Streaming Archives

Qobuz partners with Canadian telco

04/06/2020

Qobuz partners with Canadian telco, Québecor who launched QUB Musique, a streaming platform in Quebec in May. The streaming service is currently in beta with a web player and mobile apps (iOS and Android) offering 50 million tracks in 320kbps MP3. There is no information available about the possible availability of the service in the rest of Canada or whether higher audio quality streams could be rolled out in the future. The QUB music platform […]

Apple Music now has classical music iOS app

04/06/2020

Apple Music now has classical music iOS app in addition to a web front-end which was released towards the back end of last year. Concertino transforms Apple Music into a classical music jukebox allowing you to browse composers, genres and periods, create playlists of multi-movement works, start no-nonsense radio stations and more. The rationale behind Concertino according to its developer is that “Classical music demands a very different approach: it is based on composers, works, […]

Spotify library limit removed

01/06/2020

Spotify library limit removed giving users an unlimited number of saved items in their library although playlist and download limits will stay the same. The limit removal also applies to liked songs and albums. The limit removal was announced in a posting on Spotify’s community pages and points out that “Since 2014, the request to remove this limit has been very popular in the Community Ideas Exchange, with over 12,500 votes.” Before now, it was […]

Deezer brings back 3 month free offer

01/06/2020

Deezer brings back 3 month free offer for its Premium, HiFi and Family plans in a limited time offer. Family and HiFi plans normally cost €14.99/month, while Premium is €9.99 but now, you’ll get the first three months completely free. Deezer Family lets up to six people enjoy 56 million songs, podcasts and live radio channels. Deezer Family features Up to six individual Deezer profiles with up to 13 total connected devices (mobile phones, tablets, […]

TIDAL rolls out Dolby Atmos

29/05/2020

TIDAL rolls out Dolby Atmos to users with a Dolby Atmos enabled sound bar, TV, or AVR home cinema system and a TIDAL HiFi subscription. To access this feature, TIDAL HiFi users will need to connect their Dolby Atmos enabled living room devices to a compatible streaming player running the most recently updated TIDAL app. Compatible streaming devices include – Apple TV 4K; various Fire TV models such as Fire TV Stick 4K, Fire TV Cube, Fire […]

Classical music front-end for Spotify

23/05/2020

Concertmaster is an open source classical music front-end for Spotify. It uses Open Opus data and combines it with automated analysis of Spotify’s own metadata in order to create an improved user experience for classical music. It relies on crowdsourced curation as well for additional verification and refinement. Concertmaster runs on Android phones and Mac, Windows, ChromeOS and Linux computers. Due to Spotify restrictions, it doesn’t run on iPads and iPhones but a Concertmaster app […]

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 […]