Spotify Goes Hi-Fi; Pandora-SiriusXM Deal Getting Closer?

Spotify is preparing to launch a lossless audio version of its streaming service, according to multiple sources. The offering, which is currently called Spotify Hi-Fi, will offer lossless CD-quality audio to users — similar to what Tidal offers in its Hi-Fi service.

Liberty Media CEO Greg Maffei seemed to change his tune slightly today when it comes to a possible deal with SiriusXM buying Pandora Media.

Conventional wisdom holds that the internet is the land of the free: free music, free news, free podcasts and apps. But we may finally be entering an age when internet users are willing to pony up for the entertainment and services they enjoy.

Listener preference data is a valuable resource in the music industry. It can drive the way music is commoditized, consumed and promoted.

Garth Brooks, Toby Keith keynote Country Radio Seminar, where legacy medium battles digital, streaming competitors

Podcasters like to argue that theirs is the most intimate medium. But to grow their businesses, more and more of them are getting into live events, with producers big and small either growing or launching events operations.

The Grace Digital Mondo+ is an internet radio that not only has Chromecast Audio support, but will handle your music in nearly any way you can dish it out.

CBC/Radio-Canada is joining almost two dozen Canadian private radio broadcasters and campus and community stations as part of a new free streaming radio app, launched Wednesday.

Seasons change, habits ebb and flow, and the landscape of consumer choice is constantly shifting. Such is the case on the radio airwaves as we crack the book open on another year of listener preference and review the release of Nielsen’s January portable people meter ratings.

One of Spotify’s longest-serving executives, Petra Hansson, has quit the company. One of the most senior legal figures at Spotify worldwide, Hansson has worked at the business’s Stockholm HQ for a decade.

Dart Music, one of Nashville’s most promising music technology companies in recent years, filed for bankruptcy protection on Monday.

Apple has launched a public campaign to promote its Apple Music subscription service.