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What are the best Jazz music streaming deals?

04/03/2025

High Resolution Audio’s guide to getting the best Jazz music streaming plan. Jazz is a dynamic and expressive musical form that emphasizes improvisation, rhythmic complexity, and a blend of musical traditions. Originating in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in New Orleans, Louisiana, blending African and European musical traditions it now comes to encompass everything from New Orleans Jazz to Fusion via Swing, Bebop, Cool Jazz, Jazz Funk and many other sub-genres making it […]

What are the best Classical music streaming deals?

13/02/2025

High Resolution Audio’s guide to getting the best Classical music streaming plan. For lovers of Classical music one of the biggest issues they face on mainstream music streaming services is not so much a lack of tracks but the inability to find exactly what they are looking for. Classical works have multiple movements and tracks; famous pieces have hundreds of recordings with different orchestras, conductors, and soloists; and many composers have their own special catalogue […]

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What are the best free music streaming deals?

03/02/2025

High Resolution Audio’s guide to getting the best free streaming for your musical entertainment. What are the best free music streaming deals? No one quite knows the origin of the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’ but this applies to music streaming much like most other things in life. Most of the free offerings come with some sort of restriction such as ads, reduced audio quality, limited features such as no skipping or […]

What are the best music streaming deals for families?

30/01/2025

High Resolution Audio’s guide to getting the best family plan for your musical entertainment. What are the best music streaming deals for families? Updated to reflect Amazon’s price increase January 2025. The top contenders for best music streaming deals for families all of which offer up to 6 individual accounts are Amazon Music, Apple Music, Qobuz and TIDAL. Amazon Music when combined with an Amazon Prime subscription will also give you video streaming, access to […]

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 […]

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 […]