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Spotify Overhauls Its Player To Make Discovering New Music A Breeze
Today’s Spotify event, billed as “Discover what’s next”, is not so subtly supposed to be about how Spotify is going to one up its competition by helping you find music better than anyone else. The service is adding a new “Discover” tab to its player that not only gives you recommendations, but better context for what you’re about to listen to and why its being recommended. The features will roll out in the new year.
5 Features iTunes 11 Still Needs
iTunes 11 is the best thing to happen to Apple’s media hub in a long time. But while the cosmetic changes are nice, there are still plenty of underlying problems with iTunes that need to be addressed. At its core, iTunes is still just a shopping mall with a snazzy jukebox attached. But it could be so much more.
Gotye Tops List Of Most Popular Songs On Spotify For 2012
If the best way to listen to music is to stream it these days, then Spotify has its finger on the pulse of what’s hot and popping in music. And looking at the most popular Spotify songs of 2012, well, that must mean our collective music taste is terribly poppy and probably horrible. Here are the most popular songs on Spotify of 2012.
Here’s How Much Pandora Pays Music Artists
Pandora, which quietly reinstated its internet radio service in Australia back in July, wants you to know that Pandora is good for music because it pays artists millions and millions of dollars for their songs. Take Drake and Lil Wayne — they get nearly $US3 million each a year. And Pandora wants to pay them more.
Maybe The Web Only Wants One Of Everything
In the early days of the web, the technology space was flush with not only money, but a specific type of optimism: that this new medium would allow anybody to make whatever they wanted, and have the world see it (assuming it was any good). This was before Facebook, of course. If you wanted to put something out there, you sometimes had to make it yourself, with something called HTML.
Why Spotify In Your Browser Is A Good Idea
TechCrunch reported over the weekend about a browser-based version of Spotify, which led to thousands of posts. The odd thing about Spotify’s reported makeover as a web app is that its status as a desktop client is responsible for at least some degree of its success.
