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After ditching Spotify for a week, I now understand why readers love YouTube Music

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-07-19 21:00:16

Andy Walker / Android Authority A few weeks ago, I ran an Open Thread asking readers why they prefer using YouTube Music over many available alternatives, including my service of choice, Spotify. It would be an understatement to say that it received a flurry of comments and strong opinions from our community questioning my views. With just under 400 replies at the time of this writing, not to mention the big win for Google’s streaming service in the accompanying poll, it’s clear that I was perh

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Spotify’s new 30-hour audiobook plans are too short to finish long books

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-07-21 09:00:20

Spotify has launched two new Audiobooks Plus add-on subscriptions that allow Premium users to double their audiobook listening limit to 30 hours. They’re available to individual Premium subscribers and users who manage Family and Duo plans. Other users on Premium accounts can now also request 15 hours of audiobook access from their plan manager. However, the new plans are still too short for those who prefer to listen to longer books. The 30-hour limit won’t get you through titles like George R

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Spotify's Audiobooks+ add-on is now available to some Premium subscribers

engadget.com Unknown 2025-07-23 17:50:30

It’s likely that you predominantly associate Spotify with music and podcasts, but if you’re a Premium member, you also get 15 hours of audiobook access per month. For some members, though, that clearly isn’t enough, as Spotify has introduced a new add-on subscription that doubles that listening time. Audiobooks+ was first trialled in Ireland and Canada, and is launching initially for Premium Individual and Plan members in a number of countries in Europe, as well as Australia and New Zealand. On

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Spotify expands audiobook access to family plan members for the first time

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-07-24 01:35:07

Spotify on Thursday announced an expansion of its premium audiobooks service, with two new plans that offer additional listening hours to subscribers, and allow other family members to access the service. The options are currently only available for Spotify Premium users in the U.K., Australia, New Zealand, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein, following initial tests in Ireland and Canada. U.S. users could already purchase 15 hours of

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OnePlus earbuds could soon make Spotify access seamless (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-07-31 16:21:57

Aamir Siddiqui / Android Authority TL;DR Code within the HeyMelody app suggests OnePlus and OPPO earbuds could soon get Spotify Tap functionality. Spotify Tap allows instant music playback with a double or triple tap on compatible earbuds. It’s unknown if the feature will be coming to existing earbuds from the companies, or if they will be exclusive to products slated for the near future. OnePlus makes some great earbuds, with recent options like the OnePlus Buds 4 slotting in nicely at $130

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Spotify Jam comes to Android Auto so your whole car can DJ

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-11 23:37:43

Google TL;DR Spotify’s latest Android Auto update brings the Jam feature to car displays, letting friends join in and contribute music. The feature allows passengers to join a shared music queue by scanning a QR code on the in-car screen. The latest update for Spotify on Android Auto also improves offline listening and adds a floating search button for easier access. Spotify’s Android Auto app just got an important upgrade, adding the popular Jam feature to the in-car experience. Jam allows

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AI-Generated Music Is Starting to Crowd Out the Real Stuff on Streaming Platforms

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-13 08:00:45

The digital platform era hasn't been kind to musicians, to put it lightly. Though platforms like Spotify and Apple Music make it easier for audiences to access their favorite bands than ever before, the algorithms and contracts behind those apps are ruthless, paying artists fractions of pennies for their work. Though companies like Spotify have tripled their value during the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of artists who are even eligible for royalties, regardless of the paltry amount, continues

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EBAF – eBPF Based Ad Firewall

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-15 03:59:26

eBAF - eBPF Based Ad Firewall "You Wouldn't Download an Ad" But You Would Block One! Spotify has built an empire on a simple formula: monetize your attention, underpay the artists, and sell you back your own time as a premium feature. In their world, your listening experience is not yours. It’s a carefully curated marketplace — your ears are the product, your patience is the currency. They like to call it a "free" tier. But let’s be honest: it’s not free if you’re paying with your time. Mea

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Creator of "Indie Band" Who Insisted It Wasn't AI-Generated Just Admitted the Truth

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-15 07:54:14

A "band" that sparked a heated debate for heavily relying on generative AI — and still somehow accumulating over half a million listeners on Spotify — has finally admitted the truth. Earlier this week, a self-proclaimed "indie rock band" called The Velvet Sundown claimed on its "official" X account that it "never" used any AI, accusing "so-called 'journalists'" of "pushing the lazy, baseless theory that The Velvet Sundown is 'AI-generated' with zero evidence." It was a preposterous claim that

