Cambridge Audio has announced that it is to set up a dedicated technology hub in its hometown of Cambridge.
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The company says that when it was founded in 1968, the idea of digitised music you could play anywhere was the stuff of science fiction. The purpose of the hub will be to develop a range of digital music platforms to help listeners however they want to rip, store or stream their music collections.
Cambridge Audio has now done a deal with Reciva, the digital technology company they collaborated with to create the UuVol digital music platform for the NP30 network music player and related apps.
The new deal means that Cambridge Audio acquires full rights to Reciva’s client source code, and three of Reciva’s development team have transferred to the new technology hub.
They’ll join Cambridge Audio’s existing 30-strong research and development team, which already includes software and mobile app developers.
Reciva CEO Ben Terrell said: “We are delighted to complete this deal with Cambridge Audio. Reciva will continue to support Cambridge Audio’s products with our RecivaConnect Plus (RCP) web service which allows us to offer stations lists and many audio services over a single API.
“RecivaConnect Plus serves customers across automotive, mobile apps, set top box and smart TV and other connected audio devices from a dedicated global array of servers managed from our Cambridge offices. The advantage of RCP is that without updating client side code, customers can add complex audio services as they emerge with only server side changes.”