Feb 14
No matter how you may be spending your Valentine’s Day, you definitely need a soundtrack. So here’s a freaky deaky Spotify playlist. We made it for you because we love you.
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Jan 30
In December, Spotify launched an #undiscovered hashtag campaign to draw attention to the songs in its library that have never been played. With it came a massive discombobulated playlist with … Continue reading
Jan 30
Four million songs on Spotify—a whopping twenty percent of the site’s tracks—have never been streamed
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Jan 29
In a match that seems made in heaven, Internet radio and recommendation service Last.fm has gone into a partnership with music streaming service Spotify. Together the two companies aim to … Continue reading
Jan 29
Play Spotify Music On Last.fm
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There might not be a great sense of community on music discovery website Last.fm, but it does what it set out to do very well. Spotify today announced that it has partnered up with this music recommendation service to bring on-demand playback on Last.fm. Users will now be able to play any song that’s recommended by Last.fm on the service’s website, provided that its available in Spotify’s catalog. Using their Spotify account, users can play its entire catalog right on Last.fm.
Play Spotify Music On Last.fm original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Jan 21
After a year of hype, Beats Music is finally here, and if it has a definitive pitch, the company’s frenetic, towheaded CEO Ian Rogers served it to me over blaring punk music in a Lower East Side bar last week. "I’ve got [legendary producer] Jimmy Iovine calling me on the weekend and saying, "What the hell is this playlist?"
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Jan 20
Spotify has a bunch of playlists that listeners can browse. They are separated in a variety of genres, such as Pop, Rock, Dance, Chill, and etc. Of course you can create and share your own playlist, but wouldn’t it be cool if Spotify or any other music service could detect your mood and create a playlist based around that? Well that’s one of the features Spotify would love to implement in the future and they will be relying on your device’s sensors to help create something tailored to your mood. Now we’re not sure how Spotify plans on detecting whether we are happy or moody, but at least based on the accelerometer and other sensors built into our phones, Spotify will be able to detect if we are running, and from there create an up-tempo playlist that will motivate us.
The information collected from the sensors could include anything such as speed and heart rate and possibly body temperature, and from there, an appropriate playlist can be generated. According to Donovan Sung, Spotify’s product manager for discover and recommendations, “Maybe with motion sensors in phones, we can start guessing things whether users are running, biking or driving? Maybe the phone has a temperature sensor, or a heart rate sensor, we could guess whether the user is tense… […] The more we know about you, the better the [recommendation] engine can be.” What do you guys think of this idea? Yay or nay?
Spotify Wants To Use Your Device’s Sensors To Customize A Playlist For You original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Jan 20
There is a lot of competition between music streaming services, given the fact that the market is being catered to by a wide variety of services. Spotify has established itself as a major player in this particular market, it boasts over 24 million users and continues to grow. In a bid to attract more artists, which in turn is likely to bring in more listeners, Spotify now lets artists sell their merchandise for free. The music streaming service is not going to charge a commission on sales, whatever money artists make by selling merchandise, they’ll get all of it.
To make this happen, Spotify has teamed up with a company called Topspin. To start selling merchandise, artists need to create a Topspin ArtistLink account and verify their identity by either linking a social media account or by directly emailing the company. Once verified, they can create listings by adding images, title, description and URL to various items in their existing merchandise store. Each merchandise listing will need approval, but it should show up in Spotify’s artist pages within 28 hours. While artists from all around the globe can list items, only Spotify users based in English speaking countries such as U.S., UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Iceland will be able to purchase merchandise for now. Spotify says that it will include additional language support in the future.
Spotify Lets Artists Sell Merchandise For Free original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Jan 20
Personalization and recommendations are a staple of many services, particularly music services that aim to provide their users with music they want before they know they want it. Spotify could … Continue reading
Jan 20
Spotify has more good news this month, this time for both artists and subscribers. Starting today, all artists will be able to sell directly to fans some items such as … Continue reading
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