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Deerhoof did not want its music ‘funding AI battle tech’ — so it ditched Spotify

theverge.com Elizabeth Lopatto 2025-08-15 13:00:00

is a reporter who writes about tech, money, and human behavior. She joined The Verge in 2014 as science editor. Previously, she was a reporter at Bloomberg. On Monday, the long-running indie rock band Deerhoof made an announcement: it was pulling its music from Spotify. The impetus was Spotify founder Daniel Ek’s newest investment in Helsing, the German defense group that makes AI and drones. Helsing raised 600 million euros in its most recent funding round, which was led by Ek’s venture capit

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From Sensual Butt Songs to Santa’s Alleged Coke Habit: AI Slop Music Is Getting Harder to Avoid

wired.com Kate Knibbs 2025-08-16 01:55:11

AI slop is flooding every single digital platform, and music streaming services are no exception—so much so, even someone who generally avoids AI might find themselves unknowingly listening to a robot hornily singing about butts. Take the sordid saga of “Make Love to My Shitter,” an AI-generated track from an artist called BannedVinylCollection. Brace Belden, a host of the popular politics podcast TrueAnon, says that Spotify recently queued up the bawdy song after he’d finished listening to alt

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Spotify Celebrates 10 Years of Discover Weekly With a Fresh New Look

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-19 01:32:31

Spotify — a CNET Editors' Choice award-winning service — offers Premium subscribers ($12 a month) a huge catalog filled with millions of songs to enjoy at home, on the go and everywhere in between. And on Monday, the company celebrated 10 years of its Discover Weekly playlist by giving it a new look and giving subscribers more control over what genres of music they will see in the playlist. Read more: Best Music Streaming Services of 2025 I didn't mind the color-gradient Discover Weekly album

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I just can’t imagine using YouTube Music, so why do you?

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-21 01:45:02

Joe Maring / Android Authority 🗣️ This is an open thread. We want to hear from you! Share your thoughts in the comments and vote in the poll below — your take might be featured in a future roundup. Not too long ago, I was a loyal Google Play Music user. It was an app that I loved dearly, offering great usability and a wide range of music. However, when the vastly different YouTube Music arrived and Play Music departed, I sought another service. I couldn’t quite get to grips with the changes, a

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Half a million Spotify users are unknowingly grooving to an AI-generated band

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-21 21:47:40

Making art used to be a uniquely human endeavor, but machines have learned to distill human creativity with generative AI. Whether that content counts as "art" depends on who you ask, but Spotify doesn't discriminate. A new band called The Velvet Sundown debuted on Spotify this month and has already amassed more than half a million listeners. But by all appearances, The Velvet Sundown is not a real band—it's AI. While many artists are vehemently opposed to using AI, some have leaned into the tr

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An "Indie Rock Band" That Appears to Be Entirely AI-Generated Is Making Alarming Amounts of Money on Spotify

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-22 04:13:41

While real artists struggle to earn money on Spotify, a seemingly AI-generated "band" has garnered enough streams to actually make a buck. As Music Ally reports, the act in question, The Velvet Sundown, recently appeared out of the blue on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Deezer, and even YouTube — despite having no digital footprint prior to this summer. Despite being so seemingly young, The Velvet Sundown — whose name is a clear ripoff of Lou Reed's legendary psych-rock band The Velvet Un

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Spotify Discover Weekly gets personal update, letting you offer it guidance

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-08-22 21:41:20

Spotify’s Discover Weekly playlist has been around for a full decade now, aiming to introduce you to singers and bands you don’t know but may like, with particular emphasis on emerging artists. It’s been great for me, but if it isn’t quite hitting the spot, you can now help it do better … Discover Weekly is an algorithmic playlists that looks at your existing favorite artists, finds other subscribers with the same tastes, and shows you what else they are listening to. It’s been a highly–succes

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Spotify adds genre controls to Discover Weekly

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-22 21:35:31

Spotify's Discover Weekly is celebrating 10 years of being a very ok feature. To celebrate the milestone, Spotify is giving Discover Weekly a full refresh, letting you choose between up to five genres for the playlist. The option will appear at the top of your playlist and provide songs based on your listening history. The 30-track playlist will update accordingly. There are also visual changes, with Spotify stating, "the playlist's vibrant new design reflects its ever-evolving nature and the d

