Category: music
Deezer acquires podcast app Stitcher
Spotify-style streaming service Deezer has announced that it has acquired Stitcher, a podcasting app. Wait, who? Deezer, which launched in 2007, is a streaming service a bit like Spotify - and has been almost entirely focused on music until now. Meanwhile Stitcher is a podcast app: The premise is that you tell Stitcher what you…
Spotify introduces family payments
Spotify is to introduce a new "family payments" system that will mean up to four family members can each have essentially their own Spotify Premium account - but with one person paying all of the bills. If you share Spotify with a family member, then you'll know how frustrating it is when you're air-drumming away…
Apple releases tool to remove free U2 album from iTunes accounts
One of the major announcements at Apple's iPhone 6 launch last week was the band U2 giving iTunes users around the world a free copy of their new album, Songs of Innocence. The internet went into meltdown, with many people expressing displeasure and even outrage that a band they disliked would give them a free…
Apple kills off the iPod Classic
As all the celebrating and frothing at the mouth was taking place last night as Apple announced iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus and Watch, nary a tear was shed as the tech giant quietly put the iPod Classic to death. Yes, the device that was launched 13 years ago – in October of 2001 – with its revolutionary…
Spotify to give you uninterrupted streaming in exchange for watching adverts
Spotify is introducing video adverts for non-premium subscribers, and will reward you for watching them all the way through. According to WP Central, Spotify video ads comes in two forms: First there's straight up videos, which will play back on the Spotify desktop client. These will be clever enough to stop playing back if you're…
Sonos Vinyl player is where the high-tech meets history
Sonos, the wireless home audio system that lets you play music in all of the rooms of your house feels pretty high tech: It is entirely wireless and can stream audio from your own library or a myriad of streaming services... but what if you're a vinyl junkie? That's right - no longer are vinyls…
Sonos update enables the removal of the wifi “Bridge”
Sonos has today started rolling out a software update to its devices that will let you users remove the wifi bridge from their home audio setup. Crucially, this also means that future customers will be able to buy the wireless sound system without the added hardware expense. Previously to make a Sonos system talk to…
Archos launch the “Music Beany”. Are bluetooth hats cool?
If you're the sort of cool kid who understands popular music and likes to listen to banging tunes on your personal stereo - or whatever it is that young people do these days - then you'll want to get yourself the latest cool accessory: The bluetooth hat. Archos has come up with a beany hat…
Spotify now free on Windows Phone
Music streaming service Spotify is now free on the Windows Phone app, after unveiling an ad-supported and shuffle-mode which came to iOS and Android earlier this year. Previously, Windows Phone users were only able to stream via the Spotify app with a premium subscription, which includes ad-free mobile and offline listening. Now, Windows Phone streams…
Online music videos to get age rating in UK
In further proof that he has absolutely no understanding of how the internet works, UK prime minister David Cameron has announced that music videos on YouTube and other websites will be given age ratings from October to stop children seeing “graphic content”. Cameron said that new filters will replicate rules that exist offline for media…
