Starter FM
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Starter FM

Starter FM is an Australian internet radio station playing a range of electronic dance music. The station has a CD Quality Lossless FLAC stream plus AAC, MP3 and Vorbis streams at various resolutions. In addition to their main channel, they broadcast two other channels of electronic music – Chill with Start and Starter Bangaz. They also act as a hub for half a dozen other radio Australian radio stations under the banner Starter Plus. The […]

Hawkesbury Radio
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Hawkesbury Radio

Hawkesbury Radio is an Australian community internet radio station based in North-West Sydney with a main channel dedicated to local programming and playing an eclectic range of music. It also has a Hawkesbury Radio Sports channel. Hawkesbury Radio has a 192kbps MP3, a 48kbps AAC and had a CD Quality Lossless FLAC stream which has now been discontinued. The website contains links to local community events and news, radio aggregators and their social media. Website: […]

Spotify Premium users to get Audiobook access
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Spotify Premium users to get Audiobook access

Spotify Premium users are to get Audiobook access for up to 15 hours per month as part of their subscription plan. The offer is slightly caveated as only Premium subscribers as well as plan managers for Family and Duo accounts will be eligible and only for users in the UK and Australia. Subscribers in the US are expected to be added later this year. Over 150,000 audiobooks will be available in this offering. 10-hour top […]

SOURCE: DJ Zog - Zog Radio
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Zog Radio

Zog Radio was an internet radio station broadcasting a CD Quality Lossless FLAC stream. In October 2022 DJ Zog announced that “Zog internet radio will be on hiatus”. He continued “I know this has got a lot of positive feedback, but for a while this service will be shut down as I have too much on my plate. This could very likely be started up again in future, if so I will note here.” The […]

Spotify launches Audiobooks in US
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Spotify launches Audiobooks in US

Update: 27/11/2022 – On Tuesday 22nd November, Spotify announced that audiobooks are also now available for purchase in the UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. Spotify launches Audiobooks in US where Spotify listeners will be able to purchase and listen to more than 300,000 audiobook titles. The new service comes with a brand-new user interface that’s geared specifically for listening to audiobooks and fits them seamlessly alongside the music and podcasts available in the apps. […]

How do consumers listen to music?
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How do consumers listen to music?

How do consumers listen to music was the question posed by YouGov as part of its ongoing research into the music industry. The study asked consumers in the US, Britain, Germany, Indonesia and Australia how they listened to music. Car radio is still the most popular activity Data reveals that listening to music radio in a car is popular among a majority of consumers across four in five markets of the survey and is the most common way […]

Quarter of Australian households own 3 or more smart speakers
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Quarter of Australian households own 3 or more smart speakers

Quarter of Australian households own 3 or more smart speakers according to a recent study conducted by Edison Research on behalf of Commercial Radio Australia (CRA) and TalkVia. The findings are published in The Smart Audio Report Australia 2021 which brings together the results of an online survey of 5000 Australian adults aged 18 and older conducted in April and May 2021. The new Smart Audio Report Australia finds that 24% of smart speaker households own three or more of the […]