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Victoria Ashford

Ai Music A moody corporate boardroom photographed at dusk, empty leather chairs arranged around a long…
Ai Music · 4 min

The One Number Every AI Music Generation Acquisition Is Really Buying: Distribution Reach

Read enough acquisition announcements in this corner of the industry and you notice the same tell: there is always one number in the second paragraph.

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Workflow A dimly lit bedroom at 1 a.m., a person lying awake on their back…
Workflow · 5 min

Build Your Own Sleep Audio With AI Music Generation: Where the "Just Play White Noise" Advice Breaks Down

The standard advice for a brain that won't power down at midnight is some version of: put on a looping rain track, or a white-noise app, or one of those eight-hour "deep sleep" playlists, and let it…

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Music Industry A dramatic close-up photograph of a darkened computer screen displaying a glowing fabricated bank…
Music Industry · 5 min

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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