We are the music makers https://wearethemusicmakers.co/latest Music tech and AI in music: the news that matters, what we think about it, and a directory of the tools. en-us Sat, 24 Oct 2026 06:30:00 GMT https://wearethemusicmakers.co/learn/audio-watermarking-explained Audio watermarking explained: how SynthID and AudioSeal mark AI audio, and how easily the marks break https://wearethemusicmakers.co/learn/audio-watermarking-explained AI audio watermarks hide a signal in the sound that a detector can find later. Here is how the main systems work, what Google and Meta claim, what independent benchmarks found when they attacked them, and what a positive or negative result can and cannot tell you about a track. Sat, 24 Oct 2026 06:30:00 GMT We are the music makers ai-detectionprovenancewatermarkingai-music https://wearethemusicmakers.co/learn/content-credentials-c2pa-for-audio C2PA Content Credentials for audio: what they record, who reads them, and where they fall short https://wearethemusicmakers.co/learn/content-credentials-c2pa-for-audio 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. Sat, 24 Oct 2026 06:30:00 GMT We are the music makers provenanceaimetadataartist-rights https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/10/chaos-1-4m-music-collaboration-remote-sessions Chaos raises £1m to fix remote music sessions. The record of who did what is the real product https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/10/chaos-1-4m-music-collaboration-remote-sessions London start-up Chaos has raised a £1m pre-seed round, about $1.4m, for a workspace that puts chat, files, feedback and live writing rooms in one place and logs who contributed what. Earlier collaboration tools died and took their projects with them, so the test is whether that contribution record can leave the app. Sat, 24 Oct 2026 04:30:00 GMT We are the music makers workflowscollaborationfundingprovenance https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/08/audio-watermarks-content-credentials-synthid-c2pa SynthID and Content Credentials can label AI audio. Neither can prove your song is human https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/08/audio-watermarks-content-credentials-synthid-c2pa Google stamps every Lyria 3 track in Gemini with an inaudible SynthID watermark, and the C2PA standard lets tools attach a signed history to WAV, MP3 and FLAC files. Both can point to AI. Neither can prove a human made a song, but an artist can use them to build evidence of their own process. Fri, 07 Aug 2026 04:30:00 GMT We are the music makers aiai-musicprovenancewatermarkingartist-rights