Indie artists will no longer have the option to upload music directly to Spotify -- not that they'll necessarily mind. Spotify is shutting down the upload beta...
The rise of streamed video has seen the market for licensing streamed music boom in the last few years, with not only consumers using video as a medium to listen to tracks but video creators also extensively using music as part of their own productions.
Yesterday I noticed that the Spotify Windows desktop app had changed and instead of a “follow” button under a playlist there was now a heart icon.
LÜM, the Madison-based tech startup that recently closed their $1.2 million seed financing, announced the launch of its new app for iOS devices.
The Sketchpad app is also getting a boost, so you'll have no excuse for getting bored while your car's charging.
The streaming wars are upon us, and Netflix needs to take action before a competitor steals one of the biggest niche audiences.
Audio apps are flying high in China. In 2018, online listeners in the country grew 22.1% to surpass 400 million, at a rate far exceeding that of the mobile video and e-reading populations, according to market researcher iiMedia.
Metadata is a term you've probably heard a lot of people in the music industry talk about. Here we discuss why it's so important for you to get this right.
In the US, only 1 percent of the total music consumed is classical, and an even smaller percentage of that is streamed, in part because music-streaming services are not set up to reward 20-minute classical pieces.
Testing in Germany reveals that one of iOS 13's new features, playback of live radio stations, is already partially working on iOS 12.3 devices.
In Nielsen's Mid-Year Music report for 2019, music streaming rose to over 507 billion streams, and movies and documentaries led to more catalog consumption.
The party’s definitely not over – but it might be showing its very first signs of winding down.
A legal remedy to big data continues to flummox regulators across the developed world. In the meantime, revenue from digital advertising continues to swell Goo
Spotify India’s MD Amarjit Singh Batra said that film-music still generates 80% of the music industry’s revenue in India, with the majority of this coming from Bollywood soundtracks
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