Martina

It’s been three years since Spotify started focusing on collaborative features, including Collaborative Playlist and Blend. And apparently, fans loved them very much! As of the last week in September, Spotify reported that users have created over 45 million Blends and in the past month alone, they’ve cumulatively spent more than 200 million hours listening to Collaborative Playlists. No wonder that now, the platform is back with another collaborative feature called Jam.

It was the last week of September that the American company Songtradr made the headlines by acquiring Bandcamp. Yes, that’s right. Less than two years after the American video game and software developer Epic Games bought the online record store, it’s being sold again.

AI voice cloning technology has been on the rise over the past couple of months, proving powerful in diverse sectors including the music industry. While we’ve touched upon the topic in our previous piece on AI and music, we feel it deserves its own article, diving deeper into its implications and related concerns for independent artists. Let’s get right into it.

La technologie de clonage vocal par l'IA s'est développée au cours des deux derniers mois, s'avérant puissante dans différents secteurs, dont l'industrie musicale. Bien que nous ayons abordé le sujet dans notre précédent article sur l'IA et la musique, nous pensons que cela mérite un article à part entière, qui explore plus en profondeur ses effets et les inquiétudes que cela suscite chez les artistes indépendant·e·s. Entrons dans le vif du sujet.