Episode #89 – Year End Recap and 2016 Predictions

Year end recap and 2016 predictions. Recap: - CRB (Copyright Ruling Board) Ruling - Apple Music and YouTube Red - Pandora buys TicketFly, and streaming assets of Rdio. - Amazon Prime Music - Facebook goes hard into video - Blurred Lines lawauit - Jay-Z buys Tidal - Vinyl up to 9% music industry income - Producers and engineers may get paid on streaming - Billboard creates chart for lyrics - Adele passes 5 million albums sold in US already. - 101mixingtricks.com - Guitar Center may be in danger of closing - Pro Tools Subscription Plan - Music Row in Nashville closing - New music technology AVB - MQA - Master Quality Authenticated - USB-C Connector coming out - 3D audio standard - LiFi connection via light pulses - Foam 3D batteries - Moog music gave employees 50% of company - Abbey Road Studios tech incubator Trends: - Streaming getting bigger - Pandora to become more important - Facebook becoming more difficult for promotion, Internet marketing becoming more expensive - Websites looking sleeker,  more Wordpress-centric - Analog is dying - Controllers becoming more popular - Plug-in overload - Tablet for audio less visible - Sound reinforcement becoming  increasingly digital and smaller - Headphone surround for virtual reality