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