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YouTube Music began labelling AI-generated songs on its player on 14 Oct 2026, and the labels are coming to the main YouTube app. Partners declare Fully, Partly or No Gen AI, and YouTube's own detection fills the gaps. Here is how to declare, where the lines fall, and how it compares with Spotify's AI Credits.
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A dead drive should cost you an afternoon, not an album. Here is the 3-2-1 backup rule applied to a music catalogue: what to save (sessions, stems, masters, metadata), how to make a project self-contained before you copy it, and how to archive a finished release so you can still open it in ten years.
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Content Credentials are signed provenance records, built on the open C2PA standard, that can travel inside WAV, MP3, FLAC and M4A files. Here is what a credential actually records, how to check one, which tools read them today, and the limits every artist should understand before relying on one.
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You never tell Spotify or YouTube how you used AI. You tell your distributor, and it turns your answers into DDEX fields that every store reads in its own way. Here is the path one answer takes, the three places it can lose detail or go missing, and what to check before and after release, as we read the primary pages on 24 Oct 2026.
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Two codes and one document hold your royalties together. An ISRC names the recording and comes from the recording owner, a national agency or a manager such as your distributor. An ISWC names the song and only a registration agency, usually your collecting society, can assign it. A split sheet has no issuer at all: you and your co-writers make it. Here is who issues what, what it costs where we could check, and why the split sheet has to come first.
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