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Spotify is continuing its global expansion but, for once, it's not opening up for yet another European country, it's going all the way across the world to Australia and New Zealand.
Spotify is now open to people in those two countries and the company has set up a couple of playlists with native music as w... |
22 May 2012
06:01 GMT |
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SoundCloud is almost ready to unleash a completely new version of the site, which it very originally named Next SoundCloud. The new site is in private beta, but you can request an invite. It's a complete revamp and there's plenty to like. One very nice feature is a new persistent player which enables you to... |
9 May 2012
14:31 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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SoundCloud, despite trying to expand its view and to welcome podcasters and anyone else needing a simple way of recording, storing and publishing audio clips, is still very much about the music.
The site caught on especially well with budding artists since it offered not only a way of hosting their tracks online but... |
2 April 2012
10:50 GMT |
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Spotify has some good news for its US users that haven't yet become customers: they don't have to for an unspecified while longer. Users have been able to enjoy free listening to as many songs as they wanted for months now.
Initially, the unlimited listening was supposed to run out after six months. But th... |
29 March 2012
12:11 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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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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Rdio has just announced a major redesign of its site and, by extension, its web player. The redesign applies to the desktop app as well. The focus was on a more streamlined navigation, easier ways of building playlists, like drag and drop, and generally simplifying things.
The new site is now available to paying use... |
14 March 2012
06:59 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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Things are beginning to crumble for Grooveshark, though it's been having a good run as a quasi-legal music streaming website. A court in Denmark has labeled the site illegal and has ordered an ISP in the country to block it.
A group of copyright holders asked a court to force ISPs to block access to the site. T... |
21 February 2012
08:51 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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MySpace, for all intents and purposes, is dead and has been so for quite a while. But it may be seeing somewhat of a revival, or maybe just a bit of thawing. MySpace has managed to gain one million new users since December when it introduced a new music player.
The New York Times reports that MySpace is about to ann... |
13 February 2012
07:51 GMT |
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Google has finally made it possible to get your music back from the black hole that used to be Google Music. Previously, any music you uploaded to the service was stuck there, there was no way of downloading any of it back.
The limitation was placed under pressure from music labels, under a misguided effort to curve... |
27 January 2012
11:51 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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Vevo is a strange beast, part YouTube, part major record label-owned site. Given that YouTube/Google and the creative industry haven't exactly seen eye to eye on too many occasions, the partnership is peculiar.But it's partnership of convenience and nothing more, the labels needed YouTube's infrastruct... |
21 December 2011
14:10 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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Spotify is the best known music streaming service globally and the biggest. But it's still small as a business and it's still struggling to get more people to sign up and especially to pay.So the company is looking at ways of expanding its current service, which offers on demand music streaming to users for... |
25 November 2011
12:31 GMT |
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As expected, Google has unveiled its updated music service. Now simply dubbed Google Music, it incorporates the music cloud locker introduced last spring and a new music download store. Google Music is only available in the US and is integrated with the Android Market. The only way to buy new music, for now, is to g... |
17 November 2011
03:27 GMT |
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After debuting in Austria, Spotify didn't take long to conquer a couple of new countries. The popular music streaming service is now available in Belgium and Switzerland as well. The service is essentially the same as everywhere else, for better and for worse, so users in these two countries can now finally get ... |
16 November 2011
10:51 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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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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While Google isn't, except for the fact that it's holding a music-related event next week, it is pretty clear that it is launching a MP3 music download store. It's going to be a rather run-of-the-mill store, with a somewhat interesting twist, any song you buy you can share with friends, via Google+, Go... |
12 November 2011
05:40 GMT |
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Google is being a bit mysterious about an event it's holding next week, but if you've been following the rumors you'll know exactly what you're in for, Google plans to unveil its music download store on November 16.Google is now sending out invitations to an event on Wednesday. It's not telli... |
11 November 2011
19:06 GMT |
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It's been a month and a half since the Facebook f8 developers' conference and the social network is coming out with some stats boasting about the great engagement music apps see with the new Open Graph, i.e. the one with automatic sharing.While Facebook says the numbers are preliminary, especially since the... |
9 November 2011
09:04 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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SoundCloud, the music streaming service that's not like all the rest, has been doing quite well for itself lately. It's been growing quite impressively and has taken the opportunity created by the launch of its iPad app to boast about its latest user number, SoundCloud is now at eight million 'creators... |
27 October 2011
11:40 GMT |
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Music is a big draw for YouTube. Music videos from big artists or just people with a webcam and a guitar generate quite a lot of traffic for the site and, since so many people come to YouTube to listen and discover music, a lot of artists have set up shop on the site. Now, YouTube is giving them the possibility to qu... |
17 October 2011
04:24 GMT |
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Spotify has had some big announcements in recent months, it finally launched in the US and it debuted a deep integration with Facebook. But it also had time for the smaller stuff, it recently launched in Denmark and is now available on Boxee, the open source HTPC platform and the Boxee Box, the official device that r... |
15 October 2011
06:51 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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The US is not the only place Spotify is expanding to these days. With that big launch out of the way, and the whole Facebook integration quieting down, the company can finally focus on moving to new countries.
