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Founder and CEO of Spotify, Daniel Ek, posted “Consumers and Innovators Win on a Level Playing Field” on the Spotify Newsroom. In it, he announces that Spotify has filed a complaint against Apple with the European Commission (EC). Daniel Ek starts by pointing out that his goal for Spotify is to reimagine the audio experience by giving consumers the best
Spotify has created a Hate Content & Hateful Conduct policy that it is using to determine what music will not be promoted on the service. Billboard reported that Spotify has removed the work of two artists from Spotify playlists after the Hate Content & Hateful Conduct policy took effect. Spotify posted a blog post about the new Hate Content &
Noted, the music-centric social sharing service that lets users receive a "news feed" style stream of songs selected by friends, has added support for SongSync, Spotify, and Apple Music. From a recent Noted e-mail announcement: SongSync lets you integrate with your Spotify/Apple Music account to share songs and build playlists across services. Here’s an example: Now friends can share a
Music streaming services are becoming ever more prevalent in the market these days. One made news this week by getting an exclusive deal, but those types of deals also have become common. Perhaps the most popular these days is Spotify, which can be used for free, though a premium subscription brings more functionality. Now Spotify is trying to pull in more
Spotify, the Sweden-based media streaming service, received some negative press earlier this week because of some recent changes to its terms of service. Initially, it looked like the company was getting a bit too grabby with users' personal information. The ToS was updated by adding this language: With your permission, we may collect information stored on your mobile device, such as
There are many complaints about digital music. Some say its audio quality doesn't measure up to analog sources like vinyl records. Others contend that ever-expanding digital divide has been causing the once thriving music industry to eat itself, leaving many artists out in the cold. For better or worse, music has become more and more digitized in recent years. Seems
Spotify users may want to consider changing their passwords. A post on the Spotify blog titled “Important Notice to Our Users” makes it clear that Spotify has had some “unauthorized access” to their systems and internal company data. Another way to phrase that would be to say that Spotify has been hacked. The blog contains some details about what happened