By Staff Report on January 6, 2017
Apple Music, Google Play, Jay Z, Master Quality Audio, MQA, Spotify, Streaming, Tidal
Online
Music service Tidal this week begins providing MQA audio to subscribers, promising a “studio-quality” sound streaming experience for subscribers to its Tidal HiFi package. The MQA, or Master Quality Authenticated, experience will be available only via desktop app, to those who pay $19.99 a month for Tidal HiFi. The MQA streams will be 96 kHz/24 bit, about double the standard Tidal HiFi […]
By Paula Parisi on November 23, 2015
Apple Music, Beats, Google Play, Pandora, Paula Parisi, Rdio, Spotify
Technology
In the wake of Apple shutting down Beats and Rdio filing bankruptcy, the industry is taking stock of the online music business models, trying to suss out who will be left without a seat in the next round of musical chairs. With the record labels clamoring for larger tributaries of the streaming cash flow, and the big players like […]
