Music Picard 3.0.5 released

Picard 3.0.5 is a maintenance release for the recently released Picard 3.0 with fixes for reported issues. This release fixes issues with saving the order of cover art providers, manually set artwork for multiple files not being saved, a potential crash when logging out of your MusicBrainz account...

MetaBrainz Blog 35m ago
Music Surgery

I didn’t have this on my bingo card. So Monday night I’m out hiking in the mountains. And just after turning around to go back down I start to get this ache in my lower abdomen. And I’m lamenting that I did not bring any toilet paper. It had occurred to me before I left […]

Lefsetz Letter 5h ago
Music Let Your Fans Become Friends

Your music can give people a reason to meet. You do not have to become the subject of every conversation they have afterward. In 2008, fans who had been matched as strangers in shared cottages at a Marillion concert weekend were booking the next event together as friends.

Digital Music News 8h ago
Music U2 Hits UMusic Shops for a Special ‘Carnaval de Luz’ Pop-Up

UMusic Shops are celebrating U2’s new album, which releases on Friday, with a three-day pop-up takeover of the stores in London, Madrid, and New York. All three UMusic Shops in New York City, London, and Madrid are celebrating the release of U2’s new album, Carnaval de Luz, with a three-day pop-up...

Digital Music News 14h ago
Music Behind The Campaign: Bonobo

Electronic artist and producer Bonobo released Distance In Static on 11 September 2026, his eighth studio album and his first since 2022’s Fragments. The team at Ninja Tune include: Jonny Duckworth (senior product manager (UK)); Hannah Silk Champagne (senior product manager (North America)); Camila...

Music Ally 20h ago
Music Music Industry Moves: Shore Fire Names Jaclyn D. Childress President; Epic Records Promotes Ayanna Wilks and Tina Ibañez; Jack Antonoff Names Date for Ally Coalition Benefit Concert

Top communications firm Shore Fire Media has announced the promotion of Jaclyn D. Childress to president. A 13-year veteran of the firm and member of its leadership team since 2019, Childress (pictured above, left) will continue to head Shore Fire’s Nashville team, reporting to recently appointed...

Variety 20h ago
Music Protect Ya Deck: Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA invests in AYO Music Group

It’s nearly two years since music-clearance veteran Deborah Mannis-Gardner and Tracklib boss Pär Almqvist co-founded their new venture AYO Music Group – an “active copyright administrator” helping rightsholders better exploit their catalogues. The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 22h ago
Music Idol’s Labelcamp and startup MyPart explore AI connections

The list of music-industry tools and services exploring agentic AI and LLM connections continues to grow. Today there is news from Idol’s distribution-management platform Labelcamp, as well as from music-matching startup MyPart. The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 22h ago
Music YouTube Music and Spotify’s rivalry heats up in South Korea

This week’s big K-Pop story is the New York Times’s exposé on NewJeans contracts – and the pushback from the South Korean industry. But another ongoing story in the country concerns the competition there between two global streaming services: YouTube Music and Spotify. The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 23h ago
Music Talent Identifier HAND Joins DDEX As a Liaison Organization

Talent identifier HAND has been approved as a liaison organization of standards body DDEX, whose metadata carries NIL info across the music industry. HAND, the Universal Talent Identifier, a nonprofit Digital Object Identifier (DOI) Registration Agency, has announced its approval as a liaison...

Digital Music News 1d ago
Music Scholastic’s Catalog Is Now Available on Audiobooks in Premium

For generations, Scholastic has filled bookshelves with stories for kids of all ages. Now, through a new agreement with Scholastic U.S., Spotify is bringing the publisher’s catalog to more younger readers and their families. Starting today, Premium subscribers in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia,...

