Music/Audio

Late last year, a team of Sony researchers based in Paris released a pair of new pop songs. One, called "Daddy's Car," straightforwardly echoed the soft '60s psychedelia of The Bea... More

With few exceptions, smartphones have never really been seen as serious audio equipment because of compromises that must be made for the sake of portability, size, and price. Latel... More

With the proliferation of music streaming apps, mobile and audio are inextricably linked — and over 60 percent of music streamers are now listening on mobile, according to resear... More

BT Sport has announced plans to show exclusive live coverage of Manchester City v AS Monaco in Dolby Atmos sound. It’s the first time the format has been used in either UEFA Cham... More

2017 may end up being the year that high-res audio streaming goes mainstream. Music technology company MQA and Universal Music Group (UMG) announced today that the companies have e... More

The biggest losers in all of this seem to be Apple Music and Tidal. Spotify has managed to grow while remaining largely out of the exclusives business, although reports are circula... More

From Spotify to Deezer to Apple Music to Pandora, streaming services continue to disrupt our musical landscape. The streams of data they generate, however, will have the biggest im... More

Facebook’s interest in music rights is inextricably linked to its growing interest in video. Having siphoned ads away from print, online companies have recently targeted TV, whic... More

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

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 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 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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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 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