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Ubuntu One is not the most popular service from Canonical, but now it seems that access to its services has become a lot easier with the adoption of PayPal. Not too many people know what Ubuntu One is all about and most users think it's just some cloud storage service. The fact of the matter is that Ubuntu O... |
24 May 2012
10:16 GMT |
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Sony Network Entertainment International has issued a formal announcement to confirm that its Music Unlimited service application for iPhone and iPod touch would be available worldwide starting this Friday, May 25th. Music Unlimited subscribers in New Zealand can already access the global catalog of millions of trac... |
22 May 2012
21:51 GMT |
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Facebook is continuing to improve the music experience on the site. The Open Graph enabled a lot of music streaming services to have access to a lot more users. Now it's helping them even more with a Listen button on bands' Facebook pages. The Listen button, as you'd expect, enables users to listen to... |
18 April 2012
05:00 GMT |
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Spotify is making it easier, somehow, to embed music, legally, on any site you want. A blog owner could add a track or a whole album to a post and enable readers to listen to the songs. That is if said readers already use Spotify, otherwise they'll be directed to download the Spotify desktop app, provided the s... |
11 April 2012
07:50 GMT |
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To say Grooveshark has been having a bad year is somewhat of an understatement. It's being sued by all the four major labels, for different things, and now EMI, the only one it had a deal with, is pulling out saying that it hasn't seen the amount of money it was owed by Grooveshark.In fact, EMI sued Grooves... |
4 April 2012
13:11 GMT |
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The Facebook Timeline for pages hasn't exactly been received warmly by page admins, just like with regulars users before. But some companies are making the best of it, Spotify is only now debuting its page, but it's doing a great job at encapsulating the Timeline's advantages.
"We’ve decided to ... |
30 March 2012
09:51 GMT |
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Even with the entire recording industry trying to stop it, it's fairly easy to find music you like online and it's fairly easy to share it as well. But there is the problem of fragmentation.
If you use Spotify and your friend uses Spotify, you're set. If you find the track on YouTube, chances are your... |
28 March 2012
12:21 GMT |
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Spotify, for all its troubles, is doing quite alright. In fact, it's now raising new funding at a huge valuation, in the range of $3.5 billion, €2.64 billion. That's a big number for a company that still isn't making any huge amounts of money and may not be profitable yet. Granted, Twitter i... |
24 March 2012
08:01 GMT |
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Beats, the headphone maker partially owned by HTC is said to be buying MOG the music streaming service. There's no official confirmation, but several sources are talking about a deal, which hasn't been finalized.There's no price either and there's no real precedent for this type of service so it s... |
20 March 2012
16:01 GMT |
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Deezer is finally making good on some of the promises it made last year. It is now available in all of Europe, the company says, 46 countries in total, thanks to its latest push in Eastern Europe, the last group of countries to join.
The site has actually been available for a few days now in the region, but Deezer i... |
15 March 2012
10:01 GMT |
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Although it is an effect that’s been available for years in audio players, crossfading has made its way into Spotify music streaming service. Among other features, version 0.8.2.527 of Spotify brings to the table crossfade support, turned on by default.
Also new in this release is the gapless playback, which e... |
23 February 2012
10:27 GMT |
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Music fans in Europe are going to have more options for streaming their favorite tunes online. Rdio, which debuted in the US, is now launching in Spain and Portugal, the second EU expansion after debuting in Germany earlier this year.
"We're excited to launch Rdio in Spain and Portugal today. Now you can reinve... |
22 February 2012
09:41 GMT |
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Grooveshark seems determined or at least willing to annoy anyone that it can. It's been doing it with the major record labels, by not paying any money for the music it streams, not even to EMI which has a commercial deal with the site. It's been annoying artists as well, big and small, by making it next to... |
13 February 2012
09:17 GMT |
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Facebook is making music listening more social, again, with the introduction of the "Listen with Me" button. As the name suggests, it enables users to listen along with their friends, the same song will be streamed at the same time for all that join the ad-hoc DJ party.
Facebook is able to offer this thanks to its d... |
13 January 2012
07:11 GMT |
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Spotify has published its 2011 review. Everyone is doing the same these days, but Spotify is in an interesting position since it has access to what the people are listening to, not just what TV and radio is playing. Not that there's much of a difference.
