Key Songs In The Life Of… Ole ObermannOle Obermann, Global Head of Music Development and IP at TikTok, talks us through the tracks that have shaped his life and career so far
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Spotify passes UMG as the world’s most valuable music companySpotify overtook Universal Music Group (UMG) to become the biggest company in the music industry based on its market capitalization in Q2 2024.
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Link Rot: Why your Digital Links won’t last foreverUnfortunately, link deterioration, often called link rot, is inevitable. Here are some effective strategies for managing its impact on online content. by Bobby Owsinski of Music 3.0 Just about everyone. Continue reading
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Akai Professional brings stem separation to its standalone MPC hardwareAkai Professional has announced that its MPC Stems feature is now available for its MPC standalone hardware.
The launch follows the arrival of stems for its desktop software, which launched back in March, and now enables stem separation directly on MPC hardware for separating bass, drums, vocals and more without need for a computer.

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This new launch marks the latest milestone for Akai Professional, opening “new avenues for creativity and production efficiency”, and making it easier for musicians to craft unique sounds and remixes on the fly.
MPC Stems utilises the advanced stem separation engine from zPlane, and Akai has optimised the interface to provide a smooth and intuitive user experience on hardware. While the desktop version still offers the fastest processing and highest fidelity, this new standalone hardware version provides the flexibility and convenience of stem separation directly on your MPC device.

MPC Stems for Standalone is compatible with the following Akai products: MPC Live series, MPC One, MPC One +, MPC X, MPC XSE, MPC Key 61, and MPC Key 37. Supported by the new 2.15 Software/Firmware update, this feature “ensures seamless integration” and enhances the user experience on all compatible MPC devices.
Here at MusicTech, we tested a range of stem separation tech to find out which works the best on vocals. We used the track Restless Mind by Steven Beddall for the test, and in all cases, the highest-quality configurations were chosen on the software. From our results, we compiled 12 of the best stem tools in a new guide, including Akai’s.
MPC Stems is available for purchase exclusively via the MPC store for $9.99 USD. ​All previous licences purchased for MPC Stem Desktop will include Stems Standalone.
Find out more over at Akai Professional.
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Layoffs expected after Universal Music UK announces plans to merge Island Records and EMIEMI Records and Island Records – two sub-labels under Universal Music UK – are set to merge as part of a new restructuring.
According to Billboard, the move will be finalised on 1 October 2024, and will result in the creation of the Island EMI Label Group.

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Per Billboard, Universal Music UK CEO David Joseph shared news of the merger in an internal company memo on Tuesday, 9 July. In it, he revealed it would bring a number of redundancies, though the exact number was not stated.
The union of EMI and Island follows a similar recent move by Universal Music UK, when it announced the Polydor Label Group, which houses Capitol UK.
Joseph’s memo said that both the Polydor Label Group and the Island EMI Label Group will be home to multiple smaller labels, “all with creative autonomy”.
“As a company, we must continue to be forward-looking, innovative, and bold,” the memo read [via Billboard]. “Developing artists now requires more creativity and patience than ever before.”
It added that the restructure hopes to “strengthen our labels’ capabilities” while “deepening artist and fan connections”.
“We are committed to being the number one place for artists, fans and talent,” Joseph wrote. “I have an incredible appreciation for our team given what we have achieved in the past and what I know we will achieve in the future.”
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MIDI Innovation Awards 2024: Finalists Announced The MIDI Association have announced the three finalists in each of the MIDI Innovation Awards' five categories.

Five Ways to Repair Broken PCB TracesWhen everything used wires, it was easy to splice them or replace them. Not so much with PC boards, but everyone has their favorite method for repairing a broken trace. [Mr. SolderFix] has his five favorite ways, as you can see in the video below.
Of course, before you can repair a trace, you probably have to expose it since most boards have solder mask now. Unless you plan to shut the trace at both ends, exposing the actual trace is probably the first step.

