Your masters sound fine. Your credits looked right last quarter. Then the aggregator pushed a silent policy update—and your release is wrong on three DSPs without anyone telling you.
AI-generated music can't be copyrighted. If you use any AI tool in your workflow, your project file is the only proof you still own what you made.
Splice rent-to-own, NI 360, Slate, Waves — every major plugin company now wants a monthly fee. We ran the math on what you're actually paying.
Soundtrap just got a major overhaul. Most producers will laugh it off. They shouldn't — because Soundtrap is owned by Spotify, and this isn't about beating Ableton.
A viral KVR thread declared the plugin industry dead. It isn't dead. It's doing something more interesting — and more dangerous for producers.
Apple Music and TikTok struck a deal to let users stream full songs inside the app. This isn't a feature. It's a formal declaration that short-form is now the official discovery layer.
Spotify's latest transparency report shows a growing middle class of creators and DIY dominance. The numbers are useful; the infrastructure behind them still isn't.
You set your DAW to 48kHz because YouTube recommends it. You set bit depth to 24 because someone said it sounds better. Here's what these numbers actually mean.
For 30 years, mastering engineers were trapped in a race to make songs louder. Then streaming happened.