NUGEN Audio Introduces MasterCheck Pro Codec and Loudness Auditioning Plug-in for the Streaming Age

NUGEN Audio announced the launch of MasterCheck Pro, a new loudness, dynamics, and codec toolset for music professionals. MasterCheck Pro enables producers to hear and visualize the playout encoding and loudness matching techniques now in use by music streaming service providers such as Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, and Digital Radio. The new plug-in follows the recent introduction of the ISL 2 true-peak limiter, offering the essential true-peak compliance producers need to prepare audio for streaming services.

Starting December 15, 2015, Apple and Sonos will be making Apple Music streaming available for the popular whole-home audio solution as a Public Beta. This will be an early preview of the service, and an opportunity for Sonos’ users to try listening to Apple Music on Sonos in their homes. It makes sense, since Sonos also offers its new Trueplay acoustic calibration tool using the Sonos app on any iPhone or iPad.

North America’s premier headphone audio event is coming to the UK for the first time this summer. CanJam London 2015, the first of Head-Fi’s official CanJam events to be held in Europe, will take place on Saturday 29th and Sunday 30th August 2015, bringing together the world’s best names in high-quality headphone design.

I promised to come back to Apple’s announcement of Beats1 Worldwide Radio as part of its Apple Music service. From one perspective, it is a great promotional idea—not much different from those great video ads Apple puts out. It will certainly stimulate awareness for traditional radio and Apple can afford to spend the money. So, no harm done. But that’s it.

SoundHound, a pioneering company in sound recognition and search technologies, updated its music app, SoundHound, to include integration with Apple Music and Beats1 Radio. SoundHound has more than 265 million global users and the new features will go live in over 100 countries where Apple Music launched.

"Bring your own music or we’ll have to play Norah Jones”: That’s exactly how I felt this week while watching that “one more thing” moment during Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2015 keynote presentation in San Francisco, CA, probably one of the most anxiously awaited moments for the music industry and certainly for every audio enthusiast.