The best hi-res audio and music download sites
Digital Trends
MAY 18, 2021
Music connoisseurs relish HD and hi-res audio, but scouring the web for the best streaming and downloading sites can be a pain. Luckily, we've done it for you.
Nintendo finally adds Bluetooth audio to the Switch in new software update
The Verge
SEPTEMBER 14, 2021
Nintendo has surprise-announced that Bluetooth audio support has come to the Switch through a software update. The ability to use Bluetooth headphones to listen to game audio has been a conspicuously missing feature since the console launched in 2017 , so it’s great to finally have it — though there are some limitations.
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Chrome can now instantly caption audio and video on the web
The Verge
MARCH 17, 2021
Live Captions uses machine learning to spontaneously create captions for videos or audio where none existed before, and making the web that much more accessible for anyone who’s deaf or hard of hearing. Live Captions captioning audio from a podcast player.
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Apple Music begins rolling out lossless streaming and Dolby Atmos spatial audio
The Verge
JUNE 7, 2021
Apple Music has flipped the switch on its previously announced lossless-quality streaming and spatial audio features. Be aware that lossless audio files take up considerably more storage when downloaded and also burn through more data when streamed. Lossless audio is available on the iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV 4K.
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[FREE WEBINAR] How to Create an Engaging Donor Journey in 2020
Nonprofit Tech for Good
DECEMBER 15, 2019
After the webinar, you’ll be able to download the calendar right from your inbox. << Also, a toll-free number is not provided for the webinar, but attendees can listen to the audio presentation for free over their computer speakers or call into a phone number provided by GoToWebinar.
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iOS 18.4 is available now with new emoji, Apple News+ Food and priority notifications
Engadget
MARCH 31, 2025
The updates also introduce new emoji, AI-sorted Priority Notifications in Notification Center, new ways to filter photos in the Photos app and lossless audio on the AirPods Max. As previously announced by Apple iOS 18.4, and macOS 15.4
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6 Practical Tips for Promoting Your #GivingTuesday Campaign on Social Media
Nonprofit Tech for Good
SEPTEMBER 27, 2020
User generated content or UGC is any form of content such as photos, videos, text, or audio that has been posted by individuals. You can download a pre-branded #Unselfie template here. Let’s face it, most nonprofits and even most businesses don’t have influencers in their marketing budget. 6) Go live on and before #GivingTuesday.
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Spotify finally adds offline music downloads on Apple Watch
The Verge
MAY 21, 2021
Spotify is adding the ability to download playlists, albums, and podcasts on Apple Watch to play offline, the company announced Friday. Users will be able to stream audio in 96kbps, add and delete Spotify content on their phones, and sync with the Watch. There’s also a $4.99-per-month per-month student account option available.
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Twitter reportedly discussed buying social audio app Clubhouse for $4 billion
The Verge
APRIL 7, 2021
Twitter’s already building a competitor to the hot social audio app Clubhouse, but apparently, it’s discussed outright acquiring the company, too. It’s also unclear whether Twitter or Clubhouse approached the other first, which could speak to how either platform is feeling about the competition in the social audio space.
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33 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits
Nonprofit Tech for Good
AUGUST 24, 2011
This tool turns your smartphone or desktop computer into an audio recorder that allows you to easily share audio messages and podasts with your supporters. This website allows users to build visually appealing interactive timelines using video, audio, images, location, social media, and timestamps. It is a must download!
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YouTube TV launches 4K and offline downloads today, but they don’t come cheap
The Verge
JUNE 28, 2021
YouTube TV is today revealing more details about two anticipated new features: 4K playback and offline downloads. For now, offline downloads will likely be a bigger deal for many customers than 4K streaming. However, the company noted that some premium network add-ons might not allow offline downloads. YouTube TV subscription.
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Apple Music for Android reveals lossless audio could be imminent
The Verge
MAY 14, 2021
Digging into the latest Apple Music for Android beta app, they discovered direct references to high-resolution audio that didn’t exist previously. These are the prompts found in the app’s code, though they’re not user-facing quite yet: Lossless audio files preserve every detail of the original file.
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50 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits
Nonprofit Tech for Good
JANUARY 30, 2012
This tool turns your smartphone or desktop computer into an audio recorder that allows you to easily share audio messages and podasts with your supporters. This service allows Facebook users to download custom Facebook Profile backgrounds designed with the branding of partner nonprofits. A must-download for nonprofit Twitterers!
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NVIDIA NIM Microservices Now Available to Streamline Agentic Workflows on RTX AI PCs and Workstations
NVIDIA AI Blog
MARCH 25, 2025
The microservices are easy to download and run. NVIDIA NIM microservices help solve this issue by providing prepackaged, optimized, easily downloadable AI models that connect to industry-standard APIs. 8B-instruct Image Generation: Flux.dev Audio: Riva Parakeet-ctc-0.6B-asr asr , Maxine Studio Voice RAG: Llama-3.2-NV-EmbedQA-1B-v2
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Pheed and Sulia: Two New Social Networks for the Nonprofit Early Adopters
Nonprofit Tech for Good
MARCH 27, 2013
Also, if you decide to become an early adopter and want to promote your Pheed and Sulia profiles on your website, blog and e-newsletter, you can right-click to download the Pheed and Sulia icons on the right side of this blog. Pheed :: pheed.com :: pheed.com/nonprofitorgs.
