Published on: 2025-04-24 07:36:52
Deezer, a Spotify alternative that launched in the US in 2016, shared on Wednesday that 20,000 completely AI-generated tracks are added to its music service on a daily basis, making up "over 18% of all uploaded content" the platform receives every day. Like other streaming services, Deezer offers methods for independent artists to upload their own music without having to be part of a larger licensing deal with a record label. While that lowers some barriers, it also leaves the door open for mus
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-24 19:54:17
Spotify 'back and functioning normally' after global outage Downdetector, which tracks problems with online services, showed 20,000 people reported Spotify was not working at around 13:30 GMT Wednesday. Spotify has not explained what caused the problems, but it had earlier said reports of a "security hack" were "completely inaccurate". The firm said the the platform was now "back up and functioning normally". Spotify says it has fixed an outage that left tens of thousands users around the wo
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-24 19:32:09
The Spotify logo is displayed on a screen on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Dec. 4, 2023. Spotify was down Wednesday, with about 50,000 reports of an outage on DownDetector. The company posted an all-clear to Twitter just after noon EDT, thanking listeners for their patience. "Spotify experienced an outage today beginning around 6:20am EDT. As of 11:45am EDT, Spotify is back up and functioning normally," the company said in a statement. The music-streaming giant did not provide
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-24 17:50:02
Update: Spotify says the issue is fixed as of 12 p.m. ET. If you’re having problems with Spotify this morning, you’re not alone. An ongoing Spotify outage appears to be impacting a number of users this morning. The company says its team is “looking into this.” Spotify confirms ongoing outage A quick search on social media reveals that the issues began during the 8 a.m. ET hour. Reports of a Spotify outage as tracked by Downdetector have also spiked over the last hour. On its support website
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-24 19:17:47
The music-streaming app Spotify was down for a good chunk of time this morning, leaving millions of music fans in the lurch. Both the app and web client weren't working, but service seem to be broadly returned to normal at this point, though lingering bugs may remain. We’re aware of some issues right now and are checking them out! — Spotify Status (@SpotifyStatus) April 16, 2025 At about 10:40AM ET, Spotify updated its X account saying it was working on the issue and also said that "the report
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The Spotify logo is displayed on a screen on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Dec. 4, 2023. Spotify was down Wednesday, with about 50,000 reports of an outage on DownDetector. "We are aware of the outage and working to resolve it as soon as possible. The reports of this being a security hack are false," the company wrote in a post to X via their SpotifyStatus account. The music streaming giant did not provide details about the scope of the outage.
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-24 23:04:27
The music-streaming app Spotify is down, leaving millions of music fans in the lurch. The company is aware of an issue and says it’s checking things out. To that end, we don’t know why it’s down or how long the service will remain unavailable. It looks like both the app and web client aren’t working right now. We’re aware of some issues right now and are checking them out! — Spotify Status (@SpotifyStatus) April 16, 2025 At about 10:40AM ET, Spotify updated its X account saying it was working
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-24 23:22:00
Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET If your Spotify is having issues, you're not alone. Thousands of people are reporting problems with the music streaming app. Earlier this morning, social media was flooded with frustrated comments as users began reporting issues with streaming music on the popular service. For some, the app would load, but songs wouldn't play. For others, the app wouldn't load at all. The issue seems to be affecting every version of Spotify, including the app, the web player, and t
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-24 22:52:32
Spotify is down according to widespread user reports across the US and Europe, with issues preventing the platform from loading or streaming music. At 8:45AM ET on Wednesday morning, the Spotify Status account on X said it was “aware of some issues” affecting the service right now, and is currently “checking them out.” It’s unclear what is causing the outages or when users can expect regular service to be restored. As of 10:39AM ET, Spotify says it’s working to resolve the outage “as soon as po
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-25 03:26:43
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Spotify is currently down for many users. Issues started earlier this morning, and the company has since acknowledged them. Spotify appears to have server problems, and even its status page is returning errors. Having trouble concentrating this morning but can’t quite put your finger on what’s wrong? Does the world just seem a little quieter than it used to? You’re not imagining things, as a widespread Spotify outage appears to be seriously impacting
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-25 03:26:31
Our ears are suffering this Wednesday, as music streaming service Spotify suffers "ongoing issues" that are making features unavailable for some people. At around 6 a.m. PT, a massive spike in reports appeared on DownDetector, with well over 45,000 people affected in the US at the time of writing (Downdetector is owned by the same parent company as CNET, Ziff Davis). Spotify acknowledged the problem, posting on its status account: "We're aware of some issues right now and are checking them out!
