Streaming

Music streaming is now the fastest growing way to listen to music and in many countries has overtaken traditional media such as CDs, Vinyl and digital downloads. HiRes Audio Online’s Streaming category will review and give advice on the best streaming services and publish useful guides to getting started with music streaming for hi-fi in the home or on your mobile.

Classical music front-end for Spotify
Streaming

Classical music front-end for Spotify

23/05/2020

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 […]

How to customize your Spotify profile
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How to customize your Spotify profile

14/03/2020

Spotify has published updated details on how to customize your Spotify profile with guides for both mobile and desktops which allow you to update everything from your photo to your username and create a personalized music page unique to you. How to change your Spotify profile picture (Note: you can’t upload any images that violate any copyright, trademark, or personal image rights. Further information can be found here.) On Android and iOS smartphones and tablets […]

Amazon Music Logo
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Amazon Music Review

24/10/2019

Amazon’s first started selling digital music in 2008 and became the first music store to sell music with digital rights management (DRM) from many of the major record companies. Streaming started with a forerunner of Amazon Prime in 2014 and Amazon Music Unlimited, its full catalogue streaming service was launched in late 2016. […]

Spotify Cheat Sheet
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Spotify publishes Discovery Cheat Sheet

11/11/2018

Spotify publishes Discovery Cheat Sheet in a blog posting with four ways to help you find your next favourite song. Here is the abridged version of how to discover new music on Spotify. 1. Spotify Radio Playlists If you like the ease of someone else choosing songs for you, you should try Spotify Radio What it is Choose a song, artist, or playlist, and Spotify will play hours of similar music that matches what you […]

Global Streaming Market Share for the first half of 2018
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Streaming music subscribers reach 230 million worldwide

29/09/2018

Music subscribers grew by 16% in the first half of 2018 to reach 229.5 million, up from 198.6 million at the end of 2017 according to media and technology analysts, MIDiA Research. Year-on-year the global subscriber base increased by 38%, adding 62.8 million subscribers compared to 60.8 million net new subscribers added between H1 2016 and H1 2017. Continued growth is expected in the relatively undeveloped markets of Japan, Germany, Brazil, Mexico and Russia with […]

Student reading and listening
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Best music streaming deals for students

23/09/2018

HiRes Audio Online’s guide to getting the best deals for your musical entertainment. For most of these deals you will have to provide some form of student verification or access the deal via your student union. What are the best music streaming deals for students? The top five contenders for your limited funds are Amazon Music, Apple Music, DEEZER, Spotify and TIDAL. Amazon Music when combined with an Amazon Prime subscription will also give you […]