Music/Audio

Facebook might be hosting upwards of 8 billion views per day on its platform, but a wide majority of that viewership is happening in silence. As much as 85 percent of video views h... More

Virtual-reality surround sound -- also known as 3D audio, binaural, 5.1 or whatever you want to call it -- never caught on for music. Surround sound that goes hand-in-hand with vid... More

Dolby Laboratories announced today the permanent installation of Dolby Atmos® at Cinéma L’Olympia which is used as part of Cannes’ annual Marché du Film. The theater’s new... More

The music industry is extending its Hi-Res Music logo from downloaded songs to streamed songs to help consumers identify high-resolution recordings that meet the high-res music def... More

The deluge of unauthorized Prince videos on YouTube highlights arguments over the legal framework that allowed YouTube to grow so rapidly in the first place, amassing more than 1 b... More

Spotify will unveil plans for its first slate of original shows Monday, a year after adding clips from the BBC and Comedy Central. Episodes of every program, which range from a few... More

Warner Music Group became the first major music label to announce plans to support the release of downloadable songs in the high-resolution MQA (Master Quality Authenticated) forma... More

Sound sounds better when it's coming from more directions. Okay, that may not be entirely how audio works, but I never claimed to be an expert in the area. I can say this. When an ... More

Another milestone in the music industry’s shift to streaming: Revenue from the streaming business has become Warner Music Group’s biggest business. The company announced that m... More

Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre has been host to the Academy Awards for a decade now, but it’s a new theater just over the hill in Los Angeles that has the TV community and Dolby exc... More

Dolby Laboratories announced a deal Wednesday that could boost its little-known telephone conferencing service, Dolby Voice, which uses the company’s audio expertise to greatly e... More

The surge in piracy of Prince’s work following his death isn’t surprising. It’s worth noting that sales of his albums shot to the top of iTunes, Amazon and other services the... More

Music-streaming service Spotify AB on Wednesday said it has acquired CrowdAlbum, a U.S. startup that aggregates photos and videos from artists’ performances shared on social medi... More

TV viewers are fond of streaming, and streamers like to watch TV. Ergo, the offering of broadcast programs can bolster the success of a streaming service. The percent of TV viewers... More

Musically speaking, there wasn’t a huge amount of overlap between David Bowie and Prince, the major pop icons who died this year. Still, there were some important similarities. M... More

Once upon a time record-industry executives could all but weigh their profits on scales. Each pallet of compact discs they sold translated into predictable quantities of cash for t... More

Initially, YouTube is starting small: making a play to create exclusive video from emerging artists via an existing training initiative called Foundry. According to Bloomberg, rece... More

Netflix reached a wide-ranging three-year deal with advocacy groups for the blind, under which it has pledged to add audio-description tracks for many titles in its streaming and D... More

Sony DADC New Media Solutions’ (NMS) 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Disc authoring tools have already been used for more than 45 discs released or in production, including several of the fi... More

Dolby, the developer of the AC-4 standard, today announced a collaboration with Samsung Electronics to adopt Dolby® AC-4 in select television models that are scheduled to begin sh... More