Rights-tech firm Notes·fm has launched its new Credits·fm “free and open music credits database” this week.
Tag: metadata
Cisac’s new AVR+ format aims to boost audiovisual payouts
Happy “the first fully documented and machine-readable technical format designed to transform how music data is shared and processed across the global audiovisual industry” day to those who celebrate. Which […]
Metadata-handling ‘studio companion’ wins OpenPlay’s CoLab hackathon
Inaccurate metadata is the scourge of the music industry, certainly in terms of getting the right people paid fairly for their work.
SoundExchange and IFPI make it easier to get ISRCs assigned
The announcement of ‘new ISRC auto-assignment capabilities’ may sound dry, but it’s a valuable step forward in the ongoing battle to improve music metadata and get musicians and rightsholders paid […]
Music Technology Australia VMDO panel report: ‘No one’s made metadata fun!’
Recently, Music Ally attended the Victorian Music Development Office (VMDO) Music Data and Insights Summit.
How CMOs are scaling globally, collaborating across industries, and rethinking the creator relationship
Music consumption today is borderless, but the systems that manage it have historically been national. Collective management organisations are undergoing their most significant transformation in decades. On one hand, they […]
From Access to Infrastructure: How Managers Can Win at Streaming
For the first decade of streaming, success was largely about access. The industry focused on getting music onto digital service providers as quickly and widely as possible, and solving distribution […]
Spotify’s new SongDNA feature is rolling out now to subscribers
When Spotify acquired British music-tech firm WhoSampled last year, it said it would be tapping the company’s database for a new feature.
EMERGE: Chatting with European music data
David Weiszfeld’s career has focussed around solving a recurring problem: how to navigate the glut of data relating to artists and songs. After leaving Universal Music in 2013 and founding […]
How to Turn Spotify Data into Algorithmic Growth
Algorithmic recommendations are no longer a secondary growth channel. They are central to how music is consumed – and at Base for Music, this is something we work on every […]
Connect Chats: Helena Kosinski – ‘AI for whom, and on what terms?’
Helena Kosinski is a leading expert in global music data and audience insight, and AI is at the forefront of her thoughts on current trends.
US collecting societies expand Songview database to 38m works
Performing rights organisations in the US may sometimes take potshots at one another, but collaboration is in the air this week. It focuses on the Songview database of metadata for […]

