Jan 20
If your workouts never quite gel with your soundtrack, help may soon be at hand. The Guardian is reporting that Spotify has plans to measure heart rate and motion to help choose you the perfect playlist for any situation.
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Jan 16
Instead of simply offering more music, Beats new streaming service will woo new listeners with a potent mix of smarter algorithms and human curation.
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Jan 16
As we reported the other day, Beats is looking to launch their own streaming service and that will be happening on the 21st of January. With Beats coming into the picture, this means that other streaming services like Spotify and Pandora will be facing a new competition and not by some unknown company, but by Beats who helped create the popular and iconic Beats by Dre headphones worn by celebrities around the world. Perhaps looking to entice customers over onto their platform before Beats makes its debut, Spotify has announced that they will be removing the cap for ad-free songs. Prior to this, Spotify listeners would only be granted a limited hours of ad-free music after a 6-month trial period, but it looks like they got more aggressive and have removed it completely.
Granted Spotify will most likely lose some money during that period of time, although some believe that this is just a short-term loss and that holding on to loyal customers will probably pay off for the company in the long run. It also makes Spotify’s services more attractive by comparison, especially since Beats Music will not offer a free tier after its 7-day trial, meaning that for the casual listener, Beats Music will not be for them. In any case if you were looking for a reason to get on board Spotify, now’s as good a time as any to do so.
Spotify Removes Time Limit For Free Music Streaming original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Jan 16
Until now, Spotify’s free accounts provided unlimited ad-supported streaming via its desktop client for six months, until it then imposed a cap on your streaming. Now, though, that cap is being scrapped.
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Jan 16
Spotify has just opened the flood gates of music bliss to all free users of its service, at least if you’re using it on your desktop computer. Free users of … Continue reading
Jan 10
Last week, we learned that digital music sales dropped for the first time since iTunes in 2013.
Posted in: Today's ChiliLast week, we learned that digital music sales dropped
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Jan 08
Spotify’s promised free shuffled streaming has now arrived on iOS, so you can listen on mobile witho
Posted in: Today's ChiliSpotify’s promised free shuffled streaming has now arrived on iOS, so you can listen on mobile without paying a cent.
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Jan 06
It’s Sunday night, I haven’t eaten yet, I’ve got to get up for work in a few hours time. Heck, I haven’t even showered. Why? Because The Clash’s "London Calling" playlist is currently sitting after My Bloody Valentine’s "Loveless" in my Spotify collection, among other crimes to alphabetization. And that just wont do.
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Jan 03
In 2013, digital music sales declined for the first time since Apple launched the iTunes Store 10 years ago. Are streaming music services like Rdio and Spotify to blame?
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Dec 22
Winamp’s user interface, at least the classic one, might seem a little antiquated and definitely not within the boundaries of more modern user interfaces these days, but it does hold a lot of nostalgia to music lovers who have enjoyed using Winamp as their default music client from back in the day. Well the good news is that if you’re looking to relive some of that nostalgia, you might be interested to learn that Spotify has recently released a client for Windows called Spotiamp, which as you can see in the image above, is a tribute to the classic media player Winamp, allowing users to enjoy their songs from Spotify in an all-too-familiar user interface.
Winamp, for those unfamiliar, was a music client from back in day about 15 years ago. It’s relatively lightweightedness made it a great alternative to more clunky media players available for the PC back then. However it was back in November that AOL, the company that bought over Winamp, announced that they would be bringing an end to the software and service after a good 15 years, leading fans to create a petition to at the very least keep it open-sourced. We had heard rumors that the death of the app might be greatly exaggerated and that Microsoft could be interested in acquiring it. Either way if you’d like to check out Spotiamp, the app is free for download although you would have to have a Spotify Premium account in order to use it.
Spotiamp Is Spotify’s Tribute To Winamp original content from Ubergizmo. 
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