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Shazam has pulled a U-turn and restored its Spotify sharing tool to its service. It’s now also reported to be testing Beats Music integration on iOS, too.

Three Uses For Spotify That Don’t Involve Music

Spotify is the world’s best-known music streaming service, but music isn’t the only content you can find on the platform if you’re prepared to do some digging around. There’s a ton more available, if you know where to find it. Unfortunately, Spotify doesn’t make this alternative material very easy to find (with the possible exception…

Spotify Just Added a Surprisingly Exciting Equalizer to Its iOS App

Remember equalizers? You know, the little dials that used to keep your tiny boombox speakers from tweaking out at high volume but have sort of disappeared in the world of digital music. Well, they’re making a comeback in the latest update to Spotify’s iOS app, and I’m unduly excited about it. Update your Spotify app…

​How And Why To Take Your Smartphone Camping

No other device packs a camera, a stereo, video recording, GPS navigation and guide books into such a small, conveniently carried package. Here’s how to get the most of your smartphone in the outdoors. https://gizmodo.com/so-you-want-to-go-spearfishing-for-the-very-first-time-1609682913 Protect It: You need to plan to be exposed to weather and activities. And, if you plan to be around…

This Spotify Tool Makes a Playlist From Your Favorite Band’s Last Show

Going to concerts is fun no matter what, but it’s a million times more fun if you know all the songs. Sadly, sometimes if you only know a cut or two, it can be hard to brush up on an artist’s whole catalog before the show. Spotify’s new Set Listener tool is here to help.…

From today, Spotify’s Android and iOS apps allow you to make all your tracks—or at least, up to 3,333 of them—available offline with just a single button press.

Report: Amazon’s Streaming Music Service Will Only Have Older Tunes

Buzzfeed reports that the rumored Amazon Prime streaming music service will launch this June or July, and that will only contain songs that have been out for six months or longer. That way it’ll be an added service for its own customers without providing a comparable alternative to services like Beats Music and Spotify that…

Why the Future of Music Is All Bundled Up With Other Services

Today, Sprint launched a partnership with Spotify, which offers special deals on the premium version of the music service to Sprint subscribers. That’s great because it’ll gets you a marginally lower price for a great music service—but it’s also the beginning of what could one day make streaming music services financially sustainable: bundle deals. Yup,…

Sprint Plans Now Come With Free Spotify (For a Little While)

At a New York event today, Spotify and Sprint just announced a banger of a new partnership—Sprint Framily plan members can now get six months of Spotify Premium for free beginning May 9. But regular Sprint customers still benefit—they get three months for no dollars whatsoever. That’s a pretty nice deal. After those free periods,…

The nifty deep black Spotify redesign that desktop, web, and iOS got last month is coming to Android today.

Spotify Asks Band to Take Down Scam Album, Band Responds Hilariously

Last month, we told you about Vulfpeck’s ironic Spotify record, Sleepify, which was completely silent and designed to raise money for the funk band’s tour. Well, Spotify finally got around to responding to the band’s attempted scam. They’re not happy about it! Vulfpeck received an email asking them to take down their Sleepify record. The…

Spotify’s Deep Black Redesign Makes Your Favorite Music Pop

Today, Spotify starts rolling out a new darker redesign. It’s the biggest stylistic change we’ve seen since the service launched its web-based player in late 2012. The new look ditches the old app’s overcast grays for a sleek facade that’s blacker than hell—and it’s so much more beautiful and useful for it. I spoke with…

Report: Apple Is Negotiating an On-Demand Music Service Like Spotify

Billboard reports that Apple has been talking to record labels about potentially launching an on-demand music service that would compete with Spotify and Beats Music. According to the report, the talks are in very early early stages, and as we know, these licensing talks with the major labels can take years—if they materialize at all.…

Spotify Just Bought Huge Music Data Company The Echo Nest

Spotify just bought “music intelligence” company, The Echo Nest. In other words, it just bought the data machine that powers rival services like Rdio, iHeartRadio, Nokia MixRadio, Twitter Music and others. The Echo Nest is a “music intelligence” company that uses a combination of machine listening and intense web scraping to build up the databases…

Spotify salvation is coming for Windows Phone 8 users in the form of an app update “this spring,” bringing overdue Radio, Browse and Discover features to WinPho. The current Spotify app for the platform is terrible, so this can’t happen soon enough.

Here’s Your Freaky-Ass Valentine’s Day Spotify Playlist

No matter how you may be spending your Valentine’s Day, you definitely need a soundtrack. So here’s a freaky deaky Spotify playlist. We made it for you because we love you. Now, maybe you don’t exactly consider deep cuts from No Limit or slow jams from the Ying Yang Twins your romantic cup of tea.…

Explore Spotify’s Millions of Unplayed Songs with Forgotify

Four million songs on Spotify—a whopping twenty percent of the site’s tracks—have never been streamed. That is a ton of lonely tunes, but thanks to Forgotify they’re going to start getting some listening love; the service queues up stuff that’s never gotten a spin—the non-Biebers, the un-Mileys, the bizarro-Beys—and creates a running playlist of all-but-unknown…

In Dre We Trust: Why You Should Try Beats Music

After a year of hype, Beats Music is finally here, and if it has a definitive pitch, the company’s frenetic, towheaded CEO Ian Rogers served it to me over blaring punk music in a Lower East Side bar last week. “I’ve got [legendary producer] Jimmy Iovine calling me on the weekend and saying, ‘What the…

Report: Spotify Wants to Tailor Playlists By Heart Rate and Movement

If your workouts never quite gel with your soundtrack, help may soon be at hand. The Guardian is reporting that Spotify has plans to measure heart rate and motion to help choose you the perfect playlist for any situation. The newspaper explains that Spotify is thinking of using sensors “on the listener’s body or in…

Spotify Now Provides Unlimited Free Music on its Desktop App

Until now, Spotify’s free accounts provided unlimited ad-supported streaming via its desktop client for six months, until it then imposed a cap on your streaming. Now, though, that cap is being scrapped. As of now, Spotify has removed the caps from its free web service. You’ll still have to put up with ads, but you’ll…