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The MLC Strengthens its Outreach and Education, Member Services and OperationsAs the Mechanical Licensing Collective (The MLC) approaches the end of its fourth full year of operations, it remains committed to seeking – and acting upon – Member feedback. Since beginning full operations, The MLC has consistently sought feedback from its Members to enhance its tools, resources and operations. This feedback has continuously validated The MLC's focus on conducting extensive outreach and education activities aimed at reaching as many prospective members as possible, providing best-in-class support services to its Members, and strengthening internal operations to ensure they are both effective and efficient. To further support its activities in these key areas identified by Member feedback, The MLC has elevated five existing leaders whose work focuses on these activities. This will allow The MLC to amplify its efforts to engage and educate more new Members, enhance the support services it provides to those Members, and continue to improve its internal operations for the benefit of its Members and its other stakeholders.

As the statutory mechanical licensing collective established under the Music Modernization Act (MMA), The MLC is responsible for administering the blanket compulsory mechanical license available to eligible digital service providers (DSPs) in the United States. Since the first royalty distribution in April 2021, The MLC has enrolled over 45,000 Members and completed every one of its 41 monthly royalty distributions on time or early. As a result, The MLC has achieved total royalties distributed of over $2 billion.

Both the MMA and the guidance issued by the U.S. Copyright Office require The MLC to undertake extensive efforts to conduct outreach and educational activities aimed at reaching the full cross-section of the rightsholder community. Since beginning full operations, The MLC has conducted extensive outreach and educational activities that have allowed The MLC to reach rightsholders wherever in the world they are located, while also strengthening partnerships and industry relations. Ellen Truley has led these efforts since before The MLC first began full operations, enabling The MLC to reach hundreds of thousands of stakeholders in the U.S. and around the world and to enroll over 45,000 Members to date. To further these efforts, Ellen has been elevated to Chief Marketing and External Affairs Officer. In this role, Ellen will continue to lead The MLC’s effort to develop and execute its overall marketing strategy and oversee the organization’s advertising, marketing and communications efforts, while also coordinating its educational activities, songwriter relations, industry partnerships, government relations, and other external affairs.

As The MLC continues to expand its membership across the U.S. and around the world, the organization remains steadfast in its commitment to continuously enhance and improve the service and support it provides to its Members. At the heart of The MLC’s service functions lies its industry leading Support Team, which was created and has since been managed by Lindsey Major. To further enhance The MLC’s member services, Lindsey has been elevated to Chief Member Experience Officer. In her role, Lindsey is responsible for designing, implementing and coordinating the delivery of world-class experiences to The MLC's growing membership. This includes coordinating the development and enhancement of The MLC’s growing suite of tools that enable Members to register works, claim their shares of previously registered works, submit proposed matches of their works to unmatched usage, and more.

The MLC has undertaken extensive efforts to accurately match sound recordings to the corresponding musical works, in order to fulfill its mission of striving to ensure that rightsholders receive all of their mechanical royalties from services operating under the blanket compulsory license. As a result, The MLC has achieved current match rates of roughly 90% for all royalties processed. Andrew Mitchell has led The MLC’s matching efforts from the start. As part of a larger plan to bolster The MLC’s matching capabilities, Andrew has been elevated to Chief Analytics and Automation Officer. Andrew will continue to oversee matching – including The MLC’s internal Matching Team and The MLC’s recently announced Supplemental Matching Vendor Network – while also designing, developing and implementing new strategies for harnessing the MLC’s data, leading the MLC’s fraud prevention efforts, and developing new ways to automate The MLC’s internal business processes.

Since completing its first royalty distribution in April of 2021, The MLC has completed every single monthly royalty distribution on-time or early, which has allowed The MLC to achieve total royalties distributed of over $2 billion. Joya Carmichael has led The MLC’s efforts to create, document and manage the end-to-end royalty distribution process starting with the very first monthly royalty distribution. Building upon this track record of success, Joya has been elevated to Chief Administrative Officer. Joya will continue to lead the team that coordinates and manages The MLC’s end-to-end royalty distribution process, while expanding her remit to manage other key internal processes and lead various process documentation and process improvement initiatives for the company.

