While streaming music is what helped propel Spotify to become one of the most popular streaming services out there, the company's focus has been shifting.
Spotify now lets you create your own playlists with podcasts
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Spotify is testing Siri support in iOS 13
Despite a closing gap between Apple Music and Spotify, the latter streaming service still holds a considerable lead with millions of users. So it only makes sense that Apple would (finally) add support for Siri voice controls for media playback.
Spotify extends free trial to three months, matches Apple Music
A free trial for a service is meant to offer everything, without an upfront cost, in an attempt to get subscribers to keep coming back and paying for it. Up until recently, Spotify's standard free trial was just one month, but that has changed.
Spotify is conducting a test of higher prices in markets like Scandinavia
Your Spotify subscription might get more expensive as the music-streaming leader tests a price increase for family plan subscribers in markets where it's already a dominant force in music, like Scandinavia, to see whether it can raise prices in the region and around the world.
Spotify’s family accounts are gaining improved explicit content filters and parental controls
Parents will finally be able to toggle the explicit content filter in Spotify for any of their kids' sub-accounts, a feature that the company says people have been asking about for years now.
SpinThatRecord brings animated vinyl records to the Spotify Music app
Spotify has what I’ve come to appreciate as one of the nicest music players available for the iOS platform today, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t things I’d do to make it even better. In fact, when I learned about the release of a new jailbreak tweak called SpinThatRecord by iOS developer Menuskha, I was immediately intrigued.
Just as the name implies, SpinThatRecord modifies the Spotify Music app’s native music player such that the album artwork appears as a spinning record rather than a standstill square image. You’ll notice in the screenshot examples above that the album artwork is now shaped like a vinyl record, and below, you’ll find an animated GIF that showcases how the tweak looks as the album rotates:
Spotify, Apple reportedly in talks for ‘Siri truce’ to offer media playback controls in iOS 13
According to a new report, Apple and Spotify are currently in discussion to finally gain a truce between the two companies, all in an effort to finally bring an oft-requested feature to iOS users.
Spotify’s ‘Favorite Device’ feature will make it easier to hand off music to a speaker
Spotify is testing a new feature called "Favorite Device" which will make it easy to hand off the music you're listening to to a nearby speaker.
Spotify reaches 108 million paid subscribers
Despite the fact that Apple Music has been growing at an alarming rate ever since its debut, the streaming music primary competitor, Spotify, still holds a healthy lead.
Spotify finally supports Slide Over and Split View on the iPad
Spotify has finally updated its iOS app to support primary multitasking functions on the iPad.
Make iOS’ Spotlight search feature more powerful with LuxSit
iOS’ Spotlight search function is severely underpowered, and with just a bit more oomph, it could be a significantly more powerful tool for both casual and power users alike.
It remains to be seen whether Apple will ever expand upon Spotlight’s seemingly limited search functionalities in upcoming iterations of iOS or not, but in any case, jailbreakers won’t need to wait around for that to happen. With a newly-released and free jailbreak tweak called LuxSit by iOS developer LacertosusDeus, you can enjoy an upgraded Spotlight search experience today.
Apple Music surpasses 60 million paid subscribers
Apple Music is on the way up in terms of subscriber count, and has been ever since its debut years ago. The company behind the music streaming service has just confirmed another big milestone, as far as subscribers are concerned.