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Cyanite Receives “Best New Music Business” Award at VIA 2023

by Simon | Sep 29, 2023 | Music Industry, Announcement, Company

VUT Indie Awards Winners

Every year, the VUT awards 6 music companies, artists, and projects for exceptional quality and new innovations, independent from commercial success.

The awards were held at this year’s Reeperbahn Festival, where countless artists from 40 countries performed, and discussions and podcasts surrounding the music industry took place.

We are proud to announce that Cyanite won the VIA award for Best New Music Business.

A Big Thank You

First of all, we want to thank the expert jury and the other nominees in our category: A-Okay Management and The Changency.

This award is not only the result of outstanding work by our team but also our community, which has made all of this possible. Thanks to our amazing enterprise clients worldwide and the whooping all-time high of over 45,000 web-app users!

We take this award as validation that we’re moving in the right direction and as motivation to continue improving our services for our enterprise partners, as well as for artists and creatives around the world.

Your Cyanite Team

More info about the award: https://www.viaawards.de/
More info about the VUT: https://www.vut.de/vut-english/
Official press release: https://www.vut.de/vut/aktuelles-vut/artikel/details/via-kritikerinnenpreise-der-unabhaengigen-musikbranche-verliehen-1/

4 Best Ways to Use Cyanite for Artists, Producers, and DJs

by Simon | Sep 14, 2023 | Music Industry, AI Analysis, How-to Guide

For all Late Bloomers – What is Cyanite?

Cyanite is no newcomer to the music industry. Launched in 2019, its industry-leading AI has brought a user traffic of over 40,000 users to the web app. It helps creatives and artists get the most out of their music by extracting powerful metadata, from moods to whole audio descriptions, making Cyanite an indispensable tool for musicians. We at Cyanite are proud to collaborate with industry majors like BMG, MySphera, and Pond5.

Let’s take a closer look at how artists, producers, and DJs can make the most out of the data hiding behind the audio by exploring the best use cases.

Cyanite’s Auto Tagging has been a life saver as I’ve been submitting my music to Spotify playlists and music sync libraries. It has helped me get placed and get my music massive momentum on Spotify.

Garrett Lodge, Cyanite User

1. What Genre is my Music? – Playlist Pitching

With Spotify offering thousands of genres to choose from, defining your song’s genre(s) has become a challenging task. However, selecting the right genres is crucial, especially for newcomers to the industry, as it significantly impacts your track’s discoverability.

Thanks to DAW’s like Logic Pro X and Ableton, creating music is easier than ever before. But this also means the competition is bigger than ever.
In order to break through the mass of thousands of songs that get uploaded daily, providing metadata for your tracks is crucial.

We’ve trained our AI with datasets of thousands of songs and matching descriptions, to help it understand music and genres possibly even better than you do. Curious about how to use this for your music?

Check out this blog post: “How to Create a Spotify Pitch That Works? – Playlist Pitching Guide with Examples and Tips – Cyanite.ai”.

Or, check out this step-by-step video guide by Indie Music Producer below.

2. Self-Promote Your Music: Create Custom Audiences

In the music industry, 40 years ago, you needed a record deal to get your music heard. Fast forward to 2023, and you have powerful marketing tools at your fingertips, such as Instagram, TikTok, and Google Ads. To maximize the effectiveness of your advertising, it’s essential to narrow down your audience as much as possible. Metal Heads are unlikely to click on an ad for your new Hyper-Pop song – or are they?

If you have your song ready for release and struggle to find the perfect match with another artist’s project, let me introduce you to Cyanite’s Similarity Search. Curious? We’ve dedicated an entire blog entry to elucidate the process: “How to Create Custom Audiences for Pre-Release Music Campaigns in Facebook, Instagram, and Google – Cyanite.ai“.

Illustration of an interface showing a list of similar songs to a reference track

3. Write Press Releases with Cyanite

While promoting your tracks on Instagram and other social media platforms is an excellent starting point, music marketing is quite similar to receiving presents on Christmas – the more, the merrier.
Crafting a press release and submitting it to blogs or platforms like SubmitHub is an effective way to get more attention for your music.

Although producing your music feels natural, describing the finished product from an external perspective can be challenging. By utilizing Cyanite’s Auto-Tagging and Mood Detection algorithms, you can bypass the arduous task of finding the right words. Learn more in our blog post: “How to Write Press Releases and Music Pitches with Cyanite”.

4. Crafting the Perfect Playlist for Every Occasion

If you’re a DJ or playlist curator, you’re undoubtedly aware of the significant time investment required to create the perfect play- or setlists. However, with Cyanite’s Similarity Search, you can drastically streamline this process. Pair it with the harmonic mixing tool, Camelot Wheel, and you’ll achieve smoother transitions than ever before. Discover our comprehensive guide on optimizing your playlists and DJ sets on our website: “How to Use Cyanite to Optimize Your Playlists and DJ Sets for Harmonic Mixing and Similarity”.

