YouTube is one of the most popular music streaming services out there, with more than a billion users using it every month for music. However, music videos are available free of charge to the user. Google and content owners make money through ads, but that might not suffice anymore. That’s why Google’s parent Alphabet is working …
Spotify and Netflix are two things that don’t often go on sale. But thanks to a little Christmas spirit, and a lot of fear of Apple Music stealing its subscribers, Spotify is having a serious sale on one-year Spotify Premium memberships. The ad-free Premium service, which includes unlimited streaming and features like Google Cast support, …
The music industry has undergone two tectonic shifts over the last 15 years or so. The first shift occurred when the iPod, along with the iTunes Music Store, completely changed the way we listen to and purchase music. Whereas music lovers back in the day would often compile sweeping collections comprised of hundreds, if not …
It’s the time of year again when students head back to their hallowed halls of learning, and retail outlets the country over make an extra-special effort to sell them things. Back-to-school normally also brings some new promotions for students, and Amazon is making now exception for its digital offerings. Amazon Music Unlimited, Amazon’s streaming music …
Jay-Z’s 4:44 dropped last week, gaining plenty of attention across the music industry and receiving nearly universal acclaim to boot. The album, which has already been certified platinum, debuted on Tidal, the music service that Jay-Z owns a good chunk of, and was expected to remain an exclusive for at least a short while. Well, …
During Apple’s WWDC keynote last week, Tim Cook gleefully boasted that Apple Music now has more than 27 million subscribers. While that’s a respectable increase from the 20 million subscribers Apple’s streaming service had this past December, it seems that Apple still can’t do anything to close the subscriber gap it has with Spotify.
Streaming services have got to the point that all the music you could ever need and want is available. The biggest missing name to date for Spotify has been Taylor Swift, and while you can argue all you like about whether anyone truly “needs” Tay-Sway, it’s an undeniable hole in the lineup. As such, 14-year-old …
Spotify — the music streaming service which boasts a huge subscriber count, lots of great licensing agreements, and a music catalog that is the envy of just about every single one of its competitors — isn’t happy. The company hasn’t come out and said it, but how could it possibly be pleased with its current position …
Spotify is still sitting pretty atop the pile of music streaming services. Sure, Apple Music has had a not-terrible launch with millions of subscribers on board, but it’s still a long way away from Spotify’s 100 million subscribers. But the numbers get a little worse for Spotify when you start looking at paid subscribers. Spotify …
Spotify is one of the most popular music streaming services out there. But it turns out it’s also a dangerous one, at least for your SSD’s life. The app has been quietly killing your SSD’s life for months by writing massive amounts of data over and over, even when the service was in idle mode.