"How was 2011 for you? It’s been an incredible year... |
29 December 2011
09:55 GMT |
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Owners of BlackBerry smartphones from Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion have had the option to try out Spotify on their devices, and they can now download and install a new flavor of the software. Available only as a preview until now, the mobile application has been released in full, and can be downl... |
22 December 2011
06:51 GMT |
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Grooveshark has enjoyed a few good years. Its free music streaming service, available worldwide, is enjoyed by millions of people. But the reason why the service is free, with no limits, and available everywhere in the world is because it doesn't have any sort of licensing deal with any of the major record label... |
16 December 2011
20:10 GMT |
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Ubuntu One, a cloud service operated and administered by Canonical, the makers of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, can now be used to stream music. Users can now listen to any song, either they are on a mobile environment or just in the web browser of their desktop PC. Canonical managed to push this update before the h... |
16 December 2011
09:22 GMT |
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Spotify has been feeling rather generous lately. A few months ago it upgraded the free tier enabling users to get six months of unlimited access for free.Now, it's enabling users to get full access to the Premium tier for 30 days for free. Spotify Premium enables users to listen to all of the songs on their mobi... |
14 December 2011
14:41 GMT |
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The music streaming business may not be the most profitable one, but the demand is there and the potential is huge. It just takes someone to find out how to make money from it. Several companies are focusing on the US first, but the French Deezer has another idea. For it, not focusing on the US is actually an advant... |
7 December 2011
10:24 GMT |
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Spotify has been able to keep itself in the public eye, though not always for the best reasons for quite a while. Now, it's got something else to brag about, the company has just announced that it has over 2.5 million paying subscribers.That's a huge number for a business that is still largely unproven. Whi... |
23 November 2011
13:21 GMT |
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Grooveshark has operated under a somewhat sketchy legal basis from day one. Yet it managed to stay alive for years now, streaming millions of songs, for free, to millions of users around the world.But that may come to an end if the latest accusations coming from Universal Music Group, which has sued the music streami... |
19 November 2011
11:11 GMT |
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Spotify is continuing its expansion. After only being available in a few countries for several years, it is now moving into new territories at a much faster pace. The latest addition is Austria, where Spotify is now available with the regular subscription options."We’ve been busy translating Spotify into German... |
15 November 2011
05:18 GMT |
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After the success they recorded in Denmark with the massive blockade set against The Pirate Bay, copyright holders acquired a new target in the form of Grooveshark, a website known internationally for their music streaming services.
Accroding to TorrentFreak, the anti-piracy organization called RettighedsAlliancen r... |
14 November 2011
10:18 GMT |
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You'd be forgiven if you forget that there are other options when it comes to music streaming out there, with all the attention Spotify is getting. One player that is decidedly lower key yet enjoying quite a lot of popularity with users is Grooveshark.The music service has just gotten a big revamp, not so much a... |
12 November 2011
07:41 GMT |
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Facebook is discontinuing its Music Player and Discography apps, the social network has announced, rather quietly. Page admins are getting a notification that the apps are no longer working and that they should seek alternatives.The Music Player app enabled page admins to upload MP3s to Facebook and make them availab... |
1 November 2011
06:50 GMT |
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Music streaming is becoming a very profitable business nowadays, considering that in the US and Canada there are numerous services competing for the same audience. One of these companies, namely Rdio, has decided to enter new markets, such as Brazil.Americans cannot probably imagine life without enjoying their music... |
30 October 2011
08:28 GMT |
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When it comes to music streaming, everyone is talking about Spotify, but there's one player that you should be watching right now, Deezer. The French company has been at it for a few years and is doing pretty well in its home country.But it now plans to expand aggressively and will become available in 100 countr... |
19 October 2011
11:10 GMT |
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Spotify now has 250,000 paying subscribers in the US alone according to a recent report. That's quite a lot of people since Spotify only launched in the country a few months back. But the company is going to have to convince a lot more people before it all starts to pay off.Say what you will about Spotify's... |
14 October 2011
13:31 GMT |
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According to a new report, music piracy started to decline within Sweden due to the huge popularity of Spotify and the convenient plans it provides, thus rendering piracy useless.Music streaming is viewed as a win-win solution for everyone, since end-users get easy and affordable access to songs while artists retain... |
29 September 2011
16:28 GMT |
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Spotify's decision to require new users to have a Facebook account is not going well with both existing users and potential ones. The move has been highly criticized and it didn't help that Spotify didn't make any announcement until after it blew over.
Now it's defending the move by arguing tha... |
27 September 2011
08:31 GMT |
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Atrinsic, Inc., a marketer of direct-to-consumer subscription products has announced that Kazaa, its streaming music application, is now available to iOS customers as a free download from the iTunes App Store.With iCloud on the way, iOS device owners are given the opportunity to try out the Kazaa services for a whole... |
21 September 2011
12:31 GMT |
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While many were skeptical that Spotify would ever get to launch in the US and be both legal and free, others kept their faith then helped the platform grow when time came. It now seems the Europeans must have done something right since other services now follow suit.Since it might look like Americans are overwhelmed... |
15 September 2011
15:19 GMT |
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Spotify has only been available in the US for less than a month, but the media hype and heavy marketing have paid off, the service is said to have about 1.4 million users already, 175,000 of which are paying subscribers.Spotify launched after a two year wait in the US last month and it hoped that the hype leading up ... |
9 August 2011
09:05 GMT |
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Spotify has announced its presence in the United States and has released the first official Spotify iPhone application as a free download from the iTunes App Store.
