60North Radio
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60North Radio

60North Radio is an internet radio station broadcasting mainly indie music based in the Shetland Islands way up in the north of the UK. Started in 2004 as a local information station it had 6 low power FM transmitters by 2005 but by 2014 the harsh local weather had destroyed them all. Now the station is internet radio only and broadcasts a CD Quality lossless FLAC stream, 48kbps and 256kbps AAC streams and a 320kbps […]

Mother Earth Radio upgrades its streams
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Mother Earth Radio upgrades its streams

Mother Earth Radio upgrades its streams broadcasting FLAC at 192kHz on two of its three channels. In a recent announcement the station’s found Florian Reiterer said, “We have a big update on Mother Earth Radio, we are now broadcasting in 192kHz sampling rate. That’s why we have also radically eliminated all CDs or similar and now only play vinyl or HiRes Audio files. The recordings are now made with a record needle with up to […]

W1D4
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W1D4

W1D4 was a pop music genre internet radio station which first appeared at the end of 2022, went off air in January 2023, re-emerged in April and has now stopped broadcasting. It offered a lossless CD Quality FLAC stream and 128kbps and 320kbps AAC streams. There was a webplayer with the option to choose between the three audio stream qualities and direct stream links for those with media players. The website offered a Song History […]

SomaFM
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SomaFM

SomaFM is a San Francisco based internet radio station broadcasting 39 channels of music in a wide range of genres including 70’s, alternative, ambient, Americana, folk, jazz, rock and many more. The station is listener supported relying on voluntary contributions from its listeners and when we tuned in at noon (UK BST) they had some 7.5k listeners. The station offers a wide range of audio formats including 128kbps and 256kbps MP3 and 32kbps 64kbps and […]

TIDAL to support HiRes FLAC
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TIDAL to support HiRes FLAC

TIDAL to support HiRes FLAC was the surprise announcement from Jesse Dorogusker, CEO of TIDAL in an AMA (Ask Me Anything) session on reddit at the beginning of the week. When asked about MQA he gave the following reply: “So many questions about MQA and hi-resolution audio. I hope we don’t spend all of our time on audio format details, but it’s an AMA and you’re asking. TIDAL has cared about high quality and even […]

H2O Radio
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H2O Radio

H2O Radio is a local radio station serving 3 localities in the Lac D’Annecy region in the North East corner of France close to the Swiss border. It has an FM and DAB+ terrestrial transmitter network and an internet radio presence broadcasting a mixture of local news, information and music with CD Quality Lossless FLAC streams as well as AAC and MP3 streams. They also have 5 music ‘webradios’ streaming  192kbps MP3 streams. The website […]

SuperStereo 8
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SuperStereo 8

In the beginning of March SuperStereo Radio Chile closed down its latest channel – SuperStereo 8. In an email to one of its listeners it said, “SuperStereo 8 closed its broadcasts, our corporate building contains 7 departments for each station plus the technical and administrative area, so we will focus only on the 7 existing stations on our website.” SuperStereo 8 was a soul and ballads from the 70s, 80s and 90s genre channel broadcasting […]