Apple Music has reportedly amassed 56 million paid + trial accounts, adding six million customers in the past six months since zooming past 50 million subscribers back in May 2018.
In beta since October 29, Waze's new built-in audio player began rolling out today in Waze 4.45 for iPhone and iPad, now available on App Store The crowd-sourced navigation app implemented this feature so that users would get lost in their music, not on the road, without having to switch apps while navigating.
Transferring playlists between multiple music services is easy until you attempt to do it manually. Instead of having to painstakingly recreate your personal, carefully curated Apple Music playlists on another music-streaming service like Spotify or YouTube, or vice versa, you can just use an app to get the job done.
Spotify on Tuesday released an update to its iOS client, bringing the software to version 8.4.79. On the surface it looks like your typical maintenance release, but according to the change log, it also includes "the first version" of Spotify's Apple Watch app.
Spotify may finally be adding its official app to Apple Watch. A thread popped up on the r/Apple subreddit this morning with users noting that the latest Spotify app build in TestFlight includes an app for the popular wearable.
The leading music-streaming service Spotify now has 87 million paid listeners worldwide and a total of 191 million monthly active users who are on either paid or free tier.
Spotify is showing some podcast love by introducing a Spotify for Podcasters beta program. Through the platform, podcast creators can add their existing shows to the music streaming service and make them available to Spotify’s 180 million listeners around the world.
Monday, Google announced a slew of new commute features for its mobile Maps app.
If you appreciated the first Apace jailbreak tweak by iOS developer Andreas Henriksson, then you’ll likely have a sweet spot for its iOS 11-compatible successor: Apace 2 (iOS 11).
Apace 2 augments your iOS handset’s Now Playing interface with features relevant to the app you use to listen to your favorite tunes. Whether you’re partial to Spotify, Deezer, or the native Music app, you could potentially benefit from what Apace 2 brings to the table.
Today, Aug. 17, Sony released 23 Prince albums that were first launched between 1995 and 2010. The music is being released across all major streaming services, including Apple Music and Spotify. The move comes just two months after the Prince estate and Sony's Legacy Recordings announced an agreement to bring the late artist's music to streaming platforms, many for the first time.
According to Variety, the recordings being released include such favorable albums as “The Gold Experience,” “3121” and “Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic” as well as a new 37-track compilation called “Prince Anthology 1995-2010.” In 2021, Song/Legacy's distribution rights will be expanded to include music recorded by the artist between 1978 and 1996.
In life, Prince, who died in 2016, typically avoided releasing his content online. Before his death, however, he did sign an exclusive deal with Tidal to bring much of his library that service.
The 24 albums now available on streaming services are:
The Gold Experience (1995) (“The Most Beautiful Girl in the World” greyed out, partial album streaming only; album unavailable for download) Chaos and Disorder (1996) Emancipation (1996) Crystal Ball (1998) The Truth (1998) Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic (1999) Rave In2 The Joy Fantastic (2001) The Rainbow Children (2001) One Nite Alone… (2002) One Nite Alone…Live! (2002) One Nite Alone…Live – The Aftershow: It Ain’t Over (Up Late with Prince & The NPG) (2002) Xpectation (2003) N.E.W.S. (2003) C-Note (2004) Musicology (2004) The Chocolate Invasion (Trax from the NPG Music Club: Volume 1) (2004) The Slaughterhouse (Trax from the NPG Music Club: Volume 2) (2004) 3121 (2006) Planet Earth (2007) Indigo Nights (2008) LOtUSFLOW3R (2009) MPLSoUND (2009) 20Ten (2010) Prince Anthology: 1995-2010You can find Prince's content on Apple Music by visiting the Browse tab. From here, scroll until you see Prince's featured artist card. Besides the newly added content, you’ll also find links to Prince’s “Piano & a Microphone 1983” and “International Lover” albums. Both arrive on Sept. 14.
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Festicket, a UK-based online booking platform for festivals, has partnered with Spotify to help music lovers discover music festivals around them and find festival tickets based on the music they listen to.
Apple Music is now the No. 1 music streaming service in the United States, according to an industry source who spoke to Digital Music News. If correct, this would be the first time the number of Apple Music subscribers in the U.S. has surpassed the industry leader, Spotify.