Music/Audio

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

High-level rumors are now beginning to bubble, however, that Google is very interested in snapping up the Berlin-based company – which boasts more than 175m users around the worl... More

Our tea-leaf readers say 2017 is going to be a big year for the digital music guys. Spotify’s long awaited IPO is expected to pop as long as founder Daniel Ek can get Universal M... More

Musicians will squirm as AI gets better at making music- Have you ever seen a computer write a song? It’s nuts. Give IBM’s Watson a simple melody and define a mood, and the mul... More

Five years ago, the demise of the music industry seemed almost inevitable. Recession, rampant piracy, falling CD sales and a fear that “kids just don’t buy music any more” ha... More

As Facebook continues to grapple with its role in proliferating "fake news" amidst the heated U.S. election this year, it has another showdown looming on the horizon -- this one wi... More

As the music marketplace has transitioned to streaming, the industry is seeing a rise in services that enable “stream-ripping,” which essentially copy and download music from a... More

IA: We realized there was going to be a demand for stereo surround as far back as 1975 while using the QS matrix on Tommy, but none of the theatres had been wired up with multiple ... More

Demand for soundbars, streaming services and wireless speakers (particularly the kind you can talk to), helped the home audio category outpace the broader CE market this year, Futu... More

As is the case whenever a superstar musician passes away, the music of George Michael and his band Wham! have suddenly experienced enormous surges in popularity wherever they are i... More

One of the biggest problems the music industry faces today is knowing which labels and publishers, performers, songwriters and producers own the rights to songs and recordings, and... More

Streaming changes the incentives for listeners. Paying for individual songs as downloads tore apart the album; getting a song legally for 99 cents was a commitment, one that limite... More

If 2016 was the year of the ‘value gap’ debate around YouTube and music licensing, could 2017 see music rightsholders shift some of their pressure on to Facebook? According to ... More