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This Is Our Apple Liveblog Playlist

You want to get pumped up on certain occasions—before a big game, when you’re preparing for a fight, and of course, when you’re liveblogging. Seriously. We get in the zone just like everyone else. That’s why we made a Spotify playlist specifically for today’s Apple event. Subscribe and enjoy! These news-filled event days are a…

Xbox Music Hands On: The Perfect Music Service—If You Use Nothing But Microsoft Stuff

We’ve known that Microsoft has been working on a music service for a while now, and we finally got a chance to check it out first hand. Xbox Music is exactly what you’d want in a streaming service and store. It’s complete in a way that Spotify, Amazon, and even iTunes aren’t. Microsoft’s new music…

Spotify Premium users will be able to stream music through Samsung’s new smart TVs. [Pocket-lint]

Maybe The Internet Only Wants One of Everything

In the early days of the web, the technology space was flush with not only money, but a specific type of optimism: that this new medium would allow anybody to make whatever they wanted, and have the world see it (assuming it was any good). This was before Facebook, of course. If you wanted to…

5 Reasons Why Spotify in Your Browser Is a Good Idea

A Saturday TechCrunch report about a browser-based version of Spotify led to thousands of posts over the weekend. https://gizmodo.com/spotify-could-finally-be-coming-to-a-browser-near-you-5941639 The odd thing about Spotify’s reported makeover as a web app: Its status as a desktop client is responsible for at least some degree of its success. Being a desktop app allows Spotify to gobble upstream…

Spotify Could Finally Be Coming to a Browser Near You

If you’ve wished you could just load Spotify up in a browser of your choice instead of messing with a dedicated player, you’re in luck. TechCrunch has gotten word that Spotify is working on a brower-based player to augment the one it has now, or even replace it. Coming to browsers isn’t the only change…

Music Is Still Too Expensive To Be Free, Too Free To Be Expensive

In this corner, we have recording artists – those beleagured believers clinging dearly to the notion that they can quit their day jobs, just like their tune-slinging forebears did. As many have pointed out, they don’t make much per stream from even today’s most popular streaming services – about $0.003 from iTunes Match and $0.001…

Rdio Users Can Now Listen to All Their Favorite, Most Embarrassing Music in Protected Privacy

Broadcasting your mortifying taste in music with absolutely every human you know has always been an opt-in/opt-out choice for Spotify users—eve with the music streaming service’s required Facebook account-linking. But Rdio loyalists haven’t been so lucky. Not until now, at least. Today, a post on Rdio’s company blog announced the first of a series of…

Spotify is now available in the Amazon App Store, meaning Kindle Fire owners can get in on the action. [Amazon]

Androids Can Funnel Spotify’s Free Radio Now

Good news for Android users who’ve had to stare with envy at their iOS counterparts enjoying free Spotify radio on their iPhones and iPads for the past month. The Android Spotify app has been updated to include the free radio streaming and is now available on the Google play store. Go get it. https://gizmodo.com/spotify-is-now-free-on-the-iphone-and-ipad-sort-of-5919500 The…

Spotify, Rdio or MOG: What Streaming Music Service Do You Use?

News spread this morning that MOG has been purchased by HTC/Beats Audio for $10 million, which probably was not the payout the Berkeley-based company was hoping for (disclosure: I used to work there once upon a time). And while Spotify appears destined to win the streaming music wars (as far as subscription services go, at…

Why Spotify Didn’t Exist In the 80’s

If you’ve ever sat at your desk, contentedly listening to streaming music on your computer and thought, “Man, I wish this existed 25 years ago,” stop. You don’t. You really, really don’t. Watch this video and recant. BONUS: Jo Luijten of Squirrel-monkey.com, who created the video above also sent us the hilarious image below. As…

David Lowery Might Be Right About Some Things, But He’s Wrong About Streaming, Money, and Artists

Emily White, a summer intern at NPR’s All Songs Considered, didn’t know what she was getting into when she wrote her now-infamous screed about how, despite being a hardcore music fan and college radio station manager with 11,000 songs on her computer, she has only ever paid for 15 CDs-worth of recorded music with actual…

Spotify Is Now Free on the iPhone and iPad…Sort Of

Radio is the latest addition to Spotify’s iOS apps, which allows users to take the streaming music service’s Pandora-like functionality on the go. But this isn’t just for the people with premium accounts. Anyone can listen to Spotify radio on their iOS device for free. Nearly every subscription music service offers some sort of free…

Spotify’s Revamped Android App Now Available to All

Spotify’s revamped Android app launched in beta a couple of months ago, but now it’s availabile as an official release in Google Play, this time with a few new features: A home screen playback widget, playlist folder support, gapless playback, Last.fm scrobbling, and a visible play queue. You can download it here. [Spotify]

Sean Parker: Apple Tried to Block Spotify in the US

Apple’s iTunes Music Store has become one of the dominant source of digital music sales in the US thanks to the rise of the iPod in the ’00s. When Spotify popped up in the US last summer, many wondered what took so long. According to Spotify investor Sean Parker, Apple was part of the problem.…

Obama Takes Requests for Spotify Playlist; Romney to Follow Suit?

President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts governer Mitt Romney will go head to head in the 2012 presidential election, as you’re probably all too aware, given that this campaign already feels like it’s been going on for five years. The two contenders also doing battle as DJs on the fields of Spotify. No, we are…

Spotify for iPad: A Glimpse at the Future of Spotify

As has been mentioned again and again and again and again and again and again, Spotify’s apps have, at best, been decent. Its in-house-developed mobile apps have been universally terrible. But a couple of weeks ago Spotify dropped a preview of its revamped Android app, and now arrives its new iTunes, “Spotify]

Office Sound System Lets You Skip Tracks By Whipping Something At this Poster

In an attempt to stop people from queuing up unpopular songs in its public Spotify-powered sound system, the folks at Agency Republic created this interactive wall poster that can be used to easily skip tracks. All you have to do is slap, hit, fire, or throw something at it. Anyone working in the studio’s office…

Overhauled Spotify for Android: All About Discovery

Spotify’s Android app has been in need of an update for some time—especially when compared to its beautiful Windows Phone offering. Fortunately, the wait is over, and the new version is much improved: it’s cleaner, more visual, and wants to help you find as much new music as possible. https://gizmodo.com/spotify-for-windows-phone-this-is-how-every-windows-ph-5857642 In fact, the whole experience…