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The first Friday of every month, Bandcamp waives its usual processing fee for purchases of music and merch on the site and sends all the money to the artists selling the product. December's edition is tomorrow, and it just so happens to fall on the week where everyone's sharing what they've listened to the most on Spotify.

Spotify has applied for a patent for a new “Plagiarism Risk Detector And Interface” that will scan inputted music for plagiarism, according to filings obtained by Music Business Worldwide. The interface is reportedly being developed to help artists avoid lawsuits by revealing similarities in already-published songs.

Snapchat is rolling out Spotlight, a hub for longer-form video loops a la TikTok, The Verge reports. Spotlight is currently available in the Snapchat app in 11 countries including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and more.

Donald Trump issued an executive order regarding TikTok on Thursday, barring transactions with parent company ByteDance if they don't sell the app in 45 days, according to The Hollywood Reporter. With over 100 million users in the U.S., the video-sharing platform has come under fire over user data privacy and security concerns.

William English was a computer engineer who built the first computer mouse.English worked alongside Douglas Engelbart (1925 – 2013), the inventor of the computer mouse, to bring Engelbart’s visionary ideas to life. It was English’s design and construction that made Engelbart’s concept into a reality, one that allowed computer users to control their machines without keyboards or punch cards for the first time.

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek discussed streaming and sustainability in a recent interview with Music Ally published on Thursday. Ek denied criticisms that Spotify pays insufficient royalties to artists, and insisted that the role of the musician had changed in today's "future landscape." Ek claimed that a "narrative fallacy" had been created and caused music fans to believe that Spotify doesn't pay musicians enough for streams of their music.

Alongside the star-studded lineup of both emerging and established musical acts of Digital FORT 2.0, you’ll see Terrace Martin, a notable jazz musician and member of the new supergroup Dinner Party, inspired to inspire the next generation of artists and creators. As part of Dolby’s new “Get Inspired to Inspire” campaign, they’re hitting at the root of what it means to be a creator and helping you solve some of the major challenges along the way.

video scroll of clips impacted by the issues shows that many have tons of visible comment engagement, but no hearts — a ratio which rarely happens.The app has acknowledged the issue.“Hi TikTok community! We’re aware that some users are experiencing app issues – working to quickly fix things, and we’ll share updates here!” the official TikTokSupport Twitter accounted tweeted Thursday afternoon.The widespread problem rocketed the topics of #tiktokdown, #tiktokbanned and #riptiktok to the top of

In late April, audio clips surfaced that appeared to capture JAY-Z rapping several unexpected texts. Did you ever imagine you’d hear JAY-Z do Shakespeare’s “To Be, Or Not to Be” soliloquy from Hamlet? How about Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire,” or a decade-old 4chan meme? All of these unlikely recitations were, of course, fake: “entirely computer-generated using a text-to-speech model trained on the speech patterns of JAY-Z,” according to a YouTube description.

On April 23, more than 12 million players of the battle-royale video game Fortnite put down their guns to watch a digital avatar of Travis Scott teleport around a beach, tower against a blood-red sky, and launch audience members into outer space. It was all part of a 10-minute virtual concert, the game’s biggest event ever, according to Fortnite maker Epic Games.

Since his first appearance in Animal Crossing (then Animal Forest) back in 2001, K.K. Slider — that even-keeled hound never seen without his trusty six-string — has been slinging ditties and stealing hearts. This past Friday, he returned for the franchise's long-anticipated Nintendo Switch iteration, Animal Crossing: New Horizons. You probably already know that, given the fact that everyone who managed to snag a copy of the game has been posting about it incessantly.

Dionne Warwick has slammed the hologram tour of her late niece Whitney Houston, calling it a “waste of time”.

With much of the concert industry grinding to a halt due to coronavirus concerns, a Twitter search for the phrase “Couch Tour” offers reassurance that live music has already found one comfortable way to exist outside physical venues. Over the last decade, the Couch Tour phenomenon—where fans join together online to experience performances in real time—has proven itself as both a business model and community builder.

Bandcamp is responding to the novel coronavirus crisis's catastrophic effect on the music industry with a special one-day event. On Friday, March 13, the site will donate the service fees it receives from each sale of music and merchandise to the artists whose work was purchased.

The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is having an unprecedented effect on the music industry. Over the past week, countless artists and touring agencies have had to cancel tours across the globe due to the virus’ rapid spread, leaving thousands of musicians, tour managers, engineers and venue workers out of jobs.

TikTok moderators were ordered by their bosses to suppress videos made by users that the Chinese video platform regarded as "poor," "unattractive," and "disabled," and made concerted efforts to censor political speech deemed anti-government, according to a report in The Intercept.

The South by Southwest music, technology and film festival (SXSW) in Austin, Texas, will foot costs related to the event getting cancelled, as disease outbreak was excluded from its insurance cover, a spokesman said on Thursday.

If you're keeping tabs on the world of TikTok, you may be familiar with the concept of TikTok collab houses, Los Angeles mansions where swarms of influencers fraternize and cook up content. Ever the entrepreneur, Rihanna has decided to launch her own TikTok "home" in an effort to promote her makeup line.

Art created with the help of artificial intelligence is a wide field with mixed offerings. Some of the best-known A.I.-assisted art is made when researchers choose a specific artist and input their works into neural networks to “train” them.

If you've been anywhere near TikTok lately, or even its peripheral networks, chances are you've already got Cookiee Kawaii's infectious single "Vibe" stuck in your head — that bed-creaking, clubbed up heavy hitter that practically demands you to throw it back. Over the course of the past week, a viral trend has skyrocketed the song from virtual obscurity to nearly three million plays on Spotify.

You Vedder have a smartphone if you want to hear a preview of Pearl Jam’s new song.

Grimes has announced her pregnancy with a pair of nude photos featuring an image of a foetus superimposed over her baby bump. The first image, which featured the musician’s nipples, was censored by Instagram’s content filters; she quickly reposted a censored version when the first one was taken down.

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