Spotify the Clear Winner in Twitter’s #Music Offering
Twitter finally launched their much-anticipated #Music service, if you haven’t yet heard of it, you will soon. Songs are derived from iTunes, Spotify, or Rdio and can be listened to in their entirety by linking each of those services to the Twitter #Music app.
ASCAP Wants Pandora and Spotify to Pay More Royalties
As Google and Apple prepare to launch their own streaming music services, some organizations are lobbying for already established services such as Pandora, Spotify, and the like to pay even more royalties than they currently are. The argument is that they pay less to the musicians than more established media outlets
Spotify Launches a “Follow” Tab to Aid Music Discovery
For those who felt that Spotify lacked in the discovery category, their new update should be a welcomed upgrade. According to Cult of Mac, they have no included a “Follow” tab to the desktop app that allows listeners to follow their favorite musicians and discover what they are listening to.
Spotify Allows you to Control your Tunes with your Voice … in your Car
Your carefully cultivated playlists and road trip anthologies are about to go where no streaming music service has taken them before, away from your fingertips. According to Cult of Mac, Spotify now supports Ford Sync AppLink technology to control playlists by voice.
Spotify looking to get into streaming video too?
A few days ago we featured Hungama, a streaming music service that integrates video in to the experience. Well it looks like Spotify could be poised to dip their toe in the same water. According to an article on Fast Company, the rumbles are only speculation at the moment.
House puts Spotify on mute
While Spotify isn’t a peer-to-peer program along the lines of Napster, its inner workings appear subject to the longstanding ban on so-called P2P technology — a blockade lawmakers erected to thwart illegal file-sharing and prevent downloads from infecting computers with malware.
5 Companies That Will Define The Future Of Radio
Radio will never be the same. Like books, magazines, music and just about every other mass medium you can think of, the age-old format is being transformed by the Internet, mobile technology and a few very smart organizations.
Metallica Puts Whole Catalog On Spotify
After years of fighting with digital music services such asNapster, Metallica has fully embraced the digital age and the band is now streaming its entire catalog on Spotify. In an announcement on its website, Metallica wrote: “We’re beyond excited to announce that music from every single Metallica album is now streaming on Spotify!
