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Spotify to launch HiFi plan

23/02/2021

Spotify to launch HiFi plan in selected markets beginning later this year in CD Quality Lossless streaming. The announcement was made this week in an online event called ‘Stream On’. The new service will be called Spotify HiFi and the streamer offered the following five things about their new high quality music experience. High-quality music streaming is consistently one of the most requested new features by Spotify users. Spotify HiFi will deliver music in CD Quality, […]

Radio Sing Sing

21/02/2021

Radio Sing Sing is a French community internet radio station in Saint Malo, Brittany offering a range of streams ranging from MP3, AAC, AAC+, Opus, Ogg and two CD Quality Lossless FLAC streams, one with metadata and one without. According to the station: “From its creation in 2001, Sing Sing’s vocation was to introduce new talents through concerts, broadcast live, and that in exceptional places… the Cancalaise beaches, Saint Suliac on the banks of the […]

Kodi v19.0 Matrix released

20/02/2021

Kodi v19.0 Matrix released and is available on all supported platforms with the exception of the Windows Store build for Xbox which is still in development but expected soon. For audio and music lovers, there are significant improvements across the board to metadata handling: library improvements, new tags, new displays, and improvements to how Kodi handles release dates, album durations, and multi-disc sets. There’s a new, Matrix-inspired visualisation, improvements to the display when fetching files […]

Qobuz celebrates two years of HiRes in the US

20/02/2021

Qobuz celebrates two years of HiRes in the US on Valentines Day with its user base doubling in 2020. The streamer offers HiRes 24-bit 192 kHz audio, editorial content, liner notes, lyric booklets, and other music related content. The company has forged partnerships with all of the leading hardware brands to make it the clear choice for hardcore music lovers. They have also spearheaded the campaign against compressed music by ditching MP3s, winning the approval […]

Valentine’s Day music, podcasts and gifts

13/02/2021

Valentine’s Day music, podcasts and gifts are some of the offerings from streamers Spotify, Deezer and Qobuz this year. Tinder anthems and podcasts on Spotify Spotify and Tinder rounded up some of the top tracks that speak most to finding a match. Tinder found that adding an ‘anthem’ to your dating profile improves your swiping experience, leading to more matches. Since music is the number one ‘Passion’ that members include on their profiles globally, adding […]

Bowers & Wilkins upgrades its Formation app

12/02/2021

Bowers & Wilkins upgrades its Formation app significantly increasing the number of music streaming services accessible to owners of Formation enabled Bowers & Wilkins products. Available to both Android and iOS users, the app will initially offer support for Qobuz, TIDAL, TuneIn, Dash Radio, NTS Radio and SoundCloud, with more subscription services and streaming platforms to be added in the coming months. High-resolution (24bit/96kHz) performance is also available, via Qobuz. The app aggregates content from […]

Share music using Alexa on Echo devices

12/02/2021

Share music using Alexa on Echo devices helping your friends discover new artists or songs, relive old memories with family, or just share a musical experience with those you love. User can share songs with their Alexa contacts on their Echo devices by saying, “Alexa share this song with Claire” while you’re listening to the song you want to share and Alexa will send the song to your chosen contact. The recipient can listen to […]