Sunday Loop #009 — Some Links Worth Your Time

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Sunday Loop — weekly reading list by Palmetshofer Audio

Why Sunday Loop exists

The week moves fast. Between work, sessions, and everything else, the good reads get lost in the noise.

Every Sunday evening I share links — things I found worth reading during the week. Logic Pro, sound design, sampling, the occasional curveball. No algorithms, no filler. Just five things I’d genuinely recommend to a friend.

Grab a coffee. It won’t take long.

— Ewald

This Week

1. I build tools that work with audio data. Which means I know exactly what it means when someone says they’re ‘tokenizing’ your music. It means your track is raw material. No question asked, no compensation paid.

Category: Audio Tool Development

Producers across every feed are discovering their own music in AI training datasets — and The Atlantic’s Alex Reisner built a free search tool that makes it painfully visible. Public datasets like LAION’s 12-million-track YouTube scrape are just the tip of the iceberg; the real damage comes from undisclosed training data that commercial products like Suno and Google’s Lyria quietly rely on. Google’s own legal defense confirmed the obvious: uploading to YouTube effectively handed them a license to train on your work. What these models actually do is sophisticated pattern prediction — audio tokenized, chopped up, and recombined — which is mathematically closer to autocomplete than to composition. The output is either plagiarism or meaningless mush, and either way the musicians who built the corpus get nothing. Worth checking the search tool if you haven’t already — just enter your artist name and brace yourself.

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