Spotify is said to be the fastest growing service of its kind.
It gives users buffering-free, on-demand access to a library of more than 15 million... |
14 July 2011
09:31 GMT |
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It took a couple of years, but Spotify is finally in the US. Well, almost in the US, the company has revealed that it is landing on US shores, but has not revealed when. US users can sign up for an invitation and will be notified when the site and service become available. It has been an epic struggle and the long r... |
7 July 2011
08:13 GMT |
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Much has been said, written and especially speculated about its launch on American soil, and it seems that finally it will all become reality: Spotify has recently updated its landing page and encourages US citizens to sign up for an invite.This can mean only one thing, that entering the United States market is very... |
6 July 2011
16:43 GMT |
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It is probably the most popular streaming service in Europe, however Spotify has become popular among the US citizens mostly due to its multiple (failed) attempts to enter the American market. It seems the wait might be over sooner that some believed if the service does launch in mid-July, as rumored.According to an ... |
27 June 2011
16:17 GMT |
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A lot has been written and speculated about the Spotify launch in the United States, and those wondering why it takes so long for the service to be introduced to Americans have finally got their answer: the company wants to create a service that users will not want to pirate.
The goal is that once all the agreeme... |
31 May 2011
06:35 GMT |
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Spotify made a series of announcements earlier today. It launched support for iPod syncing, free mobile apps as well as a music download store, there's certainly plenty to see. While the products alone are great for some Spotify users, they signal a much bigger change in strategy at the company. Officially, Spot... |
4 May 2011
11:00 GMT |
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Spotify has made a couple of announcements that may not seem like such a big deal but which are a major step forward for the company. Spotify is opening a download store, enabling users to buy their music directly from the app, adding support for iPod sync and it's also launching free mobile apps for both Androi... |
4 May 2011
08:00 GMT |
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Spotify has a few surprises for its free service users and, as luck would have it, they're not very pleasant ones. Already, the free version had seen some cuts and limitations but it's only getting worse. Free listening is now down to just 10 hours a month and, even worse, you can only listen to a tune five... |
14 April 2011
08:30 GMT |
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Google Music has been rumored for almost year now, at least the latest incarnation, there have been similar rumors along the years. But it looks like the music store, streaming service and cloud music locker is getting closer as it is now reportedly being tested internally at the company.Google regularly tests new pr... |
25 March 2011
09:18 GMT |
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Spotify has some impressive numbers to share, it has now reached the one million paid subscribers milestone. At this point, it is the largest paid, on-demand music streaming service in the world and that's before its US launch, which, yet again, is rumored to be happening soon. Spotify actually reached the miles... |
8 March 2011
08:46 GMT |
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Android 3.0 Honeycomb, the new flavor of Google's operating system, specifically designed to fit the larger screens of tablet PCs, includes a series of interesting new features, including the possibility to sync songs into the cloud via a new music application. Info on the Music app in Honeycomb emerged a long ... |
8 March 2011
02:41 GMT |
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Atrinsic Inc. has announced that Kazaa subscribers can access the music service on their iPad or iPhone without the requirement of downloading and installing a dedicated application, to immediately stream music to their device.
According to the company behind the digital music subscription service, this “inn... |
7 March 2011
11:51 GMT |
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Spotify has been wanting to launch in the US for more than a year now and, despite numerous rumors and promises, it has failed to do so. The problem is the lack of support from the major record labels which don't want a free music streaming offering. But Spotify has finally managed to close a couple of deals wit... |
18 February 2011
12:13 GMT |
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Spotify is currently one of the most popular music streaming services in Europe, and it has been striving to enter the US market for some time now. It seems that the timing is finally right for them, as they are reported to have signed a deal with Sony Music Entertainment.
Although this has not been officially co... |
21 January 2011
01:18 GMT |
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Given the huge success Apple's iTunes + iPod/iPhone/iPad business model has enjoyed over the past couple of years, it should come as no surprise that other companies have decided to adopt a similar path, one of the most important being none other than Sony, who's just launched the “Music Unlimited pow... |
22 December 2010
13:31 GMT |
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Grooveshark, the popular and somewhat controversial music streaming site has just gotten a major update. It's got a snazzy new interface which, while pretty nice looking, doesn't really seem to bring anything new. That's until you dig under the surface and realize that everything's done using HTML... |
3 December 2010
09:26 GMT |
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