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Spotify Is Giving You More Control Over Your Discover Weekly Playlist

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-23 09:00:02

Spotify — a CNET Editor's Choice award-winning service — offers Premium subscribers ($12 a month) a huge catalog filled with millions of songs to enjoy at home, on the go and everywhere in between. The streaming app is an easy way to find new musicians thanks to the Discover Weekly playlist. On Monday, Spotify announced it is revamping the Discover Weekly playlist on the mobile app, giving subscribers more control over what genres of music they will discover. Read more: Best Music Streaming Ser

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Spotify will let users personalize the genre of Discover Weekly playlists

theverge.com Mia Sato 2025-08-23 09:00:00

Spotify is adding new personalization features to Discover Weekly, the popular and influential playlist streamed by millions of users. The regularly updated playlist will now have buttons for genres like pop, R&B, and funk at the top, allowing users to tell Spotify what they want more of. The Discover Weekly playlist is one of the more noteworthy things Spotify has introduced: the company says songs on the playlist have been streamed more than 100 billion times. The weekly mixtape — generated v

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Spotify revamps its Discover Weekly playlist after 10 years

techcrunch.com Amanda Silberling 2025-08-23 09:00:00

Spotify’s Discover Weekly playlist, which shares new listening recommendations every Monday, is getting an update. Ten years after the debut of Discover Weekly (yes, we feel old, too), Spotify Premium users will see new controls at the top of the playlist, which allow them to push their recommendations toward certain genres. So, if you mostly listen to 80s rock, but you’re starting to develop a soft spot for K-pop, you can select different genre filters to push the algorithmic curation in the r

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Spotify’s much hated ‘Create’ button could soon go away, if you want it to (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-01 01:02:11

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Spotify introduced a “Create” button in its app’s bottom navigation, but the move sparked widespread user backlash. Code within the latest app release suggests the company is listening to user feedback, as it could soon give users an option to hide the Create button. This opt-out toggle is not yet live, nor has Spotify officially confirmed it. Old habits die hard, and Spotify is learning this the hard way. The service introduced the “Create” button on it

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Still upset about last summer’s Spotify price bump? These lawmakers are on the case

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-01 21:27:56

Tech Team / Android Authority TL;DR Last year Spotify introduced audiobook access and raised pricing for Premium plans. While there was still a music-only Basic option, these senators don’t think consumers were made adequately aware. They also accuse Spotify of orchestrating the whole change to lower its payouts to musicians. Streaming services raising their prices is just as inevitable as death and taxes, and year after year, we slowly end up paying more and more for that access. While we m

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Senators urge FTC to investigate Spotify’s higher-priced bundled subscription

techcrunch.com Lauren Forristal 2025-09-03 01:57:21

Two U.S. senators have requested that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) investigate Spotify due to allegations that the company bundled its music streaming and audiobook services into a more expensive subscription without obtaining user consent, while also reducing royalty payments to creators in the process. On Friday, June 20, U.S. Senators Marsha Blackburn and Ben Ray Luján wrote a letter to the FTC, claiming that Spotify converted standard premium subscriptions into higher-cost bundled sub

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Spotify lossless streaming edges closer with new in-app references to ’24-bit’ and FLAC

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-09-06 13:33:22

After years (and years, and years) of waiting and speculation, Spotify’s long-promised lossless audio feature appears to be inching closer to reality. The latest desktop app builds now show multiple references to “Lossless” streaming, giving users the loudest sign yet that higher-fidelity streaming could soon roll out. Here’s what to expect. Lossless options appear in streaming settings and Spotify Connect menus Screenshots shared earlier today by the X account @spicetifyapp, which focuses on

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Spotify’s HiFi lossless streaming might really, finally, actually be coming soon

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-09-06 17:40:35

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. We’ve been waiting for Spotify’s lossless streaming for more than four years, but there are some new and promising hints that the feature might finally arrive sometime soon. The X account for Spicetify, a command-line tool that lets you customize the Spotify client, says that a new version of Spotify includes some hidden mentions of lossless. In a screenshot the account share

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Don’t give me hope: Spotify’s long-awaited lossless tier shows signs of life again

