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YouTube Music puts more focus on personalized playlists

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YouTube Music is upping its playlist game. It now offers many more personalized mixes tailored to your moods and activities. You'll see up to seven My Mix playlists on the Home screen, all of which are updated daily. Each of them includes hours of mu...

Spotify now works on the Apple Watch, no phone required

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Spotify’s Apple Watch app is getting the option to stream music or podcasts without connecting to an iPhone. You'll be able to listen to your playlists over WiFi or a cellular connection. The feature appears to be in beta amid a broader rollout, so i...

Spotify will let artists and labels promote songs in recommendations

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Spotify will soon test a way for artists and labels to promote songs in your recommendations. They’ll be able to flag music they want to spread the word about to Spotify's algorithms. The service suggests artists could use the option to spotlight a n...

Porsche bakes Apple Podcasts and Apple Music lyrics into its Taycan EV

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Porsche Taycan owners can stream Apple Podcasts without having to connect their iPhone over CarPlay. The automaker says it's the first native integration of the Podcasts app into any car.If you link your Apple ID to your Taycan, you can continue list...

Disney gets its own hub in Apple Music full of soundtracks and playlists

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Disney and Apple have long had close ties — Steve Jobs was Disney’s largest single shareholder and Bob Iger was an Apple board member. The companies have cosied up a bit more this week. Apple started selling 4K Disney films through its movie store, a...

Spotify adds a remote listening party option where everyone is a DJ

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Spotify has expanded its Group Sessions feature to allow up to five people to listen to music or podcasts together, no matter how far apart they are. You’ll all need to be premium subscribers to use the feature. One of you can get the party started b...

Spotify arrives on Xfinity X1 and Flex

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Starting today, Comcast subscribers can stream music and podcasts from Spotify on Xfinity Flex and X1. Flex users can get started by simply saying “Spotify” into their voice remote. Some X1 customers can use Spotify as an internet app now, and it'll...

Spotify lets you hide bad songs on playlists you didn’t make

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Let’s face it: not everyone has as impeccable taste in music as you do. Your friends and other curators are bound to drop some stinkers in their playlists sometimes. Spotify’s latest feature for premium subscribers should make it a bit easier to avoi...

Pandora’s Apple Watch app can stream music without an iPhone

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Next time you go for a run or to the gym, you might be able to leave your phone behind but still listen to whatever music you want on the fly if you're a Pandora premium subscriber. The Apple Watch app no longer needs to be tethered to an iPhone to s...

Streaming now accounts for 80 percent of the US music market

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Streaming has completely reshaped the face of the music industry over the last decade, with the likes of Spotify and Apple Music proving to be overwhelmingly popular with music fans. The Recording Industry Association of America has revealed some sta...