Xbox Music Gets a Huge Design Overhaul Plus New iOS and Android Apps

Xbox Music Gets a Huge Design Overhaul Plus New iOS and Android Apps

When it launched last year, Xbox Music was trapped in a Microsoft-only bubble. Starting today, Xbox Music will expand its reach to hundreds of millions of mobile users with Android and iOS apps. And that’s just a piece of the update it’s getting leading up to the new app for Xbox One. Here’s what you can expect from the service on your computer, your phone, and the new console.

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Spotify Connect: Sonos-Like Powers That Bend to Your Budget

Spotify is getting into the hardware game. The company is teaming up with a slew of great audio companies to bake Spotify right into Wi-Fi connected speakers. And it’s not just speakers—the new system makes juggling your tunes between your phone, tablet, and computer a piece of cake, too. Here’s the facile music experience you’ve been waiting for at a price you can actually afford.

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PlayStation 4 to blast Sony Music Unlimited tracks during gameplay

With the launch of the PlayStation 4, Sony’s own Music Unlimited service will be getting a rather sizable reboot. This system update will allow consoles like the PlayStation 4 to work with a new user interface that’ll be allowing gamers to get a handle on the music they’ve purchased – or plan to purchase – […]

Spotify Is Making Sharing Songs More Like Facebook Messaging

Spotify Is Making Sharing Songs More Like Facebook Messaging

Over the next week, Spotify will roll out a few new features to its web and mobile interfaces that’ll make getting to the music you want faster. The coolest of the bunch is that Spotify it will be threading its music sharing features so that it’ll look more like a long conversation on other platforms.

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Hidden Spotify Features Show Music Discovery Could Get So Much Better

It looks like Spotify is about to launch an entirely new way for you to browse its catalog with more sophisticated playlists. While the subscription music service hasn’t officially launched the features, they’re live on Spotify’s web player. If like a lot of people you get lost in Spotify’s catalog, you’re going to love what could be coming soon.

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You Can Get Xbox Music In Your Browser Now

You Can Get Xbox Music In Your Browser Now

We’ve been keen on Xbox Music, but the fact that it’s been locked down to Windows 8 devices has been a bit of a drag. No more! Xbox Music now has a home on the web, complete with 30-day free trial.

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Spotify Planning To Offer Original Content

Spotify announced it plans to launch original content on its streaming music platform.

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Pandora Actually Pays $1,300 for a Million Plays Not 16 Bucks

Pandora Actually Pays $1,300 for a Million Plays Not 16 Bucks

Math! It can solve a lot of problems. It can be made deliberately fuzzy. It can help us break down complicated things. Like artist music royalties from streaming music stations. When David Lowery revealed that Pandora paid him only $16 for 1 million plays, there was an outrage. But some deeper math reveals that Pandora might actually pay a lot more than that.

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Xbox Music For Windows 8.1 Now Has Free, Ad-Supported Radio

Xbox Music For Windows 8.1 Now Has Free, Ad-Supported Radio

No word yet on whether or not Xbox Music is breaking out of its Windows 8 prison and turning into a web-app, but it now has a free, ad-supported radio feature where you can start a station based on a specific artist. You know, like Pandora.

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Report: Xbox Music Will Leave Its Windows 8 Prison and Hit the Web

Report: Xbox Music Will Leave Its Windows 8 Prison and Hit the WebAccording to The Verge, Microsoft’s Xbox Music service will launch in the form of a web-based version accessible across platforms next week. That would make sense given that Microsoft’s Build developer shebang happens, uh, tomorrow. Maybe more importantly, move makes sense given the big Xbox push the company is set to make at the end of the year.

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