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You Can Get Discounted Bundles of Music, Movies, and Books at Amazon and Target
We may earn a commission from links on this page. Deal pricing and availability subject to change after time of publication. Amazon’s spring sale is halfway done, and we’ve done some work to single out the best deals available, but many other retailers—like Target and Best Buy—have been going tit for tat, matching prices and spinning up aggressive deals of…
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iOS 18.4 Lets You Add Your Apple Music Playlists to the Lock Screen
As a big fan of background music, I was intrigued by iOS 18.4’s Control Center changes. It adds a new tab called Ambient Music to Control Center’s list of customizable controls. You can use this to add one of four pre-selected Apple Music playlists (or your own) to the Control Center, your lock screen, or the Action Button (provided your…
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PyPi package with 100K installs pirated music from Deezer for years
A malicious PyPi package named ‘automslc’ has been downloaded over 100,000 times from the Python Package Index since 2019, abusing hard-coded credentials to pirate music from the Deezer streaming service. Deezer is a music streaming service available in 180 countries that offers access to over 90 million tracks, playlists, and podcasts. It is offered via an ad-supported free tier or…
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Our favorite iPhone and Android apps for streaming and collecting music
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 72, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, hope you like gadgets, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been reading about Hasan Piker and calculator apps and car thieves and the real economics of YouTuber…
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7 Great Spotify Features That Apple Music Has Too
As a recent convert to Apple Music, there are a number of things I’ve been missing from Spotify. Most notably, the plethora of personalized and specific playlists. Thankfully, I’ve been able to find an equivalent for many of them. One thing to remember is Apple Music and Spotify work very differently. An “80s Rock” playlist on Spotify is personalized to…
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11 of the Best Music Documentaries Ever Made
We may earn a commission from links on this page. Music documentaries are having a moment. In the last month, talking heads (as opposed to the Talking Heads) have been philosophizing about the power of “yacht rock” on Max while Disney+ has released yet another film about the Beatles (produced by Martin Scorsese no less). A great music doc can…
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Does Spatial Audio on Apple Music Sound Better or Worse?
Summary Only specific Apple Music tracks are spatial audio enabled, providing a 3D soundstage powered by Dolby Atmos. Finding spatial audio music can be challenging, but searching for “spatial audio” reveals compatible playlists and albums. The quality of spatial audio varies by song and genre. You may have noticed that some songs on Apple Music are mastered for “spatial audio”,…
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5 Reasons I’m Going Back to Apple Music From Spotify
It feels like just yesterday that illegal music downloads were going to destroy the music industry, until Steve Jobs showed us the way with the iPod and digital music sales. Today, music streaming is the most popular way to listen to your tunes, but it can be so hard to pick the right one, and once again I’m changing my…
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Amazon Music Finally Has Its Own Version of Spotify Wrapped
If you use Amazon Music, you might feel out of loop this time of year, as Spotify and Apple Music users share their listening stats from Wrapped and Replay, respectively. This year, however, is a bit different: It seems Amazon has finally jumped onto the end-of-year recap bandwagon, rolling out its own version to users it calls “Delivered.” (Get it?…
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Nvidia shows off a new genAI model that can create sound and music – Computerworld
Nvidia on Monday showed off a new generative AI (genAI) model that can be used to create all kinds of sounds and music: Fugatto (which stands for Foundational Generative Audio Transformer Opus 1). By entering a text prompt, a user can make Fugatto create basically any sound, such as a trumpet barking like a dog. The genAI model can also be used…
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