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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Keeping metadata accurate and consistent is one of the major challenges of publishing and maintaining a substantial music catalog. Here we look at common metatda issues in classical music, hip hop, ...

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 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Streaming has given a new lease of life to the recorded music industry. Well, parts of it anyway. Take ...

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 ...

TiVo Corporation announced today that Google will use TiVo Music Metadata to provide metadata and images for select artists on Google's music platforms, which includes YouTube Red, YouTube Music and… ...

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 ...