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Beat the boredom with a free three-month Apple Music subscription
Looking for a source of music to make working from home more bearable? Apple is offering a free three-month Apple Music subscription to new customers.
Apple Music reportedly renews deals with major record labels, but no bundle yet
Apple Music has reportedly secured multi-year deals with major record labels, but the agreements do not include terms for Apple's rumored "super bundle."
Spotify polishes its Apple interface with refreshed icons
Spotify has updated its iOS interface for both free and premium subscribers, refreshing icons with the focus of streamlining the listening experience.
Does your dog love yacht rock? Find out with Spotify’s pet playlist generator
If you’ve ever wondered if your dog prefers rap or rock and roll, Spotify has got the answers with a new pet playlist generator. The generator lets you choose what kind of pet you have, answer some questions, and then curates a playlist based on your pet's personality and your own listening history.
Spotify is making it even easier to judge your friends’ musical tastes
A not-yet-released feature on Spotify, called “Tastebuds” would let you discover new music through your friends’ lists by curating a playlist for you based on your and your friends’ similar tastes. App researcher Jane Manchun Wong, tweeted that the Tastebuds tab would be located in Spotify’s main navigation.
YouTube Music’s Spotify-esque Discover Mix now widely available
After a few months of experimenting, YouTube Music has officially launched three new personalized playlists including one called Discover Mix that takes aim at those who love Spotify's long-running Discover Weekly. Could this be the killer feature that will convert the masses from Spotify to YouTube Music?
Dolby Atmos Music is now available on Tidal HiFi via select devices
There are now two streaming services that support Dolby Atmos Music, the immersive format that is based on the same audio technology as Atmos for movies. Today, Tidal HiFi joins Amazon Music HD in offering the format, but only to select listeners who have one of a handful of compatible Android devices.
Spotify Wrapped: How to see your top songs and music for 2019
Spotify Wrapped is a personalized set of year-end stats that let you see which songs, artists, and albums were your favorites in 2019. But the feature isn't always that easy to find or use. Here's how to find Spotify Wrapped 2019 and how it works, so you can see the music that moved you all year and all decade.
Digital Trends Live: Instagram’s age requirement, Spotify Wrapped, and more
On this episode of Digital Trends Live, hosts Caleb Denison and Drew Prindle dive into the biggest trending stories in tech, including Instagram’s age requirement, Nintendo Switch’s record sales, making a movie with Spectacles 3 glasses, Spotify Wrapped 2019, and more.
Spotify Wrapped gives a personalized look at who you listened to most in 2019
Each year, Spotify gives its Premium subscribers the ability to look back at their musical habits and discover which artists, tracks, and albums were most significant to them. For 2019, Spotify has expanded these lists to cover the entire decade, revealing what the world was listening to for the last 10 years.
Get 4 months of Amazon Music Unlimited for just $1 for Cyber Monday
Spotify not doing it for you? Whether you're new to the streaming world or unhappy with your current subscription, Amazon is offering a great chance to evaluate its service. From Cyber Sunday through January 6, 2020, you can get four months of Amazon Music Unlimited for just $1, a $39 value.
Spotify’s free tier now works with Alexa and Bose speakers
In the wake of Amazon's announcement that its free tier of Amazon Music is now available on more devices, Spotify has enabled the use of its free subscription on all Alexa products, including Echo speakers and Fire TV devices. You can also use it with Bose smart speakers via Spotify Connect.
Spotify ramps up podcast discovery with ‘Your Daily Podcasts’ playlist
With growing investments in podcasting as a medium, it only makes sense that Spotify would want its listeners to spend more time listening to podcasts. To make the podcats discovery process easier, it has launched a new personalized playlist just for podcasts: Your Daily Podcasts, available for free and premium users.
Amazon Music’s free tier arrives on its Android, iOS, FireTV, and web apps
Amazon Music’s free tier is now rolling out to its Android, iOS, FireTV, and web apps. Originally announced earlier this year, the free tier doesn’t offer on-demand access to its music library, but instead limits listeners to a selection of curated playlists and stations.
Spotify starts testing real-time lyrics to enable karaoke experience
Spotify is testing a real-time lyrics feature in its mobile app, but only for users in certain countries. The public release of the feature, which will allow listeners to sing along to songs, is not yet known, but it should come soon as a similar experience just arrived to rival Apple Music.
Spotify takes the pain out of road trip playlists with Soundtrack Your Ride
If you've got a long road trip coming up, having the right tunes is vital. But why hand-pick hundreds of songs for your playlist when Spotify can do all the heavy lifting for you with its new tool, Soundtrack Your Ride? In just a few seconds, it can generate a playlist to match any musical taste and any trip length.
An Apple media super-bundle could launch as soon as 2020
More rumors have emerged that Apple will launch a media-streaming super-bundle that will offer music, news, and video -- and possibly more -- for one low monthly price. It could reshape the streaming world in Apple's favor. But what would such a bundle cost, what would it include, and will the music labels play ball?
