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Spotify brings playlists, podcasts, and audiobooks to United flights
United Airlines is expanding its in-flight entertainment catalog with audiobooks and video podcasts, courtesy of Spotify. The partnership with Spotify provides passengers with free access to more than 450 hours of curated playlists, audiobooks, and podcasts, including Good Hang with Amy Poehler, The Dave Chang Show, and The Comment Section with Drew Afualo. This content is available now across more…
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Spotify just got 3 handy upgrades — here’s the new features you can try now
Last month, Spotify was busy introducing some minor upgrades to one of the best music streaming services. And it appears the company isn’t slowing down in June. In the last couple of weeks, Spotify quietly rolled out (via TechRadar) a trio of new features that should be helpful for those of you who listen to more than music on the…
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I Subscribe to Apple Music, Spotify, and YouTube Music, and Here’s Why
From left: Apple Music, YouTube Music, and Spotify. Credit: Lifehacker Each music streaming service varies in terms of its features and its interface, but unlike the video streaming apps, the actual content selection is broadly the same across them all: You get access to tens of millions of tunes, on demand, across all of your multiple devices. With that in…
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Spotify Wants To Be a Better Podcast Player
Summary Spotify is enhancing its podcast features, recommending new episodes on the Home screen just like it currently does with music. A new “Following” feed for podcasts organizes new episodes from subscribed shows for easy viewing. Creators can now link to other Spotify content mentioned in podcast episodes, and use emoji reactions on comments. Ever since Spotify added podcasts, it…
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Android Auto will get Spotify Jam and support for video apps and web browsers
Android Auto is getting more than just Google’s Gemini assistant after the Google I/O developer conference. The company has also announced or otherwise shown off a slew of changes coming to the infotainment operating system, including an updated Spotify app, a light mode, and the introduction of web browsers and video apps. Let’s start with Spotify. Google revealed in a…
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Spotify made podcast play counts public — creators didn’t like it
Spotify announced earlier this month that podcast creators and listeners would get a new data point: how many plays an episode has gotten. The idea, according to Spotify, was that listeners could discover new shows they hadn’t heard of, enticed by this new public measure of fandom. Podcasters did not see it that way. Since the announcement, podcasters, especially those…
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Your Spotify AI DJ Is Now Taking Verbal Requests
Spotify’s AI DJ is like if ChatGPT decided to switch careers. The DJ curates a playlist of music based on Premium subscribers’ previous play history, including new and old songs in the mix. Of course, the headline feature is the DJ’s voice, as the AI bot announces which songs are up next, as well as some information about each. Whether…
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Spotify Can Now Show You More Payment Options in the iPhone App
You probably know you don’t have to pay to use Spotify, as long as you’re good with ads. For a commercial-free experience, of course, you need to subscribe to Premium. If you ever tried to sign up for Spotify Premium on your iPhone, however, you might have noticed there was no way to do so—neither a “pay now” button, nor…
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Spotify already has an app ready to test Apple’s new rules
Spotify says it has submitted an update to its iOS app that would, among other things, let US customers use payment options that aren’t Apple’s, according to a blog post. The update submission follows Wednesday’s major Epic Games v. Apple ruling that forces Apple not to take a cut of payments on non-Apple payment systems and stops Apple from dictating…
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Spotify might put AI ads in its free tier because it wants to annoy you into upgrading
I can’t lie — I’ve completely lost interest in Spotify and the long, long wait for Spotify HiFi. I’m not sure it’s actually going to happen at this point, given we’ve been waiting for what feels like hundreds of years. But there’s still part of me that hopes it’s Spotify HiFi on the way when Spotify makes headlines again, only…
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