CD Quality

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

Greek Hits
Radio

1st Greek New Age Flac Radio

04/10/2025
1st Greek New Age Flac Radio is a Greek radio station with two channels of music. 1st Greek New Age Flac Radio has a CD Quality Lossless FLAC, a 320kbps AAC and 128kbps MP3 stream and Greek Oldies which has a DAB+ and internet presence broadcasts a CD Quality FLAC stream and a 320kbps AAC stream. According to the station: ‘1st Greek New Age FLAC Radio, based in Athens, was founded to promote Greek New […]
BesideFM
Radio

BesideFM

03/10/2025
BesideFM was a ‘pop-up’ internet radio station broadcasting a rock and blues channel and a chillout channel. The rock and blues channel had a lossless CD Quality FLAC stream and a 320kbps AAC stream and the chillout channel offered a 256kbps Opus stream. The Rock station server tag said it offered “Endless radio Rock and Blues in lossless FLAC for the best sound Vinyl Rips” but there was no associated website.   To find out […]
SmoothJazz.com.pl
Radio

SmoothJazz.com.pl

21/09/2025
SmoothJazz.com.pl is a Polish internet radio station playing Smooth Jazz with a CD Quality Lossless FLAC, an MP3 and two AAC streams. There is also an HLS adaptive stream offering 48-256kbps AAC. Their website has a webplayer, programme guide, links to radio aggregators as well as links to their social media. According to the station they are ‘…delighted to give you music channel creating a unique up-tempo and funky smooth-jazz grooves with no commercial breaks […]
Classics Radio
Radio

Classics Radio

21/09/2025
Classics Radio was a Dutch internet radio station with two channels of CD Quality Lossless FLAC available as both direct streams and via their web player. Classics Radio played classic pop and rock and Dance Classics played classic dance tunes. The station stopped broadcasting in August 2025.   To find out more about CD Quality Internet Radio go here. To find out more about HiRes Internet Radio go here. To get further information on: How to listen […]
CD Quality Internet Radio
Radio

CD Quality Internet Radio

07/09/2025
Back in the day, no self-respecting hi-fi enthusiast would have been without an FM tuner to receive quality stereo broadcasts. When internet radio was introduced traditional radio stations were quick to make their broadcasts available although the initial quality was often poor. These days there can hardly be a broadcast radio station of any note in the world that does not have a high quality internet presence opening up an almost unimaginable wealth of news, […]
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Streaming

The Rise and Fall of the Compact Disc

07/09/2025
The first commercial Compact Disc (CD) was released in 1982 and the CD was planned as the successor to the vinyl record. Developed by Philips and Sony, sales of CDs grew quickly and by 2004 cumulative worldwide sales of audio CDs, CD-ROMs and CD-Rs reached about 30 billion discs and 200 billion by 2007. However, from the beginning of the early 2000s CDs were increasingly being replaced by other forms of digital storage and distribution […]
PiratenKanon.NL
Radio

PiratenKanon.NL

18/08/2025
PiratenKanon.NL is an internet radio station based in Suriname playing pop music hits with a CD Quality Lossless FLAC stream and two MP3 streams – 64kbps and 320kbps. Their website is multi-lingual (Dutch, German and English) and has a webplayer, programme guide, links to radio aggregators as well as links for all the popular media players. In addition to the main radio station the Website and Stream Admin, Martin Sievers, runs a couple of experimental […]