All items tagged with music streaming (168)
Sonos Introduces New Ultra-Portable Bluetooth and Wi-Fi Speaker
March 10, 2021 by Joao Martins

Sonos Introduces New Ultra-Portable Bluetooth and Wi-Fi Speaker

Sonos introduced Sonos Roam, an ultra-portable Bluetooth speaker built to deliver the best possible sound for its size, both at home and outdoors with adaptable features. It can be fully connected to Sonos system on Wi-Fi at home and automatically switching to Bluetooth when the user is on the go. As Sonos highlights, the Roam was designed to be effortless to set-up and control, using new smart features that make it easier to enjoy music and more from anywhere. Roam is available starting April 20 for $169.
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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.
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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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Peachtree Audio Adopts BluOS High-Resolution Multiroom Audio Platform
February 3, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

Peachtree Audio Adopts BluOS High-Resolution Multiroom Audio Platform

Peachtree Audio, the Canadian amplifier manufacturer renowned for its compact retro aesthetics, and Lenbrook International, the owner and developer of the market-leading BluOS high-resolution multiroom platform, announced a global partnership that will bring the BluOS streaming platform to upcoming Peachtree Audio products. With this new agreement, the BluOS ecosystem adds a new premium hardware partner to its best-in-class platform.
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BluOS Update Adds New Surround Mode Listening Option to Select Bluesound Models
November 23, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

BluOS Update Adds New Surround Mode Listening Option to Select Bluesound Models

Bluesound continues to expand its range of high-resolution wireless multiroom line of audio players and also investing in the possibilities for existing solutions. The company announced the addition of a Stereo Surround mode option for its Bluesound Pulse Soundbar and Powernode models with the next BluOS 3.12 maintenance release effective November 24, 2020. And meanwhile Bluesound also expanded its integration and control options with URC and Crestron.
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Tidal Expands MQA Catalog Available for Tidal Masters Streaming
November 16, 2020 by Joao Martins

Tidal Expands MQA Catalog Available for Tidal Masters Streaming

Music and entertainment streaming platform Tidal announced that it added millions of tracks in MQA from Warner Music Group to its Tidal Masters catalog. According to Tidal, MQA users have doubled since 2019 and its Tidal HiFi subscribers are now streaming 40% more tracks in Master Quality than last year. Originally created mostly with music from Universal Music Group, the now expanded MQA catalog required an update on Tidal's servers to better support continuous streaming of music in the highest quality level.
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Deezer Creates HiFi Room to Promote FLAC Streaming Quality
October 30, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

Deezer Creates HiFi Room to Promote FLAC Streaming Quality

Music streaming platform Deezer announced a new curated section, with curated playlists and albums just for high fidelity fans. The new HiFi Room on Deezer features hand-picked tracks to draw out the rich sounds streaming in lossless FLAC quality. The company says it currently offers more than 52 million files encoded on FLAC on the platform, and it made sense to offer a curated selection for its premium subscribers to easily find this content in one place, now offering more than 15 exclusive playlists, album recommendations and reissues (remasters).
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TIDAL Launches TIDAL Connect Hifi Casting Technology
October 20, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

TIDAL Launches TIDAL Connect Hifi Casting Technology

TIDAL, the global music and entertainment streaming platform, launched TIDAL Connect, the first casting technology from a music streaming service to allow users to stream music in lossless audio quality directly to connected devices, available through TIDAL HiFi premium tier. With TIDAL Connect, the company confirms launching partnerships with nine prestigious audio equipment manufacturers and StreamUnlimited as an integration launch partner.
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TIDAL Connect HiFi Casting Technology Available on BluOS Connected Devices
October 20, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

TIDAL Connect HiFi Casting Technology Available on BluOS Connected Devices

BluOS, the premium multi-room music management platform by Lenbrook International, is among a carefully chosen group of launch partners for the new TIDAL Connect technology. The new solution from TIDAL follows a similar device-casting approach as the proven Spotify Connect service, which enables users to login to their account and stream music directly from a speaker or any connected network streamer. The difference with TIDAL Connect on BluOS is the possibility to stream lossless music audio formats available through TIDAL HiFi premium tier.
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Harman Unveils Expanded Mark Levinson 5000 Series of High End Audio Products
October 16, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

Harman Unveils Expanded Mark Levinson 5000 Series of High End Audio Products

Harman's Mark Levinson unveiled an expanded line of 5000 series products. Four new products that maintain the highest level of engineering, design, and passion for detail the brand is known for, but also reflect an attempt to reach to new generations of consumers and increase awareness for high end audio. Two source players and two flagship separates that expand the philosophy introduced with the launch of the Nº 5802 and Nº 5805 integrated amplifiers, and aim to reinvigorate the luxury audio experience.
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