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How to Sync iTunes Music To Your Android Device

Taking your iTunes library out with you on an Android smartphone or tablet is no longer the impossible mission it used to be—there are a number of apps and services that can help, including Apple’s first major Android app. We’ll go through the various options so you can choose the one that works best for…

Spotify Sued By Artists for $150 Million

Songwriter, musician, and dedicated music copyright activist David Lowery has retained a law firm and filed an ambitious class action lawsuit against Spotify. He’s suing on behalf of all the artists—which could be literally any number of artists—that he claims Spotify is stiffing. Yesterday, Lowery filed his ambitious complaint against the streaming service in the…

Tesla Model S Owners Now Get Free In-Car Spotify

Looking for some way to justify that $70,000 Tesla Model S? Well, how about this: starting today, Model S owners in some countries will have free in-car access to Spotify Premium. At $10 saved per month, that’s only 583 years until you break even! The move to Spotify isn’t random: Tesla previously offered in-car streaming…

Spotify Now Has Professionally Mixed Playlists to Get Your Party Started

Spotify certainly has enough music to keep you entertained, but its playlists can lurch from one track to the next with little finesse. Now, it’s launching a new Party feature that includes mixed, beat-matched songs so that things feel a little more professional. The new playlists, part of a feature that will be known as…

How to Move Your Rdio Playlists to Spotify

Ever since I learned the best music site on the internet is being acquired by Pandora, I’ve been sick about losing the amazing Christmas playlist that I’ve been carefully curating for years. Thankfully, Rdio and Spotify have made it really easy to export and re-import my playlists. Here’s how to do it. If you’re an…

Spotify May Let Artists Decide If Albums Are Available for Free

Spotify’s freemium pay structure has always been an amazing deal. All the music you could want as long as you have patience for the occasional commercial. All for free. But according to the Wall Street Journal, Spotify might let artists choose whether albums live behind a Premium subscription paywall. Currently, talks seem to be in…

Spotify’s ‘Year in Music’ Tool Tells You How You Soundtracked 2015

What have you been listening to this year? If you want to find out using cold, hard evidence, then Spotify’s new Year in Music tool will tell you. By scouring the data it has about your listening habits, Spotify will tell you your tops songs, artists and genres of 2015, along with a few more…

6 Places to Get Better New Music Recommendations

There’s a lot of music out there—services such as Spotify boast more than 30 million tracks—with new songs and albums dropping every week. So how do you cut through the noise? Here are six places you can find new music to suit your tastes, based on what you’re already interested in. YouTube This is a…

Spotify Is the Best Streaming Music Service

There, I said it. As countless Rdio fans sit back helplessly as their accounts go dark, it’s time to be blunt. Spotify continues to outpace its growing army of competitors, and if you’re going to spend money on a streaming music service, you should sign up for Spotify Premium. Or save a few bucks and…

Adele’s 25 Will Not Be On Spotify or Other Streaming Services

Adele’s highly-anticipated new record 25 will not be available on Spotify, according to the company. Here’s the canned statement provided to Gizmodo: “We love and respect Adele, as do her 24 million fans on Spotify. We hope that she will give those fans the opportunity to enjoy 25 on Spotify alongside 19 and 21 very…

Here’s How to Export Your Rdio Playlists

The news that Pandora is buying bankrupt Rdio is very sad indeed, and leaves many of us wondering what will happen to the Dad Rock playlists we spent years perfecting. Here’s a way to export them, for now. Frank Chimero posted a Chrome plugin that you can use to export your Rdio playlists as well…

Spotify is introducing a new “concerts” feature. It will work much like the totally awesome Discover Weekly playlist—in addition to suggesting concerts by artists you already like, you’ll also get recommendations based on what Spotify’s magical algorithms think you might enjoy. Rock on.

Facebook’s iOS App Now Makes 30-Second Previews of Your Favorite Songs

If you wanted to communicate just how “raw and emotional” that new cover of a cover of a cover of a Taylor Swift song is, Facebook probably wasn’t the website of choice. But now you can share 30-second clips on iPhone from Apple Music or Spotify for whenever you listen a song that is just…

Filter Your Spotify Playlists for Easier Music Management

Playlists are at the core of the Spotify experience, but it’s all too easy to end up with an abundance of overlong ones—after all, once you start compiling the very best disco tracks from Spotify’s 30m+ track library it’s difficult to stop. Fortunately, the desktop apps include a simple playlist filtering option, though it’s pretty…

An update to the Spotify app now gives it Chromecast support. This is great for you goofballs who listen to music on your TV. However, it only works with the new Chromecast and Chromecast Audio. Download the latest Spotify app for iOS or Android here and here, respectively. Contact the author at [email protected]. Public PGP…

Vinyl Record Sales Generated More Money This Year Than Free Streaming Music

The vinyl resurgence is real, but artists are still getting screwed. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) reported that U.S. consumers bought $226 million worth of vinyl records in the first half of the year. Contrast this to $162.7 million in revenues from ad-supported streams from the likes of Pandora and Spotify, and it…

Bose’s $200 SoundTouch 10 Is a Bluetooth-Wifi Double Whammy

Sonos is the king of wifi multiroom audio, but if anybody can give it a run it’s Bose, the storied manufacturer of sometimes very good sound gear that people can’t get enough of. This new $200 entry to its SoundTouch wireless line could be the key to winning over your home. Two years ago, Bose…

Google’s New Family Plan for Music Is a Damn Good Deal

Google just announced a “Family Plan” for Google Play Music. For just $15 a month, you get up to six accounts that family members can use on any device. The plan will even keep each preferences and recommendations. That’s a pretty good deal. The idea of a shared family plan for streaming music is hardly…

After months of waiting impatiently, Spotify’s Running feature, which matches music to your running pace in an attempt to move yo ass, is finally coming to Android. Update your app through the Play Store, then get running. [Spotify] Contact the author at [email protected].

Spotify’s ‘Found Them First’ Tool Calculates Your Musical Cool

In the days of physical records, you could simply shrug and claim to have known a band before they were big. But with digital streaming comes cold, hard evidence of when you first listened to a band — and Spotify now lets you use it to work out if your bragging is accurate. The new…