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What is the best free music streaming service?

29/01/2024

High Resolution Audio’s guide to getting the best free streaming for your musical entertainment. What is the best free music streaming service? No one quite knows the origin of the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’ but this applies to music streaming much like most other things in life. Most of the free offerings come with some sort of restriction such as ads, reduced audio quality, limited features such as no skipping or […]

Free music from your local library

16/01/2024

There can’t be many of us who aren’t having to think about personal and household budgets in these difficult times following the COVID-19 pandemic and everything that has followed. So, here is a reminder that for many of us in the UK there is a wealth of free audio available usually only a short trip away from home or available online at your local library. Despite local authority cuts to library services in recent years […]

Indian women prefer to listen to free music online

05/03/2022

Indian women prefer to listen to free music online according to a recent YouGov survey into ‘How do urban Indian women listen to music?’ The survey revealed that streaming free music online is the most popular way to listen to music among urban Indian women (with 41% saying so). It is more common than listening to music via a paid service (30%). While free music online is more popular among women between 21-29 years (45%), […]

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

26/05/2020

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 […]

Amazon Music extends free streaming

24/11/2019

Amazon Music extends free streaming to the Amazon Music app on iOS and Android and also to FireTV devices. Amazon Music customers who do not yet have a Prime membership, or a subscription to Amazon Music Unlimited, can now listen to an ad-supported selection of top playlists and thousands of stations for free on their favourite devices. Previously only available to customers on Echo devices, today’s news expands access to customers using the Amazon Music […]

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 […]

UK students can try Amazon Music Unlimited for 3 months free

07/09/2018

Amazon have announced a special offer for UK students who can try Amazon Music Unlimited for 3 months free after which the usual student price of £4.99 will apply with the option to cancel anytime. The offer is good till 18th October 2018. Amazon Music Unlimited offers over 50 million tracks with thousands of expert-programmed playlists and stations on any device. Best music streaming deals for students Amazon Music Review Recently added albums […]