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-25 07:44:40
Thousands report Spotify problems around the world Tens of thousands of Spotify users around the world have reported they were unable to stream music on the app. Downdetector, which tracks platforms, showed more than 20,000 people reported Spotify was not functioning on Wednesday afternoon from 13:30 GMT. Thousands more reported issues in the US and parts of Europe. Spotify told the BBC "the issue with Search has been addressed" it was rolling out the update to its users. However it is uncl
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-25 07:09:03
If you’re having problems with Spotify this morning, you’re not alone. An ongoing Spotify outage appears to be impacting a number of users this morning. The company says its team is “looking into this.” Spotify confirms ongoing outage A quick search on social media reveals that the issues began during the 8 a.m. ET hour. Reports of a Spotify outage as tracked by Downdetector have also spiked over the last hour. On its support website Spotify has confirmed the outage. The company says: “We’re
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-25 07:40:55
Spotify is down according to widespread user reports across the US and Europe, with issues preventing the platform from loading or streaming music. At 8:45AM ET on Wednesday morning, the Spotify Status account on X said it was “aware of some issues” affecting the service right now, and is currently “checking them out.” While most of the early outage reports were made in Europe, the issues have since escalated across the US. Downdetector is reporting a spike in US outages, and various colleagues
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-01 15:55:27
Spotify announced on Friday that it plans to invest €1 million–or approximately $1.1 million — to boost audiobook production in languages other than English, beginning with French and Dutch. The investment indicates that Spotify is eager for more non-English titles in its limited library as it tries to compete with major players like Audible in the $8.7 billion global audiobooks market. Adoption has been particularly slow in France and the Netherlands, which is why Spotify is starting with the
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-01 19:51:25
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Spotify users are reporting that the shuffle feature on the Liked Songs playlists has possibly been fixed. Many users are experiencing truly random shuffling, including older songs. To experience better shuffling on Spotify, ensure you have turned off recommendation-based features such as Smart Shuffle. Spotify is one of the most popular music streaming platforms worldwide, but it’s far from perfect. One of the most common complaints from Spotify use
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-07 11:34:43
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Spotify’s been having some trouble this year keeping ads away from Premium subscribers. While those incidents were not intentional, a persistent rumor claims that Spotify is bringing ads to Premium. The company is publicly denying that claim, insisting that “Premium music listening is and will remain ad-free.” Life used to be so simple: We could enjoy content for free (like listening to music on the radio) and have to sit through some advertising, or
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-15 11:03:36
Spotify announced Gen AI ads, among other changes to its advertising business, at an event in New York City on Thursday. Notably, the company introduced a new programmatic offering, the Spotify Ad Exchange (SAX), which allows advertisers to reach Spotify’s logged-in users via real-time auctions. Expanding on the SAX news, Spotify said it inked new partnerships with Google’s demand-side platform, Dispay & Video 360, and Magnite, with Yahoo DSP, Adform, and others to come “soon.” The Trade Desk i
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-29 14:17:41
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Spotify formally prohibits sexually explicit material. In spite of that pornographic audio has long been a podcast problem. That’s been joined by a growing amount of explicit video, now that Spotify supports video podcasts. Time was, listening to a podcast meant downloading an audio recording to your iPod. These days, podcasts aren’t just available on pretty much every device under the sun, but they’re also no longer constrained to audio formats, wit
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-03 14:15:37
Spotify says it has cut down on the number of explicit porn accounts on its video platform after they kept rising to the top of feeds. The company denies that its new creator monetization program gave any money to these supposed porn accounts, which implies your best option for paid personalized porn is still OnlyFans. If you’ve found any strange images of porn showing up in your Spotify searches, you’re not alone. Bloomberg reported that searching for podcasts on managerial advice also pulled
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-06 18:08:17
