January 2025

Metal Invasion Radio

18/01/2025

Metal Invasion Radio is a French internet radio station playing metal music. It has a lossless CD Quality FLAC, a 320kbps MP3 and a 96kbps AAC stream plus radio aggregator links. The website contains a webplayer together with ‘Now playing’ and ‘Play Again’ functions. You will also be able to find news about upcoming metal albums, concerts and listen to podcasts about metal music. Website: https://metal-invasion.fr Webplayer: https://metal-invasion.fr/radio CD Quality Lossless FLAC: https://radio.metal-invasion.fr/radio/8000/streamflac 320kbps MP3: […]

Dance Wave

13/01/2025

Dance Wave is a new Dance and Electronic music internet radio station broadcasting two programmes of dance music in CD Quality Lossless FLAC plus 128kbps MP3, ~150kbps Ogg, 64kbps AAC+ and ~110kbps Opus streams. It offers two channels of Dance Music – Dance Wave and Dance Wave Retro! Dance Wave offers mainly Dance, House, Deep House, Trance and more electronic music and Dance Wave Retro! is ‘All about dance before 2000!’ featuring 90’s, Eurodance, Dance, […]

What are the best music streaming deals for couples?

12/01/2025

High Resolution Audio’s guide to getting the best couples deals for your musical entertainment. What are the best music streaming deals for couples? Deezer, Qobuz and Spotify have realised that not every one is a singleton or has a family and have come up with ‘Duo’ deals for couples. The pricing for these plans comes about half way between an individual and family subscription. In the UK there are roughly 15% more two person households […]

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The Rise and Fall of the Compact Disc

11/01/2025

The first commercial Compact Disc (CD) was released in 1982 and the CD was planned as the successor to the vinyl record. Developed by Philips and Sony, sales of CDs grew quickly and by 2004 cumulative worldwide sales of audio CDs, CD-ROMs and CD-Rs reached about 30 billion discs and 200 billion by 2007. However, from the beginning of the early 2000s CDs were increasingly being replaced by other forms of digital storage and distribution […]

UK Record Store Day date announced

10/01/2025

UK Record Store Day date announced returning for its 18th edition on the 12th April 2025. Over 270 independent record shops across the UK, alongside thousands more around the globe, gear up for their biggest celebration of vinyl releases, in-store parties and independent record store culture. In addition to long-time supporters, wine producers Studio by Miraval and HiFi manufacturers Bowers & Wilkins, Record Store Day organisers announced that the DEYA Brewing Company based in Cheltenham […]

Skylegend Radio

09/01/2025

Skylegend Radio which stopped broadcasting in March 2024 resurfaced in October 2024 with a 320kbps MP3 stream. The French internet radio station originally had both a CD Quality Lossless FLAC stream and an MP3 stream and now in January 2025 it has resumed its FLAC stream and added a 96kbps AAC stream to its existing MP3 offering. All three streams are available via both the webplayer and direct links. The station’s tagline is La Puissance […]

France continues to buy mainly French music in 2024

09/01/2025

France continues to buy mainly French music in 2024 with 18 out of the Top 20 best-selling albums being made by local artists and in French according to SNEP the French recorded music industry association. The top 3 best-selling albums of the year were by French artists – Werenoi, who climbs to the top step for the 2nd consecutive year, PLK and Indochine 2024 French Recorded Music Highlights 145 French productions are present in the 200 best-sellers […]