Music/Audio

Dolby has been named in Fast Company’s prestigious annual list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies in music for its latest innovation – Dolby Atmos Music. The list honor... More

The major reason why the sales of smart speakers skyrocketed on a global scale during 2019 and especially during the fourth quarter is strong promotional activity combined with the... More

Pearl Jam and film distributor Abramorama announced the Gigaton Listening Experience on March 25 in theaters around the world. The event will feature a playback of Pearl Jam’s up... More

INOX, India’s second largest cinema chain, has extended its partnership with Dolby to provide the latest, Dolby Multichannel Amplifiers (DMA) in theatres. INOX claims that it wil... More

The annual year-end RIAA music revenues report has been released. It sees continued growth in the recorded music business, thanks to streaming, with streaming revenues totaling $8.... More

Podcasting is in a gold-rush phase. Experts say to join the industry now before it's flooded.... More

Spotify's planned acquisition of podcast startup The Ringer has renewed recent attention on podcasting, and the possibilities for publishers to extend their brands among a growing ... More

Sky is a big believer in new technologies – from 3D to 4K, they’ve been at the forefront of bringing new formats to broadcast TV, the latest being Dolby Atmos.... More

Spotify announced Wednesday that it’s purchasing The Ringer. On Spotify’s earnings call CEO Daniel Ek talked about escalating user numbers and his excitement about the recent a... More

Microsoft has dropped another weekly update for the Microsoft Edge Dev channel. This latest release adds support for Dolby Vision HDR, which should come as a nice surprise for anyo... More

Ever since the fanfare and iconic title crawl of “Star Wars” first burst onto cinema screens in 1977, the dynamic marriage of sound and vision has been the beating heart of the... More

Sony Music is further expanding its footprint in the podcast world through a global partnership with Somethin' Else, the U.K.'s biggest independent audio and podcast producer. Term... More

Inside the L.A. studio where songs have their sounds rearranged in a sphere all around the listener’s ears—even when they’re wearing regular headphones.... More

There are plenty of quality audiobooks, podcasts and music for the young, but weeding through thousands of selections and jumping from platform to platform is a challenge since aud... More

Apple has considered producing podcasts to support its slate of original TV+ shows and movies, according to Bloomberg. The company reportedly sent out a call for pitches last summe... More

Dolby Laboratories’ Dolby Institute, along with the Ray and Dagmar Dolby Family Fund, announced that the Dolby Institute Fellowship winners for this year are Nine Days, written a... More

Atmos Music is on the move on multiple fronts. Two of the big four labels, including Universal and Warner Music, have committed to mixing (and remixing) music using Atmos Music tec... More

We started the 2010s obsessed with our electronic hygiene—and ended them a nation of digital hoarders. Eleven ideas about the decade that killed iTunes.... More

Apple’s App Store growth appears to have slowed in 2019, a potentially negative sign for the company’s focus on growing its services business to offset weaker iPhone sales. But... More

Netflix continues to pull out all the stops on behalf of its bumper crop of Oscar-bait films. It has teamed with Dolby on an immersive exhibit in New York that will showcase Dolemi... More