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Tech NewsHow to Get Free Music for the Rest of the Summer
Apple Music is finally here! You know what that means? That means it’s time to cancel your other premium streaming services and coast through the rest of the summer on Apple’s dime. Here’s how. The process is simple, if you’re an iPhone user. (The same process will work for Android in a few months, when … Continued
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One Pissed-Off Artist Made an App to Scam Spotify’s Royalty Payments
For as much love as Spotify gets from customers, it draws equal hatred from musicians, who are consistently unhappy with the tiny amount of revenue generated by streaming music. But as the Silicon Valley proverb goes: if you don’t like it, just code an automated app to optimize the problem away (and get paid in … Continued
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Google’s Gunning for Apple Music With Free Streaming Option
Ahead of the long-awaited and controversial launch of Apple Music next week, Google is making a last-ditch effort to pull users onto its own platform with a free option. Google’s new free option will be ad-supported. Unfortunately, it’s not quite as good as Spotify’s free option because you’ll only have access to the curated playlists, … Continued
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Jay Z’s Troubled Music Service Tidal Loses Another CEO
The latest boss of Jay Z’s floundering music streaming service Tidal has already washed out. Tidal’s interim CEO Peter Tonstad stepped in after the company ditched former CEO Andy Chen in April, but he just left the company. Executives in Oslo and New York will run Tidal until a replacement is found. “The only thing … Continued
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1989 Won’t Be On Apple Music, And That’s Bad News For Apple
Joke about TaySway and her army of loyal Tumblr tweens all you want (go on, I dare you), but Swift is an undeniable powerhouse in pop music. Eight months after the launch of 1989, it’s still the fourth-best selling album in the country. And that makes it doubly bad for Apple that she’s just stuck … Continued
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Spotify’s “Rewind” Feature Discovers the Heritage of Your Favorite Music
Music, like any other artistic endeavor, is endless progression. Artists influence artists who then write new tunes tempered by their culture. It’s in this steady march of evolution that we can lose sight of the bands that got us to this musical modern day—that’s where Spotify’s “Taste Rewind” comes in. Right now, I am listening … Continued
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How Is Apple Music Actually Different From Spotify (Or Anything Else)?
Yes, yes, alright! Here we are! We have Apple Musicnow, yet another subscription streaming music service. This time, it’s from Apple, though. Is it worth switching to? Well, maybe. We’re just getting our hands on it now. But among our staff here at Gizmodo there’s basically only one question that matters: How does it compare … Continued
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Everything Apple Tried to Kill Today at WWDC 2015
Today at WWDC, Apple announced a slew of new features and products. Energy was high, Drake was in the building, but a lot of the big reveals looked a lot like the features and products of rivals…especially Google. Imitation is the sincerest form of trying to kill the competition? Here’s a quick rundown of some … Continued
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Apple Music Is Coming to Android for $10 a Month
Apple is so hellbent on dominating the streaming music game, it’s doing something I never thought I’d see: Bringing its first app ever to Android. Starting this fall, Apple’s new Beats-fueled streaming music service will be available on Android phones. Apple Music is the first native Apple app to bust out of Apple’s walled garden. … Continued
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Can Spotify’s Algorithm Improve Your Workout? It Can’t Hurt to Try
Running is big business. There are shoes, clothes, fitness trackers, apps, and countless other products that promise to make us faster—or at least distract us from our pain. For me, music is the only thing that’s ever worked. So when Spotify announced a way to “change the way you run forever,” I leapt at the … Continued
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Spotify Wants To Be Your Endless Source for Video and Podcasts, Too
Spotify just revealed a huge service overhaul that adds video, podcasts and improved discovery to its massive streaming music service. During a New York City press conference, CEO Daniel Ek expounded how his company wants to be a comprehensive source for every type of entertainment media possible through its formerly music-only platform. That means podcasts … Continued
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Rdio Launches $4 Service For Budget Streaming
Jay-Z’s TIDAL made big, messy waves the other month when it launched a $20-a-month streaming service. The accepted monthly rate for this kind of streaming service has normalized around $10 — which is why Rdio’s is hoping to undercut the competition with a new $4 tier. http://gawker.com/tidal-atry-my-tortuous-trial-with-jay-zs-overpriced-sp-1697023467 For that paltry amount of money, Rdio Select … Continued
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Apple Apparently Under Government Scrutiny Over Music Deals
Apple’s long-rumored relaunch of the Beats music-streaming service is slated for June, and in preparation, the company is softening the beaches by playing hardball with record labels. And, not for the first time, federal trade commissioners aren’t particularly happy. According to sources that have spoken to Bloomberg and The Verge, Apple is pushing hard to … Continued
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How to Recover Deleted Playlists in Spotify
Got rid of a carefully crafted Spotify playlist that you later wish you hadn’t? Fear not, because Spotify keeps a list of the playlists you’ve deleted, and you can bring them back in seconds—here’s how to do it. The feature lives on the web—though not in the actual web player—and can be used to restore … Continued
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How to Recover Deleted Playlists in Spotify
Got rid of a carefully crafted Spotify playlist that you later wish you hadn’t? Fear not, because Spotify keeps a list of the playlists you’ve deleted, and you can bring them back in seconds—here’s how to do it. The feature lives on the web—though not in the actual web player—and can be used to restore … Continued
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With More Than 70 New Apps, Google Now Just Got Way More Useful
Google Now is the opt-in, “just a swipe away” assistant that keeps track of everything going on in your digital life. It’s a powerful little tool meant to usurp all the Siri and Cortana alternatives, and Google made a huge stride today to make that happen, adding over 70 new apps to Google Now like … Continued
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Spotify Data Proves You’re Not As Cool As You Used To Be
If you’re over the age of thirty, you’re a musical dinosaur. You probably don’t understand the garbage those “damn kids” are listening to and you don’t want to. You’re not cool. When did this happen? Spotify may have just figured it out. Remember when Spotify was letting you check out your musical year-in-review? It used … Continued
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Spotify Data Nerds Discover the Most Popular Music to Put You to Sleep
Researchers at Spotify crunched roughly 2.8 million “sleep-themed” playlists and came to the startling conclusion that people love to listen to boring-ass music when they’re trying to fall asleep. Superstar British singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran tops the list of artists most-featured on sleepytime playlists. Seven of the top 20 sleep tracks belong to him. The second … Continued
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Bring Back SoundCloud’s Fantastic Desktop App
With all these rich musicians making a ruckusabout Jay Z’s overpriced streaming music service, I’m getting a little emotional. Not about Jay Z’s overpriced streaming music service. About the bygone golden era of streaming music’s erstwhile golden boy: SoundCloud. In a way, you can chart that golden era to the lifespan of the SoundCloud desktop … Continued
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Taylor Swift Put All Her Music On Jay-Z’s Pet Streaming Service
Taylor Swift, part-time pop star and full-time crusader for the rights of impoverished pop artists, made headlines last year when she yanked her music off Spotify. Well, streaming Swift is back — on a service you’ve probably never heard of. Tidal was a tiny Norwegian streaming service that basically no-one had heard of, until Jay-Z … Continued
By Chris Mills