Samsung said Thursday that it’s making Spotify its new “go-to” music service partner. That means Spotify’s app will integrate more tightly into Samsung’s phones and smart TVs, as well as its Bixby voice assistant. Spotify will also be the only music service to be fully integrated into Samsung Music, the consumer electronics maker’s music player. …
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Sonos makes higher-end speakers. For the past decade, CEO Patrick Spence said, the company tried to let as many people know that as possible. That’s changing. After Sonos went public Thursday morning, Spence said in an interview that his company will do a lot more to focus its message about Sonos, whose gear is well-regarded among audiophiles but not nearly …
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Spotify hit 83 million subscribers at the end of June, the music streaming service said Thursday. The company continues to outshine its closest competitor, Apple Music, which had 40 million subscribers as of April. Spotify’s growth matched the high end of the range that it predicted in May. Amid a cultural shift to streaming as the most common way people listen to tunes, Spotify and …
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Count on Disney to do the impossible: Make waiting in line more fun. The new Play Disney Parks app takes the least magical part of a theme park — the dreaded long lines — and jazzes them up with themed games that can only be played while standing in line for rides. At times, your phone can even become a …
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Apple Music still trails Spotify in total users, but it may have just taken the lead in one all-important market: the US. Each of the two music services has more than 20 million paying subscribers in the US, but Apple‘s is “now a hair ahead,” Digital Music News reported Thursday, citing an unnamed music distributor. In the midst a larger cultural shift to …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple Music subscribers can now listen to songs from a computer using a web browser without having to fire up iTunes — but it’s not a full-blown iTunes replacement. Apple has updated its MusicKit developer software for this week’s WWDC conference, announcing Monday that developers …
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Pandora has quietly launched a new family plan that allows up to six Pandora accounts to access premium features for $14.99 a month. That price roughly converts to £10 and AU$20. The new subscription tier, called Premium Family Plan, mirrors similar offerings from rivals Spotify and Apple Music, letting customers choose their own music at higher quality audio without ads, …
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YouTube is remixing its subscription services, relaunching its Spotify-like YouTube Music as a $10-a-month membership mostly devoid of video and recasting YouTube Red’s ad-free, paywalled video tier as YouTube Premium — with a $2 price bump. In addition, Google Play Music, the other subscription streaming music service from the same parent company as YouTube, will be going away eventually. In a …
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Apple Music has 50 million users, if you count those listening with free trials, Apple CEO Tim Cook said Tuesday on Bloomberg TV. It seems like a big jump from the 38 million subscribers Apple Music touted in March, but Apple typically didn’t include people listening with three-month free trials in its previous tallies until Cook’s interview Tuesday. Tuesday, Cook said that …
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Spotify isn’t shying away from making artists face the music. Spotify on Thursday initiated a new policy around hate. It lets the music-streaming service ban or bury music or artists it judges to be “hateful,” whether it be songs that incite violence or artists whose conduct it won’t tolerate. On Friday, Pandora followed suit. R. Kelly is the first. While the R&B star’s catalog will …
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