Tag: audio streaming

Amazon Music is coming for Spotify’s AI playlists with new Maestro feature

AI features are becoming increasingly integrated with music streaming platforms – just take a look at Spotify and it’s wildly popular AI DJ. Now, Amazon Music is about to dip its toes into the pool of robot-generated playlists, recently announcing the addition of a feature called Maestro, its new AI…

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Spotify HiFi lossless audio could show up as a new Music Pro feature

We’ve been dreaming of listening to lossless audio through Spotify ever since the music streaming service announced plans for Spotify HiFi all the way back in February 2021. More than three years on, the upgrade might finally be arriving, with a new name. Thanks to some diligent digging into the…

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Spotify’s new ChatGPT-like AI prompt makes it easy to create cool playlists – here’s how to use it

Late last year, we reported on Spotify’s plans to build AI into more of its feature – and in particular, what appeared to be an incoming update to create AI-generated playlists. Spotify confirmed at the time that AI playlists were indeed being tested, and now the feature has gone live…

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Google Podcasts is now officially gone – here are my favorite iPhone and Android alternatives

Google Podcasts is gone. The streaming platform recently went offline on April 2, bringing the six-year saga to a close. Now it joins the likes of YouTube Stories and the Stadia console over in the Google Graveyard.  If you open the app or go to the official website, you get…

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Tidal’s game-changing feature lets your friends open shared songs in Spotify

Music streaming service Tidal is introducing a great new feature to its desktop app, one we hope other platforms implement: universal links. Now, whenever a Tidal user shares a song with a friend, the recipient will be able to listen to the track “on their preferred streaming service.” They won’t…

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Spotify says its big iPhone update with new subscription options is being blocked by Apple in the EU

There’s more bad blood between Spotify and Apple than you’d find in a Taylor Swift song, and in the latest instalment of the best music streaming service‘s battle, Spotify is accusing Apple of yet more bad behavior. Despite Apple incurring a whopping $2 billion fine from European regulators over its…

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