Apple has announced it’s finalized its acquisition of Shazam, a popular music identification service. The app was originally confirmed to be acquired by the trillion-dollar company back in December of last year, but things were never finalized until now. With today’s news, Apple is also
It’s no secret Pandora has been struggling in recent memory. It’s tried launching new plans to draw in more customers, redesigning its app for simpler navigation, and pushed its advertising approach even further to, hopefully, stray folks away from using services like Spotify and Apple
Apple has begun rolling out an update for Apple Music users on Android with some features brought over from iOS 12 along with a new addition exclusive to Android devices. For starters, Apple Music on Android is getting lyric search built into the app. Now,
Spotify is introducing a few new changes to the way its premium plan works. As first reported by Rolling Stone, the streaming service has confirmed it’s lifting the previous 3,333 song limit for offline music loaded to your device. Now, the company says users can
Apple recently introduced its own top charts for its Apple Music streaming service, and now, the company is making another change that further improves the way you navigate around the app. Rolling out as an over-the-air update for all Apple Music users now, the streaming
T-Mobile held a special Uncarrier event today where the company said on August 21st, the carrier would offer its subscribers a free 12-month subscription to Pandora Plus as a perk within the T-Mobile Tuesday app. Typically costing $4.99 per month, the service gives you access
If you’re subscribed to Pandora’s Premium music streaming service, today’s your lucky day. According to a blog post, Google has announced its adding Pandora Premium support to its line of Google Home smart speakers. This also applies to smart displays like the one from Lenovo.
Verizon has announced a new, exclusive partnership with Apple that will score the carrier’s subscribers some nice perks. To kick off the partnership, Verizon is announcing its unlimited subscribers will receive six free months of Apple Music starting August 16th. The deal is valid for
Google has begun rolling out an update to its stock Clock app that integrates Spotify so you can choose your own song to wake up to in the morning. As a part of the latest Google Clock and Spotify apps for Android, you ‘ll be
After slowly rolling out the service to some users in the US, Google today officially made the new YouTube Music available to everyone. The new streaming platform will take better aim at competing with the likes of Spotify and Apple Music by offering a blend
Google has announced two new premium subscription tiers for YouTube called YouTube Music and YouTube Premium. The new tiers will replace the company’s existing YouTube Red subscription and offer more options for those who use the service in certain ways. Starting with the former, YouTube
Spotify held an event in Manhatten today to announce some upgrades coming to the service’s free subscription tier. The company says while it has 71 million paid subscribers, there’s still 90 million users who aren’t being billed $9.99 or more a month for the music
Spotify is said to unveil a new hardware product during a “news announcement” on April 24th in New York. While the company doesn’t hint at a particular announcement in their media invitation, users are reporting they’re starting to see offers pop up on their phones
Apple has updated its Apple Music app for Android with better music video integration. The update follows similar suit the iOS version of the service took to enhance the experience both watching and discovering new videos on the service. now, users will find them much
Amazon has added Spotify to the list of music services supported by its multi-room playback feature with the Echo. This comes after the feature had initially become available in August with the likes of iHeartRadio, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and Amazon Music Unlimited on board. SiriusXM is
For whatever reason, Google Now has reigned supreme when compared to the new Google Assistant in one regard for quite some time: song recognition. Whereas the former can perform the function, the latter never gained the ability. However, it now appears this is changing as Google
Spotify has announced that its music service will soon fully integrate with the Google Assistant. Previously, users could control music playback with the Google Home, but now, Spotify will soon be controllable via any device with the Assistant on board, including all Android devices. Today,
Microsoft has announced that it’s replacing its Groove Music streaming service with one of the leaders in the industry, Spotify. This comes the same day as the company also announces the discontinuation of Groove Music in favor of other music streaming platforms such as Spotify.
Amazon today announced the integration of its voice assistant, Alexa, into its Amazon Music apps for iOS and Android. Simply updating the apps will gain users the option of controlling their music with their voice by tapping the push-to-talk button in the app. By doing
Apple has given a pretty major update to Apple Music for Android. With version 2.2 of the app, users can now control the music streaming service with their voice thanks to integration with Google Now and the Assistant. Now, you can say, “Okay Google, play