Apple Music pays artists a penny per stream, double that of Spotify
Apple is writing to artists on Apple Music, saying it pays a penny per stream, and that 52% of subscription revenue goes to them via record labels. Apple is to…
Continue readingSpotify redesigns its web and desktop apps and adds new controls
Spotify has announced a new design for its desktop app and its web player, bringing with it a cleaner design and more controls. As the music streaming company explains in…
Continue readingInstantly improve Spotify by organizing your playlists
Be honest: How often do you listen to your “sitting on a park bench, silently judging geese” playlist anyway? (Blaz Erzetic/Unsplash/) Spotify has changed a lot since it launched more…
Continue reading‘World’s largest’ green steel from hydrogen plan backed by Spotify billionaire Ek
What is claimed to be the world’s largest plan yet for a ‘green steel’ plant fuelled by renewable hydrogen is slated for Sweden under a €2.5bn ($3bn) venture backed by…
Continue readingSpotify announces HiFi lossless tier for better quality music streaming
Spotify is launching a new Hi-Fi subscription tier to its platform, offering high-resolution music streaming to compete with Tidal, Deezer, and Amazon Music. At the company’s “Stream On” broadcast, where…
Continue readingSpotify to launch in 85 new markets ⋆ Alertify
Spotify is set to nearly double its market presence by launching in 85 new markets in the next few days, making the music streaming service available to more than a…
Continue readingWhy Spotify wants to work with Joe Rogan, Barack Obama, and ordinary people
Spotify started out as a legal way to stream popular music. Then it flirted, unsuccessfully, with becoming a video company, too. Now it is trying out a new identity: It…
Continue readingSpotify has a major audio-quality upgrade coming later this year
Spotify will offer high-res audio versions of some songs for an extra fee later this year. (Stan Horaczek/) Mention Spotify around any hardcore audiophile and they’ll likely set their $1,500…
Continue readingSpotify users will have access to higher quality music starting later this year
Bottom line: It’s taken nearly four years but Spotify is finally getting into the lossless streaming audio game. Spotify HiFi will debut later this year as an option for Premium…
Continue readingScience Songs: A Spotify Playlist
It’s been 10 years since the first Scientific American rundown of science songs, and a great deal has changed in that time. Books, art and music are now under the…
Continue readingSpotify adds 25 million more users, but outlook remains uncertain due to pandemic
What just happened? Spotify in its latest earnings report realized impressive user growth for the fourth quarter of 2020 but continued uncertainty regarding the pandemic has caused investors to be…
Continue readingAmazon’s diversity and inclusion leader, Elizabeth Nieto, leaving for job at Spotify in New York
Elizabeth Nieto at Amazon’s Global Diversity Equity and Inclusion Summit in January 2020. (Amazon Photo) Elizabeth Nieto, the leader of Amazon’s Global Diversity, Equity and Inclusion team, is leaving the…
Continue readingSomeone modified an iPod Classic to run Spotify
The big picture: Apple’s iPod was instrumental in helping right the ship at Cupertino following Steve Jobs’ return a few years earlier. The iconic portable media player was a smash…
Continue readingHow to Bust Your Spotify Feedback Loop and Find New Music
If you’re listening to music right now, chances are you didn’t choose what to put on—you outsourced it to an algorithm. Such is the popularity of recommendation systems that we’ve…
Continue readingPodcast wars: Amazon to acquire Wondery, escalating competition with Spotify
Amazon announced an agreement to acquire Wondery, the Los Angeles-based podcast production studio known for hit shows such as “Dirty John,” “Dr. Death,” and “Business Wars.” Financial terms weren’t disclosed,…
Continue readingHow to Create A Spotify Artist Account and What are its Several Benefits?
In the era of technology, lots of applications are developed for multimedia. Out of them, one best application is Spotify. It has the collection of the best music in the…
Continue reading