Spotify announced in March the acquisition of The Echo Nest, the industry’s leading music intelligence company. The deal signals the rising importance of big data…
On March 25th, 2014 Facebook made news again. Following the nineteen billion dollar purchase of high tech startup WhatsApp in February, Chairman and CEO Mark…
The renowned MIT Media Lab breaks boundaries and disciplines across a variety of unconventional research projects, actively promoting a unique and multidisciplinary culture at the…
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Microsoft’s new “Xbox Music” service is the company’s latest dive into a burgeoning market for music streaming and a lifestyle approach towards media consumption. The…
Still Crazy After All These Years Marc Senasac is Senior Music Engineer at Sony Computer Entertainment. He has worked on Disney productions, engineered the critically…
With all the recent activity in the digital music world, it is no surprise that investors have been attracted to the concept of cloud-based services.…
The iPod, iPhone, and iPad seem to have taken over the music market. Apple, in effect, rules like an empire over it all. Yet there…
In November 2010, Damon Albarn, the musician behind the hit animated UK band th.
With the music industry in a frenzy to coax users back to a paid-based model for media, cloud based subscription services and mobile …
On October 26th 2010, the rogue P2P service LimeWire was shutdown. Thirteen separate record companies – all represented by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) – sued for mass copyright infringement.
Video is the fastest growing segment on the Internet and a quick glance at the top ranked videos on YouTube will reveal music videos occupying almost all of the top slots.
In October of 2010, Avid (formerly Digidesign) announced Pro Tools HD Native. The latest in a recent string of product rollouts, Pro Tools HD Native…