Primephonic’s Hi-Rez Classical Downloads
July 20, 2016 Comments Off on Primephonic’s Hi-Rez Classical Downloads
“It should also be noted that sites are improving all the time. ClassicsOnline has added Sony in the past few months, and already has over 300 Sony albums in hi-rez. Nimbus will be on board shortly. The sound quality of their streaming player app is claimed to have improved dramatically, mobile streaming is available (ditto for Tidal, of course), and new content is added weekly. As for HDTracks, while its search function could certainly be improved, its download app functions impeccably on my iMac.”
Why Apple Acquiring Tidal Could Be Exactly What The World Needs
July 5, 2016 Comments Off on Why Apple Acquiring Tidal Could Be Exactly What The World Needs
” The High-End Audio Industry gains access to a wider audience, more benefits, more profits: This is just a guess, but I’m quite sure that most audiophiles who subscribe to Tidal joined for the CD-quality streaming. The majority of the world, however, is probably in it for the Beyoncé and Kanye exclusives, and is more likely to associate Tidal with Jay Z over high-resolution streaming. I don’t have a problem with this, and I think Jay Z (and the rest of Tidal’s impressive artist-owners) have done pretty good so far. I just think that Apple can build upon Jay Z’s work and do a much better job of enticing the masses.
Wall Street Journal Reports Apple in Talks to Acquire Jay Z’s Tidal Music Service
July 1, 2016 Comments Off on Wall Street Journal Reports Apple in Talks to Acquire Jay Z’s Tidal Music Service
“Jay Z bought the service in March 2015 for $56 million from Swedish company Aspiro, which had created the brand Tidal. He has given 19 famous artists and bands small stakes in Tidal and promised each millions of dollars worth of marketing, according to people familiar with the matter.”
Style Jukebox Hi-Res player and music Manager NEW
June 18, 2016 Comments Off on Style Jukebox Hi-Res player and music Manager NEW
“People say that Style Jukebox is what iTunes Cloud should have been – a music service for people with a music collection – that’s easy to use for casual listeners, but powerful enough for hard-core listeners who care about audio quality, music organizing, lossless music, and more.”
Is MQA the Future of HD Music?
June 15, 2016 Comments Off on Is MQA the Future of HD Music?
“MQA will make your current DAC obsolete. Yes, I know that sucks. You might start to hate MQA. But hold on, aren’t you sick and tired of buying Dark Side of The Moon again and again and again? You bet your ruby-tipped stylus you are. So here’s the deal: Tidal has promised, in the very near future, to begin streaming MQA-encoded files to your MQA-aware and MQA-compatible DAC at the highest resolution it can support–which can be exactly the same format and bitrate as the first-gen digital master–yet the file will take up only one-tenth of the bandwidth of the comparable and original 256X DSD master file. Because MQA folds the high-resolution information into the noise floor of a 44.1/16 or 48/16 file and then unfolds it at its destination, it saves a ton of bandwidth and storage space. While storage space may not matter much to end users anymore, it matters a lot to the server farms that store and supply the streaming services’ data. And the final result will sound better…”
Roon music player software Review Price: $119 for a 1 year subscription, $499 for a lifetime subscription
June 8, 2016 Comments Off on Roon music player software Review Price: $119 for a 1 year subscription, $499 for a lifetime subscription
“The Roon website describes Roon as, ‘The music player for music lovers’, and I can only agree. Just as a fine DAC reveals inner sound details of a digital recording, Roon reveals inner details about the music itself; the listening experience becomes a journey. If you are using a typical music server software, then at the end of the day (or month, or year…) you might become a better software engineer; but if you are using Roon, then you will become a better audiophile, listener, student and musicologist. I could be wrong, but I am guessing that within another year the majority of audiophiles will be using Roon as their reference. Roon is in a league of its own. Very highly recommended.”
Tidal Is Growing Faster Than Apple and Spotify COMBINED
May 20, 2016 Comments Off on Tidal Is Growing Faster Than Apple and Spotify COMBINED
“Well… Currently Spotify sits at 30 million paying subscribers, Apple Music sits at 13 million. Tidal’s last official count in March pegged the service at 3 million (with 1.5 million paying nearly $20-a-month for higher fidelity). But, that was before Tidal adopted streaming exclusives as a major strategy. And in the wake of a major surge in sign-ups following an exclusive of Kanye West’s The Life of Pablo, exclusives now appear to be a serious way to successfully grow and compete with bigger players in the game.”
HI-RES MUSIC INITIATIVE EXPANDS TO INCLUDE MUSIC STREAMING SERVICES
May 13, 2016 Comments Off on HI-RES MUSIC INITIATIVE EXPANDS TO INCLUDE MUSIC STREAMING SERVICES
” A number of data packing technologies are being developed that can support the streaming of hi-res music files to consumers in a more efficient manner, including MQA (Master Quality Authenticated) and MPEG 4 Audio SLS. These and other approved technologies will enable licensed services to display the Hi-Res MUSIC logo mark on their landing page or next to an individual album or track. If the resolution of a recording falls below the required minimum standards of the Hi-Res MUSIC definition at any time, the user will be made aware of this change.”
What a Label With 2.5 Million YouTube Streams Actually Earns
April 26, 2016 Comments Off on What a Label With 2.5 Million YouTube Streams Actually Earns
” The label also had some plays on Spotify, Deezer, and now-shuttered ZIK. Additionally, the label also had a small amount of downloads across iTunes, Google Play, 7digital, and Archambault, which only served to highlight the utter imbalance between streaming and download payouts.
YouTube (proper music video plays): $0.001005 Canadian ($0.000794 US) per stream.
YouTube (Content ID): $0.001342 Canadian ($0.001061 US) per match.”
Audiophilepure 
You must be logged in to post a comment.