Interactive media such as video games rely heavily on music to create an immersive atmosphere, providing deeper emotional impact, and serving as a feedback mechanism for the player’s actions, letting ...

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. This warped reward system, by which musicians climb the streaming charts, can influence every aspect of a song ...

Two musician-programmers have teamed up to create an algorithm to generate every possible music melody in order to stop copyright lawsuits. Credit: Getty Images/EyeEm It’s become a regular occurence ...

This week Apple is beginning to roll out the first new personalized playlist under Apple Music’s “For You” section. The playlist, entitled “Chill,” is muxed based on editorial curation and algorithmic ...

Apple Music has added a new algorithmic radio station to the app called ‘Discovery Station’ in a way to compete with Spotify’s personalized lists. Apple’s Sweden-based rival service has offered its ...

Why do people love Spotify so much? A lot of the loyalty to the streaming app comes from its dynamic personalization. Spotify goes beyond providing a platform to listen to the songs and podcasts that ...