Since being initially designated by the U.S. Copyright Office 2019, The MLC has met every operational milestone set by Congress and successfully fulfilled the statutory mandates outlined in the MMA. Rick Marshall has been instrumental in ensuring The MLC’s compliance with its statutory and regulatory obligations since joining the organization in 2021, while also managing The MLC’s interactions with DSPs and the blanket compulsory licensing process. Earlier this summer, Rick was elevated to General Counsel. In this new role, Rick will now lead The MLC’s in-house legal team and coordinate all of the organization’s legal matters, including its interactions with the U.S. Copyright Office, the conduct of The MLC’s important enforcement obligations under the MMA, the management of any pending litigations, and the provision of legal advice and guidance to the rest of The MLC’s team.

Strengthening its operations in these key areas reaffirm The MLC’s commitment to support its growing membership, drive innovation and transform rights administration in the music industry.

For more information about The MLC, visit www.themlc.com.The post The MLC Strengthens its Outreach and Education, Member Services and Operations first appeared on Music Connection Magazine.

Digital Bumper Sticker Tells Everyone What You’re Listening ToBumper stickers are usually political, crude, or otherwise inflammatory. Rather a more fun example is this digital creation from [Guy Dupont], who made a bumper sticker that broadcasts what he’s listening to on the stereo.
[Guy] found a nice wide 11-inch bar LCD that was the right aspect ratio to suit the “bumper sticker” aesthetic. It had an HDMI interface, so he decided to drive it with a Raspbery Pi Zero 2W. Power for the system was derived from 12-volt lines going to his vehicle’s rear view camera. For an enclosure, he simply stuck the Pi and a buck converter on the back of the display and heat shrinked the whole thing. He also threw some magnets in there to stick it to the car.
How does the screen know what song to display? Well, [Guy] already has his Spotify listens scrobbling to Last.fm. Thus, he just made a script that scrapes his Last.fm page, which runs on a Particle Boron microcontroller, which has a cellular connection of its own. The Boron gets the song data, and spits it over to the Pi via Bluetooth. Then the Pi generates an image for the display.
Oh, and there’s also a neat Easter Egg. In honor of brat summer, the background changes to #8ACE00 green if the system detects you’re listening to Charli XCX. Neat.
It’s a neat build with a lot of moving parts. We’re surprised we haven’t seen anything like this before though, it’s really rather fun. Also, how’s about that taste of the old Internet—when was the last time you heard somebody mention scrobbling? Gosh, we’re getting old.
We’ve featured some of [Guy’s] works before, too, like the amusing Mailblocks project. Video after the break.

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How Photomultipliers Detect Single PhotonsIf you need to measure the presence of photons down to a very small number of them, you are looking at the use of a photomultiplier, as explained in a recent video by [Huygens Optics] on YouTube. The only way to realistically measure at such a sensitivity level is to amplify them with a photomultiplier tube (PMT). Although solid-state alternatives exist, this is still a field where vacuum tube-based technology is highly relevant.
Despite being called ‘photomultipliers’, these PMTs actually amplify an incoming current (electron) in a series of dynode stages, to create an output current that is actually easy to quantify for measurement equipment. They find uses in everything from Raman spectroscopy to medical diagnostics and night vision sensors.
The specific PMT that [Huygens Optics] uses in the video is the Hamamatsu R928. This has a spectral response from 185 nm to 900 nm. The electrode mesh is where photons enter the tube, triggering the photo cathode which then ejects electrons. These initial electrons are then captured and amplified by each dynode stage, until the anode grid captures most of the electrons. The R928 has a gain of 1.0 x 107 (10 million) at -1 kV supply voltage, so each dynode multiplies the amount of electrons by six, with a response time of 22 ns.
PMTs are unsurprisingly not cheap, but [Huygens Optics] was lucky to find surplus R928s on Marktplaats (Dutch online marketplace) for €100 including a cover, optics and a PCB with the socket, high-voltage supply (Hamamatsu C4900) and so on. Without documentation the trick was to reverse-engineer the PCB’s connections to be able to use it. In the video the components and their function are all briefly covered, as well as the use of opamps like the AD817 to handle the output signal of the R928. Afterwards the operation of the PMT is demonstrated, which makes clear just how sensitive the PMT is as it requires an extremely dark space to not get swamped with photons.
An interesting part about the demonstration is that it also shows the presence of thermionic emissions: anode dark current in the datasheet. This phenomenon is countered by cooling the PMT to prevent these emissions if it is an issue. In an upcoming video the R928 will be used for more in-depth experiments, to show much more of what these devices are capable of.
Thanks to [cliff claven] for the tip.

