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Americans continue to listen to radio
Americans continue to listen to radio for 37% of their daily audio time according to a recent blog post by Edison Research. […]
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Radio Calico
Radio Calico is a rock/pop genre internet radio station in the US broadcasting a HiRes 24-bit/48kHz lossless FLAC stream. Previously geolocked to the US, the station removed its geoblocking and went global in October 2023. Their website has a webplayer, a 192kbps MP3 stream and links to iOS and Android mobile apps. There are also links to radio aggregators TuneIn, raddio and RadioGuide.FM and social media. Roon users are also catered for with a dedicated […]
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Radio Calico goes global
Radio Calico, the US based HiRes internet radio station goes global removing its geoblocking which previously restricted listening to the US only. In a recent announcement the station said, “…we now have dedicated apps in Google Play and the App Store that are capable of 48kHz / 24-bit HLS lossless streaming, in addition to our website player. We’re still ad-free and subscription-free, and sourcing HiRes files from Qobuz when available.” Streaming URLs Webplayer: https://www.radio-calico.com/ HiRes […]
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US Latin music grew 15% in first half of 2023
The US Latin music market grew 15% in first half of 2023 with paid subscriptions accounting for two thirds of the streaming market according to the RIAA, the US recording industry association. During this period revenues from Latin music in the US grew to $627 million and represents 7.5% of the total US music market up from 7.1% in the first half of 2022. Paid subscriptions comprised more than two-thirds of total Latin music revenues, and […]
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US recorded music revenues up 9.3% in first half of 2023
US recorded music revenues up 9.3% in first half of 2023 generating $8.4 Bn at estimated retail value according to the RIAA. The number of paid subscriptions grew to a record high of 96 million, with revenues up 11% to $5.5 Bn and comprising almost three quarters of the first half total. At wholesale value, revenues grew 8.3% to $5.3 Bn. Streaming Revenues from streaming services made up 84% of total recorded music revenues in the […]
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K-Free
K-Free is an internet radio station broadcasting Christian and Contemporary music based in Peoria, Arizona with an HLS encoded CD Quality FLAC stream using StreamS technology. Their website has a webplayer for the FLAC stream and also links for an AAC webplayer and Alexa. The FLAC stream was successfully tested with VLC but foobar would not play the stream. Other media players/network stream devices and browsers may encounter similar problems unless HLS is specifically supported. […]
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Classical 90.5 FM
Classical 90.5 FM is one of three radio stations broadcast both over the air and on internet radio by azpm.org. azpm is a US public broadcaster and a member of both PBS and NPR and is based in Tucson, Arizona. Classical 90.5 FM is as its name suggests dedicated to classical music and broadcasts an HLS encoded CD Quality Lossless FLAC stream using StreamS technology. It also has a 128kbps AAC-LC stream powered by StreamS. […]