Taylor Swift now owns “all of the music I’ve ever made,” she says in a letter posted on her website on Friday. Swift has purchased the masters of her music back from Shamrock Capital, which owned them after Scooter Braun sold them to the company.

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22.05.2025

Miniot returns with a sleeker Wheel 3 vertical turntable | The Verge

Miniot’s Wheel 3 vertical turntable has a new tonearm, improved optical stylus and amplifier, in a sleeker aluminum design.

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21.05.2025

Fender’s free new recording app lets you simulate its iconic amps and pedals | The Verge

Fender has released Fender Studio, a free new recording app for smartphones and PCs with multitrack recording and classic simulated Fender amps and pedals.

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14.05.2025

Spotify’s AI DJ now takes requests | The Verge

Spotify is allowing subscribers to use voice commands to control which songs are spat out by its AI DJ feature.

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14.05.2025

Samsung’s Music Frame speaker is more of a bargain at 69 percent off | The Verge

Woot is offering a sweet deal on the Samsung Music Frame, knocking the cost down from $399.99 to $124.99.

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14.05.2025

Apple turned pop songs into lofi beats to work / study / sleep to | The Verge

Apple has teamed up with Universal Music Group (UMG) to make a new Sound Therapy collection of tracks for Apple Music that are “designed to help listeners attain clearer focus, deeper relaxation, and better sleep.”

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17.04.2025

Spotify is back online after an outage | The Verge

Spotify went down Wednesday morning, according to widespread user reports across the US and Europe, with issues preventing the platform from loading or streaming music.

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26.03.2025

Ticketmaster may have violated consumer protection laws | The Verge

The UK’s Consumer Markets Authority has announced an update into its investigation of Ticketmaster

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25.03.2025

Splice CEO Kakul Srivastava says AI won’t ever replace human creativity | The Verge

The head of sample platform Splice on what kinds of AI tools make sense for the music industry.

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19.03.2025

Our five favorite dunks from Drake’s label over his ‘Not Like Us’ lawsuit | The Verge

Universal Music Group has filed a motion to dismiss Drake’s lawsuit, which accused the label of defamation and payola tied to Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” diss track.

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19.03.2025

US music subscriptions cross 100 million as digital downloads drop | The Verge

The RIAA reports that 2024 digital music revenue is up by 4 percent as streaming service subscriptions now top 100 million in the US.

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07.03.2025

Police have shut down a StubHub ticket ket re-selling crime ring | The Verge

Using a simple backend exploit, thieves managed to steal and resell hundreds of StubHub tickets to concerts like Taylor Swift’s Eras tour.

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25.02.2025

Our favorite iPhone and Android apps for streaming and collecting music | The Verge

Plus: Apple’s new iPhone 16E, Avowed is a hit on Xbox, the Oppo Find N5, Grand Theft Hamlet, and more in this week’s Installer.

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16.02.2025

The Practice Pro app has all the tools I want for music rehearsal | The Verge

Practice Pro for iOS is a modular music practice app with a tuner, metronome, and more built into its widget interface.

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16.02.2025

That AI-restored Beatles song won Grammy for Best Rock Performance | The Verge

The Beatles have won their eighth competitive Grammy award for “Now and Then” thanks to a little help from artificial intelligence.

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16.02.2025

Microsoft is bringing major MIDI improvements to Windows 11 | The Verge

Windows 11 is rolling out MIDI 2.0, the biggest update to MIDI since the musical communication format was first released in 1983.

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16.02.2025

Spotify signs Warner Music deal heralding new subscription tiers | The Verge

Spotify and Warner Music Group have inked a new multi-year deal covering publishing and recorded music that aims to “shape the future of audio-visual streaming.”

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31.01.2025

Amazon Music Unlimited is getting a price hike | The Verge

Amazon is raising the price of its Music Unlimited service from $9.99 to $10.99 per month.

