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Personalize Spotify playlists with Enhance

16/09/2021

Personalize Spotify playlists with Enhance, a new feature which assists listeners to add tracks to a new or existing playlist. Enhance brings together the best of you and Spotify, providing you with personalized recommendations to create playlists with ease while keeping you in control through an easy-to-navigate design. Simply turn these recommendations on or off with the tap of a button. And once Enhance is on, you’ll see your playlist populated with suggested songs that […]

Qobuz rolls out ‘My Weekly Q’ and ‘Carplay Online’

15/09/2021

Qobuz rolls out ‘My Weekly Q’ and ‘Carplay Online’ and announces reductions in all its subscription plans. ‘My Weekly Q’ is a musical recommendation feature which is adapted to each subscriber. Every Friday, Qobuz now offers its subscribers a personalised playlist that highlights musical discoveries based on listening to users with similar musical profiles. Using collaborative Artificial Intelligence, the musical experience of its subscribers will be enhanced by offering eclectic and personalised tracks. This feature […]

Recently introduced Sonos Beam (Gen 2) which supports Dolby Atmos and HiRes formats

Sonos to support Dolby Atmos and HiRes formats

14/09/2021

Sonos is to support Dolby Atmos and HiRes formats later this year via Amazon Music’s Ultra HD service. This will allow listeners to hear tracks in lossless audio up to 24-bit/48kHz as well as Dolby Atmos Music on their Sonos speakers. Available at no extra cost to Amazon Music Unlimited customers, Ultra HD will be available to listen on all S2 devices, except Play:1, Play:3, Playbase and Playbar, while Dolby Atmos Music will be available […]

Paid subscriptions drive US streaming growth

14/09/2021

Paid subscriptions drive US streaming growth, up 27% in the first half of 2021 versus the prior year, from $5.6 to $7.1 billion at retail value. Figures released by the RIAA show that paid subscriptions continued to be the strongest contributor to growth, comprising nearly two-thirds of total revenue, and more than 80 million paid subscriptions for the first time. At wholesale value revenues rose 25%, from $3.7 billion in 1H 2020 to $4.6 billion […]

Italian record industry grows 34% in the first half of 2021

08/09/2021

Italian record industry grows 34% in the first half of 2021 with streaming subscriptions growing by 41% in the same period. According to Deloitte data commissioned by FIMI, the Italian recording industry association, streaming subscription growth continues a trend that began in 2020 with a strong general shift of consumers towards subscription services. After a complex 2020 in terms of access to retail outlets and distribution caused by the pandemic, the physical segment has also […]

79% of Irish people listen to live radio everyday

07/09/2021

79% of Irish people listen to live radio everyday compared to 25% who stream music and 5% who listen to podcasts daily. This is according to the JNLR Radio and the Irish Audio Market report compiled by Ipsos/MRBI. The JNLR (Joint National Listenership Research) is a joint industry research project conducted on behalf of the Irish radio industry from a national sample of 3100 interviews of 15+ individuals between Q4 2020 and Q2 2021. Key […]

Bluetooth to support true CD Quality streaming

06/09/2021

Bluetooth is to support true CD Quality streaming with Qualcomm’s new aptX Lossless technology due to be launched later in 2021. aptX Lossless is a new capability of the proven aptX Adaptive technology and a new feature of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Sound Technology that is designed to deliver CD quality 16-bit 44.1kHz lossless audio quality over Bluetooth wireless technology. To help deliver CD lossless audio quality reliably over Bluetooth wireless technology, aptX Adaptive works in conjunction […]