Spotify’s free tier now works on Sonos, just in time for Black Friday
With a new software update, Sonos is making it possible to stream Spotify's free, ad-supported tier on Sonos devices using the Sonos app. Previously, the only way to do that was to use Spotify Connect from the Spotify app. The free tier will also work with Google Assistant, but for now, Alexa isn't compatible.
Hailee Steinfeld reveals Apple TV+ deal: It’s free for students with Apple Music
Apple has announced the first of its Apple TV+ bundles via one of its marquee stars, Hailee Steinfeld. The actress who plays the lead role in the original production Dickinson detailed the deal, which gives students who subscribe to Apple Music a free Apple TV+ account.
One day you might get emergency alerts through Netflix and Spotify
One day you might get emergency alerts through streaming services like Netflix and Spotify. A bipartisan bill was reintroduced in the Senate to require audio and video streaming services to display emergency alerts while you’re watching or listening to them.
Deezer launches Sony 360 Reality Audio with a new stand-alone app
To highlight the addition of Sony's 360 Reality Audio format to its catalog of music, streaming music service Deezer has created a new stand-alone streaming app for iOS and Android that creates a single experience for its Hi-Fi tier subscribers who want to focus on the new surround-sound music option.
Get an Echo Dot for $1 with an Amazon Music Unlimited subscription
Amazon has a killer deal for you if you'll subscribe to Amazon Music Unlimited for one month for $8 with auto-renewal. The bonus is a third-generation Amazon Echo Dot for just $1 more. That's right, less than an extra buck to get a Dot with an Amazon Music Unlimited first-month subscription.
How to score a free Google Home Mini if you’re a Spotify Premium subscriber
Following up on its super-popular Google Home Mini giveaway from 2018, Spotify is back with another freebie, this time giving away free Google Home Minis to all of its U.S.-based Spotify Premium members, while quantities last. Want to know how to get your free smart speaker? We have all the details.
The best car songs for 2019
Is there a better road trip companion than good music? To aid you on this journey, we've compiled a list of the top 55 best songs about cars.
Amazon Music now has an app for Apple TV. Here’s how to use it
Amazon Music is now available on the Apple TV platform thanks to a new version of the app designed specifically for the media streaming box. It gives users access to all of the same content as on their phones, including the scrolling lyrics function. Could this be a sign that Amazon Music is heading to Apple's HomePod?
‘Stream transfer’ feature moves your music around the house using Google Assistant
Google Assistant users can now easily move their music and podcasts from YouTube Music, Spotify, Pandora and more from one smart device to another using a new feature called stream transfer. Videos move, too, with Google video devices like the Nest Hub Max and Chromecast-enabled TVs.
The Spotify-Siri integration that Apple users have been asking for is here
After years of waiting, a new Spotify update adds the ability to use Siri to summon up your favorite artists, album, and tracks. The feature works on mobile devices with iOS 13, including vehicles equipped with CarPlay, and there's also a new Spotify app for Apple TV and Apple TV 4K.
How Endel and Toro y Moi are shaping the future of music and digital wellness
Playlists to focus, sleep, and relax are booming on streaming platforms. Similarly, a host of smart home products aim to affect your wellbeing in similar ways. Endel has a vision to unify these in a way that's always unique to you. Companies like Apple and Warner Music, as well as Toro y Moi see it too.
Pandora revamps its mobile apps with more personalization and unique content
Pandora has a new mobile app experience for iOS and Android that puts a heavier emphasis on personalization, discovery, and the company's unique content and features. It leans heavily on its podcasts and SiriusXM shows while giving users new ways to tweak what they hear on the app's Stations.
Spotify now lets you mix tunes and talk with podcast playlists
Playlists have always been a big part of Spotify, and now they're set to become even bigger with the ability to create podcast-based playlists. It's a mobile-only feature for now, but users can create huge lists of podcast episodes for listening on-the-go, or they can add podcasts to existing playlists.
YouTube Music replaces Google Play Music as default app for tunes in Android 10
Google has announced that YouTube Music will now come pre-installed on Android 10, essentially replacing Google Play Music as the default music-streaming app on Android. The service will also now come pre-installed on new devices sold with Android 9.
Dolby Atmos Music will make its streaming debut on Amazon Music HD
Dolby Labs has been telling us that its Atmos Music is going to revolutionize music for years. But with precious few ways to experience it, it was hard to get excited. A new partnership with Amazon Music changes everything as Atmos Music will finally be able to be streamed.
Spotify’s new personalized playlists deliver your favorite tunes with one tap
In the streaming music wars, Spotify is still the king, and its music discovery playlists are a big reason why. Its latest playlists go in the other direction, mining users' play history on the service to dig up the most-listened-to tracks from both the last 30 days as well as the less recent past.
Amazon Music HD offers hi-res streaming for a lot less than Tidal
Amazon has added a high-quality tier to its music streaming service called Amazon Music HD. It will offer over 50 million tracks in lossless CD-quality, and many of these will also be available in hi-res format, which has better-than-CD-quality. Prime members get it for as little as $13 per month.