Not content to remain in the history books as the social network that people flocked to between Friendster and Facebook, MySpace has apparently decided to become the new Spotify with the release of its first major product since …
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Is Spotify Planning to Open Itself Up to Outside Developers?
Now that Spotify has seemingly conquered Facebook, what’s next for the company’s U.S. push (well, until the record labels take all the music away, at least)? If rumors are to be believed, the answer is allowing third party …
The Day the Music Died: Why Labels Are Abandoning Streaming Music Services
What happens to streaming music services when they have no music left to stream? That seemingly zen question may be answered if more record labels follow the lead of the more than 200 labels that have withdrawn their catalogs …
Today in Least Necessary Purchases: ‘Spotify For Dummies’
Finally, a book that explains the popular music streaming service.
What Are You Listening To? Facebook Users Share Music 1.5 Billion Times in Two Months
Facebook users really, really want their friends to know what they’re listening to. According to numbers released by the social networking giant yesterday, users have shared their listening activity more than 1.5 billion times in …
Why Isn’t Coldplay’s New Album on Spotify?
Spotify users who are also fans of Coldplay may have found themselves wondering something over the last few days, and it’s not “Why does Chris Martin always sound so sad and tired?” Instead, they’re probably asking themselves when “Mylo Xyloto,” the Coldplay album released earlier this week is going to show up on the streaming music …
Snoop Dogg, Sean Parker and 5 More Spotify Users You Should Add Now
Until Google irons out its music licensing issues with the big record labels, its Google Music service (which the Wall Street Journal says is rumored to launch within the next few weeks) probably won’t reach the popularity of the music industry’s latest big thing: Spotify. One thing Google does want to do is emulate Spotify’s social …
Spotify Launches ‘Private Listening’ for Your Guilty Pleasures
Sometimes you need to listen to a particular song that’s in your head, just to exorcise it. And sometimes that song is so embarrassing—”I Think We’re Alone Now,” by Tiffany, for example—that you’d really rather it didn’t show up on your Facebook profile for all to see. That’s where Spotify’s new “Private Listening” feature comes …
Want to Use Spotify? You’ll Need a Facebook Account First
This may not end well. In order to sign up for popular streaming music service, Spotify, you’ll now need to be a Facebook member first. That’s right, you’ll need a Facebook account in order to use Spotify.
Here’s one Spotify employee’s answer to the question, “Can you sign up for Spotify without Facebook?”:
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Will Facebook Music Actually Work?
Facebook’s music integration is finally here, and it’s unlike any sort of music sharing we’ve seen before as part of the Open Graph. Ostensibly you’ll be able to keep track of what your friends are listening to via Facebook’s new real-time Ticker, which Zuck promises will deliver updates in—his actual words—“real-time …
Now Coming to the iPhone: ‘Turntable.fm’
Turntable.fm, the innovative crowdsourcing music service, made a lot of noise when its beta version launched earlier this year. Things grew so quickly that by its third month of operation the web-only service managed an impressive 207,000 unique visitors—not bad for a startup. By June the company was able to raise $7.5 million in …