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Things “Prompt Pushers” Thought They Understood About DAWs – But Are Completely, Utterly Wrong About

Every now and then, especially in groups where “AI-generated music” is the hot topic, I encounter a parade of self-declared “AI creators” who seem absolutely convinced they understand how AI, DAWs, plugins, audio engines and production workflows operate. Spoiler: they...

5 December 2025
Articles and docs Everything Music & Production

FWSC FastTracker Music – Personal History

The musical side of FWSC was probably never planned, structured or even meant to become a “project”. It was very much about learning applications. The name grew naturally out of the same world as FreeWare Data and FreeWare Data/2 (FidoNet...

30 November 2025
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FWSC – The mid 90s developer project

During the mid 1990s, roughly between 1994 and 1999, I ran a bulletin board system called FreeWare Data. I got into the BBS world during my upper secondary school years (Swedish “gymnasium”) through new friends who introduced me to FidoNet,...

30 November 2025
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SoundCloud monetization terms update: what’s new and what matters

SoundCloud has posted a new “SoundCloud Monetization Terms of Service” for both On-Platform Monetization and Off-Platform Distribution. The terms page shows “Last Updated: October 31, 2025”. SoundCloud’s notice to artists says the update will take effect on November 24, 2025....

6 November 2025
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Articles and docs Featured Posts Music & Production

“Magdalena” utnyttjade högern – blev ett algoritmiskt experiment

Låten “Magdalena” ingår i musikserien “Ballader För Det Bruna Sverige” och kommer ligga på volym 2. Serien är en musikalisk satir över svensk politik, där flera tidigare låtar fungerat som rena roasts av högerregeringen. Ursprungligen var idén att volym 2...

4 October 2025
Articles and docs Everything Featured Posts Music & Production

Spotify Playlist Services by Tornevall

Tornevall now offers a Spotify integration service that makes it easy to both link to playlists with clean, shareable URLs and export them into structured formats. I’ve been missing this myself for a long time now, and sometimes it is...

15 September 2025
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Ultimate International Guide to Licensing Music

Updates This document is very much alive and is continuously updated. See below in the appendixes what’s been changed. The document is getting bigger, so I’m currently considering splitting it up in smaller parts. Table of contents About this document...

27 August 2025
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TMM: The Boring “Team Maktmissbruk” Story

TMM was a provocative abbreviation for Team Maktmissbruk. But what did it really stand for, beyond just a term? This is the full story of the rise and fall of “TMM”.

23 August 2025
Articles and docs Everything Music & Production

SoundCloud – It’s not easy when it’s hard (Or “One hand doesn’t have a bloody clue what the other is doing”)

SoundCloud offers powerful tools for indie musicians – until you try to fix a release. Thinking of hitting “distribute”? Read this first. From remix rules to approval hell, here’s what no one tells you until it’s too late.

8 May 2025
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Issues with SoundCloud distribution? This is what I struggle with

It sometimes becomes painfully clear that SoundCloud takes the description you attach to your music very seriously. If a track distribution gets rejected, the first thing you should check is what you wrote in that section. They react to specific...

23 April 2025

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