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60 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits
Nonprofit Tech for Good
JUNE 3, 2012
This tool turns your smartphone or desktop computer into an audio recorder that allows you to easily share audio messages and podasts with your supporters. This service allows Facebook users to download custom Facebook Profile backgrounds designed with the branding of partner nonprofits. A must-download for nonprofit Twitterers!
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How to use Shazam on your iPhone without downloading the app
The Verge
MARCH 25, 2022
If you’re running a recent version of iOS, you can use Shazam without downloading the app or unlocking your phone. Best of all, you don’t even have to download the Shazam app to use it. Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge. When Apple released iOS 14.2
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What Your Nonprofit Needs to Know About Amazon Alexa
Nonprofit Tech for Good
NOVEMBER 9, 2017
Currently, there are over 20,000 Skills available for download in the Amazon Skills Store : 3) Early adopter nonprofits are developing Amazon Skills. According to the recently released Smart Audio Report from NPR, 57% of smart speaker owners have bought something with their voice. 4) Smart speakers are giving rise to v-commerce.
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43 Digital Marketing Tools & Resources for Nonprofits
Nonprofit Tech for Good
APRIL 27, 2023
Social Print Studio :: socialprintstudio.com Social Print Studio enables users to download photos directly from Instagram and Facebook to create print calendars, cards, and tiny books. Wistia :: wistia.com Wistia is a video and audio creation tool that allows you to add email pop-ups to your videos and podcasts. Veed.io :: veed.io
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Kevin Costner’s location-based audio storytelling app Autio raises $5.9M
TechCrunch
MARCH 29, 2023
Autio , a location-based audio entertainment app co-founded by actor Kevin Costner and formerly known as HearHere , has raised a $5.9 Autio says the partnership will allow it to reach new audiences through iHeartMedia’s multiplatform audio network, which includes broadcast radio, podcast, digital, social and live events.
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The Mark Cuban-founded audio app Fireside is asking its own users to invest
The Verge
JULY 30, 2021
The Mark Cuban-funded and co-founded audio app Fireside has yet to publicly launch, but already it’s asking the limited creators on its platform for money. Fatemi says the live conversation app was “miscategorized” as social audio. Users who download the app can sign up with their phone number and email to try to get off the waitlist.
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Valve releases Windows drivers for Steam Deck
TechSpot
MARCH 10, 2022
The Windows resources page currently has downloadable GPU, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth drivers. Audio drivers are being worked on by AMD and others but aren’t ready as of writing. As such, the speakers and 3.5mm audio jack will not provide audio, but USB-C or Bluetooth can be used in the interim.
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10 Twitter Apps for Nonprofits
Nonprofit Tech for Good
JUNE 14, 2010
With Screenr’s web-based recorder, there’s nothing to download. Trottr : Trottr allows you to record brief audio messages with your cell phone that are then hosted on the Trottr website. Now you can create screencasts for your followers as easily as you tweet. Your screencasts play everywhere, even on iPhones.
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A dating app — not Facebook or Clubhouse — cracked getting audio to go viral
The Verge
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
Anyway, in between mashed potato servings, I did my best to “log off” and not think about audio — no offense — so instead, I binged the entire new season of Selling Sunset and played many crosswords. EXCLUSIVE: Hinge makes viral audio happen, despite many other apps trying. I’m back for you now, though, and we have a big issue ahead.
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Clubhouse says it will improve security after researchers raise China spying concerns
The Verge
FEBRUARY 14, 2021
The developers of audio chat room app Clubhouse plan to add additional encryption to prevent it from transmitting pings to servers in China, after Stanford researchers said they found vulnerabilities in its infrastructure. Photo Illustration by Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images.
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Poparazzi hits 5M+ downloads a year after launch, confirms its $15M Series A
TechCrunch
JUNE 1, 2022
million global downloads, according to app intelligence firm Sensor Tower. million downloads for Poparazzi, which is largely in line with the startup’s claims, as these estimates aren’t an exact science.). Among those was the audio social network TTYL , a sort of “ Clubhouse for friends.”
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Personal info for 1.3 million Clubhouse users reportedly leaked online
The Verge
APRIL 11, 2021
million users of the social audio app Clubhouse has been leaked online, Cyber News reported. Clubhouse had a monster first year—despite being invite-only and available only on iOS devices— seeing more than 10 million downloads. Photo Illustration by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images. Personal data for some 1.3
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Technological Protection Measures and the Blind
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 22, 2013
The digital content is presented as text, but the built-in read-aloud capability is disabled because of ambiguity over audio rights. The digital textual content is presented as text, but the TPM blocks a screen reader from accessing the text to speak it aloud, or transmitting it to a digital Braille display.