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Somerville Sounds releases FREE Dusty Felts piano plugin
Developer Somerville Sounds has released Dusty Felts, a free felt piano for macOS and Windows. Jon Meyer, the man behind Somerville Sounds, is responsible for one of my favourite free instruments this year, Antiquarian Echoes. Dusty Felts is the latest addition to the Somerville Prototypes collection, which includes the abovementioned Antiquarian Echoes and the charming [...]
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Music Trigger Cities: Supercharging Music MarketingWhere music is discovered matters. Focus on music trigger cities can supercharge music marketing, according to a study from Chartmetric.
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MLC promotes 5 as distributions surpass $2B, Federal review beginsThe Music Licensing Collective (MLC) has announced five executive promotions designed to strengthen outreach, education, member services and operations and support continued growth.
The post MLC promotes 5 as distributions surpass $2B, Federal review begins appeared first on Hypebot.

L-Acoustics reveal HYRISS immersive system L-Acoustics have announced the launch of a new ground-breaking audio system which they say will redefine how we experience spaces through sound.

Roland’s new AIRA Compact P-6 offers high-quality sampling on-the-goOver the past few years, Roland has been busy crafting compact, portable synths, vocoders and drum machines. The AIRA Compact series offers an ideal solution for creatives on the move, and Roland has just unveiled its latest addition to the series.
An uber-portable creative sampler, the AIRA Compact P-6 is meek enough to fit into your pocket, the piece of gear can easily be brought on the road or in between home and the studio. It’s even battery-powered, meaning you charge it up and use it anywhere without worrying about a power source.

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The AIRA Compact P-6 boasts eight banks of six pads, meaning you can load it up with 48 unique samples.
Roland has also ensured the AIRA P-6 has a mass of live sampling capabilities thank to the built-in mic, making it simple to capture sounds from the world around you – or you can import wav samples directly onto the sampler.
The gear is also kitted with a slew of features to tweak and customise your samples. Pitch-shifting is of course standard, but there’s also a resampling and granular synthesis engine within the AIRA P-6 – you heard that right, granular synthesis from Roland!

Each sample can be looped, reversed, and even be played with an alternate loop. You can also manipulate your samples with reverb and delay, and there’s also a multi-FX processor. The processor will allow you to choose between lo-fi, scatter, resonator, vinyl simulator effects and more.
The step sequencer also boasts 64 steps in total and a memory of a maximum of 64 patterns. Users can experiment and tweak the velocity, length, sub-steps, probability, micro-timing, off-grid sequencing and motion recording.
If you’re eager to get your hands on this portable sampler, it’s currently available for $219 in the US.
More info can be found via Roland.

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Pressing Your First Vinyl Record: A Step-by-Step GuideBefore pressing your first vinyl, make sure you’ve covered these five crucial steps to avoid costly mistakes. From mastering audio to choosing the right pressing plant, this guide has everything you need to know for a flawless vinyl release.
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Plasma: Intelligent saturation plug-in from iZotope Using a new technology that iZotope refer to as Flux Saturation, Plasma analyses incoming signals and applies dynamic processing that promises to add warmth, depth and character.