Your Fav Radio DJ Might Not Be Human!

Good news is radio listenership is reported to be good...but who are we listening to? For 6 months, listeners to a radio station had no idea that the DJ they were listening to, wasn't human. AI DJs are already popping up on the radio across the planet, replacing humans or serving as live sidekick/cohosts. "If a robot can blend in for half a year without anyone noticing, it might already be happening more than we think."

Podcast Video : https://youtu.be/EXTlSzfsaSY

For those who want to know about the significance of masters in the recording industry, here's a little dive into the background and history of artists, record labels, and the fight for masters ownership.

In what has been described as a brilliant strategy, Taylor Swift devalues her first 6 albums by rerecording them and then, as the songwriter, denied anybody licensing the originals in movies or commercials insisting they could only use her re-recorded versions; meanwhile sales of the originals dropped around 60%. To the point that the owners sold her the original masters of her 1st 6 albums, and more, for $360 million, close to what they paid for them. To the delight of the T-Swifties, she now owns it all (and makes all the $). Swift wasn't the first to re-record or buy the masters to gain total control of her music.

But now the labels are worried about being 'Swifted' as more legacy artists follow her lead. The value of a record label is determined by its ownership of, and profiting from, master recordings. How can record labels survive if their golden eggs, the legacy recordings they own, are effectively neutered by re-recordings?

Sources are linked on my blog: https://snydersmusicbiznews.blogspot....

The Adele / Guinea Pig Experiment

https://youtu.be/1Cjo8p8pe8U

AI version of Jonesy the cat introduces and ends the podcast

Jonesy's Cat-Shit Crazy Music-Biz News, is that scientists exposed 2 groups of Guinea Pigs to Adele's 'I Miss You' for 7 days. The purpose to see how compression/loudness affects hearing. One group recovered in 1 day. The other group of Guinea Pigs now have long-term hearing damage and should probably seek legal advice! While both had hearing damage, one group recovered in 1 day. The other group of Guinea Pigs now have long-term hearing damage and should probably seek legal advice! The point being that heavily compressed music not only affects the listener's enjoyment, it also affects long-term hearing. So the message being for engineers to stop over-compressing audio just to make it louder.

Note: I had fun with AI, but the message about loudness and its affect on hearing is serious.

Sources at https://snydersmusicbiznews.blogspot.com/2025/05/guinea-pigs-forced-to-listen-to-adele.html