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Bowers & Wilkins Adds New Music Streaming Services To Formation-Enabled Products

Bowers & WIlkins has increased the number of music streaming services that are accessible to owners of Formation-enabled Bowers & Wilkins products.

The new Bowers & Wilkins Music app, available for both Android and iOS devices, will initially offer support for Qobuz, Tidal, TuneIn, Dash Radio, NTS Radio, and SoundCloud, with more subscription services and streaming platforms to be added in the coming months. High-resolution (24-bit/96kHz) performance is also available, via Qobuz.

The Bowers & Wilkins Music App aggregates content from each available music service into one intuitive interface, making it easy for you to access tracks, albums, playlists, and radio stations. There are also personalized recommendation features and a selection of curated Bowers & Wilkins playlists.

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Initially, the Bowers & Wilkins Music App will operate alongside the existing Bowers & Wilkins Home App, which will continue to provide set-up functionality for Formation-enabled products in the short term. Later in the year, Bowers & Wilkins will combine all App functionality for Formation-enabled products into the Music App to create a unified set-up, control and streaming experience, at which point the existing Home App will lapse.

All other functionality already offered by Formation-enabled products remains current, including AirPlay 2 and Bluetooth aptX HD support for streaming from mobile devices, integrated support for both Spotify Connect and Roon, plus “Works With Alexa” certification.

Bowers & Wilkins Music App

The Formation platform is wholly owned by Bowers & Wilkins. The company recently expanded its development resources and engineering team with significant recruitment aimed at expanding its software and user experience skillsets. Going forward, Bowers & Wilkins plans to continue to invest in and expand the capabilities of its Formation-enabled product portfolio to both further improve the user experience and add new features, including support for popular custom-installation control systems such as Control4.

“I’m delighted to announce this significant extension in the scope and capability of our class-leading Formation technology,” says Geoff Edwards, Brand President of Bowers & Wilkins. “The new Music App is a statement of our intent to further develop and improve our Formation-enabled product portfolio and I’m certain it will help us continue to set the gold standard for wireless speaker sound quality going forwards.”