Any music fan will know how time-consuming it can be to keep tabs on which artists are playing nearby soon. To make that a bit easier — and help make sure you don't miss shows by musicians you like — Spotify is debuting its latest personalized playlist . Concerts Near You will update every Wednesday with 30 songs from artists that align with your interests and are playing close to you. Tapping on a track will reveal details about the relevant show as well as links to buy tickets. You'll be able
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-06 22:19:20
On Wednesday, Spotify launched a new personalized playlist designed to help listeners discover upcoming concerts in their area. The playlist, titled “Concerts Near You,” is updated every Wednesday with 30 songs from artists performing nearby, along with full event details and ticket links. Spotify partners with ticketing platforms like AXS, DICE, Eventbrite, and Ticketmaster. Like other personalized playlists on Spotify, such as “Daylist” and various “Mixes,” “Concerts Near You” is tailored to
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-16 14:32:00
David Tramontan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Spotify wants to make it easier than ever for audiobook authors to have their work heard. The audio-streaming platform has a new website for independent authors to submit short-form books. If Spotify likes what you send, it will publish the audiobook, pay you an advance and royalties, manage book production, and distribute it to major audiobook retailers. Also: Spotify users can ask Gemini AI to find and play their favorite music now W
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-18 06:53:01
In an expansion of its existing audiobooks efforts, Spotify on Thursday announced the launch of a new publishing program for authors that allows them to submit short-form stories they’d like to see turned into audiobooks. When Spotify selects a story for audiobook publishing, it will handle the production and distribution of the work to other major audiobook retailers, the company says. Meanwhile, it will pay the author both an advance and royalties. Specifically, the company says it’s looking
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-19 14:20:17
Rightwing influencer Andrew Tate has made a lucrative career out of being a misogynistic asshole, though it’s worth noting that he’s not the only one who has profited off of the obnoxious schtick. Spotify, which has long hosted (and monetized) Tate’s material, made the decision this week to finally pull one of his shows off of its platform. The show—a “class” about “pimping hoes”—had inspired backlash, both at the company and from listeners. 404 Media reports that the music-hosting site took th
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-20 14:45:48
In this photo illustration, the Spotify music app is seen on a phone on June 04, 2024 in New York City. Spotify is minting music millionaires. Nearly 1,500 artists generated over $1 million in royalties from Spotify in 2024, the company said Wednesday in its annual Loud and Clear Report. Spotify said more than 80% of the artists in that pool didn't have a song reach the app's Global Daily Top 50 chart. "Spotify has helped level the playing field for artists at every stage of their careers,"
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-20 22:00:21
It's no secret that Spotify isn't a big money maker for most artists. But, in its annual Loud & Clear report, the music streamer is trying to change the narrative, reiterating an earlier claim that it paid artists $10 billion in 2024 ($60 million since launching) and adding that these payments increased tenfold over the last 10 years. Spotify throws in quite a few other big numbers into the 2024 report. It claims that the 100,000th most streamed artist also saw a tenfold increase over a decade,
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-21 05:01:00
Spotify on Tuesday released its annual Loud & Clear report, detailing information about the music streaming service’s royalty payments. While Spotify revealed earlier this year that it paid out $10 billion to the music industry in 2024, the new report offers more in-depth numbers about its payments in an effort to dispel reports that the company doesn’t reward artists properly for their work. For the first time ever, an artist who received one in every million streams on Spotify generated over
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-27 04:02:00
After flooding our homes with every Sonos model you can buy (and filling all remaining space with the boxes of said speakers), then using them for a couple of years, we've come to value their audio fidelity and ability to network seamlessly together. Here are our favorite aspects of Sonos: Simple setup: The Sonos app guides you through the process of starting a new system or adding speakers to an existing one. There isn’t another speaker system that lets you string together multiple speakers as
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-28 19:52:56
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Spotify Premium users pay for an ad-free listening experience, but last month ads started showing up. The company announced a fix within a couple days. This week, reports of errant ads in Spotify Premium are back, but a new fix is supposed to already be out. If you’re looking for a great music streaming service, there’s a lot to like about Spotify. In fact, Spotify Premium is so popular that we’re a little shocked it took Google as long as it did to
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