Spotify 1d ago
Music AI-music labelling ‘can’t be just the platforms’ says RIAA boss

We smiled at the headline for the latest edition of tech site The Verge’s ‘Decoder’ podcast: “Hold up — I had a great time talking to the RIAA guy”. A wry reference to the still-lingering memories of the industry body’s reputation in tech circles in the Peak Napster era. The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 1d ago
Music Apple Music names Olivia Dean as its Artist of the Year for 2026

Tiny gold statuettes? Pfft! Apple Music knows what top musicians really want: awards so large that they’ll need a new mantelpiece to show them off. And the latest artist scrambling for the fixture-and-fittings catalogue is Olivia Dean. The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 1d ago
Music Audio-tech brand Harman has launched its own music-discovery app

We trust Harman to make hi-fis, speakers, headphones and in-car entertainment systems. We haven’t, thus far, looked to the company for music recommendations. However, the Samsung subsidiary has sprung a surprise with the launch of an app called Drops. The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 1d ago
Music What Does Indie Music Mean: Independent Release or a Style of Sound?

Indie can describe an independent release or a musical style. A record can fit one meaning without fitting the other: sound alone cannot establish its release arrangement. The first axis: independence as a release model In its strictest sense, indie is shorthand for independent.

The Digital Edge 2d ago
Music Mailbag

From: Richard Griffiths Subject: Re: Song of the Summer Most important number these days? MPH Merch per head. That tells you if you’re playing a pub for a hundred but MPH is £10 versus artists playing 10000 and only doing £5 MPH. The pub artist has real fans the arena artist passing fans. I have […]

Lefsetz Letter 2d ago
Music Production

Is a requirement at the arena level. The old days of the music being enough…there are very few acts that can pull this off, usually ones who became established before the death of MTV/VH1/radio and the advent of the internet.

Lefsetz Letter 2d ago
Music Hold up — I had a great time talking to the RIAA guy

Today, I’m talking with Mitch Glazier, who is CEO and chairman of the RIAA. This conversation was a real full-circle moment for me: I was in college when Napster hit, and the RIAA became everyone’s villain for suing kids for downloading music.

The Verge 2d ago
Music Opening Acts

People only want to see the headliner. Live music is now an event, not a culture. Sure, there are outliers, fans who need to go to the show constantly, keep up on developing acts, but that’s not most of the public. People have favorites and they want to see them and no one else. They […]

Lefsetz Letter 3d ago
Music Soul Glo’s Diaspora Problems is a hardcore record like no other

Soul Glo has a new record called NA I'M GON GRAB ALLAT coming out in January, and I, for one, can not wait. While two singles have dropped, it's not enough to truly tide me over, so I've been revisiting Songs to Yeet at the Sun and my favorite album of 2022 - Diaspora Problems.

The Verge 3d ago
Music Tech Elvis and Eminem rights holders are suing Suno

Suno is facing yet another pair of lawsuits. A group of rights holders of Elvis Presley's music and the publisher of some of Eminem's biggest records are suing the AI music company, claiming it illegally generates music and lyrics that mimic those artists.

The Verge 3d ago
Music What Makes an Arena Artist in 2026?

Not long ago, selling out Madison Square Garden meant chart hits and a household name. Now artists like Slayyyter, FKA twigs, and Cleo Sol are filling arenas on the strength of something else. So what does it actually take to be an arena artist today

How Music Charts 5d ago
Music How Akai and Moog are embracing vibe-coded mods

inMusic, the parent company of Akai, Moog, Native Instruments, and more, has decided to embrace the modding community. In an interview with The Verge, inMusic CEO Jack O'Donnell said, "We're going to provide a toolbox to the community, we're going to provide the inner workings of, say, an MPC or...

The Verge 5d ago
Music Friday’s Endnotes – 11/06/26

University libraries are being swarmed by AI bots, putting public access at risk — “Right now, the bots create ‘a disincentive for libraries and other institutions to make parts of their collection available online,’ Weinberg said.

Copyhype 5d ago
Music Get Ready for Your Spotify Wrapped

Wrapped season is almost here! We want to make sure you get everything you can out of the experience. Here are a few simple ways to get your Spotify ready before the big reveal. Update your Spotify app Check your device’s app store to see if an update is available, so you’re ready to dive...

Spotify 6d ago
Music Log In to Spotify. Take Off With United.

The playlist you made for the trip. The podcast you’re halfway through. The audiobook you’ve been meaning to start. Thanks to our partnership with United Airlines, you’ll be able to listen to all of those and more—directly from your seatback screen, logged into your own Spotify account.

Spotify 6d ago