Tag: Spotify
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Spotify Will Now Make a Podcast For You About Anything You Want Using AI
Spotify is pushing deeper into artificial intelligence with a groundbreaking feature that lets users create their own custom podcasts tailored to individual preferences and daily routines. The music and audio streaming giant revealed the innovation during its recent investor presentation, signaling a major shift toward generative content that blends public catalog material with private, user-specific…
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Spotify is Expanding Audio Book Offering with Feature to Sync Audio Books With Paper Books
Spotify has taken a significant step forward in blending traditional reading with modern audio consumption through a newly discovered experimental feature known as Page Match. Currently in testing within the Spotify mobile app, this innovation promises to bridge the gap between physical books, ebooks, and their corresponding audiobook versions available on the platform, according to…
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Spotify is Increasing Prices for Subscribers Next Month
Spotify is increasing the price of Premium subscriptions next month, for users in the U.S., Estonia, and Latvia. Spotify Premium accounts will now start at $12.99 per month for individuals. The update comes just seven months after the price of Spotify Premium jumped from $10.99 to $11.99 per month in June. Users will be notified…
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Spotify’s Entire Music Library was Scraped by a Piracy Activist Group for a “Preservation Archive”
Anna’s Archive, an open-source search engine that has created what it calls the “largest truly open library in human history,” has scraped Spotify’s library and archived around 86 million music files that will be distributed in bulk torrents in just under 300TB in total size. Billboard first reported that the group published a blog post…
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Spotify Expands Kids’ Managed Accounts to U.S. and Beyond
Spotify is making life easier for parents who share their Premium Family plan with little ones. The company announced it is expanding its managed accounts for young listeners to seven new markets, including the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, Germany, France, and the Netherlands. The feature was previously tested in ten countries and gives children under…
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Spotify Updates Its Free Plan with More Features
Spotify announced Monday a list of features that will now be available to users with the free plan, including finally having the ability to choose specific songs. Three features now available to users with a free plan include “Pick & Play,” “Search & Play,” and “Share & Play.” Here’s how Spotify describes each of the…
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Spotify Gets Even Better With Lossless Audio
Spotify has finally launched its highly anticipated lossless audio feature, a significant upgrade for Premium subscribers in select markets. This rollout, which began in early September 2025, introduces a new level of audio fidelity, allowing listeners to experience music in unprecedented detail. The feature, available at no additional cost to Premium users, is being gradually…
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Apple Faces Potential 500 Million Euro Fine From European Union Over Spotify Complaint
The European Union may slap Apple with a 500 million Euro fine for breaching competition laws over complaints filed by Spotify five years ago. The fine, which equals $539 million, would be one of the biggest fines a big tech company has been issued from the European Union, according to the Financial Times. The penalty…
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Spotify Signs New Deal With Joe Rogan Worth as Much as $250 Million, But Expands His Distribution to YouTube and More
Spotify is keeping hit podcaster Joe Rogan on its platform thanks to a new deal worth as much as $250 million, according to The Wall Street Journal. Spotify announced the new deal on its site, but didn’t offer any financial details. The Wall Street Journal reported that the Joe Rogan Experience podcast will no longer…
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Apple Unveiled Changes to its App Store, Which Spotify Just Ripped
Apple on Friday laid out how its App Store will charge developers in the Europe as part of a new EU regulation that dismantles excessive power from Big Tech companies. Spotify quickly responded by calling it “extortion, plain and simple.” The biggest change to the fee structure that developers pay to be on the App…