Gear And Software Archives - Digital Music News

Guitar Center Faces Imminent Bankruptcy After 59 Years In Business

April 17, 2018

Guitar Center on Pico Blvd. in Los Angeles (photo: Cbl62 CC 3.0) As guitar sales plummet, some of the biggest guitar brands and retailers are facing bankruptcy. The latest is Guitar Center, which narrowly av... Read More...

Guitar Makers are Getting Slammed by Stepped-Up Regulations on Rosewood

Marsha Silva

April 15, 2018

Back of a guitar body made with Rosewood (photo: Jud McCranie CC 3.0) The extreme scarcity of rosewood is affecting the guitar industry — and well as other instrument manufacturers. Can we live without it? ... Read More...

Ultimate Ears: Continuing To Refine And Improve Their Offerings

Noah Itman

April 11, 2018

Here are the new UE Pro CIEM's. Being used by a pro, probably. I recently had the opportunity to hop on a call with the team behind Ultimate Ears’s Pro line and get filled in on what they have been working ... Read More...

No, an IPO Won’t Save Sonos From Extinction

Daniel Sanchez

April 6, 2018

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Can three little letters turn things around at Sonos? Of course not. Last year, I touched upon a developing story. With the company laying off ‘an unspecified number’ of employees, its CEO abruptly stepp... Read More...

Alexa ‘Routines’ Will Wake You Up, Start Your Coffee, Open Your Shades, and Play a Morning Playlist

Marsha Silva

April 6, 2018

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Coffee and music: two unbearable morning chores! Now, Alexa wants to make your life even easier by handling a myriad of mundane routines. Great news for Alexa users who hate doing routine tasks. Amazon is ... Read More...

Warning: Amazon's Music Storage Service Will Delete All of Your MP3s on April 30th

Fair Warning: Amazon Music Will Delete All of Your MP3s on April 30th

Daniel Sanchez

March 30, 2018

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A friendly reminder: unless you download and save all of your Amazon-stored MP3s, you can bid them farewell – for good. Underscoring the death of MP3 downloads, Amazon Music quietly scrapped MP3 imports seve... Read More...

Facebook Cancels Its Smart Speaker Because There’s No Way In Hell Any Sane Person Is Buying That Right Now

Paul Resnikoff

March 27, 2018

Facebook is now delaying the release of its smart speaker, based on widespread fears of eavesdropping and unauthorized audio recording. Those fears appeared in a recent focus group conducted by the social ne... Read More...

Scam Alert: The Hoth Will Steal Your Revenue and Harm Your SEO

Noah Itman

March 26, 2018

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Fair warning to all digital publications, blogs and websites: you may be getting scammed. Whether or not you're managing a website, you’ve probably encountered the term ‘SEO’. It stands for Search Engine Op... Read More...

Sonos Is Pulling All Of Its Advertising from Facebook — Effective Immediately

Marsha Silva

March 25, 2018

You won’t be seeing Sonos ads on Facebook anymore — or Instagram, for that matter. Looks like Sonos is sending a very clear message about Facebook's privacy breaches — and potentially sparking a mass ex... Read More...

The Robot Composers are Coming: 'AI Music' Just Raised $4 Million

My Future Songwriting Career Just Got Deleted by an AI Music Startup

Daniel Sanchez

March 22, 2018

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With Amper Music’s $4 million funding round, expect AI music creation to get a whole lot easier. Several months ago, Digital Music News touched upon an interesting story. Underscoring the advancements ... Read More...

Now There’s a Dating App for Kanye West Worshippers

Ruzanna Azaryan

March 21, 2018

photo: Disarm (CC0) It's a dating app specifically designed for 'Fans of the Genius Mr. Kanye West'... Since the dawn of the smartphone, dating apps have proliferated. Now, they're going to the crazy p... Read More...

Audials Creates an Interactive ‘Map of the Musical Universe’ With More Than 300,000 Different Artists

Paul Resnikoff

March 14, 2018

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Audials' Music Zoom, currently a Windows app. What does the entire interconnected music universe look like? Audials recently deployed AI to create Music Zoom, a highly-visual map of more than 300,000 ar... Read More...