AI Changing Music Industry

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How AI Is Changing the Music Industry
ABC News   by Katharine Gammon

Artificial intelligence (AI) is working its way into audio mastering through services like LANDR, which has enabled more than 2 million musicians to master 10 million songs since its launch in 2014. Traditionally, audio mastering requires a room with specialized acoustics, which enable a person to hear flaws in the music, remove glitches and crackles, and add loudness to make the sound fuller. However, experts say some aspects of mastering, like equalizing the loudness levels of different songs on a CD or matching the spectral content in bass and high frequencies, are easy to automate. Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist Roger Dannenberg said computers could soon make an impact in music composition, but he sees a weakness in AI with regard to production, a more creative process in which the music is manipulated after it is recorded and decisions are made about mixing and arrangement. Dannenberg said, "A computer can write a pop tune, but you can't perform it and make an arrangement unless you get human performers and producers." ...