All items tagged with music streaming (151)

Sonos Announces On-Device Sonos Voice Control in English and French

May 12, 2022 by Joao Martins

Sonos Announces On-Device Sonos Voice Control in English and French

After years of research and development, Sonos has finally announced Sonos Voice Control, its entirely new voice experience that delivers fast, accurate hands-free control of music and any Sonos multiroom system with unmatched privacy. Aware of the growing concerns about digital assistants from the major technology companies, Sonos introduced its first voice experience created purely for complete command of a Sonos system using only voice. A development effort boosted with the strategic acquisition of Snips in 2019.

March 30, 2022 by audioXpress Staff

Roon Announces New Partner Devices and Online Store

Roon, the innovative music management, discovery and streaming platform, has introduced its official online store, dedicated to showcasing the best audio products that work seamlessly with Roon. With over 40 new audio devices that have achieved Roon Ready or Roon Tested status in 2022, Roon provides the largest ecosystem for listening to high-resolution music on the widest range of high-performance audio equipment – from stylish wireless speakers to high-end AV receivers.

Merging Launches Pyramix V.14 Adding Powerful New Dolby Atmos for Music Features

January 26, 2022 by audioXpress Staff

Merging Launches Pyramix V.14 Adding Powerful New Dolby Atmos for Music Features

Merging Technologies announced the availability of Pyramix V.14, an update made to measure for the latest requirements that have suddenly been thrown to studios and producers all over the world. With music streaming services transitioning to spatial audio mixes in Dolby Atmos, and requiring both more original content and repurposing of existing recordings, Pyramix V.14 focuses on retaining the highest quality processes that the software is recognized for, while automating tasks as much as possible.

Cyrus Audio to Join the BluOS High-Resolution Multi-room Audio Ecosystem

January 18, 2022 by audioXpress Staff

Cyrus Audio to Join the BluOS High-Resolution Multi-room Audio Ecosystem

Cyrus Audio, a British brand of home audio electronics and Lenbrook International, the owner and developer of high-resolution multi-room platform BluOS, announced a global partnership to bring the BluOS streaming platform into upcoming Cyrus Audio products. The company plans to expand support for BluOS in future audio components, benefiting from the systems interoperability among enabled devices across brands and superior integrations with popular streaming music services like Tidal, Qobuz, Spotify, and Deezer.

Roon Confirms New Audio Partners and Refines Its Software User Experience

October 29, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

Roon Confirms New Audio Partners and Refines Its Software User Experience

Roon, the innovative music management, discovery and streaming platform, announced an impressive array of over 25 new Roon Ready and Roon Tested devices from audio brands such as Arcam, Astell&Kern, Bluesound, JBL, Mission, Rotel and more. Additionally, the brand welcomed 5 new partners, including British loudspeaker pioneers Mission, whose new LX Connect all-in-one hi-fi system is Roon Tested. Other new partners include Argon Audio, Avik, Silent Angel and Zidoo (featuring three 4K UHD media players that are Roon Ready).

Apple Updates Third-Generation AirPods with Focus on Spatial Audio and Personalization

October 19, 2021 by Joao Martins

Apple Updates Third-Generation AirPods with Focus on Spatial Audio and Personalization

As predicted, Apple announced the next generation of AirPods during a streamed event (October 18). The new model ($179) was improved in every front and promised to be available in just a few days, which was probably the biggest surprise. Apple also announced new colors for its HomePod Mini smart speakers, while it waits for the Matter home standard to be released. And announced a strange Voice Only Apple Music subscription plan, including countries that don’t speak English.

Sony 360 Reality Audio Now Available on Amazon Music Unlimited with Any Headphones

October 19, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

Sony 360 Reality Audio Now Available on Amazon Music Unlimited with Any Headphones

Sony Electronics announced it will expand 360 Reality Audio distribution, content, and compatible devices, including support from Amazon Music Unlimited to play 360 Reality Audio content on headphones. The 360 Reality Audio experience was so far available in Tidal, Deezer, Nugs.net and Amazon Music HD music streaming services with support for Sony certified headphones and speakers. Now, Amazon Music Unlimited will support 360 Reality Audio content playback on any headphones.

NAD Expands Classic Series With New C 399 HybridDigital DAC Amplifier

September 22, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

NAD Expands Classic Series With New C 399 HybridDigital DAC Amplifier

NAD Electronics expanded its Classic Series with a new flagship integrated amplifier featuring HybridDigital nCore amplification, ESS Sabre DAC and the latest MDC2 Modular Design Construction architecture. With all these key elements of NAD's Masters Series amplifiers, the new C 399 Hybrid Digital DAC Amplifier takes value and performance to a whole new level. The suggested retail price of the C 399 is $1999 USD with retail availability in time for the holiday season.

Musicube Introduces Next-Generation Music Discovery AI Technology

September 20, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

Musicube Introduces Next-Generation Music Discovery AI Technology

Musicube is a software company from Hamburg, Germany, working on advanced artificial intelligence (AI) solutions intended to solve a serious problem in the music industry. Its music discovery technology generates more than 500 metadata tags (moods, instruments, and more) for more than 47 million songs using its audio analysis AI, and is intended to solve the closed "preferences" playlist loop that most users experience from existing streaming services.

Apple Acquires Classical Music Streaming Service Primephonic

August 30, 2021 by Joao Martins

Apple Acquires Classical Music Streaming Service Primephonic

Apple announced it has acquired Primephonic, the classical music streaming service that featured a search and browse functionality optimized for classical, combined with lossless streaming, handpicked expert recommendations, and extensive contextual details on repertoire and recordings. Available for only 3 years, Primephonic never really went very far because it only worked on web browsers and mobile apps, the lower subscription tier used the obsolete MP3 codec, among many other limitations.

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