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TIDAL to livestream summer festivals

24/07/2019

TIDAL to livestream summer festivals with Made in America (31st August in Philadelphia) and Lil Weezyana Fest (7th September in New Orleans) scheduled to be livestreamed. TIDAL subscribers across the globe will be able to watch this season’s most anticipated music performances directly from their chosen device. These seasonal offerings add to the growing list of exclusive festival content that TIDAL offers. TIDAL livestreaming summer festivals MIA Made In America is an annual, two-day music […]

TIDAL Masters now on iOS

14/03/2019

TIDAL Masters now on mobile with an iOS app with built-in MQA decoder to allow HiRes streaming on the move. The eagerly awaited update to TIDAL’s iOS app follows the recent Android news announced at CES in January 2019. With TIDAL Masters playback now accessible on iPhones and Android smartphones, as well as desktop and connected devices, studio quality sound is now available on all major platforms. Using a process called ‘music origami’, MQA’s technology […]

Tidal accepts Venmo digital payments

13/02/2019

Tidal accepts Venmo digital payments using its iOS and Android apps for both new and existing users. Venmo is a mobile payment system owned by PayPal and currently only available to US residents. Tidal’s adoption of Venmo follows on from recent partnerships for the payment app giving support for Uber, Shopify and Hulu. New Tidal users will be able to select Venmo as a payment option when signing up to a subscription, while existing users […]

TIDAL Masters now on mobile

12/01/2019

TIDAL Masters now on mobile with an Android app with built-in MQA decoder to allow HiRes streaming on the move. TIDAL and MQA announced the new app at CES 2019 and it is available to download now. MQA technology is already incorporated into the TIDAL desktop app and an iOS version is in development. Mike Jbara, MQA CEO, stated, “We know that most music fans are choosing to stream on their phones. MQA’s view is […]

Workout playlists for your fitness resolution

05/01/2019

Listening to music while exercising often makes that morning jog or a trip to the gym just that little bit more bearable. Here are a few workout playlists to help you keep that New Year’s fitness resolution. Spotify With a boast of 43.5 million workout-themed playlists you will certainly not be short of choice. Perhaps due to the intensely motivational lyrics of Eminem’s “Till I Collapse,” that track is, for the third year in a […]

Onkyo adds MQA support to its networked streamers

04/01/2019

Onkyo adds MQA support to its networked streamers following on from its support for DEEZER HiFi with a firmware update in August 2018. The updates activate MQA audio playback capability and support for TIDAL Masters audio streaming on its network-enabled stereo hi-fi components. A paid TIDAL HiFi subscription is required to stream TIDAL Masters on MQA enabled Onkyo network HiFi audio equipment. MQA delivers HiRes sound in a file that’s small enough to stream and […]

Astell&Kern adds MQA support to its HiRes players

24/12/2018

Astell&Kern adds MQA support to its HiRes players and is now available for the SP1000, SP1000M, SE100 and SR15 models. In a blog posting the company announced that MQA support was now available on the SP1000 and via a firmware update from the 12th December to the SP1000M, SE100 and SR15 models. These Astell&Kern players with MQA support have a full decoder built in, so they can unfold all the way to the original resolution […]