The first method is to just blob with solder, but we aren’t fans of that. Solder is not a great interconnect, so we nearly always put a small bit of wire over the gap, even if we might cover it with solder. That way, if the solder cracks over time, you still have a conductor as long as the solder bonds to the trace and wire. We did like that he used a blob of solder mask to cover the repair, which was a nice touch.
Of course, that isn’t going to work if you have a long delaminated trace. In particular, about two inches of a track was totally off the substrate. Here, using a wire is essential. We usually don’t bother to fit it exactly to the trace, but he is a bit more particular than we are. He used solder to model the bends in the wire and then straightened it out. That serves as a guide for how long to cut the jumper wire. He then bends the jumper to fit the trace and tacks it down with Kapton tape. It doesn’t work any better than one of our spaghetti-like repairs, but it does look better.
You’ve probably seen — or could deduce — how to do these repairs, but tips like using solder to model a trace are priceless. Some repairs have been done with copper sheets instead of wires. We didn’t see him using any conductive paint, which we’ve also had good luck with and we’ll admit we’ve covered repairs with clear nail polish rather than solder mask, but there are many possibilities, of course.
What’s your favorite method? It is harder — but not impossible — to repair boards that are completely broken. If you are a masochist, put your wires inside the board instead.

How to tell if your online accounts have been hackedThis is a guide on how to check whether someone compromised your online accounts.
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Trump reportedly 'in good spirits,’ will still attend Nashville BTC conferenceBTC Inc. CEO David Bailey says he spoke with the former president’s team in the wake of the July 13 assassination attempt.

Undo Arduino Encryption with an OscilloscopeCryptography ain’t easy. Seemingly small details like how many times a computationally intensive loop runs can give the game away. [Lord Feistel] gives us a demo of how this could work with nothing more than poorly designed code, a resistor, and an oscilloscope.
The hardware side is, as mentioned, really simple. Put a resistor inline with the Arduino and monitor the voltage drop across the resistor with the scope. When the chip is working hard, it consumes more current, and code sections that take longer will show up as longer dips.
On the software end, it’s only a little more complicated.  The RSA encryption scheme involves a lot of exponentiation and modulo-taking. Here, [Lord Feistel] is targeting a naive way of computing the exponents quickly, and demonstrates how you can read the exponent straight out the chip’s power demand.
Implementing this attack against a real-world RSA algorithm, in the context of the Arduino doing other stuff, will be harder. And we don’t know if the algorithm implemented in “standard” Arduino libraries is smarter than this one. (If you know, let us know in the comments.) But still, this is a cool example of just how simple and straightforward it can be to eavesdrop on bad code.
If you only need to bypass encryption instead of breaking it, check out [Lord Feistel]’s other tutorial on power glitching that we featured previously. If you haven’t played around with the hardware side of security, it gets deep pretty quickly, but you can at least dip your toes in the shallow end with what you’ve got in your closet.

RELEASE DETAILS
Release title:
Double Trouble
Main artist name:
YeyoxIsaac,Soulace
Release date:
12th Jul, 2024
https://publme.lnk.to/DoubleTrouble
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Krotos launch Krotos Studio Pro Krotos Studio Pro expands on the capabilities of Krotos Studio and comes loaded with advanced features and customisation options aimed at high-level post-production projects. 

Meet the soft robots that can amputate limbs and fuse with other robotsRoboticists at The Faboratory at Yale University have developed a way for soft robots to replicate some of the more unsettling things that animals and insects can accomplish — say, a reptile self-amputating a limb, or ants building bridges by temporarily fusing their bodies. In one demo video, we see a soft quadruped robot crawling […]
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Whistleblowers asked the SEC to investigate OpenAI over alleged illegal NDAsThe complainants called the matter "urgent," but it remains unclear if the SEC will open an investigation.

Docker-Powered Remote Gaming with Games on WhalesCloud gaming services allow even relatively meager devices like set top boxes and cheap Chromebooks play the latest and greatest titles. It’s not perfect of course — latency is the number one issue as the player’s controller inputs need to be sent out to the server —  but if you’ve got a fast enough connection it’s better than nothing. Interested in experimenting with the tech on your own terms? The open source Games on Whales project is here to make that a reality.
As you might have guessed from the name, Games on Whales uses Linux and Docker as core components in its remote gaming system. With the software installed on a headless server, multiple users can create virtual desktop environments on the same machine, with each spawning as a separate process on the host computer. This means that all of the hardware of the host can be shared without needing to do anything complicated like setting up GPU pass-through. The main Docker container can spin up more containers as needed.
Of course there will obviously be limits to what any given hardware configuration will be able to support in terms of number of concurrent users and the demands of each stream. But for someone who wants to host a server for their friends or something even simpler like not having to put a powerful gaming PC in the living room, this is a real game-changer. For those not up to speed on Docker yet, we recently featured a guide on getting started with this powerful tool since it does take some practice to wrap one’s mind around at first.