Music streaming service Slacker has been around for quite a while - six years and counting - but has never been able to gain the traction enjoyed by its competitors Pandora and Spotify. That may begin to change with Slacker's full mobile and browser facelift, which rolled out to users...
Lars Ulrich wants you know that he's cool with Sean Parker. To show it, the Metallica drummer and anti-filesharing crusader didn't just share a stage with the Napster cofounder this morning - he hugged him. The occasion? Metallica's catalog is newly available on Spotify, the music service in which Parker...
Spotify wasn't built for discovery. The Swedish music streaming company realizes this and instead of trying to natively bake a zillion features into its service, it launched a platform for third party developers about a year ago. Spotify's app directory now features almost 60 HTML5-based add-ons for the service's desktop client. These...
MySpace is planning to get into the music subscription business - because let's face it, it's got to do something.The move into music subscriptions has been rumored for quite some time, but Monday Business Insider published a leaked slide deck that appears to confirm it. In the second quarter of...
Soon, Spotify will be joining us all where we hang out the most: the World Wide Web. The wildly popular streaming music service is breaking free of its app-only confines and launching a browser-based version, the company confirmed. This is great news. An Awkward Relationship?To date, Spotify's relationship with the Web...
This morning, for the first time ever, I jogged in silence. Other than my own rhythmic panting, my sneakers hitting the pavement and the urban soundtrack that my brain has long filtered out, I heard nothing as I ran across my neighborhood. For once, there wasn't music playing. Normally, I stream...
Having tried - and failed - to capture a share of the online music market with the Zune MP3 player, Microsoft is launching another attempt with Xbox Music. The hook this time? Tying it directly to Windows 8.In fact, since the new service will be the featured music application -...
Since Spotify launched in the U.S. last year, many musicians haven't been sure what to make of it. Is the all-you-can-stream music model a promotional tool or a bona-fide revenue source? The answer may be somewhere in the middle.The debate over whether Spotify deals fairly with artists will likely rage on...
It seems like just yesterday that American music fans were desperately awaiting Spotify's arrival. As of this week, the European all-you-can-stream subscription service has been available in the U.S. for one year. So how did it fare in its first 12 months? Is this really the future of music distribution? Spotify,...
Last week, Spotify made a big splash by launching an unexpected new feature. The company made Spotify Radio, a Pandora-style Internet radio service formerly for the desktop, available to mobile devices as well. Spotify Radio is notable not just because it's available on iOS, or because it could pose a challenge...
Spotify is getting serious about building its audience in the U.S. The London-based music-streaming service said today it's introducing an online-radio feature to its music offerings, a move that competes directly with Pandora. Spotify's initiative is likely to push the crowded market of streaming-music providers – which also includes Rhapsody,...
Technology has forever altered just about every facet of music. From how we learn and compose music to how it's recorded, distributed and consumed, everything is different now. The shifts in consumption go way beyond solitary listening through white earbuds, entering far more social settings.Earlier this month, we looked at how...
When it comes to planning get-togethers, the logistical details can pile up. Thankfully, we have fancy new digital tools to which we can outsource some of the planning. For curating the music, a number of options exist. Spotify, as it turns out, is a pretty good one.The idea of crowd-sourcing...
Spotify is raking in the money. The six-year-old streaming music startup has only been live in the U.S. for about a year, but it has apparently won the confidence of investors, who are said to be ploughing hundreds of millions of dollars into the company. So what will Spotify do with all that...
Spotify gets praise for a lot of things, but user experience design is typically not one of them. It's not that its desktop and mobile applications are hideous. They're perfectly functional, but few would describe them as beautiful or especially enticing to use. However, with its new iPad app, the music...
Spotify hasn't even been available in the U.S. for an entire year. Still, its growth has been phenomenal, and it appears to be continuing unabated, thanks in part to its deep integration with Facebook. The product's other big initiative of the last several months has been its third-party app marketplace,...
For music fans, all-you-can-stream music services like Spotify, Rhapsody, MOG and Rdio are kind of dream come true. Signing up gives you instant access to a library of millions of songs from major label and indie acts from around the world. Most services are now free, with some limitations on...
When Spotify first launched in the U.S. over the summer, few doubted that the service would be popular among music fans. The real question has always been whether the company's freemium business model would manage to convert enough users to paying subscribers. It's still relatively early, but so far things...
When Spotify first launched in the U.S. over the summer, few doubted that the service would be popular among music fans. The real question has always been whether the company's freemium business model would manage to convert enough users to paying subscribers. It's still relatively early, but so far things...
When Spotify first launched in the U.S. over the summer, few doubted that the service would be popular among music fans. The real question has always been whether the company's freemium business model would manage to convert enough users to paying subscribers. It's still relatively early, but so far things...
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