August 2018

Vancouver Island Library adds to its music streaming services

15/08/2018

Vancouver Island Regional Library adds over 2 million tracks to its digital eResource area bringing a range of music genres from around the world to anyone with a VIRL library card. VIRL have added the Naxos Music Library to its other audio and video resources all freely available to Library members. Naxos Music consists of the following four libraries: Naxos Music Library: More than two million tracks of various music genres: classical, blues, jazz, folk, […]

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Deutsche Grammophon and Apple Music launch new classical music playlist

13/08/2018

Deutsche Grammophon and Apple Music have partnered to launch a new classical music audio and visual playlist that will highlight recordings from the iconic label’s 120-year history. The Deutsche Grammophon playlist launched on Friday, 10th August with a media conference at Mozart’s birthplace in Salzburg, Austria, where DG artists Trifonov, Villazón, Abdrazakov and Gregson performed and later appeared on a panel discussion about music curation in the digital age. Trifonov’s performance was recorded and will be added to his […]

CD Quality Music Streaming

12/08/2018

For those of us who aspire to HiFi standards and have spent more money than we would like to admit to our significant others on that shiny bit of kit in the living room, streaming MP3 quality music seems a giant leap backwards. Sidestepping the arguments over whether vinyl discs or CDs are better music sources for true audiophiles, the CD has been the go to music source of choice for the vast majority of […]

11 Dance Sub Genres from Spotify to enjoy

12/08/2018

To celebrate the recent Tomorrowland festival in Belgium, Spotify’s Dance editor Austin Kramer has posted a blog showing the diversity of dance music that the platform has to offer. ‘The electronic music genre umbrella has to be the largest musical classification. It’s crazy how so many descriptors were accepted throughout its evolution,’ says Kramer. ‘House, rave, club, EDM, dance, electronic are all part of the culture. The semantics all dissolve to one thing: how it […]

A1 Telekom launches data free music app for Austria

11/08/2018

A1 Telekom launches the A1 Xplore Music app for Austria offering over 30 million tracks and audiobooks. A1 Telekom customers will be able to stream music from Austria without any data consumption in Austria and the EU for up to 12 months. Music streaming has recently overtaken physical CD sales in Austria – a trend that began years ago and is now transforming the entire music industry. With A1 Xplore Music, A1 Telekom now offers its customers a music streaming service […]

Onkyo to support DEEZER HiFi via free firmware update

11/08/2018

Onkyo is to include support for DEEZER HiFi via free firmware update for its AV receivers and networked audio products, it announced this week. The company will be releasing firmware updates throughout the month of August to add DEEZER support to a large number of its AV receivers and networked audio devices. DEEZER is one of the most popular subscription-based, streaming music services, with access to a library of more than 53 million songs. […]

Spotify and Samsung form new partnership

11/08/2018

Spotify and Samsung form new partnership to give Samsung users a seamless listening experience between devices. Spotify has been named as Samsung’s new go-to music service provider offering the only full integration to Samsung devices which includes Bixby – Samsung’s premier voice solution. In a blog posting, Spotify CEO, Daniel Ek explained the reasons behind the Spotify and Samsung integration saying, ‘We’ve studied how people use Spotify. We know that listeners stream different kinds of […]