Tag: spotify
Spotify streaming expanding to TV shows with HBO?
Spotify, the fast-growing music streaming service, may be about to extend their service into pastures new by offering TV show streaming alongside the tunes. A new report from Danish tech site Beep.tv2.dk suggests that the Swedish music maestros are preparing…
Spotify Premium price-cut coming? Browser-based version too?
Big shake-ups in the music-streaming world of Spotify are on the way, according to new reports that suggest a browser-based version of the online tune library is incoming. Though it's not clear whether or not the browser version will completely…
Bon Iver, Spotify and Indaba Music team up for remix competition
Spotify have teamed up with Grammy award-winning singer-songwriter Bon Iver and Indaba Music for an exclusive remixing competition. Dubbed the "Bon Iver, Bon Iver: Stems Project," fans are challenged with the task of remixing tracks from the artist's critically acclaimed…
Onkyo reveal Spotify-streaming CR-N755 Mini Hi-Fi receiver
Onkyo have just revealed the CR-N755 Mini Hi-Fi receiver, which niftily offers networked music streaming, including Spotify playback, among its list of features. Once configured alongside a user's home network, the CR-N755 can access Spotify playlists, Last.fm, AUPEO!, and vTuner…
Xbox Music: More details of Microsoft's Spotify rival emerge
New details have emerged on the Xbox Music service, the digital streaming app set to rival Spotify on Microsoft's Xbox 360 console. Briefly detailed at Microsoft's E3 conference, it has now emerged that the service will launch later this year…
iTunes cloud integration to take on Spotify, socially
iTunes is well overdue a makeover, and 2012 looks set to see the most significant changes to Apple's music library management and store platform for some time. The latest reports suggest that Apple's iCloud storage service will be deeply integrated…
Spotify add individual artist apps: Rancid, Quincy Jones, Disturbed, Tiesto
Spotify have begun introducing apps focussed on individua artists to their desktop application, with Rancid, Quincy Jones, Disturbed and Tiesto the first artists to be featured. While all feature info and playlists from the musicians, all are slightly different. Quincy…
What if Spotify had been invented in the 1980s?
Well, forgoing the need for widespread high-speed broadband, advanced graphical user interfaces and any tunes other than A-Ha or the Beverly Hills Cop theme, it would have probably looked something a bit like this, command line inputs and all….
UK digital music spending overtakes physical sales for first time
It's a landmark day or the British music business, as the British Phonographic Industry has just announced that, for the first time ever, digital downloads and streaming have overtaken the sales of CDs, tapes and vinyl in the UK. 55.5%…
Spotify rival Rdio launches in the UK
Rdio has made a bit of a name for itself stateside as a valid Spotify alternative, and now the music streaming service has touched down for UK users too. Matching Spotify's price plans at £5 a month for a desktop-only…