The Vienna Philharmonic and IDAGIO have launched a new media partnership in Vienna. IDAGIO will exclusively offer up to six selected subscription concerts per season for audio streaming. Additionally, members of the Vienna Philharmonic will recommend recordings and curate exclusive playlists.
Tracklib has struck a deal with the estate of soul legend Isaac Hayes to offer a select group of 20 unreleased songs on the site’s catalog. These tracks have never been released publicly, and, thus, represent a landmark catalog acquisition for Tracklib and a new way of mining the vaults for the Isaac Hayes estate.…
Los Angeles’ new annual music technology conference, Music Tectonics, is launching a set of thought-provoking “Seismic Shifts” trading cards. Each unique card includes an original illustration and colorful design alongside a transformative theme and short explanation.
Remote collaboration on audio projects is not where it should be, especially when working with video. Asynchronous back-and-forth communication can kill creativity in the studio. Laggy feeds over compressed streams, and delays distract users and ruin sessions. Soundwhale solves these issues, making synchronous collaboration, communication, and recording a reality.
If you produce in the hip hop space you probably have used a loop or at the bare minimum know what they are. There are plenty of ways in which a producer can come across a loop.
Instead of fostering and clearing new paths for musical expression, the Internet has in many ways had the opposite effect. But there's plenty of potential, as two bright minds from MIT explain.
Following Rolling Stone’s previous investigation, several radio-industry veterans reached out to report that over the past year, the number of indie promoters demanding pay-for-play is growing.
Apple wants to launch a new model of paying for music, and major labels are 'wary' of the implications.
As much as radio is derided for its late adoption of discovering new artists in the streaming era, the medium has proved it can still break acts.
Spotify has been facing some questions about what's happening with the 'global cultures initiative' that it announced in September 2018, promising that it "promotes and advances culturally diverse music, surfacing hits from different countries around the world and spotlighting popular songs that cross cultures".
In this guest column, Common and SoundExchange chief Michael Huppe argue that it's time for radio to start paying performance royalties.
Facebook has started live-streaming its internal Q&A sessions moderated by Mark Zuckerberg. Could this tactic work for broadcast radio?
While projected paid subscriber growth for Spotify did not meet some analyst expectations, markers for success revealed themselves in other forms and may continue to surprise throughout the balance of the fiscal year and into 2020.
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