The latest on the list is Denmark, perhaps an obvious choice given its geographical closeness to Sweden,... |
12 October 2011
07:12 GMT |
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Facebook is expected to unveil a very interesting music service later this week at its F8 developers' conference. There is no official confirmation, but rumors of a service involving all major online music services have been floating around for a few months now.
The latest rumors extend to video services as w... |
19 September 2011
08:05 GMT |
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Facebook Music is building up to be one of the biggest products the site has ever launched. While details so far indicate that Facebook won't have much involvement in the actual product and will only provide the platform, it seems that the social network is actually taking a more involved role.While the actual m... |
12 September 2011
09:00 GMT |
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YouTube is a great way of keeping track of the latest creative trends and popular culture in general. For music in particular, the site is pretty much the go-to place for an entire generation, who grew up with YouTube in the same way old-timers grew up with MTV.No surprise then that any music trend is going to reverb... |
11 September 2011
00:31 GMT |
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Not long ago, MySpace got bought for $35 million. Fire sale price, to be sure, but the site is bleeding users worse than it has had in recent years and its prospects are bleak to say the least. But the company that bought it has some big plans for it and has now revealed the focus of the new MySpace, music. The site... |
24 August 2011
11:11 GMT |
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Google has been expanding the number of rich snippets it supports and it's now adding a rather important one, music. Now, websites that host music can signal this to Google which will display a list of the tracks on that page in the search results.The idea is to make it easier for users to know if there is actua... |
19 August 2011
08:55 GMT |
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YouTube has relaunched its Music page which is now better curated, and features concert recommendations and music videos based on your tastes. This combination of both algorithm-driven recommendations and human curation is probably the best approach for the site. The Music page is getting a reboot with a selection of... |
19 August 2011
05:08 GMT |
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In the early years, YouTube was very much under the threat of copyright lawsuits. For a while it was doubted whether the site would even be able to survive. Survive it did and it's now putting more of its copyright infringement woes behind it, after reaching a deal with a couple of music publishing companies tha... |
18 August 2011
09:00 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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Baidu has announced that it has reached a deal with three major music labels to offer free and legal music for download and streaming to its users.
In return, it will remove all links to pirated music from its search results and pay for the music it offers as well as pay a cut-out of the advertising revenue, if i... |
19 July 2011
05:52 GMT |
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Two years after first announcing it, Spotify is finally coming to the US. The service will be launched later today, at 8 in the morning EST. The company has signed a deal with the fourth and final music label just hours before launch and the service will be virtually identical to the European one, except for the pric... |
14 July 2011
08:07 GMT |
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It seems that music lockers are the latest trend and everyone and their dog is jumping on the bandwagon, reminiscent of the URL shortener craze, just with a much bigger up-front investment from the companies having a try at it.The latest is Best Buy which is launching a music locker and streaming service which will e... |
22 June 2011
12:21 GMT |
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If you thought the online music business was already crowded, it seems like the flood gates are just beginning to open. The latest rumor is that Hewlett-Packard is thinking about getting a piece of the pie with its own music and video locker service and possibly stores as well.There's been a lot of talk about se... |
14 June 2011
06:11 GMT |
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Spotify launching in the US is closer to being a reality than it has ever been, it now has deals with three of the four major labels. Anyone following Spotify's struggle to cross the Atlantic knows that it's been a long fight. Now that Universal Music Group is on board, Spotify only has to sign Warner Music... |
11 June 2011
05:01 GMT |
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Amazon has launched its iCloud platform, a service which offers Apple users cloud sync, backup and services of all manners. In the offering is iTunes on the iCloud, the not really secret cloud music service we've heard so much about in the recent months.It was no big secret that Apple, just like Google, was work... |
7 June 2011
11:32 GMT |
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The rumors about Spotify integration on Facebook are getting a bit more backing, while at the same time Facebook strategy is revealed to be a lot bigger than it was initially believed. It seems that the social network has big plans for music in general, but also other media forms such as TV or movies. Facebook wants ... |
27 May 2011
10:30 GMT |
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Rumors around Spotify aren't exactly few and far between, even if judging only by the number of times the service has been said to be close to launching in the US. But the latest one is interesting, Spotify is said to be partnering with Facebook which will integrate the music service, to a degree, on the site.Ac... |
26 May 2011
05:51 GMT |
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The online music space is heating up. Of course, that's what we've been hearing for over a year now as major players such as Google, Apple or Amazon were rumored to be working on powerful cloud music products. Things lingered though and by the time Amazon and Google launched their cloud locker services, the... |
19 May 2011
06:31 GMT |
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The LimeWire saga is finally over. While there was little doubt as to who won, the music industry, of course, or, rather, their lawyers and lobbying groups, there was still the matter of how much LimeWire owed them.
There have been some pretty far-fetched figures from the RIAA lawyers, ranging from trillions of d... |
14 May 2011
05:50 GMT |
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Grooveshark is undoubtedly a popular music streaming service and it owns its popularity to a few factors, it's free, it's available around the world and it has a rather comprehensive selection of music. Unfortunately, the only way it can offer all of these is by not having licenses from the music labels, wh... |
19 April 2011
09:00 GMT |
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