Sign Up for Free – Get Started!

Interested in trying out any of our examples for yourself?
Simply sign up here or delve deeper into Cyanite’s offerings on our newly redesigned website, Cyanite.ai, or explore our latest updates on our blogs for the latest news.

And as always, if you have questions, just send an email to support@cyanite.ai.

Your Cyanite Team.

A Look Behind the Curtain: Podcast Interview with Roman Gebhardt

by Simon | Aug 22, 2023 | Music Industry, Interview

A.I. Podcast featuring CAIO Roman Gebhardt

Our Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer, Roman Gebhardt, was a guest in this week’s podcast episode of The Illiac Suite – Music and Artificial Intelligence by Dennis Kastrup. The podcast features an A.I.-generated version of “Bohemian Rhapsody,” not sung by Freddie Mercury, but by Whitney Houston. This shows how far A.I.-generated music has already come. It has become fairly easy to train an A.I. model on a single vocalist, but what about entire songs? How do we make A.I. understand music to a degree where it would feel like you’re asking a professional musician to find you the perfect song for any scenario, and it never misses?

Metadata

At the core of A.I.’s grasp of music is metadata—categories like moods, genres, instruments, and styles help an A.I. understand songs like we do. We at Cyanite automatically tag these features using our A.I. once our customers, such as Slip.stream or BMG, upload songs into our system. The text-to-music search is not translated into tags but is directly mapped from text to music. So, unlike tag-based music search, Cyanite offers Free Text Search. How do we do that? We use sets of music and text descriptions to let our systems understand everything that comes to your mind, as long as you are able to put it into words.

We are not searching for certain keywords that appear in a search. We directly map text to music. We make the system understand which text description fits a song. This is what we call Free Text Search.

Roman Gebhardt, CAIO at Cyanite

The Problem

Music is art. You can’t unanimously define art, or else it probably wouldn’t be art in the first place. That’s the beauty of it all: subjectivity. While we love that about music, it’s one of the biggest challenges for our A.I. model. Just as Dennis Kastrup beautifully said in the podcast: while some people listen to sad music and find solace, others might get even sadder. Images, for example, are much easier to analyze than music. Imagine a picture with a yellow wall and a TV standing in front of it. While all people see color slightly differently, no one would identify the TV as a record player. Now think of “Bohemian Rhapsody” by Queen. Good luck unanimously agreeing on the genre or even the mood of this song.

Never-Ending Solutions

The key to successfully training a model like ours is to provide meaningful audio descriptions with the songs that we feed into our system. From there, we do a lot of reverse engineering. We analyze our models and get feedback from our customers to see where our models lack understanding. Then, we search for meaningful metadata to make up for that. So, it’s a never-ending cycle in which we build and refine, just to build again and refine from there. On and on and on.

Unleashing What We’ve Built

At the end of all of this, we work together with numerous companies that integrate our search technology into their systems and websites. A good example showcased in the podcast is Slip.stream. With Slip.stream, you can browse a massive royalty-free catalog, and with the power of Cyanite, you can find the perfect song for any situation using the Free Text Search. For example, “music to enjoy the moment.” Listen to what Cyanite came up with here. We at Cyanite are building the tools necessary for you to shape tomorrow’s music industry. Feel free to check out the Podcast above.

Your Cyanite Team.

Celebrating Four Years of Growth: Unveiling a Vibrant New Cyanite!

by Jakob | Aug 2, 2023 | Announcement, Company

Dear friends and valued partners,

As we mark Cyanite’s fourth birthday, we couldn’t be more thrilled to share this exciting journey with all of you. It’s been a remarkable four years filled with growth, transformation, and incredible partnerships.

Today, we want to take you behind the scenes to reveal the culmination of our hard work – a fresh new brand identity and a revamped website that represents the new Cyanite.

A New Cyanite

The process of creating a new Cyanite has been something we’ve been working on behind the scenes for quite some time. Our dedicated team has been crafting a brighter, fresher, and more inclusive tone for our brand. From our early days as a niche tech firm catering to early adopters, we have now evolved into one of the leading AI companies in the music industry.

Our AI solutions have found applications far and wide, accelerating progress in the music industry creative sectors. By re-branding our Company’s identity we take on the next step towards new horizons as we leave „the chasm“ behind and move into the adaption phase of early majority with a wider range of customers all over the globe.

