the Human Made, Human Paid initiative, challenging record labels to grant performers explicit consent, credit, and fair financial participation regarding the use of their recorded works for generative AI training.
Beyond the Algorithm: Why Human Advocacy Remains the True Engine of Music Discovery
With over 100,000 new tracks uploaded daily, the music industry continues to fixate on automated discovery. However, professional curators and recent market shifts suggest that authentic human advocacy, not algorithmic scaling, remains the decisive factor in breaking new talent.
The music industry is solving the wrong bottleneck
Diana Umana digs into the new artist discovery process – with some expert voices – and concludes that what truly moves an act forward is advocacy. And guess what? Every advocate starts as a fan of what they hear and see.. Source
Music Startup Shifts: Moises Integrates With SoundCloud While Corite Ceases Operations
SoundCloud and Moises form a strategic partnership to streamline creative workflows, while the fan-funding platform Corite unexpectedly shuts down. Meanwhile, a new analytics service, FestIndex, offers performance benchmarking for festival social media marketing strategies.
Startups roundup: Moises x SoundCloud, Corite shutdown, FestIndex
AI-music startup Moises has inked its latest partnership, with SoundCloud. It’s a promotional deal that includes a technical integration, with artists on SoundCloud able to export their tracks into Moises for mixing, mastering and stem separation. The post is from Music Ally .
Human Made, Human Paid: The Musicians Union’s Three Cs of AI
The American Federation of Musicians (AFM) has launched the "Human Made, Human Paid" campaign, urging record labels to ensure musicians have a say in the use of their performances for generative AI. The AFM demands consent, credit, and compensation, arguing that musicians should be recognized and paid when their work is exploited in AI systems.