Surprise! You know that free, unlimited Spotify account you eagerly signed up for when the service first launched in the U.S. over the summer? That was a six-month trial, in case you missed it in the fine print. Next week will mark the half-year anniversary of Spotify's long-awaited U.S., which...
In the fast-changing digital music streaming space, it's hard to know which service is best for you. Spotify gets the most hype, but lots of people love Rdio, which has solid backing and a huge library of music. There are also beloved underdogs like MOG and Grooveshark. When it comes...
Normally when a tech company launches a product or feature that's billed as a potential "killer" of a popular incumbent, there's cause to be skeptical. Quite often, that's just unsubstantiated hype either on the part of the company itself or tech writers. In the case of Spotify's new Web radio...
This week, darling of the all-you-can-stream music space Spotify announced that it's opening up to third party developers and creating a platform on which they can build HTML5 apps to run within its desktop client. Once approved by Spotify, those apps will be available to users from the service's new...
All-you-can-stream music service Spotify is letting third party developers expand on its functionality using its API. It is offering the results to users in a new HTML5 app directory, CEO Daniel Ek announced today in New York. Developers have already built apps with features like the ability to find and...
John Paul Titlow explains why he's turned off his Spotify integration in Facebook. It's not you Spotify, it's me... This and more in today's Daily Wrap.Sometimes it's difficult to catch every story that hits tech media in a day, so we wrap up some of the most talked about stories....
Europe's hottest music-streaming service may have launched to much fanfare in the U.S. over the summer, but not everybody is enamored. Spotify's royalty payments, it turns out, bring significantly lower revenue to artists than digital and physical music sales. For a growing number of smaller artists, this has quite literally...
There's been a lot of discussion lately over Facebook's so-called "frictionless sharing" and whether it's manipulative and somewhat bad for the social Web or simply a redefinition of how things get shared online. As our own Scott M. Fulton III points out, it's easy enough to simply opt out of...
Spotify has released a mobile app for MeeGo, allowing those lucky few with a Nokia N9 to access the streaming music service. The app – which also works on the N950 developer device - supports streaming over WiFi, EDGE and 3G, as well as support for offline playlists where...
Time to bring Spotify music streaming to the N9 and its here with MeeSpot. Features Listen to music whenever you like by streaming it over 3G, 2.5G and Wi-Fi. Access your playlists or search for new tracks, albums and artists. You can sync your playlists for offline listening....
Spotify, the European all-you-can-stream music service American listeners just couldn't wait to get their hands on, has been growing fast. Since its July U.S. launch, Spotify has picked up more than 250,000 paying American customers, according to Reuters. This number has grown by 42% since early August. At the time,...
It hasn't even been three months since Spotify launched in the United States, but the freemium music streaming service is certainly having an impact on its competition. Rdio, one of those competitors, announced today that it's taking down the paywall around its Web-based streaming service. The move comes three weeks...
Not even two weeks in, Spotify's integration with Facebook already appears to be paying off in terms of application usage. The streaming service's Facebook app has seen a 55% rise in usage since Spotify CEO Daniel Ek announced the new integration at the f8 conference on September 22. This growth...
On-demand music streaming service Spotify announced today that it's eliminating its "Open" subscription tier and offering all new users six months of unlimited streaming. Spotify Open was a more limited version of the Spotify Free plan. The company is now merging these two non-paid account types together. To make signing...
The deep integration with Facebook that Spotify CEO Daniel Ek announced at the f8 conference yesterday is now live and we've taken some time to explore how it works and where on Facebook you can expect your Spotify activity to pop up.The new integration can be activated from within the...
On-demand music streaming service Spotify will be deeply integrated into Facebook, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek announced at the f8 developer conference today. The new integration will allow Facebook users to stream Spotify tracks directly from the news feed or from one's own profile, where their top tracks will be listed....
Tech and music enthusiasts in the United States were overjoyed when Spotify finally launched here in July. The on-demand music streaming service had been all the rage in Europe for a few years, but its U.S. launch was reportedly delayed by ongoing negotiations with major music labels. Spotify has been...
Music streaming service MOG has announced that it is adding a free, advertising-supported subscription plan. The move, which is almost certainly a response to the recent U.S. launch of Spotify, is designed to attract more people to the service's 11 million song library of all-you-can-stream music.Previously, MOG was only available...
For many users of Spotify, the feature that's most painfully absent from the music streaming service is a recommendation engine for songs and artists. After all, listeners have come to expect this feature after years of it being available in Internet radio products like Pandora and Last.fm. Echofi is a...
Music streaming service Spotify is opening up development tools to iOS developers which will allow them to write tools for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. Spotify functionality will now become available for integration into any iOS app and will be able bring the music services library of 15 million...
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