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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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Algorithm Customization Is Quietly Killing the Discovery Plan Your Artist Was Counting On
Here is a claim worth stating before I soften it with caveats: the single biggest threat to your artist's next release is not a competitor, a label, or a bad mix.
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The 40% Problem: A Platform Review of Work-in-Progress Sharing for Artists Who Are Done Begging the Algorithm
There's a number that gets quoted in artist Discords until it loses its edges, and it's worth slowing down on.
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Artist Development When AI Music Generation Is Part of Your Stack: What Most People Do, What Works, What I Actually Do
A label-adjacent "artist development program" emailed me last spring. The subject line promised mentorship, funding, and "platform support." I clicked through three pages of aspirational copy and…
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The Training Data Question: What AI Music Generation Owes the Artists It Learned From
Last month I typed a friend's stage name into the search box of a public dataset that several music models were trained on.
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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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AI Music Training and the YouTube Clause: How Your Catalog Becomes Someone Else's Dataset
There is a sentence in YouTube's terms of service that most artists scroll past on their way to hitting publish.
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AI Voice Generation Is Coming for Audio Ads — But "Set It and Forget It" Is the Wrong Read
First Snap, then Spotify. Within the same stretch of earnings-season optimism, two platforms that sell attention by the second started pitching the same idea to advertisers: describe your product…
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AI Music Generation Has a Consent Problem It Was Born With
An artist opens a search box, types her own name into a public index of AI training data, and watches the results stack up. Not a track or two. Her catalog.
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Meta Platform Development and the $46 Billion Question Behind the Prediction-Market Bet
There's a number that should sit at the top of any memo about a new Meta platform, and it isn't a user count.
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