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28.01.2025

New Spotify and UMG deal could create pricier ‘superfan’ subscription - The Verge

Spotify and Universal Music Group have a new multi-year agreement that lines up with UMG’s “Streaming 2.0” vision, which includes pricier subscriptions for “superfans.”

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17.01.2025

What Spotify took from us by giving us everything - The Verge

Spotify’s rise reshaped the music industry. Liz Pelly’s Mood Machine is an investigation of what it means to make music for playlists.

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16.01.2025

Drake sues his label, UMG, saying ‘Not Like Us’ is defamatory - The Verge

Drake’s lawsuit claims that Universal Music Group used bots and payola to promote Kendrick Lamar’s song ‘Not Like Us.’

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16.01.2025

Drake axes ‘Not Like Us’ diss track petition against UMG and Spotify - The Verge

Drake has withdrawn the petition he raised accusing Spotify and Universal Music Group (UMG) of illegally boosting Kendrick Lamar‘s diss track “Not Like Us.”

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04.01.2025

Anthropic reaches deal with music publishers over lyric dispute - The Verge

Anthropic has made a deal to settle parts of a copyright infringement lawsuit that alleged its Claude AI model distributed protected song lyrics.

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02.01.2025

Is Sleep’s Dopesmoker still the heaviest album of all time? - The Verge

I listened to 26 metal albums to find out if Dopesmoker is still the heaviest of all time. I was surprised to find something even heavier.

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05.12.2024

Spotify Wrapped 2024 adds an AI podcast to recap your listening habits - The Verge

Spotify Wrapped 2024 is now available, allowing you to check out all your listening data from this year and even create an AI podcast about it.

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04.12.2024

Apple Music’s yearly recap is finally available in the app - The Verge

This year’s Apple Music Replay is here, and now you can view insights on your favorite artists, songs, albums, and more directly within the app.

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26.11.2024

Nvidia claims a new AI audio generator can make sounds never heard before - The Verge

Nvidia announced a new AI audio tool it says can create sounds never heard before, like a trumpet meowing or a saxophone barking.

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15.11.2024

Not even Spotify is safe from AI slop - The Verge

Artists such as Standards, Health, Annie, and Swans have had AI-generated albums that aren’t theirs showing up on their Spotify pages. Why?

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13.11.2024

Apple Music’s $450 coffee table book celebrates its top 100 albums - The Verge

Apple Music: 100 Best Albums, a 208-page book produced by luxury print company Assouline, is available for $450, but only 1,500 copies are up for grabs.

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12.11.2024

Grammys CEO Harvey Mason Jr. on diversity, streaming, and AI - The Verge

The Recording Academy is facing massive change in the post-covid generative AI era, starting with its membership.

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06.11.2024

Reddit sleuths track down FEX, the band behind the internet’s most mysterious song - The Verge

Members of r/ThatMysteriousSong identified FEX as the band behind an 80s new wave-sounding song they’ve been trying to identify for the last five years.

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23.10.2024

Spotify’s new playlist art maker gets that design is your passion - The Verge

Spotify’s new cover art maker lets you create custom collages for playlists, using images you upload or colorful backgrounds, along with custom stickers and effects.

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18.10.2024

How Janet Jackson’s ‘wardrobe malfunction’ changed TV forever

It was Justin Timberlake’s fault. But after Jackson’s nipple was revealed at the Super Bowl, the broadcast industry and the internet each picked a different path for content.

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18.10.2024

The iPod Mini was a glimpse of the future of music

Apple’s iPod Mini didn’t last forever, and it wasn’t the biggest seller. But from the size to the price to the click wheel, the Mini was the one that got everything right.

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17.10.2024

How Grokster’s music piracy case changed the course of the internet forever

Nearly two decades ago, practically every music and movie company tried to sue piracy out of existence. One case, MGM v. Grokster, totally changed copyright law online.

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17.10.2024

Spotify’s music videos are coming to more subscribers — but not yet in the US - The Verge

Spotify is expanding music videos to 85 new markets. The feature lets Premium subscribers watch videos from artists like Charlie XCX, Doja Cat, and Ed Sheeran.