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70 Low-Cost or Free Web-Based Tools for Nonprofits
Nonprofit Tech for Good
AUGUST 27, 2012
This tool turns your smartphone or desktop computer into an audio recorder that allows you to easily share audio messages and podasts with your supporters. This website allows users to build visually appealing interactive timelines using video, audio, images, location, social media, and timestamps. It is a must download!
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111 Low-Cost or Free OnlineTools for Nonprofits
Nonprofit Tech for Good
JULY 28, 2013
For mobile social networkers, Viddy is a must-download. It is a must download! Even if you are set in your browsing ways with IE or Firefox, Google Chrome only takes of few minutes of your time to download and experience. It must be downloaded and is available only to nonprofit organizations. USTREAM :: ustream.tv.
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94 Free or Low-Cost Tools and Resources for Nonprofits
Nonprofit Tech for Good
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
Social Print Studio enables users to download photos directly from Instagram and Facebook to create print calendars, cards, and tiny books. Iconfinder is an online database of nearly one million icons and many of the social media icon sets are available to download for free. Social Print Studio :: socialprintstudio.com.
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Activeloop snags $5M seed to build streaming database for AI applications
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
. “[We are] introducing a database for AI, specifically a storage layer that helps to very efficiently store the data and then stream this to machine learning applications or training models to do computer vision, audio processing, NLP (natural language processing) and so on,” Buniatyan explained. Activeloop image database.
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YouTube ‘Premium Lite’ subscription offers ad-free viewing for less
The Verge
AUGUST 2, 2021
Google is piloting a more affordable premium subscription tier for YouTube that offers ad-free viewing without YouTube Premium’s other features like offline downloads or background playback. . | Screenshot: YouTube.
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74 Free or Low-Cost Tools and Resources for Nonprofits
Nonprofit Tech for Good
JUNE 29, 2021
Iconfinder is an online database of almost one million icons and many of the social media icon sets are available to download for free. Social Print Studio enables users to login and download photos directly from Instagram and Facebook to create print calendars, cards, and tiny books. Iconfinder :: iconfinder.com. Zoom :: zoom.us.
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358 Mark Your Calendars! Google+ Hangout for Nonprofit Organizations
Nonprofit Tech for Good
JUNE 18, 2012
2) Download the Google Voice and Video Plugin. By default, only the first nine people to join the Hangout will be able to participate on air – and by participate on air, I mean your video stream is visible and audio heard in the Hangout. 3) Circle the Nonprofit Organizations Google+ Page. 4) Sign up for the Nonprofit Tech 2.0
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14 Ways to Grow Podcast Downloads (in 2020)
Whole Whale
MAY 12, 2020
If you are reading this it means you have probably started your podcast and begun to measure podcast downloads. It has been a number of months and episodes but your downloads are actually starting to plateau and even drop as the initial push behind your launch is over. Get Good/Popular Guests. Try Targeted give-aways.
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85 Low-Cost or Free Web-Based Tools for Nonprofits
Nonprofit Tech for Good
DECEMBER 27, 2012
This tool turns your smartphone or desktop computer into an audio recorder that allows you to easily share audio messages and podasts with your supporters. This website allows users to build visually appealing interactive timelines using video, audio, images, location, social media, and timestamps. It is a must download!
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100 Low-Cost or Free Web-Based Tools for Nonprofits
Nonprofit Tech for Good
MARCH 8, 2013
This tool turns your smartphone or desktop computer into an audio recorder that allows you to easily share audio messages and podasts with your supporters. This website allows users to build visually appealing interactive timelines using video, audio, images, location, social media, and timestamps. It is a must download!
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Exclusive TED chats are coming to Clubhouse
The Verge
JULY 11, 2021
The company announced today that it’s partnering with TED to bring exclusive chats to the social audio platform throughout the summer and beyond. The company is also already a major success in audio through its podcasting efforts, so it’s possible a form of these chats might be distributed outside the app as an RSS feed.
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How to use Microsoft Teams with your friends and family
The Verge
AUGUST 7, 2020
The app offers a variety of ways to communicate: chat, audio-only, and video. To begin, download the Microsoft Teams app from the iOS App Store or Google Play Store. Teams lets you chat via text, audio, or video. Chats can include text, photos, and audio. When you make a video or audio call, a caller can be put on hold.
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115 This secret site lets you try DeepSeek on a trustworthy U.S. server
Fast Company Tech
MARCH 8, 2025
Nvidia’s DeepSeek-R1 site is completely web-based no downloads or installations, and no accounts to create. Check out my free Cool Tools newsletter for an instant introduction to an incredible audio appand another off-the-beaten-path gem every Wednesday! It’s there and waiting. And all you have to do is give it a try.
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