June 2024

New Apple Music features with iOS 18

19/06/2024

New Apple Music features with iOS 18 have been announced and will become available to download from this autumn. New Apple Music features with iOS 18 Collaborative Listening with SharePlay With updates to SharePlay with Apple Music, even more users can share control of music playing from HomePod, Apple TV, or any Bluetooth-enabled speaker, making listening together even more fun and rewarding. Participants do not need to have an Apple Music subscription to contribute to what’s playing. […]

MQA relaunched as MQA Labs

19/06/2024

MQA relaunched as MQA Labs by Lenbrook Media Group (LMG) is focussing on a suite of products that bring audio processing enhancements across the music supply chain. AIRIA by MQA Labs formerly branded as MQair is claimed to deliver high resolution audio while seamlessly scaling from full lossless to very lossy rates. FOQUS represents an innovative approach for analogue to digital conversion and QRONO brings a variety of audio processing enhancements within playback devices. These […]

Top 25 UK Podcasts for Q1 2024

19/06/2024

The Top 25 UK podcasts for Q1 2024 chart according to Edison Podcast Metrics has been published by Edison Research. Edison Podcast Metrics UK, the only podcast measurement service that measures the relative audience size and demographics of all podcasts and podcast networks in the UK. The Edison Podcast Metrics Top 25 UK Podcasts of Q1 2024 list is derived from data collected continuously during the first quarter of 2024, interviewing podcast consumers ages 15 and […]

TIDAL dumps MQA and 360 Reality Audio

19/06/2024

TIDAL dumps MQA and 360 Reality Audio effective from the 24th July and will replace all its MQA content with FLAC format files for all its streaming apps. In a statement released yesterday the streamer said, “For stereo sound, FLAC was chosen as the format we’ll support going forward because it is open source—meaning any artist can deliver their music in high quality directly to TIDAL without the involvement of a third party. This makes […]

The Top Podcast Genres in the US Q1 2024

18/06/2024

The Top Podcast Genres in the US Q1 2024 chart according to Edison Podcast Metrics has been published by Edison Research. Edison Podcast Metrics is the only podcast measurement service that measures the relative audience size and demographics of all podcast networks in the US. The Edison Podcast Metrics Top Podcast Genres in the US Q1 2024 list is derived from data collected continuously from weekly podcast consumers ages 13 and older in the US during the first quarter of […]

SuperStereo to launch new Latin channel

18/06/2024

SuperStereo Radio Chile is to launch a new Latin channel on Saturday 29th at 2am in the UK (Friday 28th June at 9pm New York time). The channel will be called SuperStereo Four Plus and according to Erik Jegó, CEO SuperStereo Network will be the last one to be launched because of the amount of effort required to digitise the content. He explains, “Most of the music recorded in the 80’s in the Latin market was […]

Radio Audiomastering

18/06/2024

Radio Audiomastering is a specialist Dance/Electronic music internet radio station with a little bit of jazz thrown in. Based in Lithuania it broadcasts a CD Quality lossless FLAC stream (now via https) and three MP3 streams (320kpbs and 192kbps) two of which have been upgraded to https. There are a number of sessions hosted by local DJs with links to their websites and social media. In addition to these streams there is an option to […]