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Can You Run AI Music Generation Locally for a Live DJ Set? Magenta, Stable Audio, and an FLX4 on the Desk
You turn the filter knob on the FLX4, and there's a beat — not a musical one, a dead one — before the audio answers. Three hundred milliseconds, maybe four hundred. In a studio that's nothing.
Voice Trademark Protection: What the New Filings Actually Buy an Artist
Last week I spent an afternoon trying to clone a voice you'd recognize in two syllables. I won't name the singer, but the source was four minutes of clean a cappella, 48kHz, no reverb tail to confuse…
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Celebrity Philanthropy and the Grassroots Promise: Where the Conventional Wisdom Holds Up and Where It Cracks
There is a sentence that shows up in nearly every celebrity foundation story, usually in the second paragraph, usually unchallenged: the money goes to grassroots organizations.
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The Napster Fraud Case and the $3 Billion That Wasn't There
A number ran through every headline about Napster's reinvention: $3 billion. That was the figure attached to the investor backing Infinite Reality, the company that bought the Napster brand in 2025…
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Gen Z Consumer Behavior Isn't One Audience — Here's What That Means for Your Playlist Strategy
A label marketing lead I know spent most of a quarter building a single "Gen Z" playlist partnership.
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AI Voice Technology and the Money You Haven't Spent Yet
A product person I know described her company's budgeting app to me like this: "We've basically solved impulse spending.
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Where AI Music Generation Gets Its Sound: A Short History of a Borrowed Library
A figure-skating routine goes viral. The music underneath sounds like a song you half-remember — the hook lands where you expect, the vocal grain is familiar, the chord turn at the bridge is the one…
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