Music/Audio

Spotify’s $340 million play for podcasts is not just an attempt to dominate every facet of your audio experience—though Spotify would certainly like that, too. Following its re... More

Smart speakers can do many things, but consumers mainly want them to stream music. Of all the many uses of smart speakers, listening to streaming music services is at the top of th... More

The number of podcast listeners has increased sharply this year, according to a new report. More than half the people in the United States have listened to one, and nearly one out ... More

Spotify, Pandora, Google and Amazon are fighting back against royalty increases that could be as high as 44 percent. The four companies -- each with its own streaming service -- ha... More

ReDigi is now before the U.S. Supreme Court in a legal battle over the reselling of digitized copyrighted works. The company, which attempted to launch an online marketplace for se... More

It's not hard to see why directors love the audio part of Dolby's offering. Atmos offers much more positional control than ever before possible in cinema. One of the most striking ... More

The industry generates a lot of enthusiasm and little revenue, but that could be changing.... More

Hot on the heels of the opening of the first Dolby Cinema in the UK at the Odeon Leicester Square at the end of last year, a second will be arriving in the spring. Aptly, it will b... More

Dolby’s audio-video technologies featured in eight Oscar winning films this year, but perhaps the two standout experiences on Dolby Atmos’ immersive audio system are Roma – w... More

A new feature has rolled out to Xbox Insiders in the Alpha Insider ring this week that brings Dolby Atmos upmixing to all Microsoft's Xbox One consoles. Designed by Dolby, the upmi... More

The Bohemian Rhapsody sound teams used Dolby Atmos in their sound design. Dolby Vision was utilized by Best Cinematography winner Alfonso Cuarón for Roma, which also won Best Fore... More

Video: Alfonso Cuarón discusses how Technicolor was more than a service house but a true artistic collaborator. “They understood immediately the language that we were after – ... More

On Oscar Sunday, Dolby will be present once again inside the Dolby Theatre. As it turns out, the company's film and sound technology, coupled with excellent work, could result in s... More

More than 13% of internet users surveyed across Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, India, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States had access to a smart speaker in their ho... More

Panasonic has revealed what it calls its "most cinematic and musically refined soundbars ever," the SC-HTB900, SC-HTB700, and SC-HTB510, at its annual launch event in Frankfurt, Ge... More

Spotify's purchases of Anchor and Gimlet Media hint at the battleground podcasting is becoming. Advertisers are desperate to get their product in front of those ears, and so have b... More

Demonstrating how cloud dubbing can work at its finest, creative director Raúl Aldana took the wheel on an exciting localization project between ZOO Digital and Lionsgate – mana... More

Spotify acquired podcasting companies Gimlet Media and Anchor FM, a declaration that their specialty is the next big area of growth for the world’s largest paid music service. Th... More

High-fidelity music streaming service Tidal now lets subscribers pay using their Venmo balance. It's the latest in a slew of partnerships for the PayPal-owned payments app, followi... More

Smart speakers had a good holiday. Amazon already said its Echo Dot outsold all other items on its site this holiday season, which hinted toward the sizable growth for the voice-po... More