European Commission regulators sided with Spotify, accusing Apple of breaking EU competition law and abusing its monopoly over how music streaming apps are distributed through its app store. This prel…
Spotify Rolls Out New In-App Miniplayer Feature On Facebook
Spotify and Facebook have recently rolled out a new miniplayer feature on the latter’s social media app. This enables users to sample and even listen in to podcasts or music shared on their news…
Facebook Expands Partnership With Spotify Through Project Boombox
Facebook is reportedly interested in expanding its partnership with the online music streaming service, Spotify, through a new initiative, known simply as “Project Boombox”. According to M…
Spotify Launches New Personalised Mixes Based On Artist, Genre And Decade
Spotify is rolling out a new family of personalised playlists based on artist, genre, and decade called “Spotify Mixes”. For example, this means curated playlists centred around artists like Beyoncé, …
Spotify iOS Code Reveals Car Thing Hardware
Hardware may be the last thing that you’d associate with Spotify. But it looks like the company has something planned, called simply the Car Thing. And it’s quite difficult to describe wha…
Spotify And LinkedIn Working On Their Own Clubhouse Clones
The list of Clubhouse clones continues to grow, with more and more tech brands launching or developing (and reportedly developing) their own spin of the popular audio-only chat app. Most recently, it …
Spotify Launches Website To Explain How It Pays Musicians
Under frequent criticism for exploiting artists, Spotify has launched a new website called Loud & Clear to better explain how it pays musicians – or in fact, how it doesn’t, not directly any…
Spotify And Kakao Renew Licensing Agreement; K-pop Songs Are Back
It’s been about 10 days since a vast swath of Korean songs got yanked from Spotify. At the time, it was caused by the expiry of a license agreement between the streaming service and the distribu…
Spotify: K-Pop Tracks Gone Because Of License Expiry
If you listen to K-pop on Spotify, you may notice many of your favourite tracks are now gone. The company has since issued an official statement explaining why this is the case. And it all boils down …
Spotify HiFi Tier To Be Available Later This Year; Offers Lossless Audio Format
During the company’s Stream On virtual event last night, Spotify announced a new subscription tier that will be made available later this year called Spotify HiFi. The name itself describes what this …
Spotify Is Working On Local File Playback For Android
While you can use Spotify to stream music, you will need a separate media player to play tracks on your phone. This may soon change, at least for Android users of the streaming service’s app. Th…
Spotify Is Testing Its Own Stories-Like Feature Now
Social media posts that go away after awhile are extremely common right now. And the latest one may come from Spotify. This is following the relatively recently released Fleets by Twitter. This comes …