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After experimenting with AI playlist generation in its DJ feature last year, Spotify is now launching a beta tool that allows users to create a curated tracklist based on text descriptions. Its new AI Playlist beta is initially rolling out to Spotify Premium subscribers on mobile devices in the United Kingdom and Australia. Android and … Read more
Want to listen to music and podcasts while using other apps? Streaming music service Spotify is rolling out a miniplayer for desktop which enables you to do just that. The new player, which is set to “always on top,” enables Premium users to change tracks, choose playlists, control volume and watch videos and podcasts. Spotify says … Read more
Spotify Spotify is known for adding new, engaging, features to its music streaming platform. Its latest addition is quite different from its prior offerings but just as fun. On Thursday, Spotify unveiled its Song Psychic which combines your traditional Magic 8 Ball experience with music, allowing you to ask various questions and have your future … Read more
Spotify Spotify is known for adding new, engaging, features to its music streaming platform. Its latest addition is quite different from its prior offerings but just as fun. On Thursday, Spotify unveiled its Song Psychic which combines your traditional magic eight-ball experience with music, allowing you to ask various questions and have your future determined … Read more
Controversies and PR headaches weren’t enough to dissuade Spotify from re-upping its agreement with podcaster Joe Rogan, whose show over the past couple of years drove divisions among music fans and artists alike and even prompted some big names, like Neil Young, to pull their catalogs from the streaming service. Regardless, the show remained popular … Read more
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This is Hot Pod, The Verge’s newsletter about podcasting and the audio industry. Sign up here for more. The dust is still settling on Spotify’s latest round of layoffs. On Monday, Spotify announced it was cutting 17 percent of its workforce, or approximately 1,500 employees, as a means of making the company even more efficient. This round of layoffs … Read more
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This is Hot Pod, The Verge’s newsletter about podcasting and the audio industry. Sign up here for more. Happy Thanksgiving week! I will be out tomorrow making twice baked potatoes, putting together holiday baby outfits (many tiny overalls will be worn!!), and attempting a night drive to Long Island without hitting Southern State traffic or eliciting baby rage. This … Read more
Meghan, Harry urged to delete Spotify’s name from website Months after Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s Spotify deal came to an end, the couple is reportedly close to signing another lucrative deal with Amazon-owned Audible, an American online audiobook and podcast service that allows users to purchase and stream audiobooks and other forms of spoken … Read more
Image: Raúl Romo/DC Comics DC Comics has been in the serialized podcast game for the last few years, and it started in earnest with Batman Unburied back in 2021. The Spotify series was notably headlined by Black Panther’s Winston Duke as the Dark Knight himself, and has featured other celebrities in key roles such as … Read more
Spotify this week launched a brand new instrument known as Showcase that enables artists to advertise their work immediately within the streaming app’s revamped House feed launched earlier this 12 months. With Showcase, artists can create a cell card that they’ll use to introduce their music, together with new and catalog releases, which then seems … Read more