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What is the best free music streaming service?

29/01/2024

High Resolution Audio’s guide to getting the best free streaming for your musical entertainment. What is the best free music streaming service? No one quite knows the origin of the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’ but this applies to music streaming much like most other things in life. Most of the free offerings come with some sort of restriction such as ads, reduced audio quality, limited features such as no skipping or […]

Enlighten Radio

02/06/2023

Enlighten Radio is an internet radio station with an eclectic mix of ‘Progressive Rebel Radio, Talk, Stories, Science, Jazz, Blues and Bluegrass from the Red Caboose Studio in West Virginia, USA’. It used to broadcast a CD Quality Lossless FLAC stream both as a direct link and a webplayer but this has been downgraded to a 128kbps MP3 stream. The website has recently been updated to include a programme guide (in blogroll format) to help […]

UK music copyright infringement sees slight decline in 2021

11/01/2022

UK music copyright infringement sees a slight decline in 2021 despite a small increase across all content categories according to the Online Copyright Infringement Tracker Survey (11th Wave) conducted by the UK Government’s Intellectual Property Office (IPO). The report is based on a survey of 5000 nationally representative individuals aged 12+ and 50 in-depth interviews of 16+ adults conducted between 21/03/21 and 24/04/21. This was a time when the UK was in lockdown and consumption […]

YouTube reveals top music videos in 2020

12/12/2020

YouTube reveals top music videos in 2020 together with the top trends and moments that shaped the year. Despite the pandemic and the restrictions on live music artists got creative bringing fans together by using YouTube as a virtual stage, filming music videos from home, and by unlocking extraordinary concerts from the archives. YouTube commented, “…while this year was unlike any other, it didn’t stop artists from connecting and engaging with their global YouTube community, […]

Can music make you multilingual?

25/11/2020

Can music make you multilingual? New research from Deezer explores the connection between music and learning languages in a survey of over 12,000 people across six countries. It found that over 90% of people think listening to music helps when trying to master a new language. Respondents found that the biggest benefits include improved pronunciation (30%), a bigger vocab range (31%) and better recall (29%). Deezer worked with language and music expert Susanna Zarysky to […]

Specialist Jazz streamer jazzed's introductory offer

Specialist Jazz streamer launched in UK

21/05/2020

UPDATE: 21/05/2020 – jazzed launched successfully in February and is now offering its jazzed+ service for an introductory offer of £0.99/month for 3 months. After your 3 month introductory offer your subscription will continue at £5.99/month. ∼ Jazzed is a specialist Jazz streamer set to launch in UK on the 12th February with a Free and jazzed+ paid for service. According to the streamer jazzed is ‘more than a music streaming service. it’s a virtual […]

Streaming drives UK entertainment sales 9.4% higher in 2018

14/01/2019

Streaming drives UK entertainment sales 9.4% higher in 2018 according to the end of year report from the Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA). This represents the sixth consecutive year of growth. Although the entertainment market is now three quarters digital physical formats have dominated this year’s biggest hits. According to preliminary data compiled by the ERA the entertainment market reached another all-time high of £7.537 Bn in 2018. After a sixth successive year of growth driven […]