CD Quality Archives

How to listen to lossless FLAC internet radio with free media players

26/05/2020

Radio is a great source of free music, news and information. You can even get podcasts over the air in the Greater London area with Podcast Radio. With the advent of internet radio in the mid 1990s broadcasters started to add internet streams in addition to their ‘over the air’ programming. Early internet radio streams were often low bandwidth which reflected the dial-up nature of the internet in those pre-millennium days. Fast forward to today […]

First Public Radio

21/05/2020

First Public Radio is an internet radio station playing new music and top 40 hits and broadcasting CD Quality Lossless FLAC and MP3 streams. According to the station, they are “Radio for music and background sounding of any business. Radio without ads in high lossless quality 728 kpbs flac!” The station’s website is in Russian but Chrome will automatically translate the pages with pleasing results. There is a web player for the FLAC stream and 4 […]

Deezer cuts the price of its HiFi plan

12/05/2020

Deezer cuts the price of its HiFi plan offering CD Quality streaming for £14.99/$14.99/AUS$14.99 per month with the reduction taking effect immediately on new and existing subscriptions. Deezer HiFi is an on-demand ad free streaming service offering 56 million tracks in 44.1kHz/16bit FLAC. A subscription to Deezer HiFi also gives you access to Sony’s new immersive audio format, 360 Reality Audio. There are dedicated iOS and Android apps, 360 by Deezer, which support tracks in […]

SECTOR Radio – 10s channel

01/05/2020

SECTOR 10s is the latest channel from SECTOR Radio and joins it siblings – Progressive, Space, Classical, 80s and 90s in offering CD Quality Lossless FLAC internet radio. SECTOR 10s (branded ‘Zed’ on its URLs) is dedicated to music of the 2010s. The channel description says, “…SECTOR Zed is the music of a truly digital generation of people. On air hits of popular and homegrown performers.” The description goes on to say, “Generation Z is a […]

Intense Radio

01/04/2020

Intense Radio is specialist dance genre internet radio station broadcasting in CD Quality Lossless FLAC, 192kbps MP3 and 80kpbs AAC+v2 streams. According to the station: “Intense Radio started in March 2012 and is based in The Netherlands. We thought it would be great to offer a music format that is different from other internet radio stations. At the moment there is a crew of 15 enthusiastic dance, trance and house lovers who are a member […]

Qobuz drops the price of its Premier service

26/02/2020

Qobuz drops the price of its Premier service offering a HiRes and CD Quality streaming service in the UK for £14.99 a month or £149.99 with a yearly plan. In addition, the streamer will be dropping its MP3 streaming service ‘to focus on delivering best-in-class studio quality audio’. The streaming service will offer CD-quality (lossless) or HiRes (from 24-bit/44.1 kHz up to 192 kHz studio quality) on its new Studio Premier plan, for its first […]

Qobuz playing through StreamMagic on Cambridge Audio Edge NQ

Cambridge Audio adds Qobuz HiRes streaming to its network players

29/12/2019

Cambridge Audio adds Qobuz HiRes streaming to its network players offering support for 320 kbps, CD Quality and HiRes streams. The high end audio equipment manufacturer has added full support for HiRes audio music streaming and download service Qobuz to three of its network audio streamers – the EDGE NQ, Azur 851N and the CXN (V2). Qobuz is integrated into its popular iOS and Android app, StreamMagic, that works with the company’s range of network players, […]