June 2023

Gen Z Americans discover podcasts through social media

25/06/2023

Gen Z Americans discover podcasts through social media with 24 million regular monthly listeners according to a recent report from Edison Research in partnership with  SXM Media. The Gen Z Podcast Listener Report is based on a survey of 1003 US individuals aged between 13 and 24 during April 2023 plus a number of in-depth interviews. Key findings from the report 47% of the Gen Z (age 13-24) online population in the US are monthly podcast listeners, […]

SOURCE: RIAA – The Rise and Fall of CD sales volumes in US 1983-2022 feat

The Rise and Fall of the Compact Disc

21/06/2023

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 […]

Spotify’s desktop gets a new look

20/06/2023

Spotify’s desktop gets a new look with with redesigned Your Library and Now Playing views giving a better way to explore, curate, listen to, and organize Spotify on a computer or web browser. The main content area remains unchanged but the new additions will help to align their Desktop experience with the mobile app. On the left-hand side of the app window, they have anchored the new Your Library so you can quickly access your […]

60North Radio

20/06/2023

60North Radio is an internet radio station broadcasting mainly indie music based in the Shetland Islands way up in the north of the UK. Started in 2004 as a local information station it had 6 low power FM transmitters by 2005 but by 2014 the harsh local weather had destroyed them all. Now the station is internet radio only and broadcasts a CD Quality lossless FLAC stream, 48kbps and 256kbps AAC streams and a 320kbps […]

Mother Earth Radio upgrades its streams

11/06/2023

Mother Earth Radio upgrades its streams broadcasting FLAC at 192kHz on two of its three channels. In a recent announcement the station’s found Florian Reiterer said, “We have a big update on Mother Earth Radio, we are now broadcasting in 192kHz sampling rate. That’s why we have also radically eliminated all CDs or similar and now only play vinyl or HiRes Audio files. The recordings are now made with a record needle with up to […]

Juice 1038

11/06/2023

Juice 1038 is a local radio station broadcasting from Belfast, Northern Ireland offering an on-air transmission on 103.8 FM in the Greater Belfast area and an internet radio presence. There was a lossless CD Quality FLAC stream but now they only stream, 48kbps and 128kbps AAC+ streams and a 128kbps MP3 stream. The station plays ‘Non-Stop Dance’ and is aimed at supporting the LGBT community in the Belfast, Northern Ireland area. There are two channels […]

Radio PopNonStop

10/06/2023

Radio PopNonStop was a pop music genre radio station broadcasting a CD Quality Lossless FLAC stream. There is a Twitter account under this name which hasn’t had an update in a year. There was very little information available when the stream was live and now the station’s presence has completely disappeared. The link below is not active but has been retained for historical interest. CD Quality Lossless FLAC: http://mscp4.live-streams.nl:8220/autodj.ogg To find out more about […]