Spotify

When Apple launched iTunes in 2003 the major record companies missed a trick. They never imagined a computer firm would change the shape of the music business. iTunes is now the largest music retailer in the world with 575 million customers and annual sales of $23bn. It is the main source of income for every Continue Reading →

Spotify is freeing your music from the device you use to listen to it. With a feature called “Spotify Connect,” your current listening sessions will be synced to the cloud, and you’ll be able to use any of your devices to control exactly where and how your music plays. Most importantly, this feature — alongside Continue Reading →

Need motivation for some more exercise? Spotify can do the trick. It’s super easy to create a Spotify playlist based on the beats per minute in your favorite songs. First, sign up for a Spotify premium account. It’s $10 per month and worth every penny. Create a playlist called “Walking Music” or something else you’ll Continue Reading →

The health and fitness value of a cardio-centric workout several times each week is well documented. And my nutritionist friends have assured me that weight loss is a simple matter of calories consumed vs. calories burned. Every 3,500 calories = 1 pound. If you eat 3,500 calories more than you burn, you will gain a Continue Reading →

After spending the last several months rolling out Discover and Radio, two big pieces of its music discovery puzzle, Spotify is on Monday introducing a critical third piece: Browse, a collection of the service’s best playlists on iOS and Android. Whereas Discover and Radio are largely powered by algorithms, Browse introduces a human level of Continue Reading →

Music service Spotify has launched a new app in collaboration with Bedrocket’s Official Comedy division that features acts by comedians Jerry Seinfeld, Louis CK, Aziz Ansari, and others. Users of Spotify’s desktop and mobile service can install the Official Comedy app and gain access to an aggregated playlist of stand-up performances and other content. Whether Continue Reading →

Spotify’s Discover area isn’t quite as ubiquitous as we’d hoped by this point, primarily serving computer-based Spotify users. But on Tuesday, that trend begins to change, with Spotify’s iOS app getting an update (version 0.7.1) which adds the long-awaited Discover functionality alongside a slew of other updates. The “Now Playing” section is changing a bit Continue Reading →

A million of anything is pretty much always an insanely impossible number. Winning a million dollars, having a million Twitter followers, selling a million products—anything done a million times is something to be proud of. But maybe not getting your song streamed on Pandora a million times. All you get sometimes is 16 measly dollars. Continue Reading →

When Apple unveiled iTunes Radio, it jumped into a saturated market: music streaming. Much like the options you have when you want to watch a movie or TV show online, there are many places you can go to get your Radiohead fix. But not all music services are created equal, and they don’t all have Continue Reading →

Digital music streaming and subscription company Spotify released a new feature called ‘Discover’, in an effort to help its many millions of users around the globe find out about new artists and music they will likely enjoy. The company aims to achieve this by not only leveraging its proprietary recommendation technology, but also by banking Continue Reading →