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