J Herskowitz
@jherskowitz.com
🎸 as Quarantine Angst (https://quarantineangst.com/)
▶️ Advising + Tinkering
⏮️ Product @ SeatGeek, Spotify, Tomahawk, LimeWire, AOL music, DigiScents, GameShark & some other stuff
🪹 Brooklyn, NY
▶️ Advising + Tinkering
⏮️ Product @ SeatGeek, Spotify, Tomahawk, LimeWire, AOL music, DigiScents, GameShark & some other stuff
🪹 Brooklyn, NY
On the positive side, music videos also pay a sync license on the publishing side... newsroom.spotify.com/2025-11-11/s...
Spotify and NMPA Announce Agreement to Expand Direct-Licensing Audiovisual Opportunities for Independent Publishers — Spotify
Today, Spotify and the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) launched a new Opt-In Portal for NMPA members to enter into a direct license agreement for expanded audiovisual rights in the US. T...
newsroom.spotify.com
December 9, 2025 at 9:33 PM
On the positive side, music videos also pay a sync license on the publishing side... newsroom.spotify.com/2025-11-11/s...
Wonder how long until the free tier will force video display/user interaction to better monetize ads on the platform...
December 9, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Wonder how long until the free tier will force video display/user interaction to better monetize ads on the platform...
I don't know what Songtradr's stated position is on generative AI, but the jaded part of me certainly notices they own quite a nice set of training data to generate production music for their clients.
December 9, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I don't know what Songtradr's stated position is on generative AI, but the jaded part of me certainly notices they own quite a nice set of training data to generate production music for their clients.
Also to get a settlement that is proportionally higher compared to other major labels than their marketshare only would have dictated.
November 25, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Also to get a settlement that is proportionally higher compared to other major labels than their marketshare only would have dictated.
"Napster changes hands again – this time in a $207m acquisition"
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November 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
That would definitely be an improvement. Plus kids drink less nowadays, which would make our cables much less disgusting to wrap up at the end of the night. 😉
November 21, 2025 at 9:51 PM
That would definitely be an improvement. Plus kids drink less nowadays, which would make our cables much less disgusting to wrap up at the end of the night. 😉
... it was at this point of the story where I thought maybe I needed a different adjective than "good".
November 21, 2025 at 9:28 PM
... it was at this point of the story where I thought maybe I needed a different adjective than "good".
Afterwards, we'd go to whatever all-you-could-eat place we could find and make our one meal count.
We'd then play to either an empty bar in a town where no one had heard of us, or a packed frat basement until 2 AM and hope someone was around to invite us to crash.
We'd then play to either an empty bar in a town where no one had heard of us, or a packed frat basement until 2 AM and hope someone was around to invite us to crash.
November 21, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Afterwards, we'd go to whatever all-you-could-eat place we could find and make our one meal count.
We'd then play to either an empty bar in a town where no one had heard of us, or a packed frat basement until 2 AM and hope someone was around to invite us to crash.
We'd then play to either an empty bar in a town where no one had heard of us, or a packed frat basement until 2 AM and hope someone was around to invite us to crash.