All items tagged with music streaming (168)
DTS Play-Fi powers DISH Music App on Hopper DVR
June 29, 2017 by audioXpress Staff

DTS Play-Fi powers DISH Music App on Hopper DVR

DISH launched DISH Music, a mobile app powered by DTS Play-Fi technology to provide the ability to sync music throughout the whole home using one central control. This new feature uses TV audio systems connected to DISH Hopper 2 or Hopper 3 DVRs, as well as DTS Play-Fi-enabled speakers, to play music from personal libraries on mobile devices and popular streaming services, like Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, Pandora and TIDAL.
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World’s Leading Independent Labels Represented by Merlin Sign Multi-year Agreement to Encode Masters in MQA
May 16, 2017 by audioXpress Staff

World’s Leading Independent Labels Represented by Merlin Sign Multi-year Agreement to Encode Masters in MQA

MQA and Merlin, the global digital rights agency for the independent label sector, have announced a multi-year agreement that will support the world’s best-known independent labels to encode their master recordings in Master Quality Authenticated (MQA). Following agreements with music-entertainment giants Universal Music Group (UMG), and Warner Music Group, MQA now gets the support from the world’s largest independent catalogue.
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Legrand Announces KNX Integration For Expanding Nuvo Player Portfolio Whole Home Audio System
April 18, 2017 by audioXpress Staff

Legrand Announces KNX Integration For Expanding Nuvo Player Portfolio Whole Home Audio System

Global specialist in electrical and digital building infrastructures, Legrand has announced the integration of KNX, the worldwide communications protocol for smart home devices, into its Nuvo Player Portfolio whole home audio system products via a free and automatic firmware update. With KNX implementation, owners of these systems will be able to control them using the same technology platform that more than 400 manufacturers build upon.
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Pandora Launches Premium Music Streaming Subscription Option
March 13, 2017 by audioXpress Staff

Pandora Launches Premium Music Streaming Subscription Option

Pandora announced the launch of Pandora Premium, its first ever on-demand streaming tier, competing directly with Apple Music, Spotify and others. For $9.99 a month, Pandora Premium combines the best of Pandora’s personalized radio with the ability to search and play any track or album as well as a unique set of playlist features tailored to each person’s distinct preferences.
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Gracenote Unveils New Much-Improved Connected Music Metadata Databases
February 24, 2017 by Joao Martins

Gracenote Unveils New Much-Improved Connected Music Metadata Databases

As previewed at CES 2017, Gracenote, now a Nielsen company, announced its new generation of advanced connected metadata databases to enable new possibilities in search and discovery of digital entertainment across platforms and services. Spanning Video, Music and Sports, the all-new connected databases enable services like Apple Music, Tidal and Deezer with a whole new range of possibilities, including advanced audio personalization.
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MQA and Universal Music Group to Collaborate on Advancing Hi-Res On-Demand Streaming
February 16, 2017 by audioXpress Staff

MQA and Universal Music Group to Collaborate on Advancing Hi-Res On-Demand Streaming

Music technology company MQA and Universal Music Group (UMG) announced that the companies have entered into a multi-year agreement that will encode UMG’s extensive catalogue of master recordings using Master Quality Authenticated (MQA) technology, promising to make some of the world’s most celebrated recordings available for the first time in Hi-Res Audio streaming. A historical development for all the high resolution music enthusiasts.
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TIDAL Introduces MQA Streaming “Master Audio” Support
January 5, 2017 by Joao Martins

TIDAL Introduces MQA Streaming “Master Audio” Support

During CES 2017, TIDAL and MQA announced the much anticipated support for Master Quality Authenticated (MQA) on their streaming service. Until now only available on file-based downloads, the bandwidth efficient high-resolution audio format (HRA) is now available on a mainstream platform. TIDAL was previously the only music streaming service to offer a “higher-quality” subscription option. Those subscribers will now be able to access MQA encoded masters.
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Spotify Now Available on OPPO Sonica Wi-Fi Speakers
November 17, 2016 by audioXpress Staff

Spotify Now Available on OPPO Sonica Wi-Fi Speakers

OPPO Digital announced that Spotify Premium subscribers can now listen to their music on Sonica Wi-Fi speakers. The first speaker from the Silicon Valley brand, Sonica is an elegant and powerful Wi-Fi speaker designed with state of the art technology, including hi-res audio support from USB drives or network computers and DIRAC room optimization. Spotify Connect for direct streaming support is now available, proving OPPO’s determination to continue to expand the product’s features.
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Naim Redefines the All-In-One Audio System with New High Performance Wireless Streaming Uniti Range
November 11, 2016 by audioXpress Staff

Naim Redefines the All-In-One Audio System with New High Performance Wireless Streaming Uniti Range

Hi-fidelity going back to components in the streaming and wireless audio age? World-renowned premium British hi-fi manufacturer and pioneer of integrated speaker systems, Naim Audio, seems to believe so and introduced the new Uniti range - a series of four high performance wireless components and all-in-one audio systems designed for expanding music enjoyment around the home. Features and specifications are extremely impressive.
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Acoustic Research Introduces M20 Digital Audio Player for HRA Enthusiasts
October 14, 2016 by audioXpress Staff

Acoustic Research Introduces M20 Digital Audio Player for HRA Enthusiasts

The famous audio equipment brand from Cambridge, Massachusetts, Acoustic Research (now part of Voxx International) released a new portable high-resolution audio (HRA) digital player. The new M20 Hi-Res DAP is slimmer and lighter than the brand’s previous flagship model, the AR-M2, and is even more affordable, with 32GB of internal storage and expansion using Micro SDXC cards (up to 256GB). Essentially, the new M20 focuses on the quality of its audio circuits and DAC, offering a “less is more” approach.
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