⚡️ ICYMI: 2024's biggest updates so far

Q1's highlights and what they mean for you! 🦾 April 19, 2024 [SourceAudio]( Weekly insights, ideas, tools, and features to help you grow your music business and optimize for the future. Q1 2024 HIGHLIGHTS: OUR RECAP ON THE BIGGEST FEATURES AND UPDATES WE'VE RELEASED SO FAR THIS YEAR! Our AI products and roadmap continue to drive the innovation and enhancements we're adding to the platform on a regular basis. Here is quick refresher on key milestones, what features and tools are now live for you to use, and then of course what you can expect in the near future! 1. AI-powered playlists - Effortlessly create amazing playlists with a simple text prompt. Our proprietary tech and method leverages natural language, AI metadata, and AI Sonic Search to cater to any mood, occasion, or theme, delivering outsized results that will leave you and your clients amazed! ▶️ 🔊 2. AI Metadata v1.1 - Our AI-powered metadata got even better in Q1, enhancing diversity, relevance, and precision. After conducting many side-by-side comparisons, we're proud to hear consistently that our metadata stands out as the best in the space. We invite you see for yourself by trying our AI tagging today for FREE ON YOUR FIRST 20 SONGS! ✨ 4. AI Metadata tagging is now self-serve in your Admin Panel! Just visit the new "AI TOOLS" section on the left side of your Admin Panel to get started tagging songs, albums, or your entire catalog instantly. Our tags optimize and continuously get better over time, and you can export them and take them with you anytime you wish. ⚡️ 5. New email designs are here! The next time you send a track, album, or playlist to another user or client it's going to look incredible in their inbox. Send yourself an email and see for yourself! Customize your colors and logo in your Admin Panel too! 📬 5. Use TikTok with Sonic Search to find a song that’s EXACTLY the vibe you’re looking for. Hear a song on TikTok and want to find something like it? Just tap the "copy link" button in the app and drop it into your SourceAudio search bar and our SonicSearch will instantly find everything that sounds like it! 🎧 🤖 [Leverage these tools on your site now]( What's up next? ⚡️ As always, we're loaded up on more enhancements, tools, and opportunities for our community. Here's what's next: 1. AI-generated album art – Make beautiful, unique album and playlist art instantly with our integrate AI artwork generator -- for FREE! 🖼️ 2. AI lyric transcription – Need lyrics for your metadata? Get your lyrics as an add-on to your AI metadata for only $0.10/track. 💬 3. AudioGuard™ – Disrupt unauthorized downstream AI from sampling or reproducing your music with our patent-pending audio protection technology! 🛡️ 4. AI generative audio – Double, triple, or quadruple the size of your catalog with our artist-centric AI that produces the highest quality music available today – all while respecting copyright and tracking rights ownership from start to finish. 🔊 [Learn more]( 🤖 AI NEWS + QUICK HITS OF THE WEEK 👉 [Suno]( has made a lot of noise publicly over the past few weeks. We've tried making some songs and they sound [suspiciously like songs, voices, and melodies we've heard before]( (like exactly). What's your take on Suno and how they're approaching AI-generated music? 🤔 👉 [Udio]( is another publicly available, text-to-audio, AI-powered audio generator. [Are these companies staying within the bounds of "ethical" AI]( Let us know your thoughts on [Linkedin]( 💬 📈 TRENDS AND INSIGHTS FOR THE WEEK 🔍 Total B2B/professional music searches: 137,161 (📉 -49K) 🔎 Most common search terms globally: crash, wind, bell, news, rock 🔍 🇺🇸 Most searched terms by U.S. Broadcast/Streaming networks: tension, hip hop, trailer, epic, riser 📂 Total song downloads: 613,286 (📈 +210K) ⬇️ Most downloaded tags: hit, house, comedy, score, commercial ⬆️ Total new song uploads: 45,910 🏷️ Most common new tags: classical, determined, instrumental, energetic, mysterious 🎬 New playlists/projects created: 2,534 🎵 Total songs hosted: 30,704,010 ✏️ Total writers: 431,186 💿 Total publishers: 115,928 Questions? 💬 Email us at [support@sourceaudio.com](mailto:support@sourceaudio.com?subject=AI metadata questions&body=) [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [LinkedIn]( SourceAudio Insider 9415 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA [Unsubscribe](