Metadata (aka data about data) has become a huge part of achieving musical success in the digital age. So huge, in fact, that to ignore it, or to have incorrect metadata, can ruin your chances of ...

Dart Music, the fledgling digital distributor that worked to fix the broken world of classical music metadata for streaming, has gotten out of the distribution business and is focusing on expanding… ...

Music users, like radio stations, TV networks, businesses and venues pay to use music. PROs collect these fees and distribute them to songwriters and publishers. Without proper metadata, music users ...

Apple Music uses a less accurate method for song matching than iTunes Match. Photo: Jim Merithew/Cult of Mac If you’ve been having problems with Apple Music and iCloud Music Library incorrectly ...

Metadata is the grease that makes the music industry run smoothly. Metadata helps artists and labels describe their offerings; it helps digital music services organize their catalogs; and most ...

The big announcement from the government about a music industry working group on creator remuneration from streaming landed yesterday. Today the second part of the industry agreement has been ...

At the “Music & Metadata: Do Songs Remain The Same?" panel at South by Southwest, academics held forth at length while music industry execs in the audience asked, how can we streamline the use of meta ...

Inaccurate and missing metadata isn’t just a pain for music lovers – it can also cost artists, songwriters, and others billions in unpaid royalties from streaming music services, suggests a new report ...

Spotify has found a new way to beef up its knowledge about music: The company has begun to solicit music metadata suggestions from its users, asking them to describe genres of albums or moods of songs ...

So declares a comic from The Oatmeal, whose biting satire rings regrettably true for creators in the digital age. The attention economy has compelled artists to trade dollars for pageviews, making a ...