Streaming Archives

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 […]

Deezer dance music in 360 Reality Audio

21/05/2020

Deezer showcases dance music in 360 Reality Audio partnering with Spinnin’ Records to produce a 52 track playlist in Sony’s new immersive file format. Spinnin’ Records is the world’s biggest dance label and the playlist includes tracks from Mike Williams, Mesto, Lucas & Steve, Quintino, Curbi, Breathe Carolina, Joe Stone and more. According to Deezer, ‘One tune where 360 Reality Audio really makes the song pop is “Make you Mine,” the latest hit by Mike […]

Online audio and podcast listening continues to grow in Australia

21/05/2020

Online audio and podcast listening continues to grow in Australia according to a recent study conducted by Edison Research on behalf of Commercial Radio Australia (CRA), Southern Cross Austereo (SCA) and Triton Digital. The findings are published in The Infinite Dial Australia 2020 which brings together the results of a representative sample of 1014 Australians aged 12 and older conducted in the first quarter of 2020 before the COVID-19 pandemic. Key findings from the Infinite Dial 2020 Australia […]

Liner notes for Apple Music

20/05/2020

You can now get the digital equivalent of liner notes for Apple Music with a 3rd part app called MusicSmart. The app provides details of writers, producers, and everyone who has credits for it. It also can tell you which samples are used in a song, or which songs have used it as a sample and a host of background information to round out your listening experience. MusicSmart integrates with your music library regardless of […]