Abstract: Recent years have witnessed the success of foundation models pre-trained with self-supervised learning (SSL) in various music informatics understanding tasks, including music tagging, ...

It's Friday, and that means we've reached our final 2025 episode of New Music Friday. While most of the music internet has moved on to looking backward (including the latest episode of All Songs ...

Music lovers, are you ready to revisit your favorite songs and artists of 2025? On Dec. 2, Apple Music rolled out its 2025 Apple Music Replay. Like Spotify Wrapped, Apple Music Replay compiles Apple ...

As DEI battles and funding shifts roil campuses, music programs from UCLA to Juilliard continue to grow. THR ranks the 20 schools shaping the next generation of composers. By Jeff Bond Conservatories ...

Earlier this year, Spotify rolled out an all-new feature that lets users watch music videos within the app. You can switch between audio and video formats with the new feature, which is slowly being ...

It turns out the rapid growth of AI has a massive downside: namely, spiraling power consumption, strained infrastructure and runaway environmental damage. It’s clear the status quo won’t cut it ...

“We had no intention of doing a TV series when we were starting the podcast, which we just thought was a wonderful way to tell stories and hear new versions of these songs for the podcast,” Toffler ...

YouTube is celebrating 10 years of its YouTube Music app on Thursday with the launch of new features that bring it closer to rival Spotify and others. The app will now include “Taste Match” playlists, ...

Music affects each of us differently. A few notes can trigger memories, bring tears, or evoke euphoria. It’s universal, emotional, and deeply human. But why? What about music influences us so ...

The idea of simplifying model weights isn’t a completely new one in AI research. For years, researchers have been experimenting with quantization techniques that squeeze their neural network weights ...