June 2024

Agape’s JPop/Anisong Radio

21/06/2024

Agape’s JPop/Anisong Radio was an internet radio station broadcasting JPop/Anisong music with a CD Quality Lossless FLAC and a MP3 128kbps stream. It went ‘off-air’ in early March of this year, returned later in the month but has now stopped broadcasting. There was also a Song History, a Playlist and a feature to ‘Request a Song’. The links below do not work but have been kept for historical interest. Website: http://nas.agapec.fun:81/public/agapes_anisong_radio Webplayer: http://nas.agapec.fun:81/public/agapes_anisong_radio CD Quality […]

Radio Club 80

21/06/2024

Radio Club 80 is an internet radio station based in Chile broadcasting eight channels of 70’s, 80’s,90’s Dance and Pop music in Lossless FLAC, Opus, Vorbis, AAC and MP3 streams at varying bitrates. FLAC streams are being streamed at a variety of bit rates and resolutions but there is no information regarding the source of the originals e.g. Vinyl, CD, HiRes downloads. The website also has a webplayer and news about live events they will […]

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 […]

Flow Radio

19/06/2024

Flow Radio is a Spanish station broadcasting Urban Latin music in several Spanish cities on FM and DAB. It it used to have a CD Quality Lossless FLAC which has now been discontinued and now only offers a 128kbps AAC and a 256kbps MP3 streams. Their website contains a webplayer and links to their social media, programme guides and blog articles about the artists they are showcasing. Website: https://flowradio.es/ Webplayer: https://flowradio.es/ 128kbps AAC+: https://st4.laurban.eu:8443/flow 256kbps MP3: […]

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 […]