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04.10.2024

Spotify now automatically creates an offline playlist when you lose internet - The Verge

Spotify’s new Offline Backup compiles recently streamed and queued tracks that are already locally cached into a playlist that’s automatically available when a device goes offline.

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26.09.2024

Duolingo now offers a portable piano for its music course - The Verge

Duolingo has teamed up with beginner-focused instrument brand Loog to offer a portable piano that compliments Duolingo’s app-based music course.

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14.08.2024

Rivian is bringing Apple Music with spatial audio to its CarPlay-less EVs - The Verge

Rivian is pushing a new software update that includes Apple Music, but it requires a Connect Plus subscription to work on the go, while CarPlay is still not an option.

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03.08.2024

AI music startups say copyright violation is just rock and roll - The Verge

Suno and Udio admitted to training their music-generating AI models on copyrighted materials in separate legal filings, arguing that doing so is lawful under fair-use doctrine.

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Taylor Swift now owns all of her music | The Verge

Miniot returns with a sleeker Wheel 3 vertical turntable | The Verge

Fender’s free new recording app lets you simulate its iconic amps and pedals | The Verge

Spotify’s AI DJ now takes requests | The Verge

Samsung’s Music Frame speaker is more of a bargain at 69 percent off | The Verge

Apple turned pop songs into lofi beats to work / study / sleep to | The Verge

Spotify is back online after an outage | The Verge

Ticketmaster may have violated consumer protection laws | The Verge

Splice CEO Kakul Srivastava says AI won’t ever replace human creativity | The Verge

Our five favorite dunks from Drake’s label over his ‘Not Like Us’ lawsuit | The Verge

US music subscriptions cross 100 million as digital downloads drop | The Verge

Police have shut down a StubHub ticket ket re-selling crime ring | The Verge

Our favorite iPhone and Android apps for streaming and collecting music | The Verge

The Practice Pro app has all the tools I want for music rehearsal | The Verge

That AI-restored Beatles song won Grammy for Best Rock Performance | The Verge

Microsoft is bringing major MIDI improvements to Windows 11 | The Verge

Spotify signs Warner Music deal heralding new subscription tiers | The Verge

Amazon Music Unlimited is getting a price hike | The Verge

New Spotify and UMG deal could create pricier ‘superfan’ subscription - The Verge

What Spotify took from us by giving us everything - The Verge

Drake sues his label, UMG, saying ‘Not Like Us’ is defamatory - The Verge

Drake axes ‘Not Like Us’ diss track petition against UMG and Spotify - The Verge

Anthropic reaches deal with music publishers over lyric dispute - The Verge

Is Sleep’s Dopesmoker still the heaviest album of all time? - The Verge

Spotify Wrapped 2024 adds an AI podcast to recap your listening habits - The Verge

Apple Music’s yearly recap is finally available in the app - The Verge

Nvidia claims a new AI audio generator can make sounds never heard before - The Verge

Not even Spotify is safe from AI slop - The Verge

Apple Music’s $450 coffee table book celebrates its top 100 albums - The Verge

Grammys CEO Harvey Mason Jr. on diversity, streaming, and AI - The Verge

Reddit sleuths track down FEX, the band behind the internet’s most mysterious song - The Verge

Spotify’s new playlist art maker gets that design is your passion - The Verge

How Janet Jackson’s ‘wardrobe malfunction’ changed TV forever

The iPod Mini was a glimpse of the future of music

How Grokster’s music piracy case changed the course of the internet forever

Spotify’s music videos are coming to more subscribers — but not yet in the US - The Verge

Spotify now automatically creates an offline playlist when you lose internet - The Verge

Duolingo now offers a portable piano for its music course - The Verge

Rivian is bringing Apple Music with spatial audio to its CarPlay-less EVs - The Verge

AI music startups say copyright violation is just rock and roll - The Verge

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