All items tagged with streaming services (173)

Apple Confirms Lossless Audio and Spatial Audio Are Coming to Apple Music June 2021

May 17, 2021 by Joao Martins

Apple Confirms Lossless Audio and Spatial Audio Are Coming to Apple Music June 2021

Apple announced that Apple Music will be offering Spatial Audio with Dolby Atmos tracks, as well as offering its entire catalog in Lossless Audio, at no additional cost for subscribers, starting June 2021. Lossless will use ALAC file format, and support 24-bit/48kHz as standard, with Hi-Res Lossless Audio files available up to 24-bit/192kHz. Apple is even promoting the fact that Hi-Res Lossless will require external equipment, such as a USB digital-to-analog converter (DAC)!

Deezer Makes Strategic Investment in Dreamstage to Expand Into Live Music Streaming

May 7, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

Deezer Makes Strategic Investment in Dreamstage to Expand Into Live Music Streaming

Deezer, the audio streaming service, is becoming a cornerstone investor in Dreamstage, a US-based live music streaming startup. Like all streaming content companies, the expansion into live concerts is regarded as a promising option for differentiation and subscriber retention. The new funding will also enable Dreamstage to significantly speed up growth and expand its operations.

Deezer Bundled with Samsung Galaxy Powered Mobee-K USB-C Earphones

April 27, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

Deezer Bundled with Samsung Galaxy Powered Mobee-K USB-C Earphones

Deezer announced it will now come pre-installed on the new Smart Earphones (USB-C) from Mobee-K, a Kaon media subsidiary. This new type of bundle is appropriate since the in-earphones are designed to support high resolution audio and are a great match for Deezer’s high-fidelity (HiFi) subscription tier. And Samsung Galaxy users can also unlock exclusive features, including a customized Deezer theme for their mobile device.

Spotify Unveils Car Thing Dedicated Smart Player for the Car

April 14, 2021 by Joao Martins

Spotify Unveils Car Thing Dedicated Smart Player for the Car

In a effort to expand its reach in the lucrative automotive sector, Swedish streaming audio company Spotify has launched its very first hardware product. With free and widely available radio stations still dominating the space, car audio remains the last frontier to be conquered by streaming services. Spotify seems determined to cover that market, even if it requires launching a proof-of-concept product. Spotify Car Thing is basically a dedicated Spotify player with voice controls for Premium subscribers, cutting the ties to the smartphone.

BluOS 3.14 Expands Music Streaming Services, Integration Features, and Adds Radio Paradise in MQA

April 5, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

BluOS 3.14 Expands Music Streaming Services, Integration Features, and Adds Radio Paradise in MQA

With the release of version 3.14, Lenbrook's premium multi-room music management platform BluOS introduced a number of important enhancements for both the user and integrators across the whole BluOS ecosystem of products. BluOS expands access to three new natively-integrated music streaming services, exclusive access to Radio Paradise MQA-encoded audio streams and various performance improvements.

Deezer Expands Lossless CD-Quality Streaming with HiFi Family Package

March 26, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

Deezer Expands Lossless CD-Quality Streaming with HiFi Family Package

With Spotify promising to evolve its leading music streaming service from its lossy Ogg Vorbis codec to CD-Quality lossless in its new HiFi tier, other music streaming services who have embraced FLAC streaming earlier, are expanding its options to reward existing subscribers and hopefully gain new customers. Deezer expanded its Deezer HiFi tier as a Family package for just $19.99, enabling up to six users to enjoy CD-quality FLAC streaming (1411kbps). For those who never tried Deezer HiFi, there's also a 3-months free offer.

Qobuz Becomes First Hi-Res Audio Streaming Service Available on Sonos

March 24, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

Qobuz Becomes First Hi-Res Audio Streaming Service Available on Sonos

Music streaming service Qobuz confirmed it will be the first music service to deliver 24-bit Hi-Res audio streaming on Sonos. Qobuz users that subscribe to the Studio (Hi-Res) tier will be able to listen to high-resolution music directly on their Sonos speakers, with the ease of simply pressing play in the Sonos app. Available with the Sonos S2 app, this new integration is one of Qobuz’s broadest expansions of Hi-Res streaming support to date.

MAAT Announces Universal Monitor Controller and Visualizer Plug-In for High Resolution Audio Files and Streams

March 11, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

MAAT Announces Universal Monitor Controller and Visualizer Plug-In for High Resolution Audio Files and Streams

MAAT Incorporated announced the release of a cross platform plug-in and native application for routing, matrixing and visualization of digital audio. The new MAATgo Plug-in represents the debut of MAAT’s first product designed specifically for hi-fi enthusiasts and high resolution audio (HRA) music playback from computers. Available for all major plug-in formats for macOS and Windows, MAATgo delivers complete "preamp" channel routing, plus a software goniometer that authentically replicates an analog oscilloscope experience.

Spotify to Introduce Spotify HiFi Lossless Streaming and Expand International Footprint

February 22, 2021 by Joao Martins

Spotify to Introduce Spotify HiFi Lossless Streaming and Expand International Footprint

Swedish streaming giant Spotify promoted an online streamed event to announce a series of innovations, new strategies, global expansion and reveal loads of mind-blowing statistics. Among the announcements the company announced Spotify HiFi, a service which will allow for paying subscribers of the service to get CD-quality, lossless audio streaming to computers and Spotify Connect-enabled speakers. It's not high-resolution audio, but at least it is a better alternative to Ogg Vorbis.

Bowers & Wilkins Launches Music App for Its Formation-Enabled Products

February 12, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

Bowers & Wilkins Launches Music App for Its Formation-Enabled Products

Bowers & Wilkins announced an exciting new development to its Formation wireless audio technology platform. Available now, the new Bowers & Wilkins Music App significantly increases the number of music-streaming services accessible to owners of Formation-enabled Bowers & Wilkins products. Available to both Android and iOS users, the App will initially offer support for Qobuz, TIDAL, TuneIn, Dash Radio, NTS Radio and SoundCloud, with more to be added in the coming months.

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