# Spotify 与 Merlin 合作扩展 AI 混音与翻唱项目

- 来源：TechCrunch：AI（RSS）
- 作者：Sarah Perez
- 发布时间：2026-08-04 23:50
- AIHOT 分数：51
- AIHOT 链接：https://aihot.virxact.com/items/cmseulo5y17haro2ebfars4fu
- 原文链接：https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/04/spotify-adds-merlin-to-its-ai-music-remix-and-covers-effort

## AI 摘要

Spotify 在第二季度财报电话会上透露，其 AI 音乐产品将允许乐迷在艺术家同意的前提下制作翻唱和混音，并宣布独立厂牌授权伙伴 Merlin 已加入该项目，带来超过 30,000 家厂牌。该产品定位为“真实艺术家，而非虚假艺术家”，强调获得同意、署名和补偿，被视为“参与 AI 浪潮的首个合法途径”。研究预览将先向部分用户开放，并以付费附加功能形式推出。

## 正文

During its second-quarter earnings call on Tuesday, Spotify again teased the upcoming release of a new product that will allow music fans to leverage AI to make covers and remixes of artists’ music, with the artists’ consent.

The company also announced that Merlin, a licensing partner for independent labels and distributors, has now joined Universal Music Group (UMG) on the new AI music effort. The deal brings more than 30,000 labels from Merlin’s network to the product, which will allow fan-made covers and remixes by artists who agree to participate.

Spotify has positioned its AI music product as being significantly different from the more controversial AI music startups that have been used to create fully artificial songs. Instead, Spotify co-CEO Gustav Söderström told investors on Tuesday’s call that the company’s AI music product will be about “real artists, not fake artists.”

“We want artists to be consenting [to add] their work into this catalog, so people can play around with covers and remixes based on their art,” added co-CEO Alex Norström. “We also obviously want to give them credit. And last but not least…we not only have the consent and give credit, but we also drive the compensation for this. So, really, we’re talking about the first legal way to partake in this AI tailwind that we see coming for interactive music,” he said.

AI music has flooded streaming services. Music streamer Deezer recently noted that more than 50% of daily track uploads were generated with AI, up from 10% in January 2025.

The company told investors that a research preview of the fan remix and covers product would initially be made available to a subset of users. Spotify also noted that it would not require a full music catalog to get started. The company did not say when the preview would arrive.

The new tool will launch as a paid add-on, creating an additional revenue stream for artists, Spotify previously said.

“Our remix and covers I think is an incredibly exciting product again because there is no one else that can really do this,” Söderström said. “Normal generative music will happen with or without us. This product will not happen without us, and it needs to exist so that existing artists can can participate in this.”