Articles and docs

2026

Suno is changing its Terms in September – but the scary version is not quite what the Terms actually say

Suno announced on August 10 that both its download policy and Terms of Service will change on September 3, 2026. Unsurprisingly, the announcement has already produced some rather dramatic interpretations of what is about to happen. One of them comes...

11 August 2026

Suno ändrar sina villkor i september – men den skrämmande versionen är inte riktigt vad villkoren faktiskt säger

Suno meddelade den 10 augusti att både deras nedladdningspolicy och användarvillkor kommer att ändras den 3 september 2026. Föga förvånande har beskedet redan hunnit ge upphov till några ganska dramatiska tolkningar av vad som egentligen är på väg att hända....

11 August 2026

2025

People are predicting Suno’s death – how likely is it?

Not long ago, Udio effectively took the “fine, we’ll license it” route: it reached a strategic agreement with Universal Music Group around a new licensed AI music platform planned for 2026. That came after the 2024 lawsuits became the main...

29 December 2025

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

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

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

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

“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

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

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. Latest changes New external pages to...

27 August 2025