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Robert Halstead

Suno A moody, close-up macro photograph of a solid-state drive and an external audio interface…
Suno · 5 min

Suno AI API Audio Export: What You Actually Get Back, and How to Store It

The generation call is the easy part. You send a prompt, you get a job ID, you poll or wait for a webhook, and eventually a track exists.

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Venue Ownership Interior of an iconic historic music venue photographed from the empty balcony an hour…
Venue Ownership · 5 min

Venue Ownership Is the Quiet Engine of Music Industry M&A

There is a persistent belief among people who model live-entertainment companies for a living: that the venue itself is the boring part. The brand has the pricing power.

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Ai Music A close-up photorealistic photograph of a printed quarterly music royalty statement lying on a…
Ai Music · 4 min

TIDAL's AI Music Generation Policy vs. The Streaming Status Quo: Whose Royalties Actually Survive

A producer I work with sent me her quarterly streaming statement last spring with one line circled in red: the per-stream rate on a catalog of forty tracks had slipped again, and she couldn't tell…

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Licensing A professional voice narrator standing in a softly lit recording studio, eyes closed in…
Licensing · 5 min

AI Voice Generation for Audiobooks at Scale: Three Production Paths Compared

A mid-size publisher I talked to last winter had 240 backlist titles sitting in a spreadsheet, every one of them text-only, every one of them a candidate for an audio edition that would never get…

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