Year: 2025

Analysis and updates from the world of high‑resolution and digital audio.

UK smart speaker ownership outpaces US
News

UK smart speaker ownership outpaces US

28/05/2025
UK Smart Speaker ownership outpaces US with 45% of the UK population owning a smart speaker according to The Infinite Dial 2025. The Infinite Dial is produced by Edison Research sponsored by SiriusXM Media and AdsWizz, and details technology ownership, podcast listening, and in-car audio consumption. The full report closely mirrors Edison Research’s US Infinite Dial Research and allows for comparisons between the two markets. Back in 2021, American smart speaker ownership outpaced that in the […]
SoundCloud rolls out TikTok’s Add to Music App integration
News

SoundCloud rolls out TikTok’s Add to Music App integration

27/05/2025
SoundCloud rolls out TikTok’s Add to Music App integration which gives music fans the ability to save the songs they discover on TikTok to their preferred music streaming service. Since its global roll out in 2024, the Add to Music App has generated over a billion track saves – and many billions more streams – on music streaming services. The Add to Music App appears as a button that says Add Song next to a […]
Radio Kirov
Radio

Radio Krov

27/05/2025
Radio Krov was a Serbian internet radio station associated with the Visual Anthropology Centre in Belgrade, Vizantrop, threepenny, decentrala and the Centre for Ethnomusicology Activities. The station had a CD Quality Lossless FLAC, a 320kbps AAC and a 256kbps MP3 stream together with a webplayer, links to a programme guide, podcasts, a chat function and links to their associated organisations. The station and its site is no longer available. According to the site when it […]
WBOR (91.1 FM)
Radio

WBOR (91.1 FM)

27/05/2025
WBOR (91.1 FM) is a community radio station in Maine, US with both a terrestrial FM transmitter and an internet presence. It has a 192kbps MP3 stream plus radio aggregator links. Its CD Quality Lossless FLAC stream has been discontinued. The website contains a webplayer together with ‘Now playing’ and ‘Play Again’ functions. According to the station, “WBOR (91.1 FM) is a non-commercial, community public radio station licensed to Bowdoin College. Our team of student and community […]
Qobuz launches Qobuz Connect
News

Qobuz launches Qobuz Connect

20/05/2025
Qobuz launches Qobuz Connect enabling users to stream music directly using the Qobuz app to control their compatible Hi-Fi devices without the need for third-party applications. With Qobuz Connect users can: Control their music from the Qobuz application: No more juggling between different remote controls or applications; select the Hi-Fi device and  control everything directly from the app. Pick up where they left off: Seamlessly switch from one device to another without losing the thread […]
SuperStereo Radio Chile adopts a subscription model
News

SuperStereo Radio Chile adopts a subscription model

20/05/2025
SuperStereo Radio Chile is adopting a subscription model launching its new service on the 1st June 2025. A part of this new pricing model its HiRes streams will no longer be ‘free to air’ however it will continue to broadcast all of its channels in a free 32kbps quality. The new service will include interviews, podcasts, sections like “In Memoriam,” anniversaries, information and exclusive content. Another channel, SuperStereo 2+, will be launched in September this […]
Top 50 US podcasts for Q1 2025
Podcasts

Top 50 US podcasts for Q1 2025

19/05/2025
The Top 50 US podcasts for Q1 2025 chart according to Edison Podcast Metrics has been published by Edison Research. Edison Podcast Metrics is the only podcast measurement service that measures the relative audience size and demographics of all podcast networks in the US. The Edison Podcast Metrics Top 50 Podcasts of Q1 2025 list is derived from data collected continuously during the first quarter of 2025, and interviewing 5,068 weekly podcast consumers ages 13 and older in the US. […]