Music/Audio

 

New SAP Podcast Aims to Give ‘Emerging Leaders’ in Business Some Savvy Advice (Fortune)

New podcasts debut seemingly every day, but most seem to focus on true crime stories or analyzing the latest tech news. Jennifer Morgan, a president at business software company SA... More

Will the iPod Return in 2019? (TechCrunch)

2019 could mark a sort of return for the final iteration of the beloved music device — which, toward the end more closely resembled a cellular-free iPhone than any of its predece... More

Dolby Institute Empowers Indie Filmmaking at Sundance Film Festival with New Fellowships Awarded to Two Films (MESA)

The Dolby Institute and Sundance Institute, along with the Ray and Dagmar Dolby Family Fund, today announced that Honey Boy and The Sound of Silence have both received the Dolby Fa... More

Philips Latest OLEDs Combine Dolby Vision, Atmos, HDR10+ Smarts (Tech Radar)

The company has given us a sneak peek at its latest OLED range, revealing the OLED 804 and OLED 854 displays. The 4K screens will be offering not just the full range of Dolby TV te... More

Verizon Bundles Apple Music with Top-Tier Unlimited Wireless Plans for No Extra Charge (Variety)

Verizon has expanded its ties to Apple — offering wireless subscribers on its two most expensive unlimited plans access to the Apple Music for no extra charge. Starting Jan. 17, ... More

DEG Honors Dolby, Sony, Warner at Annual CES Awards Event (Twice)

DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group presented its annual Achievement Awards this week at CES 2019, honoring the best in 4K UHD hardware and software products released during calen... More

CES 2019: A Look Inside Dolby Vision, Atmos at CES (Engadget)

Engadget took a quick trip to the company's CES booth to see how it's grown in the last year and where it might be going. Innovative uses of its HDR technology in Alfonso Cuaron's ... More

Sales of Physical Music Media in UK Slump as Consumers Move to Streaming Services (Forbes)

Sales of CDs in the UK in 2018 amounted to 32 million units, that’s some 100 million fewer discs that were selling just 10 years ago in 2008, and a drop of 9.6 million year-on-ye... More

Adobe Pro Video Apps Now Support ProRes Export on Windows (MESA)

Today, Adobe announced that Creative Cloud video tools will now support the creation of Apple ProRes files on the Windows platform, making the export process faster and easier than... More

Leveling the Broadcast-Digital Playing Field with Attribution (Veritone Blog)

If you’ve worked in the radio industry, you know that radio is a fantastic direct-response medium, a fantastic branding medium, and a fantastic medium for reaching consumers out-... More

Europe Puts International Stream Rippers, MP3 Pirates on Notice with Inaugural ‘Watch List’ (Billboard)

Think stream ripping and MP3 pirates are a dying breed now with the rise of legal streaming? Not so fast, as the European Commission today publishes its inaugural list of non-EU we... More

Dolby Cinemas Uses Cutting Edge Technology to Deliver the Best Cinema Experience in UAE (Tech Radar)

There are a lot of ways to watch a movie in Dubai. From IMAX and 4DX experiences to fine dining meals served in premium seats, local cinemas have gone above and beyond to get peopl... More

Avid Pro Tools Now Includes UVI Falcon, Delivering Creative Hybrid Instrument, High Quality Sound (MESA)

Avid today announced an alliance with software instrument developer UVI to deliver powerful virtual instruments and an exclusive sound library to all Pro Tools users. UVI’s accla... More

Apple Partnering with Amazon to Let You Control Apple Music with Alexa (CNBC)

Apple Music is coming to Amazon's Alexa-enabled Echo devices, Amazon said Friday, in a rare move to broaden Apple's streaming music ecosystem. It's an unusual move from Apple to al... More

To Avoid the Fate of Music Streaming, Podcasts Need to Validate Their Audiences (Adweek)

By 2009, the digitization and personalization of the music space had brought tremendous benefits to listeners. Almost everyone you knew was listening—and if they weren’t, their... More

Is the Era of Voice Texting Upon Us? (The Ringer)

The most controversial mode of 2018 communication is … a short voice message meant to replace a text. If you are currently having a strong, visceral reaction to the concept, you ... More

Spotify: Mexico City is ‘Streaming Music Capital’ (Billboard)

Spotify has named Mexico City the “streaming music capital.” The Mexican metropolis, according to information from the streaming service, has more Spotify listeners than New Yo... More

Spotify, Pandora Turn to Podcasts for Listeners, Profits (WSJ)

Spotify and Pandora are looking to expand beyond music streaming and into the world of podcasting, as they aim to capture more of consumers’ listening time and, eventually, boost... More

‘A Star Is Born’: Dolby Atmos Became Bradley Cooper’s Secret Weapon (IndieWire)

While deep into the standard 7.1 sound mix for “A Star Is Born,” Bradley Cooper was approached about doing a Dolby Atmos mix as well. But he was skeptical. After all, this wasn... More

Spotify Rolling Out its Official Apple Watch App (Fortune)

Spotify is delivering on its promise to release a music-streaming app for the Apple Watch after testing a beta version of the app earlier this month. With the new app, Spotify user... More

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