Deezer Announces SongCatcher Audio Recognition Feature
Music streaming service Deezer has announced its own song recognition feature SongCatcher, offering an integrated choice for users who want to find out the names of particular songs or artists when listening to music. A similar feature as offered by popular apps Shazam (recently acquired by Apple), and SoundHound, Deezer sees an advantage on implementing the recognition functionality directly in its player.
Apple Launches New iMac Pro for Professional Applications
As promised - and long overdue - Apple released its new iMac Pro, an entirely new product line designed for pro users, combining the all-in-one familiar design of the iMac with workstation-class performance and upgradability. With the latest Xeon processors with up to 18 cores, which Intel announced only in Mar 2017, the new computers provide up to 22 Teraflops of graphics performance, and support up to 128GB of DDR4 RAM.
Music Reports’ Claiming System Marks a Million Tracks Claimed as Publisher Engagement Accelerates
Music Reports, the rights administration platform, has reached a new milestone with its Songdex Claiming System, which has now surpassed one million tracks claimed by music publishers. Songdex is the largest database of music rights and related business information in the world, containing detailed, relational data on tens of millions of songs, recordings, and their owners, covering virtually all of the commercially significant music in existence.
Media Networking Alliance (MNA) and Alliance for IP Media Solutions (AIMS) Announce Merger
The Alliance for IP Media Solutions (AIMS) announced that it is merging with the Media Networking Alliance (MNA) to form a single trade association for promoting IP in the media and entertainment industry. The merger comes after a two-year history of collaboration, and it will enable the organizations to have an even greater impact on the industries they serve. The new joint organization will retain the AIMS name and will be governed by the existing AIMS bylaws.
RME presents ADI-2 DAC 2-Channel DA Converter for Studio and Audio Enthusiasts
German manufacturer RME Audio announced its new ADI-2 DAC, a two-channel high-end digital/analog converter in a 9.5”/1HE housing, featuring outstanding audio quality and a wide range of conversion options. The new ADI-2 DAC is a further development of the renowned ADI-2 Pro AD/DA reference converter, and it is targeted at both studio professionals and audiophiles. Story updated with price info and availability information.
Audio Precision Enables A2B Multichannel Audio Test
Audio Precision announced support for multichannel audio performance testing of A2B systems and components in collaboration with Mentor, a Siemens business. The new software release for APx500 audio analyzers, supports connectivity with Mentor’s A2B Analyzer to deliver closed-loop, multichannel A2B audio testing. Following a technology demonstration at the AES 2017 International Conference on Automotive Audio in San Francisco, the solution is now available.
100 000th Symbol Landmark for Stardraw Design 7 Library
Stardraw.com, the developer of the popular AV system design and documentation software, announced that a significant milestone has been reached for their unique symbols library: over 100,000 symbols of 34,586 products from 838 manufacturers currently comprise what is the largest, high-quality line-art library available to the professional AV industry from a single source.
New Juniper Research Report Forecasts Smart Audio Hardware Revenues to Grow by Over 300% in the Next 5 Years
A new report by Juniper Research predicts that revenues from smart audio devices like the Amazon Echo and Sonos One will grow from an estimated $2.5 billion in 2017 to over $10 billion by 2022, as more audio brands integrate voice assistants into their devices. With competition heating up in the smart speaker space, the new research, "Smart Audio Devices: Strategies & Forecasts 2017-2022", looks at Amazon’s main challengers.
MIPI Alliance Opens Access to MIPI I3C Sensor Interface Specification
The MIPI Alliance, an international organization that develops interface specifications for mobile and mobile-influenced industries, announced it is opening access to its sensor interface specification, MIPI I3C. All companies, including those not currently members of MIPI Alliance, may access the MIPI I3C v1.0 specification so they may evaluate the incorporation of the specification into their design applications.
Audinate Releases Dante IP Core for Xilinx FPGAs
Audinate, the developer of Dante media networking technology, has announced the availability of Dante IP Core, a soft IP solution for audio manufacturers. It allows OEMs working with FPGA-based designs to add Dante audio connectivity to AV products at a lower cost and with greater flexibility than ever before. A single FPGA may now host both product software and Dante audio networking.