Music/Audio

 

Prince Songs to Return to Spotify, Apple Music, Other Streaming Services on Grammys Sunday (Variety)

Songs of late music legend Prince will again be available on multiple streaming-music services on Sunday, in releases timed for the 59th Grammy Awards. The Purple One’s Warner Mu... More

Can Facebook Live Make Music Videos Relevant Again? (Observer)

From a business perspective, videos have never been the most lucrative product. Merchandising, concert tickets, album sales (at one point) were the surest sources of artist income.... More

Dolby Cinema Showcases Strong Spring Lineup (MESA)

Dolby today announced 13 new titles, adding to the growing slate of movies to be shown at more than 75 Dolby Cinema locations around the globe. "The captivating imagery and mesmeri... More

Google Takes First Step to Unified Music Offering (Variety)

Google has combined the product teams for its two music subscription services, YouTube Music and Google Play Music. The combined team is working to eventually unify Google’s musi... More

Spotify Needs to Face the Music (Bloomberg)

There's a notion in Silicon Valley that tech start-ups are better off staying private as long as possible. Why should visionary founders answer to impatient public investors? Bette... More

Vevo to Postpone Subscription Launch, Focus on International Expansion (Variety)

Music video service Vevo is putting the brakes on its planned subscription service, and will instead focus on its international expansion as well as original content production in ... More

Sources: Spotify May Delay IPO to 2018 as It Rethinks Licensing Deals (TechCrunch)

Spotify — the music streaming company with over 100 million users (40 million of them paying) — has long been seen as one of the more likely candidates among larger tech startu... More

Sky to Bring Voice Control, Dolby Atmos Support to Sky Q (The Independent)

Voice control functionality will arrive shortly after Sky Q launches in Italy, according to an “innovation pipeline” for 2017 infographic presented to investors and spotted by ... More

In the Digital Deluge, What Distinguishes One Music Streaming Service from the Other? (Los Angeles Times)

Streaming music on audio and video platforms now represents 38% of total audio consumption, according to Nielsen Music. That’s a jump from 23% in 2014. Eventually the big players... More

BT Sport to Air Liverpool vs. Chelsea Clash in Dolby Atmos (Broadcast)

BT Sport will embed a Dolby Atmos audio feed in its live Ultra HD football coverage for the first time next week when it covers Liverpool versus Chelsea in the Premier League. The ... More

Dolby Touts Vision Adoption (B&C)

A year ago this time, Dolby’s proprietary high-dynamic range (HDR) technology, Dolby Vision, was being used by one TV manufacturer. After the Consumer Electronics Show, that numb... More

Sony Eyes This African Country to Grow Music Streaming Business (Fortune)

Sony Music Entertainment sees big growth prospects for music streaming in Nigeria, thanks to falling Internet data costs and a large, growing population, a senior executive told Re... More

Three Reasons Every Company Needs an Audio Strategy (AdAge)

The ease and availability of text, image, and video platforms have allowed humans to "connect" at scale. Think of the reach of Facebook and WhatsApp. But with today's headphone gen... More

Dolby Atmos Transforms the 2017 Sundance Film Festival (MESA)

Sundance Institute and the Dolby Institute, along with the Ray and Dagmar Dolby Family Fund, announced that Mudbound, cowritten, directed, and executive produced by Dee Rees, has b... More

Music Streaming is Hot, But it Can’t Skip a Beat (Bloomberg Gadfly)

Long a symbol of internet-era value destruction, the music industry has scratched and clawed its way to an impressive milestone: an estimated 100 million people now have streaming ... More

An Ode to the Digital Download, and its Impending Death (Noisey)

As we come to eulogise the humble MP3, we should never forget what a giant killer it was. It completely did away with old ideas of music production and distribution, turning it int... More

Dolby Atmos on Windows 10 Will Finally Bring Surround Sound to the Masses (The Next Web)

Computers have improved in almost every respect imaginable over the years, yet the way most of us listen to audio – a pair of cheap headphones or speakers – has remained woeful... More

All Three Major Labels, Pandora, RIAA Announce Support for Hi-Res Audio Streaming (Billboard)

A large swath of the music business, including all three major labels (Universal Music Group, Sony Music and the Warner Music Group), the Recording Industry Association of America ... More

My Eye Media is Dolby Vision Certified (MESA)

My Eye Media has announced their Certification in Dolby Vision® Quality Control Services continuing its expansion into high dynamic range (HDR) with wider color gamut testing and ... More

CES 2017: iHeartRadio Looks to Win Over Radio Devotees With Official Launch of Streaming Services (Billboard)

Broadcast radio giant iHeartMedia has wrapped a month-long beta phase for its pair of subscription services, iHeartRadio Plus and iHeartRadio All Access, announcing today at CES th... More

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