Embracing the Community

We owe our success to the vibrant community that surrounds us. With over 40,000 users on our web app and deep integration into the products and workflows of more than 100 amazing enterprises, such as Pond5, BrilliantClassics, BMG, and APM Music, among others, we are humbled by the trust you have placed in us.

To all our collaborators in the music industry and beyond, your unwavering support has been the cornerstone of our growth. Together, we continue to shape the future of the music landscape.

Throughout this incredible journey, our vision has remained steadfast since day one – the belief in the power of real human-created music to enrich lives. We remain committed to helping the world find the perfect music for every single moment, making those moments even more magical.

A Tribute to our Design-Team

We would be remiss not to acknowledge the creative minds behind our new brand identity and website. A special thanks and big kudos go to our designer Alexandra Tihanovich for her exceptional work on the brand, and to Josefa Rackl, who brilliantly designed and developed our new website and brand identity and who won the ADC bronce award with her master’s project “Synergy” for which she visualized music with Cyanite data.

We invite you to experience the exciting changes for yourself. Visit our new website at https://cyanite.ai/ and embark on a journey through our enriched offerings and services. We are confident that you’ll find it as refreshing and innovative as we do!

In conclusion, we extend our heartfelt appreciation to each and every one of you for being a part of our incredible journey. As we celebrate our fourth birthday, we look forward to a future filled with more milestones, growth, and impactful partnerships.

Thank you for being a part of the Cyanite family.

Case Study: How Syncvault uses Cyanite’s AI Tagging To Unlock the Power of Music Promotion

by Jakob | Jun 29, 2023 | Case Study, Music Industry

Introduction

In the vast landscape of music tools for artists, London-based company SyncVault stands out as a reliable platform, empowering artists and brands to promote their music, products, and services.

With an engaged community of social media influencers and content creators, SyncVault opens doors to new opportunities in the world of music promotion.

To amplify their impact, SyncVault sought a state-of-the-art solution to unlock the full potential of their curated music catalog. This is where Cyanite entered the picture, offering AI-powered music analysis and tagging technology.

Defining the Challenge: Enhancing Music Metadata Insight

SyncVault aimed to extract deeper insights and data from their diverse repertoire of songs.

Unlike conventional licensing providers with extensive libraries, SyncVault has a small and highly curated selection of tracks for which it required a solution capable of accurately generating multi-genre metadata and assigning appropriate weightage to each genre to improve music search and data insight.

Discovering the Suitable Partner: Cyanite

SyncVault found an ideal partner in Cyanite, which was recommended by their own network and whose product offering aligned seamlessly with SyncVault’s objectives.

First, Cyanite’s comprehensive and accurate music analysis and tagging technology met their specific requirements. Cyanite’s taxonomy, which offers various tags in over 25 different classes, won over the team after a free tagging trial of 100 songs.

Second, SyncVault was impressed by Cyanite’s transparent, scalable, and competitive pricing model.

The Transformation: Streamlined Efficiency and Accuracy

After signing an agreement and booking a 1-year subscription, SyncVault seamlessly integrated Cyanite’s solutions into their workflow in just a few weeks.

Picture 1: Mood-based keywords and search results on SyncVault platform

Additionally, Cyanite’s AI technology enhanced SyncVault’s music analytics, providing valuable insights into song structure, tempo, genre, key, mood, and more.

Empowering Team and Users: Elevating the SyncVault Experience

Cyanite’s auto-tagging capabilities significantly improved SyncVault’s efficiency and productivity, enabling its small team to categorize their repertoire faster and more consistently.

Furthermore, users experienced an enhanced music search, allowing them to filter and find the perfect soundtrack for their creative needsmore quickly. The partnership with Cyanite transformed SyncVault’s platform, fostering a thriving community where music resonates with listeners.

Picture 2: A look at how Syncvault’s curation team uses Cyanite tags in the backend.

Additionally, Cyanite’s AI technology enhanced SyncVault’s music analytics, providing valuable insights into song structure, tempo, genre, key, mood, and more.

A Promising Future: Expanding Horizons

SyncVault is experiencing a steady expansion of its service as it adds more tracks to the Content ID management system. Its catalogue is growing month on month creating more opportunities for licensing tracks for its brand partners.

SyncVault envisions extending its music promotion services to Content ID clients, creating more opportunities for brands to discover the ideal songs for their creative campaigns.

As SyncVault continues its expansion, Cyanite’s AI search and recommendation tools such as Similarity Search or Free Text Search would work seamlessly with their catalogue further enhancing the customer experience and forging new frontiers in music promotion. Integrating auto-tagging was just the first step towards an even deeper partnership between two music-enthusiastic companies.

If you want to learn more about SyncVault, you can check out their platform here: https://syncvault.com/

If you want to learn more about our API services, check out our docs here: https://api-docs.cyanite.ai/

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