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