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-07 17:33:18

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Spotify’s long-promised HiFi lossless audio tier is likely nearing release, as suggested by new asset file leaks. The upcoming tier will likely offer music in up to 24-bit/44.1 kHz FLAC files, consuming up to 1 GB of data per hour. This feature may be part of a “Music Pro” tier, potentially costing an extra $5.99 monthly on top of your current subscription. Spotify announced its “HiFi” lossless tier back in February 2021, but as you may already know,

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New code in Spotify’s app references the long-awaited ‘lossless’ tier

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-09-08 09:03:11

It’s been over four years since Spotify first announced its plans to launch a lossless audio tier that has yet to arrive. After numerous leaks and teases from company execs, we know better than to start hoping that the long-delayed service could be finally nearing arrival. But newly added references in the music app’s code suggest the lossless service is at least still under development and could even be getting closer to launch. According to technologist and reverse engineer Chris Messina, a

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Spotify Makes Downloading Music to Wear OS Smartwatches Easier

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-13 12:45:00

Spotify premium users sporting a Pixel Watch, Samsung Galaxy Watch or one of a host of other Wear OS smartwatches just got a handy update that'll allow them to download songs to their wearables with greater ease, the company said in an Instagram post June 13. The update allows customers to use the Spotify app on their phones to send song downloads to their smartwatches, tablets and desktops. Previously, song downloads had to be done on the wearable itself, a fairly clunky process. For runners,

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Spotify is adding the ability to remotely download playlists to secondary devices

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-16 01:21:54

Spotify is rolling out a new feature that lets Premium subscribers remotely download playlists to additional devices. For instance, a user could initiate a download on an iPhone for an iPad or for a backup phone ahead of a trip. That's all fine and good, and useful in limited circumstances. The big news here, however, is that this functionality also works with smartwatches, with integration for Wear OS devices and Apple Watch models. Nothing ruins a good walk or run like forgetting to download

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Instagram adds real-time Spotify song sharing to Notes, teases grid reordering

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-09-18 01:11:45

Instagram is introducing a new way to share your music taste through Notes, the temporary status updates that appear above inboxes in DMs. Starting today, users can display the Spotify tracks they’re currently listening to in real time. Unlike the existing music sharing features, this update continuously reflects the current song, showing both the title and artist. It builds on Instagram’s integration with Spotify, which began last November with the introduction of an “add to Spotify” button.

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After ditching Spotify for a week, I now understand why readers love YouTube Music

Spotify’s new 30-hour audiobook plans are too short to finish long books

Spotify's Audiobooks+ add-on is now available to some Premium subscribers

Spotify expands audiobook access to family plan members for the first time

OnePlus earbuds could soon make Spotify access seamless (APK teardown)

Spotify Jam comes to Android Auto so your whole car can DJ

AI-Generated Music Is Starting to Crowd Out the Real Stuff on Streaming Platforms

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Creator of "Indie Band" Who Insisted It Wasn't AI-Generated Just Admitted the Truth

Deerhoof did not want its music ‘funding AI battle tech’ — so it ditched Spotify

From Sensual Butt Songs to Santa’s Alleged Coke Habit: AI Slop Music Is Getting Harder to Avoid

Spotify Celebrates 10 Years of Discover Weekly With a Fresh New Look

I just can’t imagine using YouTube Music, so why do you?

Half a million Spotify users are unknowingly grooving to an AI-generated band

An "Indie Rock Band" That Appears to Be Entirely AI-Generated Is Making Alarming Amounts of Money on Spotify

Spotify Discover Weekly gets personal update, letting you offer it guidance

Spotify adds genre controls to Discover Weekly

Spotify Is Giving You More Control Over Your Discover Weekly Playlist

Spotify will let users personalize the genre of Discover Weekly playlists

Spotify revamps its Discover Weekly playlist after 10 years

Spotify’s much hated ‘Create’ button could soon go away, if you want it to (APK teardown)

Still upset about last summer’s Spotify price bump? These lawmakers are on the case

Senators urge FTC to investigate Spotify’s higher-priced bundled subscription

Spotify lossless streaming edges closer with new in-app references to ’24-bit’ and FLAC

Spotify’s HiFi lossless streaming might really, finally, actually be coming soon

Don’t give me hope: Spotify’s long-awaited lossless tier shows signs of life again

New code in Spotify’s app references the long-awaited ‘lossless’ tier

Spotify Makes Downloading Music to Wear OS Smartwatches Easier

Spotify is adding the ability to remotely download playlists to secondary devices

Instagram adds real-time Spotify song sharing to Notes, teases grid reordering

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