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Music Lovers’ New Favorite Earbuds
Summary Technics AZ100 earbuds retail for $299, offering top-tier music playback with a focus on fit. The earbuds deliver superb sound and call quality, supporting various Bluetooth codecs and Dolby Atmos. The earbuds have customizable touch controls through the Technics Audio Connect App, solid battery life, and three-device multipoint Bluetooth support. While the brand doesn’t enjoy the same name recognition…
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YouTube’s new AI tool generates free background music for videos
YouTube is giving creators a new AI tool that can generate instrumental tracks to use in videos for free without worrying about copyright claims, TechCrunch reports. The new feature was demonstrated in a video posted on the company’s Creator Insider channel this week. In the video, the host, Lauren, shows a new tab in the Creator Music beta section on…
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Use This YouTube Music App for a More Spotify-Like Experience on Desktop
YouTube Music is a decent Spotify alternative, especially if you’re already paying for YouTube Premium to remove the ads. There’s a big downside, though: Google doesn’t offer a desktop app for YouTube Music, meaning you have to run the application in a browser. It also means you can’t really customize YouTube Music the way you can with Spotify. That’s why…
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Fortnite Festival Season 8 Music Pass: All Rewards, Sabrina Carpenter Skins and Price
Mark your calendars, music lovers! Fortnite Festival Season 8 kicked off today, April 8, headlined by the one and only Sabrina Carpenter. Dive into the new Music Pass to unlock her chart-topping hits ‘Juno’ and ‘Nonsense,’ plus two distinct Sabrina Carpenter skins and a treasure trove of other musical goodies. To help you out, here’s the full Fortnite Festival Season…
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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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