Month: January 2025

Your guide to lossless and HiRes internet radio stations, services, and software.

Dance Wave
Radio

Dance Wave

13/01/2025
Dance Wave is a new Dance and Electronic music internet radio station broadcasting two programmes of dance music in CD Quality Lossless FLAC plus 128kbps MP3, ~150kbps Ogg, 64kbps AAC+ and ~110kbps Opus streams. It offers two channels of Dance Music – Dance Wave and Dance Wave Retro! Dance Wave offers mainly Dance, House, Deep House, Trance and more electronic music and Dance Wave Retro! is ‘All about dance before 2000!’ featuring 90’s, Eurodance, Dance, […]
What are the best music streaming deals for couples?
Best Music Deals

What are the best music streaming deals for couples?

12/01/2025
High Resolution Audio’s guide to getting the best couples deals for your musical entertainment. What are the best music streaming deals for couples? Deezer, Qobuz and Spotify have realised that not every one is a singleton or has a family and have come up with ‘Duo’ deals for couples. The pricing for these plans comes about half way between an individual and family subscription. In the UK there are roughly 15% more two person households […]
UK Record Store Day date announced
News

UK Record Store Day date announced

10/01/2025
UK Record Store Day date announced returning for its 18th edition on the 12th April 2025. Over 270 independent record shops across the UK, alongside thousands more around the globe, gear up for their biggest celebration of vinyl releases, in-store parties and independent record store culture. In addition to long-time supporters, wine producers Studio by Miraval and HiFi manufacturers Bowers & Wilkins, Record Store Day organisers announced that the DEYA Brewing Company based in Cheltenham […]
Skylegend Radio
Radio

Skylegend Radio

09/01/2025
Skylegend Radio which stopped broadcasting in March 2024  resurfaced in October 2024 with a 320kbps MP3 stream. The French internet radio station originally had both a CD Quality Lossless FLAC stream and an MP3 stream and now in January 2025 it has resumed its FLAC stream and added a 96kbps AAC stream to its existing MP3 offering. All three streams are available via both the webplayer and direct links. The station’s tagline is La Puissance […]
France continues to buy mainly French music in 2024
News

France continues to buy mainly French music in 2024

09/01/2025
France continues to buy mainly French music in 2024 with 18 out of the Top 20 best-selling albums being made by local artists and in French according to SNEP the French recorded music industry association. The top 3 best-selling albums of the year were by French artists – Werenoi, who climbs to the top step for the 2nd consecutive year, PLK and Indochine 2024 French Recorded Music Highlights 145 French productions are present in the 200 best-sellers […]
UK music revenues highest in over two decades
News

UK music revenues highest in over two decades

09/01/2025
UK music revenues highest in over two decades thanks to streaming following a 2.3% increase in overall entertainment sales to £12 Bn in 2024, according to annual figures released by digital entertainment and retail association ERA. Consumption reached the equivalent of 201.4m albums a year. Streaming alone generated the equivalent of 178m albums, exceeding the record of 172m albums sold in 2004 at the tail-end of the CD boom. Meanwhile consumer spending on recorded music – […]
HiRes Internet Radio
Radio

HiRes Internet Radio

08/01/2025
The gold standard for top end audio is HiRes Audio (24bit/96kHz or higher) and although the available music has been limited in comparison to the catalogue available in CD Quality this has gradually been increasing over the past couple of years. 2021 saw Apple Music launch its ‘Lossless’ service which joined Amazon Music, Qobuz and TIDAL all offering CD Quality and 24bit/96kHz or higher streams. Spotify’s much publicised announcement that it would launch its CD […]