iHeartMedia, Now Ready to take on the Market of Paid Streaming

Music streaming services are taking the market by storm and in the midst of this tough competition, iHeartRadio has already topped the list of music streaming services. Now the company is ready to take a step further in music streaming by announcing its plans of entering into the market of paid streaming.

Twitter Invested a Huge Amount in SoundCloud

As the trend of listening music is now changing with increasing craze of music streaming among users, Twitter seems to be interested in doing an experiment in business with music.

Twitter and SoundCloud both share an old rapport, two years ago in 2014, Twitter had been interested in buying the company, but backed off due to some reason. Now, once again Twitter has shown its sheer interest in SoundCloud by making a huge investment of 70 Million dollars.

As per the recent updates, Chief Executive Officer of Twitter Mr. Jack Dorsey confirmed about the investment and mentioned that “Earlier this year, we made an investment in SoundCloud through Twitter Ventures to help support some of our efforts with creators. They’ve been great partners of ours over the years, and their community-supported approach mirrors ours in many ways.”

Combined Excellence of HEOS and Amazon Prime

HEOS by Denon and Amazon have joined hands together and made an important announcement that Amazon’s prime music will be accessible from HEOS wireless multi-room sound system. Prime members of Amazon prime can easily access playlist of millions of songs through HEOS app available for iOS, Android and Kindle Fire.

VP of Digital Music for Amazon, Steve Boom stated “We are excited to bring Prime Music to Denon’s HEOS sound system to give listeners even more ways to access all of their favorite music available as part of the Prime membership. We are always looking for new innovative ways to ensure our Prime members have the best music experience and we think they will love listening on Denon’s high-quality wireless sound system.”

Music Streaming: The All New Musical Era is About to Begin

Gone are the days when music files were required to get downloaded first before listening, because today is the time of its easy and quick alternative, music steaming. It is the new favorite of all the music lovers, many of its amazing features make it highly desirable than the traditional music listening and storing methods. It not only saves your precious time that you used to spend previously while downloading, but it also provides top sound quality and numerous other useful features.

Rise of streaming, whether it is of streaming music or video has completely changed the landscape of music within the last few years. For reference, if we take a look at the graph given below, generated by market realist, we can clearly notice the percentage of increase that came in streaming in the year 2014 in comparison to 2013.

Where on one hand the demand of stream audio has increased up to 60.5%, stream video to 49.3%; there on the other hand sale of digital albums, digital tracks and CD album has decreased considerably.

Top 5 Free Music Streaming Services

Can you imagine a life without music? How it’s going to be? Many would say a complete boredom. Actually one cannot imagine a life without music. There are many options to listen to your favorite music be it on web, smartphones, tablets, ipod, ipad; also various ways are there to access the unlimited music by music streaming services. There is a major growth in the rate at which the numerous music streaming services are being introduced in the market.

Streaming Music or streaming audio, lets you listen to music without the need to download files of various audio formats. People do prefer to opt for streaming services rather than the traditional way of downloading audio files on the computer or laptop.

Instead the streaming option lets you transfer the steady stream of audio data to the buffer space of your music device which can then be used to play the music. Streaming lets you save the storage space on your device.

Music Streaming Through Tidal- What You Need to Know

Tidal splashed onto the music-streaming scene in early 2015, when prolific rapper and entrepreneur Jay Z acquired the Norwegian/Swedish service. The rapper-turned-mogul stirred controversy by introducing the highest subscription charges on the market, then justifying it by repeatedly stating that musicians have not been making a fair amount of money through other streaming channels. His position was backed by a coalition of other pop music superstars and part owners who frequented press releases donning enough jewelry and designer clothing to feed a small country.

Naturally, many critics were quick to pounce on the absurdity of Tidal’s ‘starving artist’ argument, but though the backlash endured, it’s undeniable that several key Tidal features have won the support of many listeners.

Music Streaming Devices – Need of today’s era

Those who are new to this term Streaming Music, should know that it is a way to deliver sound without the necessity to download different audio format files. Say for example music services such as Spotify makes use of this method to let listeners listen to songs that can be very well enjoyed on various music devices.

Some years back streaming of music was new concept and common user was unaware of its benefits but nowadays it’s very much in boom. There are many ways to stream music and if you talk about video it’s possible for that as well.

Music streaming services are the convenient ways to let you listen to music. Audio giants like Pure, Samsung, HEOS by Denon, Jabra have launched their wireless multi room audio systems which are dedicated music streaming devices and are mentioned here as below:

Advanced Features Added to HEOS App

There was a recent news release about the audio giant Denon Electronics, releasing new set of features and additions to the HEOS App just to let its users feel its amazing sound effects.

Denon Electronics has years of expertise in manufacturing home and personal audio products, had last year launched its HEOS series of wireless multi room audio system. Just to make them more creative and innovative and more user friendly these upcoming enhanced features are surely in the best interest of the brands. Based on feedback from customers as well as Denon’s own staff, the list of new features and additions to the HEOS App gives music lovers even more reasons to be amazed in 2015.

We all know the smartphones have now become the part and parcel of our lives. These have made our lives very easy. The HEOS app which is currently available for iOS and Android™ is now available for Kindle™. Kindle users can now download the HEOS app from the Amazon app store, for use on their Kindle Fire and Fire phone devices.

iHeartRadio Tops the List of Music Streaming Services

In my previous post I had discussed tips on selecting best streaming services for you where I described in detail about selecting music streaming service as per your requirements. Now I have come up with another music streaming service iHeartMedia which was recently introduced.

iHeartMedia has over 245 million monthly listeners in the U.S. It serves over 150 markets that too with 859 owned radio stations. Its radio stations are channeled quite well with music streaming possible on AM/FM, satellite radio, HD digital radio, also on the Internet at iHeartRadio.com

iHeartRadio is one of the top digital radio platforms which provides all in-one music streaming and also live radio, with over 700 million downloads. Its other major breakthrough in the digital world provides access to about 20 million registered users that too faster than that provided by any other digital service in Internet history. Its major milestone achieved was by reaching upto 50 million users which is even faster than Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest.

Wireless Speakers That Created a Buzz in 2014

Since my entire childhood days I have been noticing how the audio world is changing fast with the speed of light. Gone are those days when you were supposed to pay a huge amount of money to buy an audio system for your room. Which obviously lacked feasibility and better sound quality features. And the major facility like portability didn’t even exist.

Nowadays things have changed entirely. Now audio brands have launched smallest speakers which can deliver superb sound quality. It clearly depicts size doesn’t matter anymore. You can easily plug the device into the speaker just to source the music.

With the introduction of the NFC and/or Wifi or Bluetooth speakers lot many revolutions were brought by the leading audio world giants and hence meeting the upcoming user demands and excelling in their business.