Spotify upgrades its Apple Watch app with improved playback and download options. You will be able to more easily browse and choose your favourite music and podcasts in Your Library, as well as more quickly download music to listen offline from the watch itself. There’s also a new sleek design with larger artwork, animations, and added functionality – like swiping to like a song. It’s also easier to spot new episodes marked with a blue […]
MQA announces new HiRes wireless codec which has been approved by the Japan Audio Society (JAS) and will be able to use their prestigious ‘Hi-Res AUDIO WIRELESS’ logo. This new codec carries the technical name of SCL6 and is being marketed as MQair. Wireless devices account for a large segment of music listening over headphones, earbuds, and wireless speakers. Bluetooth speakers and wireless headphones have a combined annual retail value of $69bn forecast for 2022, […]
Amazon Music Prime expands to 100 million songs – an increase from the previous 2 million – giving Prime members access in shuffle mode, ad-free, and at no additional cost to their membership. Prime members will also get access to top podcasts ad-free and on demand, including shows they already know and love from Crowd Network and The New York Times. Ad-free shows include the +44 Podcast, binge-worthy podcasts from Wondery including British Scandal, Who Killed Daphne, SmartLess, Morbid, My Favorite […]
Podcast listening among US Latinos hits record high with one third listening to podcasts in Spanish. These findings are from an Edison Research report and show the results of a representative survey of 2500 Hispanic/Latino adults age 18+. conducted in June 2022. The U.S. Latino Podcast Listener Report 2022 found that 59% of US Latinos adults have listened to a podcast compared to 44% in 2021. Just over half (51%) of US Latinos have listened to a podcast in English, and […]
Apple Music Spatial Audio comes to Mercedes vehicles with support for Dolby Atmos. Apple Music with Spatial Audio comes fully integrated through the MBUX infotainment system first in the Mercedes-Maybach S-Class, the EQS and EQS SUV, as well as the EQE, EQE SUV and the S-Class, equipping these vehicles with ‘studio-quality sound better than in any concert hall’, and giving drivers a fully immersive listening experience with unparalleled, multidimensional sound and clarity. Oliver Schusser, Apple’s […]
Apple Music now has 100 million songs and has emphasised the importance on human curation and not algorithms. Announcing this milestone Apple said, “Twenty-one years on from the invention of iTunes and the debut of the original iPod, we’ve gone from 1,000 songs in your pocket to 100,000x that on Apple Music. It’s phenomenal growth by any metric. The entire history, present, and future of music is at your fingertips or voice command.” They continued, […]
Get 4 months of Amazon Music for free. The offer is available for new subscribers only and after the free period will revert to the normal subscription rate of £9.99 per month (£8.99 per month for Prime Members). Amazon’s deal is available in most territories with equivalent local pricing. Your subscription will renew automatically after the introductory offer and you can cancel your renewal at any time. The offer is available now and runs until […]
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