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Spotify HiFi will stream lossless audio to Premium subscribers for an additional fee Spotify is one of the most popular music streaming services in the world today, and it’s about to add one of the most-requested features — lossless audio quality. During its Stream On event today, Spotify announced that starting later this year, the platform will start offering lossless audio streaming. The new offering will be an additional quality tier available to Premium subscribers in “select markets.” Spotify confirmed to 9to5Google that this won’t be included in the

Spotify to launch in 80 new markets across Asia, Africa, Caribbean, Latin America Spotify revealed the plans, which will kick off in the "next few days," at its Stream On virtual news event Monday. Angela Lang/CNET Spotify said Monday it will expand significantly to more than 80 new markets across Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America and Europe over the next few days, a rollout that would expand its availability to more than a billion people around the world. The company will also make Spotify available in 36 new languages, including Romanian, Hindi and

Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen launch podcast on Spotify It is another landmark moment in Spotify's aggressive push to dominate the podcast business. Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen during an election campaign rally in Madison, Wisc., on Nov. 5, 2012.Jason Reed / Reuters file Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen are making a podcast. Spotify on Monday announced the launch of "Renegades: Born in the USA," featuring the former president and the legendary rock star in conversation on issues ranging from politics and the state of America to fathe

Requirements: 4.0.3+ Overview: Spotify is now free on mobile and tablet. Listen to the right music, wherever you are. Spotify is now free on mobile and tablet. Listen to the right music, wherever you are. With Spotify, you have access to a world of music. You can listen to artists and albums, or create your own playlist of your favorite songs. Want to discover new music? Choose a ready-made playlist that suits your mood or get personalized recommendations. Listen for free on mobile • Play any artist, album, or playlist on shuffle mode Listen for free on table

Spotify is now free on mobile and tablet. Listen to the right music, wherever you are. With Spotify, you have access to a world of music. You can listen to artists and albums, or create your own playlist of your favorite songs. Want to discover new music? Choose a ready-made playlist that suits your mood or get personalized recommendations. Listen for free on mobile • Play any artist, album, or playlist on shuffle mode Listen for free on tablet • Play any song, any time Spotify Premium features • Play any song, any time on any device--mobile, tablet, or you

Joe Budden Brings Podcast to Patreon, Joins Company as Head of Creator Equity After splitting with Spotify last September, the broadcaster says he trusts Patreon’s vision and “ability to expand the creator economy.” Five months after yanking his blockbuster shows from Spotify amid a dispute over compensation, podcasting powerhouse Joe Budden is partnering with another subscription platform that’s promising artists more leverage. His signature The Joe Budden Podcast with Rory & Mal and The Joe Budden Network will now be hosted on Patreon, the com

Spotify’s paid subscribers hit 155M, but company is still losing money Spotify‘s paid subscribers hit 155M at the end of the last quarter of last year, up 24% year-on-year. This compares to the last-declared figure of 60M from Apple Music. Total monthly active Spotify users, which include people on the free ad-funded tier, reached 345M, a year-on-year increase of 27% … Spotify revealed the numbers in its earnings report for Q4 2020. However, the WSJ notes that the company is still losing money – in large part because growing its subs

Spotify dabbles in audiobooks by offering nine public-domain works Initial titles include 'Frankenstein,' 'Great Expectations' and 'Jane Eyre.' stockcam via Getty Images Spotify’s aggressive move into content beyond music continues today, as the company is testing a small “pilot” of audiobooks on the platform. Specifically, nine classic audiobooks will be available starting today. This isn’t technically the first time Spotify has offered audiobooks, though before it only had a star-studded reading of the first Harry Potter novel. The nine new books are pub

xSpotify Manager Features: ✓Self App Auto-Update ✓Regular Mod Section Available ✓Amoled Black Section Available ✓Lite Mod Section Available ✓Search Versions Available ✓Quick Search Filter Enabled ✓Menu With Various Features ✓In-App Downloader ✓Lightweight App (Less than 15MB) ✓No Advertisements HOW TO USE: •PREREQUISITE: Uninstall your current Spotify App. •STEPS: 1. Select the modification you want. 2. Upon seeing the dialog, tap on "DOWNLOAD MOD". 3. The application will start to download the modded spotify a

Spotify is now free on mobile and tablet. Listen to the right music, wherever you are. With Spotify, you have access to a world of music. You can listen to artists and albums, or create your own playlist of your favorite songs. Want to discover new music? Choose a ready-made playlist that suits your mood or get personalized recommendations. Listen for free on mobile • Play any artist, album, or playlist on shuffle mode Listen for free on tablet • Play any song, any time Spotify Premium features • Play any song, any time on any device--mobile, tablet, or you

Spotify announces an exclusive podcast deal with filmmaker Ava DuVernay Image Credits: Michael Tran (opens in a new window)/ Getty Images Spotify continues to enlist big names for its podcasting efforts. The latest: Filmmaker Ava DuVernay and her arts collective Array. DuVernay has directed theatrically released films including “Selma” and “A Wrinkle in Time,” but she also made “13th” and “When They See Us” for Netflix, and she’s been an eloquent proponent for streaming as a more accessible way of telling her stories. Spotify

How to Bust Your Spotify Feedback Loop and Find New Music Does the algorithm know you too well? Here’s how to shake up your recommendations for a more varied listening experience. Photograph: Justin Paget/Getty Images 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 come to rely on them to serve us what we want wi

This week it was revealed that Spotify wants to patent a technology that will enable artists to check whether their uploaded songs have elements that are too similar to others. One of the aims is to help artists avoid copyright infringement lawsuits. But, doesn't the thought of artistic impression being policed by a computer sound like an episode of Black Mirror? When I started writing music in in my teens, I didn’t even think about how to begin. I just did what every other starting writer does – I copied, emulated, plagiarized and otherwise ripped-off everyt

