Shazam Launches Augmented Reality Solution for Brands Worldwide

Shazam, one of the world’s most popular audio recognition apps, announced the launch of a massively scaled augmented reality (AR) platform for its brand partners, artists and hundreds of millions of global users, adding visual recognition to its popular music identification service. Beam Suntory, Inc., the world's third largest premium spirits company, has signed on as one of several launch partners.

As previewed at CES 2017, Gracenote, now a Nielsen company, announced its new generation of advanced connected metadata databases to enable new possibilities in search and discovery of digital entertainment across platforms and services. Spanning Video, Music and Sports, the all-new connected databases enable services like Apple Music, Tidal and Deezer with a whole new range of possibilities, including advanced audio personalization.

In this article audioXpress discusses a new company that certainly deserves attention from our readers. Oliver Masciarotte reviews the affordable but extremely useful MusicScope software, from a relative newcomer to the pro and consumer electronics software space, XiVero, from Germany. Oliver Masciarotte was fascinated by the amount of things he discovered and which he intends to explore further in future articles. This article was originally published in audioXpress, October 2016.

iZotope has embarked in a new quest to make its most sophisticated audio technologies available to a wider number of users, through a new generation of software tools that provide simple solutions for audio mixing and processing. Using powerful new features like Track Assistant and Masking Meter, iZotope’s Neutron is able to identify perceptual frequency collisions getting any mixing session to an optimal starting point, while allowing creative control over all mix decisions.

Nugen Audio announced the launch of version 2 of Visualizer, the company's audio analysis suite and real-time comparison toolset, now with a powerful new user interface. With version 2, Visualizer is available as a stand-alone application that works outside of the DAW/NLE environment. Visualizer version 2 is also available in a hybrid HDX version designed for power users of Pro Tools HDX systems.

With the release of its Visualizer Audio Analysis Suite, NUGEN Audio’s entire range of plug-ins now supports the latest Virtual Studio Technology (VST3) standard by Steinberg. The Visualizer Audio Analysis Suite provides robust audio analysis capabilities, with a standardized reference set of tools designed to expedite the workflow of audio professionals.