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# Music Curation’s Long History, Many Challenges w/ J Herskowitz [Upward Spiral Deep Dive #4]
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/music-curations-long-history-many-challenges-w-j-herskowitz-upward-spiral-deep-dive-4/
- Published: 2013-09-12T14:39:33.000Z
- Updated: 2013-09-12T14:39:33.000Z
- Description: In this episode of the Deep Dive, Cortney Harding and Kyle Bylin discuss music curation with outspoken tech exec and startup founder J Herskowitz. Curation is a topic that just. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2013/09/music-curations-long-history-many-challenges-w-j-herskowitz-upwa
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In this episode of the Deep Dive, Cortney Harding and Kyle Bylin discuss music curation with outspoken tech exec and startup founder J Herskowitz. Curation is a topic that just keeps coming up in the press. Spotify buys Tunigo. 8tracks revamps its website. Songza introduces a paid tier. And Beats Music poaches several high-level people in preparation for a U.S. launch. Meanwhile, Rhapsody and Google Play are talking about how they have been using humans to curate all along. What does all of this mean? Where might music streaming services take curation next?

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