Spotify is now free on mobile and tablet. Listen to the right music, wherever you are. With Spotify, you have access to a world of music. You can listen to artists and albums, or create your own playlist of your favorite songs. Want to discover new music? Choose a ready-made playlist that suits your mood or get personalized recommendations. Listen for free on mobile • Play any artist, album, or playlist on shuffle mode Listen for free on tablet • Play any song, any time Spotify Premium features • Play any song, any time on any device--mobile, tablet, or you

Ludvig Strigeus, the Swedish programmer who made uTorrent and also helped to create Spotify, has been awarded the prestigious Polhem Prize. Strigeus received the technology innovation award for his exemplary coding skills, which helped to create two of the most used applications in the world. Most developers can only dream of creating software that’s used by hundreds of millions of people across the globe. Swedish programmer Ludvig Strigeus is one of the lucky few to have reached this milestone. Not once, but twice. File-sh

Another day, another Spotify acquisition. This time, it’s podcast advertising platform Megaphone, which the music streaming giant announced it was buying earlier today, in an attempt to beef up its advertising chops as it expands its roster of podcast programming. The acquisition accomplishes a few things for both the buyer and buy-ee. On Spotify’s end, the acquisition allows the major brands currently working with Megaphone to funnel some of their major brand bucks through Spotify’s systems, which will help Spotify pinch off a bigger chunk of the roughly $1 billion

And the amount of time people are listening to Spotify recovered to pre-pandemic levels, after total hours took a hit as people around the world locked down. Spotify soared past a worldwide listener milestone as the number of people using the service climbed 29% to 320 million in the third quarter, the music streaming service said Thursday. Excluding anyone who listens free with advertising, Spotify's paid members also rose 27% to 144 million, the company said. The latest figures further cement Spotify as the world's biggest subscription music service. Spo

Despite both Spotify and Deezer having a free-tier for listeners on a budget, some users prefer to use unofficial clients that allow them to obtain the premium service for free. Spotify has dealt with these users by threatening to ban accounts but Deezer is taking an altogether softer approach. Today’s legal music streaming services are providing a service that would’ve been unimaginable 15 years ago. Not only do they provide access to tens of millions of tracks, they do so conveniently, on multiple platforms, and at a fair price. In fact, s

Spotify now has its own iOS 14 widget Quickly get back to whatever you were playing recently Image: Spotify In the weeks since iOS 14’s release, more and more apps have been adding new features that take advantage of what’s in Apple’s latest update. And now, Spotify is joining in. Today, the leading subscription music service announced the launch of its widget for iOS 14 and iPadOS 14. Similar to Apple’s own widgets for Apple Music, Spotify’s serve as a means of quickly getting back

Spotify will now let you search using lyrics so you can find that one song stuck in your head Another way to search for songs Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge For those times when you’re constantly singing a line of a song but just can’t remember what song those lyrics came from, Spotify can now help you with that. You can now search for songs by their lyrics on iOS and Android (via 9to5Mac). The feature looks to be pretty straightforward — type in some lyrics into Spotify’s s

Unlike the streaming behemoth, the artist-focused platform lets fans support their favorite musicians directly 5 million: That’s how many digital albums were sold on the music platform Bandcamp in the last year, per the Los Angeles Times. With its artist-first business model, Bandcamp, founded in 2008, has become the favored platform for many independent musicians who are frustrated with the minuscule royalties paid out by dominant streaming platforms like Spotify. In March, when live performances dried up due to the pandemic, Bandcamp announced that on the

Spotify’s first exclusive DC Comics podcast, Batman Unburied, explores Bruce Wayne’s psychology It’ll premiere in 2021 Spotify Spotify announced the first podcast that’ll come out of its exclusive DC Comics deal today: a new show called Batman Unburied. The narrative podcast will explore the “darker aspects of Bruce Wayne’s psychology.” It’ll debut in 2021, and for now, no other details are being released. David S. Goyer, the screenwriter behind Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins, will executive produce the podcast

Spotify is now on mobile and tablet. Listen to the right music, wherever you are. With Spotify, you have access to a world of music. You can listen to artists and albums, or create your own playlist of your favorite songs. Want to discover new music? Choose a ready-made playlist that suits your mood or get personalized recommendations. Listen on mobile • Play any artist, album, or playlist on shuffle mode Listen for free on tablet • Play any song, any time Spotify Premium features • Play any song, any time on any device--mobile, tablet, or your computer • Download musi

Spotify is now on mobile and tablet. Listen to the right music, wherever you are. With Spotify, you have access to a world of music. You can listen to artists and albums, or create your own playlist of your favorite songs. Want to discover new music? Choose a ready-made playlist that suits your mood or get personalized recommendations. Listen on mobile • Play any artist, album, or playlist on shuffle mode Listen for free on tablet • Play any song, any time Spotify Premium features • Play any song, any time on any device--mobile, tablet, or your computer • Download musi

Pandora’s latest version of its iOS app includes a “brand new, built-from-the-ground-up app that’s seamlessly integrated into the Apple Watch experience.” From your wrist, you’ll be able to control playback or give a thumbs up to whatever song is currently playing on Pandora. But even better is that Pandora’s Apple Watch app includes offline playback, so you can leave your phone at home and listen to a playlist while on a run. Only Pandora’s paying customers are getting this feature, so you’ll need to have a subscription to either Pandora Plus or Pandora Premium — the company’s full-on Sp