PR: APM Music Partners with Cyanite to Enhance Music Tagging

by Jakob | Sep 9, 2021 | Announcement, Company

PRESS RELEASE

APM Music partners with Cyanite to Enhance Music Tagging

Mannheim/Berlin/Los Angeles, September 9, 2021 – APM Music, the largest production music library in North America, and Cyanite, a technology company developing a suite of AI-powered music search products announced today a strategic partnership that will provide users with improved tagging and metadata to enhance their search queries.

A superior music discovery experience begins with content that is comprehensively, consistently, and accurately tagged. With an ever-growing music library such as the one APM Music has been providing the marketplace for nearly four decades, maintaining high-quality tagging and precise metadata at a large scale is a primary concern. Incorporating Cyanite’s AI will allow APM Music to introduce human-assisted auto-tagging to the music submission and review process, thus increasing the quality and consistency of tagging.

APM Music’s President/CEO Adam Taylor comments: “For APM Music, accurate and reliable music tagging has always been of the utmost importance and we are aligned with Cyanite on this constant strive for quality. Markus and the team have proven that they are able to quickly react to our feedback and improve their algorithms at a rapid speed. We are excited to integrate artificial intelligence into APM and create the best possible support for our team.”

Cyanite’s artificial intelligence listens to and categorizes songs, helping to deliver the right music content, no matter the use case. Integrating this technology will benefit the end user by ensuring search queries continue to yield accurate and tailored results as APM’s music library expands in depth and breadth.

Markus Schwarzer, CEO of Cyanite: “We look forward to working with such a prestigious and renowned partner as APM Music. Everyone on their team is a unique expert in their field. Being the chosen AI partner for the important and extensive transition into this new age of music distribution fills our entire team with pride.”

The addition of Cyanite’s technology extends APM’s commitment to continually increasing the quality and performance of its search engine, thereby delivering a superior quality discovery experience to match its richness of catalog.

Anyone wishing to try Cyanite’s technology can register for the Web App free of charge and upload music or integrate Cyanite into an existing database system via their API.

Full press material including German press release can be found via this link.

Background to APM Music:
APM Music is located in Hollywood, California, and is the premier go-to source for production music. Founded in 1983, APM Music is the largest production music library in North America. To find out more, please visit www.apmmusic.com.

Background to Cyanite:
Cyanite believes that state-of-the-art technology should not be exclusive to big tech companies. The start-up is one of Europe’s leading independent innovators in the field of music-AI and supports some of the most renowned and innovative players in the music and audio industry. Among the music companies using Cyanite are the Mediengruppe RTL, the record pool BPM Supreme. the radio station SWR, the music publishers NEUBAU Music and Schubert Music, and the sound branding agencies Universal Music Solutions, TAMBR, and amp sound branding.

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WISE Panel Video: AI – Musician’s Friend or Foe?

by admin | Feb 9, 2021 | Company, Music Industry

WISE hosted a virtual panel moderated by Kalam Ali (Co-Founder, Sound Obsessed) to connect music industry experts and have an open discussion about AI technologies adoption for artists. Among the guests there were Rania Kim (Creative Director, Sound Obsessed & Portrait XO), Harry Yeff/Reeps One (Director, Composer, and Artist, R1000 Studios), Heiko Hoffmann (VP Artist, Beatport) and Markus Schwarzer (CEO, Cyanite).

All united by their interest in music and the future ahead of it, they shared their views on the different access points for AI to be embraced for what it is in the bigger picture: a solution to improve performances, to enhance the UX and to give inspiration within music production.

Education is the means to ensure a deeper understanding of this technology, now still highly questioned as damaging to connection people have with music. A realistic assessment of what opportunities there are for artists in implementing AI and, at the same time, what the risks of improper use are, can break these fear barriers.

Finding a middle ground between men and the autonomy of AI is key, especially in these days where a digital approach is often the only feasible way to make life feel as normal as it should be.

The extended video of the talk is available on Youtube.

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New SWR music app uses recommendation algorithms from Cyanite

by Jakob | Aug 24, 2020 | Company

About SWR’s new radio app

A music/radio app developed jointly by Südwestrundfunk (SWR) and the Berlin digital agency TBO will enable listeners to fast-forward and rewind through radio programs and to skip songs. For the first time, the decision as to which song is played after a skip is not made by humans but by a machine: by the recommendation algorithm from Cyanite. This is SWR’s response to the competition from streaming providers and is the release of a user-centered radio of the future.

SWR’s promotion video for their new radio app

How Cyanite’s algorithms come into play

Using a logic specially developed for SWR, the algorithm selects the song that the user is most likely to like. Step by step, past skip decisions of the user are then to be incorporated into the music recommendations, thus personalizing the music program on the app. The collaboration between SWR and Cyanite has developed in the SWR audio lab, where future technologies for radio and the involvement of listeners in the radio experience are the focus.

The shuffle button that makes Cyanite’s algorithm come into action

I want to apply AI to my app as well – how can I get started?

Contact us with any questions about our frontend and API services via mail@cyanite.ai. You can also directly book a web session with Cyanite co-founder Markus here.

If you want to get a first grip on how Cyanite works, you can also register for our free web app to analyze music and try out similarity searches without any coding needed.

For more of our thoughts on how to apply Cyanite to your database, check these out:

3 Ways to Display and Integrate AI Search Results in Your Music Platform

How to use the Cyanite API to analyze music on genre, mood, bpm, key and more

Free white paper: 8 tips how to organize your music catalogue better