Chiru
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Chiru

Chiru is a radio stream broadcasting a mix of Anime and Japanese J-Pop music in a CD Quality lossless FLAC stream. In addition to the FLAC stream there are Opus, OGG, AAC and MP3 streams at varying qualities and unusually the ‘now playing’ banner on the site gives full details of the track including its bitrate and sampling frequency as not every track is CD Quality (16-bit, 44.1kHz). In addition to information regarding previously played […]

La SuperSonica
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La SuperSonica

La SuperSonica is a regional Mexican music genre internet radio station broadcasting from Vicente Guerrero, Durango, Mexico. The station broadcasts a CD Quality Lossless FLAC stream. The station does not have a website but does maintain a Facebook page. Their hosting service maintains a page with the webplayer and links to radio aggregators – RadioGuide.FM, Online Radio Box, radios online and TuneIn. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SuperSonicaMx Webplayer: https://c11.radioboss.fm/u/93 CD Quality Lossless FLAC: http://c11.radioboss.fm:8093/stream   To find out […]

Zappa Stream Radio
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Zappa Stream Radio

Zappa Stream Radio is a radio stream dedicated to the music of Frank Zappa (ask your parents!) with a CD Quality Lossless FLAC stream, a 256kbps OGG stream and a 128kbps MP3 stream. Stream links for VLC, Windows Media Player and Android can also be found on the website. Norbert (the site’s creator) also hosts ‘Listening Sessions’ every Sunday where ‘Zappamaniacs’ from across the world can virtually meet to listen to hear their favourite music […]

Podcast listening in US grew 20% in 2022 with the weekly listening average increasing from 2.7 hours in 2021 to 3.8 hours in 2022 according to Triton Digital. Triton Digital’s U.S. Year-End Podcast Report provides key insights into the growing US podcast landscape over the course of 2022. Key findings from the U.S. Year-End Podcast Report Podcast listening continues to grow, with a 20% increase in downloads in 2022. The average listener downloaded more than one hour more of content per week in 2022, in comparison to the prior year. Both Apple Podcasts and Spotify are leaders in where podcasts are consumed. Spotify has more listeners, but Apple has more total downloads and downloads per listener. Mobile remains the key podcast listening device. Smart speaker podcast listening has declined, returning to pre-Covid levels. News, Comedy, and True Crime remain the largest podcast genres. Significant consumption of back catalogue episodes exists, although varying by genre. Amongst the facts contained in the report, it now takes an average weekly download of 490K to make the top 51-100 position in the Podcast Top 100 chart and over 3 million downloads to get into the top 25. On average there were 226 million podcast downloads in the US with NPR News Now being the number 1 most downloaded podcast of the year. Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra was the top performing debut podcast of the year, launching in October with the highest number of downloads and listeners during a debut month. The report found that monthly podcast listeners are younger than the general population and are more likely to be male. They also tend to be more affluent, better educated and more diverse with 15% more Hispanic and 9% more Black/African American listeners than the general population. The complete 27-page report which is free can be obtained from Triton Digital here. Recent articles of interest [icon name="file-alt" style="solid" class="" unprefixed_class=""]  US women want more female oriented podcasts [icon name="file-alt" style="solid" class="" unprefixed_class=""]  Spotify reveals its 2022 Wrapped podcasts [icon name="file-alt" style="solid" class="" unprefixed_class=""]  Podcast listening among US Latinos hits record high SOURCE: Triton Digital - Podcast listening in US grew 20% in 2022.
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Podcast listening in US grew 20% in 2022

Podcast listening in US grew 20% in 2022 with the weekly listening average increasing from 2.7 hours in 2021 to 3.8 hours in 2022 according to Triton Digital. Triton Digital’s U.S. Year-End Podcast Report provides key insights into the growing US podcast landscape over the course of 2022. Key findings from the U.S. Year-End Podcast Report Podcast listening continues to grow, with a 20% increase in downloads in 2022. The average listener downloaded more than […]

Radio X
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Radio X

Radio X broadcasts a diverse program from Basel in Switzerland, which is used daily by around 40,000 people via DAB+, FM, cable and worldwide via the Internet. Based in Basel, Switzerland the youth and culture broadcaster has nearly 200 volunteer broadcasters who create over 20 special programmes a week on the politics and culture of the local area. Music programming is an eclectic mix of pop music ranging from hip-hop to reggae to techno. The station […]

SOURCE: DJ Zog - Zog Radio
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Zog Radio

Zog Radio was an internet radio station broadcasting a CD Quality Lossless FLAC stream. In October 2022 DJ Zog announced that “Zog internet radio will be on hiatus”. He continued “I know this has got a lot of positive feedback, but for a while this service will be shut down as I have too much on my plate. This could very likely be started up again in future, if so I will note here.” The […]

Amazon Music to increase subscription plan prices
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Amazon Music to increase subscription plan prices

Amazon Music to increase subscription plan prices in both the UK and the US with effect from the 21st February 2023 for both Individual and Student Plans. The Amazon Music Unlimited Individual Plan is changing from £9.99 to £10.99 per month and the Amazon Music Unlimited Student Plan is changing from £4.99 to £5.99 per month. You will begin seeing the new price on your first bill after that date. If you are in a […]