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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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How to See Your Stats on Spotify
Spotify Wrapped has turned me into a stats nerd and I can’t wait for it to drop every year. It has me more excited than Christmas back as a kid. However, I am an impatient fellow, and waiting an entire year is far too long. But thankfully there are other fun ways to learn your Spotify stats no matter the…
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How to find your 2024 Spotify Wrapped
One of the more popular end-of-year items is music service recaps, and one of the best known is Spotify Wrapped. The company puts together a roundup of everything you listened to that year in various statistical formats, wrapped up (well, that’s what it’s called, right?) in bright, swirling graphics. For 2024, you’ll be shown what music categories you followed, how…
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Spotify Wrapped 2024 is Here, This Time With Google’s AI Hosts
The wait is finally over as the much-awaited Spotify Wrapped has dropped like we predicted. But this time, the company has a special surprise in store for us. This year, you won’t be exploring your year in music all by yourself. Yes, there will be a couple of AI podcast hosts powered by Google’s Notebook who will join you to…
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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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Google’s connecting Spotify to its Gemini AI assistant
Spotify is getting support for Google’s Gemini Extensions, which will allow users to search for and play music using the generative AI assistant with natural language requests. The extension was first spotted in the code of the Google app in June, and now it’s rolling out to compatible Android devices, as reported by 9to5Google. Gemini can play music found by…
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YouTube Music Is Already Rolling Out Its Version of Spotify Wrapped
Spotify might have pioneered the yearly streaming recap, but these days, every other service has its own version of “Wrapped.” If you’re a YouTube Music subscriber, for instance, not only do you have the option to check out a year-end summary of your listening habits, those stats are rolling out to select users now. While you might think December would…
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The Best Music Visualizer App for Spotify
Every once in a while a seemingly pointless computing question of mine becomes an obsession. This week, that question is, “Whatever happened to music visualizers? And can I still use one?” In the 2000s, one of the coolest things you could do on a computer was turn on some music, enable the visualizer—a kind of psychedelic-inspired animation that would react…
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This Free App Makes Custom Covers For Your Apple Music and Spotify Playlists
Like many, I enjoy creating custom playlists on both Apple Music (for myself) and on Spotify (for my friends). Making nice playlist cover art is a fun part of this process, but I’ve found both Apple Music and Spotify’s built-in tools lacking. Apple Music lets you select photos from your library or pick a generated cover. Spotify also lets you…
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You Can Pin Spotify Playlists (And More)
Spotify started as a humble music streaming app, but it has ballooned into something much bigger. The service is now packed with playlists, podcasts, and even audiobooks. You probably have a lot of these things saved to your library, so you might as well make your favorites easy to access. Personally, I have over 30 Spotify playlists saved to my…
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