What I'm hearing on this: The first enhanced audio attribute Spotify is releasing is just a crossfade feature. They *want* to do more (stem separation, speed up/ slow down, pitch shifting, press a button and make it reggae) but that would require a new licensing structure with rights holders. Spotify *was* exploring as to whether they co…
What I'm hearing on this: The first enhanced audio attribute Spotify is releasing is just a crossfade feature. They *want* to do more (stem separation, speed up/ slow down, pitch shifting, press a button and make it reggae) but that would require a new licensing structure with rights holders. Spotify *was* exploring as to whether they could get away with all these features if the editing was done directly in the Spotify client, but they abandoned that idea. The labels + publishers, for their part, have a load of artist relations issues to deal with if they make these licensing deals so they're hesitant (for now).
Interesting - thanks Drew. FWIW, certain quarters of the music industry creator community are kicking up quite a fuss about the likes of DistroKid apparently updating their T&Cs to now permit "derivative works" which those people feel is paving the way for this AI remixing function. Example here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acDthZy86M4
The interesting thing for me is that the likes of DistroKid and the more DIY artists it represents are not - IMO anyway - ideologically aligned with the likes of Universal. The latter would rather see that long tail of small releases moved onto some other platform, as they feel it just floods the plain with low quality output.
If we accept that to be true, then it is interesting if DistroKid *are* planning to allow the works they represent to be remixed in this manner, as it would basically play into a scenario where Spotify are then rolling out this remix feature but only for these more DIY-led releases. That, in turn, *might* put pressure on the likes of Universal to follow suit.
I guess my point is just that it could get interesting if Spotify is pushing the lower-tier distributors etc to sign onto this kind of feature, as it then creates something of an "us and them" dynamic with the majors.
What I'm hearing on this: The first enhanced audio attribute Spotify is releasing is just a crossfade feature. They *want* to do more (stem separation, speed up/ slow down, pitch shifting, press a button and make it reggae) but that would require a new licensing structure with rights holders. Spotify *was* exploring as to whether they could get away with all these features if the editing was done directly in the Spotify client, but they abandoned that idea. The labels + publishers, for their part, have a load of artist relations issues to deal with if they make these licensing deals so they're hesitant (for now).
Interesting - thanks Drew. FWIW, certain quarters of the music industry creator community are kicking up quite a fuss about the likes of DistroKid apparently updating their T&Cs to now permit "derivative works" which those people feel is paving the way for this AI remixing function. Example here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acDthZy86M4
The interesting thing for me is that the likes of DistroKid and the more DIY artists it represents are not - IMO anyway - ideologically aligned with the likes of Universal. The latter would rather see that long tail of small releases moved onto some other platform, as they feel it just floods the plain with low quality output.
If we accept that to be true, then it is interesting if DistroKid *are* planning to allow the works they represent to be remixed in this manner, as it would basically play into a scenario where Spotify are then rolling out this remix feature but only for these more DIY-led releases. That, in turn, *might* put pressure on the likes of Universal to follow suit.
I guess my point is just that it could get interesting if Spotify is pushing the lower-tier distributors etc to sign onto this kind of feature, as it then creates something of an "us and them" dynamic with the majors.