All items tagged with streaming services (168)
Mixcloud Taps Gracenote for Advanced Music Recognition to Improve Royalty Payment Process for Rights Holders
December 21, 2017 by audioXpress Staff

Mixcloud Taps Gracenote for Advanced Music Recognition to Improve Royalty Payment Process for Rights Holders

Gracenote, a Nielsen company, announced that it will power advanced music recognition for Mixcloud streaming platform, using next-generation audio fingerprinting to help identify and catalog copyrighted music within user-generated content. Using Gracenote's MusicID music recognition technology, Mixcloud will more accurately identify copyrighted audio content on its music platform to ensure proper royalty payments to rights holders.
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Deezer Announces SongCatcher Audio Recognition Feature
December 15, 2017 by audioXpress Staff

Deezer Announces SongCatcher Audio Recognition Feature

Music streaming service Deezer has announced its own song recognition feature SongCatcher, offering an integrated choice for users who want to find out the names of particular songs or artists when listening to music. A similar feature as offered by popular apps Shazam (recently acquired by Apple), and SoundHound, Deezer sees an advantage on implementing the recognition functionality directly in its player.
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Tidal Implements Album Loudness Normalization and Activates It by Default for Mobile Players
November 27, 2017 by audioXpress Staff

Tidal Implements Album Loudness Normalization and Activates It by Default for Mobile Players

Always looking to differentiate its music streaming service with higher quality experiences, Tidal has now adopted the loudness recommendations of Eelco Grimm, HKU University of the Arts Utrecht and Grimm Audio. In Tidal’s recent update of their iOS and Android apps, loudness normalization is now turned ON by default. With this move, Tidal follows the trend towards automatic loudness normalization that was initiated by Spotify and Youtube.
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Change and Opportunities in the Audio Landscape
November 10, 2017 by Joao Martins

Change and Opportunities in the Audio Landscape

On November 9, 2017, I attended the Futuresource Audio Collaborative 2017 conference, at the Ham Yard Hotel in London. With the topic "A Change is Gonna Come," the conference was a valuable and insightful event. To entice our readers to actually spend the hours listening to those interventions (and for those that don't have the time to do it), I will share some of the key highlights, adding some personal takes on the topics addressed.
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DTS Expands Amazon Music Support via DTS Play-Fi Wireless Audio
October 26, 2017 by audioXpress Staff

DTS Expands Amazon Music Support via DTS Play-Fi Wireless Audio

There is a price to pay for audio manufacturers that want to support Alexa, Amazon's voice engine. And that is that you will be also sending your users directly to Amazon's services, including Amazon Music mp3-based streaming service. In return, when a leading company such as DTS embraces this for its Play-Fi ecosystem, it also gains a better music search functionality using voice, with Amazon Music users being able to search by station, playlist, album and song on their DTS Play-Fi devices.
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Sonos Unveils Sonos One Smart Speaker with Support for Multiple Voice Services
October 5, 2017 by audioXpress Staff

Sonos Unveils Sonos One Smart Speaker with Support for Multiple Voice Services

Sonos unveiled Sonos One, an all-new, voice-controlled smart speaker capable of supporting multiple voice services and audio content from more than 80 streaming services. Sonos One launches with Amazon Alexa support, and Google Assistant to follow in 2018. The Sonos One is priced at $199 USD and will be available globally on Oct. 24. The company also confirmed that additional free software updates will unlock Alexa voice control for current Sonos owners, as well as Apple AirPlay 2 and Siri support.
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Amazon Music Adds Alexa Interaction to its MP3 Music Streaming Service
September 26, 2017 by audioXpress Staff

Amazon Music Adds Alexa Interaction to its MP3 Music Streaming Service

Claiming to be the "best of both worlds,", Amazon just announced that its Amazon Music service - that regrettably is still based on the officially discontinued highly compressed MP3 codec - is now integrated with the company's voice personal assistant, accessible directly from an updated app for iOS and Android. The service is available only in the US, UK, Germany and Austria, where Alexa is available (English and German) and allows Amazon Music users to shout for music wherever they go.
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MQA Streaming Expands Globally with Deezer New HiFi Service
September 4, 2017 by audioXpress Staff

MQA Streaming Expands Globally with Deezer New HiFi Service

Following major partnership unveilings at the IFA 2017 technology show in Berlin, MQA announced a key new agreement with global music streaming platform Deezer, which will significantly expand MQA’s music offering and audience reach. With the MQA content catalog expanding daily, including many unique restoration works from analogue masters directly to digital hi-res, it is increasingly attractive for music streaming services to support the technology.
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Monster and Speak Music Debut “MonsterTalk” Family of Voice-Controlled Headphones
August 21, 2017 by audioXpress Staff

Monster and Speak Music Debut “MonsterTalk” Family of Voice-Controlled Headphones

Monster Products and Speak Music, the voice and AI driven personal music platform, announced the launch of the “MonsterTalk” Family of voice-powered premium headphones. While other headphone manufacturers have implemented voice-assistants that "talk" to users, Monster implemented a fully-featured voice recognition interface, allowing users to literally tell their headphones what music to play, ask for a particular song, artist, genre or playlist.
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Cotodama Lyric Speaker is World's First Lyric Visualizing Speaker
June 8, 2017 by audioXpress Staff

Cotodama Lyric Speaker is World's First Lyric Visualizing Speaker

There's always a way to differentiate a new product if you really think about it and know how to leverage available technology. Japanese company Cotodama did exactly that with its Lyric Speaker, which automatically visualizes lyrics in a beautiful way. When the user chooses a song on its mobile phone, the lyrics show up on the translucent screen. This speaker has won SXSW's Best Bootstrap Company in 2015 and is now available.
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