October 2024

MaXXima

21/10/2024

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: […]

Spotify expands audiobooks into Western Europe

19/10/2024

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 […]

BDPST Rock Radio, Danubius Radio and Radio Juventus

19/10/2024

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

15/10/2024

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

15/10/2024

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 […]

Music sales in Spain grew by 16.6% in first half of 2024

14/10/2024

Music sales in Spain grew by 16.6% in first half of 2024 with vinyl LPs continuing to outsell CDs according to Promusicae, the Spanish record industry association. Spaniards spent €249.8 million on music consumption, both in digital and physical formats that represents a 16.6% growth for the Spanish music industry, compared to the same period of 2023 (€214.3 million). Total music sales for the period were €224.15 million euros with digital consumption making up 89.7% of […]

Podcast listening by US Latinos is booming

14/10/2024

Podcast listening by US Latinos is booming with over a third more time spent than the non-Latino population according to a recent report by Edison Research. According to their Share of Ear research, persons 13 or older who identify as Hispanic or Latino spend an average of nearly five hours listening to audio each day, while the non-Latino population consumes 3 hours and 55 minutes — more than a one-hour difference. In 2014, podcasting was just […]