Spotify Now Lets You Add Music Tracks to Podcast Shows

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Rebecca Davis editorWarner Music’s independent distribution division ADA launched on Monday in Japan, the world’s second-largest music market.

The Google Blog says.“We’ve built machine learning models that can match your hum, whistle or singing to the right ‘fingerprint’.”“When you hum a melody into Search, our machine learning models transform the audio into a number-based sequence representing the song’s melody, models are trained to identify songs based on a variety of sources, including humans singing, whistling or humming, as well as studio recordings,” the post continues.“The algorithms also take away all the other details, like

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorCan’t remember the name of a song, but you can hum a few bars? Google has felt your pain — and now has a solution to this particular first-world problem.The company today announced “hum to search,” which lets users hum, whistle or sing a melody to the Google app, which then tries to track down the song you had in mind.To use the feature, users of the Google app (or Google Search widget) on a mobile device can tap the mic icon and say “What’s this song?” or click

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorThe pandemic has crushed the live-entertainment business, and concert venues in particular, all over the world — but New York’s may have been hit the hardest in the U.S. Due largely to the density of the city and its mass-gathering-based culture, the virus struck New York first and fastest, and has claimed nearly 33,000 lives.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorSnapchat today is launching a new feature called Sounds — which, taking a page from TikTok, lets app users add song clips to their Snaps and Stories.Snapchat’s music feature launches with an exclusive preview of Justin Bieber and Benny Blanco’s new song “Lonely,” before the full song launches widely Thursday at 9 p.m. PT.

Brandy is making her 2020 Billboard Music Awards debut!

Ed Meza @edmezavarGermany’s Maze Pictures has boarded Moscow-based Metrafilm’s KGB comedy series “Pawns,” from writers Michael and Lily Idov, who penned the award-winning 2018 Cannes competition screener “Leto.”The company, which has offices in Munich, Berlin and Lucerne, Switzerland, is also developing a miniseries based on “Ghosts of Berlin,” a book of supernatural stories by filmmaker Rudolf Herzog (son of Werner Herzog), and the tentatively titled mystery series “Parallels.”On the film

Cillian Murphy has announced a new 12-part audio series for BBC Radio 6 Music titled Cillian Murphy’s Limited Edition.The series, which will also be available on BBC Sounds, will comprise of a dozen two-hour programmes which will air weekly from 12am-2am on 6 Music, beginning on October 19.The Peaky Blinders and 28 Days Later actor will curate “his own nocturnal playlist made for [playing] after midnight” during the series.Murphy is set to incorporate such genres as afrobeat, electronica, jazz,

Foals have added three more dates to their 2021 UK tour — check out details of the newly announced gigs below.The three shows will be included in the band’s rescheduled ‘Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost’ tour, which has been moved to April-June 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic.Foals’ newly added shows will take place in Swansea (Singleton Park, June 4), London (O2 Academy Brixton, June 29) and Leeds (Millennium Square, July 9, as part of the ‘Sounds Of The City’ series).Tickets for these

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Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticThe mystery of the fly that landed on Mike Pence’s head at the vice-presidential debate with Senator Kamala Harris was revealed tonight on Saturday Night Live – and it was  a high-tech bedeviled Joe Biden.Maya Rudolph told the New Yorker Festival earlier this week that while she was anxious about how to translate the first and only VP debate of the 2020 campaign into a SNL opener tonight, the material “kind of wrote itself” once the languid fly

Vice President Mike Pence is the topic of a lot of discussion right now over things that happened during the VP Debate and lots of people are talking about his eyes.

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Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorCamille Hearst has been named head of Spotify for Artists, the resource the streaming giant provides for artists and their teams to better understand and build their audiences via statistics, insights and other educational resources.In this new role, she will be responsible for managing a cross-functional team including product, tech, design, user research and more. Hearst is based in New York and reports to Charlie Hellman, the company’s VP and head of