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Boomy, which was launched two years ago, allows users to choose various styles or descriptors, such as “rap beats” or “rainy nights,” to create a machine-generated track. Users can then release the music to streaming services, where they will generate royalty payments. California-based Boomy says its users have created more than 14 million songs.
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Spotify, the largest audio streaming business, recently took down about 7 percent of the tracks that had been uploaded by Boomy
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The Boomy songs were removed because of suspected “artificial streaming”—online bots posing as human listeners to inflate the audience numbers for certain songs.
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Boomy at the weekend resumed submitting new tracks to Spotify. The two sides are negotiating