TIDAL rolls out Dolby Atmos
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TIDAL rolls out Dolby Atmos

TIDAL rolls out Dolby Atmos to users with a Dolby Atmos enabled sound bar, TV, or AVR home cinema system and a TIDAL HiFi subscription. To access this feature, TIDAL HiFi users will need to connect their Dolby Atmos enabled living room devices to a compatible streaming player running the most recently updated TIDAL app. Compatible streaming devices include – Apple TV 4K; various Fire TV models such as Fire TV Stick 4K, Fire TV Cube, Fire […]

How to listen to lossless FLAC internet radio with free media players
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How to listen to lossless FLAC internet radio with free media players

Radio is a great source of free music, news and information. You can even get podcasts over the air in the Greater London area with Podcast Radio. With the advent of internet radio in the mid 1990s broadcasters started to add internet streams in addition to their ‘over the air’ programming. Early internet radio streams were often low bandwidth which reflected the dial-up nature of the internet in those pre-millennium days. Fast forward to today […]

Classical music front-end for Spotify
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Classical music front-end for Spotify

Concertmaster is an open source classical music front-end for Spotify. It uses Open Opus data and combines it with automated analysis of Spotify’s own metadata in order to create an improved user experience for classical music. It relies on crowdsourced curation as well for additional verification and refinement. Concertmaster runs on Android phones and Mac, Windows, ChromeOS and Linux computers. Due to Spotify restrictions, it doesn’t run on iPads and iPhones but a Concertmaster app […]

Specialist Jazz streamer jazzed's introductory offer
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Specialist Jazz streamer launched in UK

UPDATE: 21/05/2020 – jazzed launched successfully in February and is now offering its jazzed+ service for an introductory offer of £0.99/month for 3 months. After your 3 month introductory offer your subscription will continue at £5.99/month. ∼ Jazzed is a specialist Jazz streamer set to launch in UK on the 12th February with a Free and jazzed+ paid for service. According to the streamer jazzed is ‘more than a music streaming service. it’s a virtual […]

First Public Radio
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First Public Radio

First Public Radio is an internet radio station playing new music and top 40 hits and broadcasting CD Quality Lossless FLAC and MP3 streams. According to the station, they are “Radio for music and background sounding of any business. Radio without ads in high lossless quality 728 kpbs flac!” The station’s website is in Russian but Chrome will automatically translate the pages with pleasing results. There is a web player for the FLAC stream and 4 […]

Deezer dance music in 360 Reality Audio
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Deezer dance music in 360 Reality Audio

Deezer showcases dance music in 360 Reality Audio partnering with Spinnin’ Records to produce a 52 track playlist in Sony’s new immersive file format. Spinnin’ Records is the world’s biggest dance label and the playlist includes tracks from Mike Williams, Mesto, Lucas & Steve, Quintino, Curbi, Breathe Carolina, Joe Stone and more. According to Deezer, ‘One tune where 360 Reality Audio really makes the song pop is “Make you Mine,” the latest hit by Mike […]

Online audio and podcast listening continues to grow in Australia
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Online audio and podcast listening continues to grow in Australia

Online audio and podcast listening continues to grow in Australia according to a recent study conducted by Edison Research on behalf of Commercial Radio Australia (CRA), Southern Cross Austereo (SCA) and Triton Digital. The findings are published in The Infinite Dial Australia 2020 which brings together the results of a representative sample of 1014 Australians aged 12 and older conducted in the first quarter of 2020 before the COVID-19 pandemic. Key findings from the Infinite Dial 2020 Australia […]