Music metadata company Music Story has sealed a partnership agreement with KKBOX, a subscription-based music streaming services, part of Japanese telecom group KDDI servicing the Asian market.
KKBOX will use Music Story’s advanced metadata enrichment to "enhance the relevance and precision of its search engine results, reduce inconsistencies in artist and track names, and offer users a more seamless music discovery experience in Japanese."
Access to improved metadata will enable KKBOX to enhance...

Metadata platform for the music and audiovisual industries Noctil has launched OrgLink, a new feature providing secure, policy-based data sharing and enabling granular metadata access policies.
Noctil said the new feature is designed "for complex ecosystems" such as record labels, publishers, performance rights organisations, and royalty societies. "OrgLink supports secure collaboration across federated systems, while maintaining full control over how data is viewed and edited at each level," sa...

International data standards-setting organisation DDEX has elected Dan Simpson, Head of Music Operations at Meta, as Chair of its Board. Simpson will succeed Kim Beauchamp, Executive Vice President Strategic Business Transformation & Operations at Universal Music Group, who served as Chair for the past four years.
“With today’s technological advancements, new types of content, consumer connectivity, and their continued evolution, the mission of DDEX and its efforts to keep data flowing has...