New Apple royalties favor Majors at the expense of independent artists, say indie labels
indendent labels and artists are upset by what they say is the unfair advantage that Apple Music gave major record labels with its recent 10% increase in royalty payments for. Continue reading
Apple eyes paying extra for music in a format Spotify doesn’t offer
Apple Music may soon pay all artists that release music in the Dolby Atmos spatial audio format a higher royalty rate than regular stereo mixes. “Listeners wouldn’t necessarily have to. Continue reading
A Guide to Spatial Audio and Where It’s Heading
“Spatial and immersive audio is the present and future of music, and we’ve only scratched the surface of its potential,” writes Ross Lara, the founder of independent music production company Archipelago. Continue reading
DistroKid adds d.i.y. Dolby Atmos distribution to Apple Music, TIDAL
DistroKid has added DIY distribution of Dolby Atmos spatial audio tracks to Apple Music and TIDAL. While Tunecore has said its working on the addition of spatial audio delivery, today’s. Continue reading
Apple adds major Dolby Spatial Audio announcement to today’s WWDC event
Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) launches today along with a major Dolby Spatial Audio announcement. Apple announced the no-cost addition of Spatial Audio and lossless playback to Apple Music last. Continue reading
Music streamers just knowingly killed a simple way to pay artists more money
Yesterday Apple Music and 30 minutes later Amazon Music announced they would not charge extra for hi-res lossless and 3D Spatial audio streaming. It seems likely that Spotify will follow. Continue reading
