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# Your Morning Coffee Podcast: Charging for free, top Music Tech Startups, Napster, Indie Week, and more
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/your-morning-coffee-podcast-charging-for-free-top-music-tech-startups-napster-indie-week-and-more/
- Published: 2024-06-03T11:25:04.000Z
- Updated: 2024-06-03T11:25:07.000Z
- Description: Episode 199 of the Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart Your Morning Coffee: Weekly News for the New Music Business podcast is available here…..
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Music Business, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 11:15

Episode 199 of the Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart Your Morning Coffee: Weekly News for the New Music Business podcast is available here.

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### Episode 199

On this week’s installment of the YMC podcast, Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart talk about these important music industry stories:

- “Sony Music Group Boss Rob Stringer Talks Acquisitions, AI And How Music Streaming Services Should Start Charging Free Users” (Music Business Worldwide)
- “14 Music-Tech Startups Helping To Shape The Music Business, As It’s Shaken Up By AI” (Business Insider)
- “How Napster Created A Monster That Became Bigger Than The Music Industry” (LA Times).

Plus audio drops with Eamonn Forde, author of the new book 1999: The Year The Record Industry Lost Control and Richard Burges, President and CEO of A2IM: the American Association of Independent Music on the upcoming A2IM Indie Week – June 10 – 13 in NYC.

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