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It is definitely still coming, Spotify's CEO re-confirmed last July, though it looks likely it will materialise as part of a 'Music Pro' add-on, packaged with a few other premium features, as opposed to a whole new tier per se. Still, we shall keep calling it Spotify HiFi for now....
By the time Spotify launched in 2006, music sales had fallen another $1 billion. But the record companies were still wary of the streaming service, which Ek was pitching as a solution to piracy. The industry cut a deal with Spotify for music rights outside the U.S. in 2008, but it t...
So, what happens when you combine a color e-ink display with a Raspberry Pi? Turns out, you have the best-looking Spotify player in existence. This cool project combines these colorful displays with a Raspberry Pi to get the job done, and the best bit is, there's absolutely no soldering...
Ah, Spotify Wrapped season. It’s the most humbling time of year, as you slowly come to terms withwhat you *actually* listen to. Maybe your taste in music isn’t as cool as you thought, maybe you’re in the top 0.005% of listeners for a downright bad song, and maybe yes, you we...
Spotify has introduced a new feature on the music streaming platform and it’s called Jam. In a blog post, the company says that it is a “personalized, real-time listening session for your group to tune into together”. Jam enables you to invite other people on Spotify to a queue of ...
As part of our continuing efforts to serve the music industry and its creators, Billboard now features a royalty calculator for Spotify and Apple Music for readers. The calculator below was created by Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, a legal and consulting firm that specializes in music industry law...
Unique to Family is a separate app,Spotify Kids. As you might expect, its content is specifically curated for young children and omits any “explicit” music on the service. The user controlling a Family plan can block explicit content outright for specific users. ...
One other thing, I don't know if you see this, I'm sure you do as being a digital market expert and talking to a ton of people. But whenever you would look at companies, those yearly trends pieces, like what are your 2023 trends, how many years have they ...
Next, I had to get listening data for every song by every artist on my list. Spotify doesn’t provide this, buta hero on Githubput together an API to cull play counts from the Spotify desktop client. I was able to use this to gather listening data for over 7 million songs!