Lossless Archives

Metal Invasion Radio

18/01/2025

Metal Invasion Radio is a French internet radio station playing metal music. It has a lossless CD Quality FLAC, a 320kbps MP3 and a 96kbps AAC stream plus radio aggregator links. The website contains a webplayer together with ‘Now playing’ and ‘Play Again’ functions. You will also be able to find news about upcoming metal albums, concerts and listen to podcasts about metal music. Website: https://metal-invasion.fr Webplayer: https://metal-invasion.fr/radio CD Quality Lossless FLAC: https://radio.metal-invasion.fr/radio/8000/streamflac 320kbps MP3: […]

Dance Wave

13/01/2025

Dance Wave is a new Dance and Electronic music internet radio station broadcasting two programmes of dance music in CD Quality Lossless FLAC plus 128kbps MP3, ~150kbps Ogg, 64kbps AAC+ and ~110kbps Opus streams. It offers two channels of Dance Music – Dance Wave and Dance Wave Retro! Dance Wave offers mainly Dance, House, Deep House, Trance and more electronic music and Dance Wave Retro! is ‘All about dance before 2000!’ featuring 90’s, Eurodance, Dance, […]

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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 […]

Skylegend Radio

09/01/2025

Skylegend Radio which stopped broadcasting in March 2024 resurfaced in October 2024 with a 320kbps MP3 stream. The French internet radio station originally had both a CD Quality Lossless FLAC stream and an MP3 stream and now in January 2025 it has resumed its FLAC stream and added a 96kbps AAC stream to its existing MP3 offering. All three streams are available via both the webplayer and direct links. The station’s tagline is La Puissance […]

WBOR (91.1 FM)

09/01/2025

WBOR (91.1 FM) is a community radio station in Maine, US with both a terrestrial FM transmitter and an internet presence. It has a lossless CD Quality FLAC stream and a 192kbps MP3 stream plus radio aggregator links. The website contains a webplayer together with ‘Now playing’ and ‘Play Again’ functions. According to the station, “WBOR (91.1 FM) is a non-commercial, community public radio station licensed to Bowdoin College. Our team of student and community DJs is […]

HiRes Internet Radio

08/01/2025

The gold standard for top end audio is HiRes Audio (24bit/96kHz or higher) and although the available music has been limited in comparison to the catalogue available in CD Quality this has gradually been increasing over the past couple of years. 2021 saw Apple Music launch its ‘Lossless’ service which joined Amazon Music, Qobuz and TIDAL all offering CD Quality and 24bit/96kHz or higher streams. Spotify’s much publicised announcement that it would launch its CD […]

SuperStereo 7

07/01/2025

SuperStereo 7 is a jazz genre internet radio station broadcasting a HiRes 24-bit/96kHz Lossless FLAC stream. SuperStereo Radio Chile also broadcasts another 9 channels of music in HiRes 24-bit/96kHz Lossless FLAC. According to the station, “SuperStereo Radio Chile is the first in South America broadcasting in high resolution. SuperStereo, the station for the audiophile.” SuperStereo 1 plays Yacht Rock; SuperStereo 1+ plays Disco, Soul & Funk; SuperStereo 2 plays 50’s,60’s and 70’s music; SuperStereo 3 […]