Napster Is Doing AI Music Now — and Still Taking Shots at the Major Labels

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Three weeks after abruptly shutting down its user-scarce streaming service, the current incarnation of Napster is launching a new AI music app — even as it continues to face a lawsuit from Sony Music over allegedly unpaid royalties. “ We don’t think that the future of music involves the labels anymore,” Napster CEO John Acunto tells Rolling Stone . “I just think they’re dead.” The Napster app, available today for iOS and Android, adds a personality-heavy chatbot layer onto a prompt-driven music-

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Napster Is Doing AI Music Now — and Still Taking Shots at the Major Labels https://www.rollingstone.com/ - 28.01.2026 19:08