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Provenance, Not Detection, Is the Durable Answer
Handpicked articles, updates, and insights from the fast-moving world of music and entertainment technology, curated just for you.
Jim Anderson
MusicTech Lab x Verified Human: Building a Trust Layer for Human-Made Music
MusicTech Lab partners with Verified Human to build infrastructure for authentic, human-made music in the age of AI. Technical review, product develop...
Maciej Dulski
What CMOs can teach us about innovation in uncertain times
Handpicked articles, updates, and insights from the fast-moving world of music and entertainment technology, curated just for you.
Joanna frota Kurkowska
Verified Human Cert MCP Server: Prove Your Music Is Human-Made, Right from the Terminal
We open-sourced an MCP server that queries the Verified Human Cert registry. Verify human-made music certifications by ISRC, artist, track, or cert nu...
Mariusz Smenżyk
Which Database for Music Data? Redshift vs BigQuery vs ClickHouse and When to Use Each
A practical comparison of BigQuery, Redshift, and ClickHouse for music industry workloads, from royalty reporting to real-time streaming analytics.
Mariusz Smenzyk
Batch ISRC Enrichment That Turns Messy Catalogs Into Clean Data
How we built Scout to batch-enrich music metadata via Spotify and MusicBrainz APIs, flag ISRC mismatches, and export clean CSVs for catalog evaluation...
Mariusz Smenzyk
Why We Don't Build Chat From Scratch (And Neither Should You)
In-app messaging sounds like a simple feature, but building it from scratch is a project on its own. Here's why we use managed chat services and how w...
Mariusz Smenzyk
Why Merch Is the New Royalty Check, and How Tech Is Closing the Gap
Streaming pays fractions of a cent. Merch pays the bills. Here's how the economics of artist revenue are shifting, and why technology is the key enabl...
Mariusz Smenżyk
Music Business Meets Direct-to-Fan
Handpicked articles, updates, and insights from the fast-moving world of music and entertainment technology, curated just for you.
Yaw Asamani
Why Music Companies Need AI-Powered Analytics (And How We Built One)
Music royalty data is complex. Non-technical stakeholders need insights without SQL. Here's how we built an AI dashboard that turns plain English into...
Mariusz Smenżyk
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