Music/Audio

YouTube is heading back to the desert: The video giant will exclusively live-stream the first weekend of Coachella 2017 for the seventh year in a row. On YouTube, viewers will be a... More

Spotify has finalized a new, multi-year global license agreement with Universal Music Group that, as expected, gives UMG artists access to a "flexible release policy" -- namely, th... More

Streaming music services were for the first time ever responsible for more than 50% of all U.S. music industry revenue in 2016, according to new numbers released by the Recording I... More

SDI Media has announced the opening of its new custom built Dolby Atmos theatrical mixing suite in Rome, Italy, integrating the best audio experience in cinematographic listening. ... More

When Disney screens Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales on Tuesday at CinemaCon, theater owners will be treated to Dolby Vision high dynamic range imagery and Dolby At... More

Dolby today announced a full spectrum of integrated solutions that will save exhibitors of all sizes both time and money while delivering audiences an experience they can trust fro... More

The podcast's blessing may also be its curse: it wasn’t invented to be profitable. A popular early term for podcasting was “audioblogging,” which alludes to its DIY origins. ... More

Spotify is to make some music available only to paying customers in a major change to its service. Until now, all music on the service has been available to both free and paid user... More

While music revenue is climbing for the first time in nearly two decades thanks to paid streaming services, artists still feel slighted. Songwriters are trying to extract extra mon... More

Online music service Pandora has finally revealed launch details for its much-anticipated on-demand music streaming service. Pandora Premium will cost $9.99 per month, and invites ... More

Disney has launched an interactive ad campaign on Spotify around the upcoming release of the Beauty and The Beast live-action remake. Users of Spotify’s free tier will see vid... More

As the virtual ­reality market and the music ­industry increasingly cross paths, an immersive live-music experience no longer requires setting foot in a crowded venue. Hordes... More

For songwriters, the subject of artificial intelligence is an especially fraught one: Will technology that learns by watching and listening to us enhance human creativity or replac... More

Western Digital announced that the HGST Active Archive System is enabling the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) to archive more than 17,000 hours’ worth of live ... More

A music archive regarded as one of the most important collections from the golden age of rock is at the centre of a legal dispute in which Keith Richards and Pete Townshend could b... More

Spotify has surpassed 50 million subscribers, extending its lead over rivals Apple Music, SoundCloud and Google as the world’s largest paid music streaming service. The service, ... More

Spotify is preparing to launch a lossless audio version of its streaming service, according to multiple sources. The offering, which is currently called Spotify Hi-Fi, will offer l... More

Conventional wisdom holds that the internet is the land of the free: free music, free news, free podcasts and apps. But we may finally be entering an age when internet users are wi... More

Audio hardware had a “record-breaking” 2016 and continues to outpace the overall CE industry, according to market research firm Futuresource Consulting. Global Q4 sales grew 28... More

Dolby is providing far more than the venue for Hollywood's biggest night. The San Francisco company has its fingerprints all over the technology used to make and show some of the y... More