TIDAL starts to rollout HiRes FLAC to its Early Access Program (EAP) users on iOS according to a recent reddit post by TIDAL CEO Jesse Dorogusker. The streamer is now offering high resolution content in FLAC format, up to 24-bit 192kHz. For those on the EAP programme you can access this now by updating your beta app, and selecting ‘Max’ quality in the new Audio & Playback settings screen. Dorogusker said, “We’re choosing FLAC as […]
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 […]
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 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 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 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 […]
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 […]
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