January 2025

Best music streaming deals for students

20/01/2025

High Resolution Audio’s guide to getting the best student deals for your musical entertainment. What are the best music streaming deals for students? Most of the major streaming platforms with the exception of Napster offer a student discount and premium subscriptions can be had for between £4.49 and £5.99 per month. You will need to be a registered student in a recognised University or College and may have to provide some form of proof like […]

Violent Forces Radio

20/01/2025

Violent Forces Radio is an internet radio station with two channels of Thrash Metal music – General Thrash and 80s Thrash. Both channels have a 64kbps AAC stream, a 192kbps MP3 stream and a CD Quality Lossless FLAC stream. Their website has a webplayer for both channels, links to social media and a ‘just played’ list. Links to radio aggregators are also provided. According to the station, “Broadcasting for more than a decade, Violent Forces […]

Germany had 236 Bn streams in 2024

18/01/2025

Germany had 236 Bn streams in 2024 according to figures by the BVMI from data compiled by GfK Entertainment. This was 11% more than 2023 when 213 Bn streams were achieved. Within the last 6 years the number has more than doubled – in 2019 there were 108 Bn views. Current songs are particularly popular with music fans with songs from the 2020s increasing their streaming share from 52 to 56% from last year. German-speaking acts such as Ayliva, Luciano […]

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 […]