UK music exports reach record high in 2023
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UK music exports reach record high in 2023

UK music exports reach record high in 2023 to £775 million driven a range of UK talent according to new figures released by the BPI. Representing the highest level of annual exports since the BPI began its yearly survey of label overseas income in 2000 (£364m) and more than treble the amount of a decade ago in 2013 (£243m), the record figure came in a year that saw a wide range of UK musicians and groups […]

MaXXima
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MaXXima

MaXXima is an electronic music genre radio station in Switzerland with both a terrestrial broadcast network on DAB+ and internet radio streams broadcasting a CD Quality lossless FLAC stream, a 192kbps and 320kbps MP3 and an 8okbps AAC+ stream. Their multilingual website (English, French, German and Italian) contains news, a ‘listen again’ feature and a programme guide. Website: https://maxxima.ch/ Web Player: https://www.maxxima.ch/player/ CD Quality Lossless FLAC: https://maxxima.mine.nu/maxx.ogg MP3 320kbps: https://maxxima.mine.nu/maxx.mp3 MP3 192kbps: https://maxxima.mine.nu/maxxima.mp3 AAC+ 80kbps: […]

Skylegend Radio
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Skylegend Radio

Skylegend Radio which stopped broadcasting in March this year has resurfaced currently with only a 320kbps MP3 stream. The French internet radio station originally had both a CD Quality Lossless FLAC stream and an MP3 stream. The station’s tagline is La Puissance du Son (The Power of Sound) and its website contains a webplayer with track information. Hopefully, they will add a FLAC stream in the future but there is currently no information as to […]

Spotify expands audiobooks into Western Europe
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Spotify expands audiobooks into Western Europe

Spotify expands audiobooks into Western Europe with Premium subscribers in France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg getting instant access to over 200,000 titles. In April this year Spotify added Canada, Ireland and New Zealand to its launch of Audiobooks in the US, Canada and the UK at the end of 2022. The catalogue includes local authors such as Gaël Faye, Maylis de Kerangal, Joël Dicker, Suzanne Vermeer, and Saskia. Eligible Spotify Premium subscribers in those […]

Roxy Radio joins BDPST Rock Radio, Danubius Radio and Radio Juventus
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BDPST Rock Radio, Danubius Radio and Radio Juventus

BDPST Rock Radio, Danubius Radio and Radio Juventus are three Hungarian radio stations operated by SoundPlus Kft in Budapest offering rock, pop and chillout pop music. In May 2023 they were joined by a fourth station – Roxy Radio which offers ‘just today’s music’. All four channels offer 4 audio qualities with direct links for desktop and mobile plays and direct streaming links for VLC, foobar etc. Streaming qualities range from Low Quality 96kbps MP3 […]

Beatport’s streaming service for DJs now offers lossless FLAC
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Beatport’s streaming service for DJs now offers lossless FLAC

Beatport’s streaming service for DJs now offers lossless FLAC for Professional plan subscribers with access to over 12 million electronic music tracks. Support is available for a number of DJ hardware and software platforms such as djay Pro, VirtualDJ, DJ.Studio, Edjing Mix, Tribe XR and Serato DJ Pro for Macs with CDJ-3000, rekordbox, and Traktor ‘coming soon’. Beatport Streaming Professional subscribers can easily switch between streaming audio quality in their chosen DJ platform, or if […]

Spotify extends AI Playlist Beta to more countries
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Spotify extends AI Playlist Beta to more countries

Spotify extends AI Playlist Beta to more countries following on from its initial launch in April 2024 to Premium subscribers in the UK and Australia. AI Playlist combines Spotify’s personalization technology with generative AI so users can turn their most creative ideas into playlists. To date, users in the UK and Australia have created millions of playlists that they keep coming back to. To create a playlist with AI Playlist just enter a unique prompt […]