January 2025

WBOR (91.1 FM)

09/01/2025

WBOR (91.1 FM) is a community radio station in Maine, US with both a terrestrial FM transmitter and an internet presence. It has a lossless CD Quality FLAC stream and a 192kbps MP3 stream plus radio aggregator links. The website contains a webplayer together with ‘Now playing’ and ‘Play Again’ functions. According to the station, “WBOR (91.1 FM) is a non-commercial, community public radio station licensed to Bowdoin College. Our team of student and community DJs is […]

UK music revenues highest in over two decades

09/01/2025

UK music revenues highest in over two decades thanks to streaming following a 2.3% increase in overall entertainment sales to £12 Bn in 2024, according to annual figures released by digital entertainment and retail association ERA. Consumption reached the equivalent of 201.4m albums a year. Streaming alone generated the equivalent of 178m albums, exceeding the record of 172m albums sold in 2004 at the tail-end of the CD boom. Meanwhile consumer spending on recorded music – […]

HiRes Internet Radio

08/01/2025

The gold standard for top end audio is HiRes Audio (24bit/96kHz or higher) and although the available music has been limited in comparison to the catalogue available in CD Quality this has gradually been increasing over the past couple of years. 2021 saw Apple Music launch its ‘Lossless’ service which joined Amazon Music, Qobuz and TIDAL all offering CD Quality and 24bit/96kHz or higher streams. Spotify’s much publicised announcement that it would launch its CD […]

Local music in Italy continues to dominate charts in 2024

08/01/2025

Local music in Italy continues to dominate charts in 2024 with 84% of the Top 100 album chart according to FIMI, the Italian recorded music industry association. The Top Ten Albums of 2024 are all Italian for the fifth year in a row and the Top Ten Singles of 2024 were all Italian as well, an increase from 9 out of 10 in 2023. The results from the FIMI-GFK annual charts (29th December 2023 to 26th December 2024) […]

SuperStereo 7

07/01/2025

SuperStereo 7 is a jazz genre internet radio station broadcasting a HiRes 24-bit/96kHz Lossless FLAC stream. SuperStereo Radio Chile also broadcasts another 9 channels of music in HiRes 24-bit/96kHz Lossless FLAC. According to the station, “SuperStereo Radio Chile is the first in South America broadcasting in high resolution. SuperStereo, the station for the audiophile.” SuperStereo 1 plays Yacht Rock; SuperStereo 1+ plays Disco, Soul & Funk; SuperStereo 2 plays 50’s,60’s and 70’s music; SuperStereo 3 […]

SuperStereo 6

07/01/2025

SuperStereo 6 is an Instrumental Music genre internet radio station broadcasting a 24-bit/96kHz HiRes Lossless FLAC stream. Many of the tracks are also encoded with SQ Quadraphonic Sound which was a legacy 4-channel surround system from the 1970’s. Listeners with modern day cinema sound systems should be able to take advantage of this encoding. SuperStereo Radio Chile also broadcasts another 9 channels of music in HiRes 24-bit/96kHz Lossless FLAC. According to the station, “SuperStereo Radio […]

SuperStereo 5

07/01/2025

SuperStereo 5 is a Rock music genre internet radio station broadcasting a HiRes 24-bit/96kHz Lossless FLAC stream. SuperStereo Radio Chile also broadcasts another 9 channels of music in HiRes 24-bit/96kHz Lossless FLAC. According to the station, “SuperStereo Radio Chile is the first in South America broadcasting in high resolution. SuperStereo, the station for the audiophile.” SuperStereo 1 plays Yacht Rock; SuperStereo 1+ plays Disco, Soul & Funk; SuperStereo 2 plays 50’s,60’s and 70’s music; SuperStereo […]