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Best Music Streaming Services
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Looking for the best services to stream your favorite tunes? Here's a roundup of our top picks.
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The best streaming music services you need to know about
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The game has changed in the streaming music world over the past year, with more services than ever opening up to Canadians (and some, sadly, closing down). What's the best one for your hard-earned money? Let's take a look.
Why download when you can stream?
Spotify may launch in India and Japan shortly
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Spotify is all set to launch in Indonesia by the end of March, and it looks like the streaming service is set to continue its Asia expansion by debuting in Japan and India in the coming months.
Do the Infrastructure Shuffle
Spotify to migrate infrastructure to to Google Cloud Platform
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In a bit of a win for Google, Spotify has announced that it will be migrating its back end infrastructure to the Google Cloud Platform.
walled gardens are rarely a good thing
Spotify has changed the way Chromecasts work
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Spotify's long overdue Chromecast support comes with a few caveats, and it likely spells bad things for all of us.
Cast some of the things ...
Spotify can now use Chromecast, with caveats
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One of the biggest holdouts for Chromecast support — Spotify — can finally take advantage of Google's excellent streaming protocol. But it's not quite as simple as it could be (or should be, perhaps), as there are a few caveats to how things are going to work.
Better together
Shazam gets tighter with Rdio and Spotify
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Shazam has announced tighter integration with Rdio and Spotify, bringing the ability to add tracks from Shazam to playlists on both services for free users, as well as offering a 48-hour free trial to Rdio Unlimited for users who sign up within Shazam.
SPOTIFY IN THE MIX
Spotify now provides you with personalized mix of music
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Spotify continues to launch and refine features to better position the service against alternative services. The company will release a new feature to help streamers discover new music each week.
Music for you
Spotify introduces Now to build playlists for your day
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Spotify is rolling out new music features built to customize your music for your day or mood. The company is also expanding beyond music, adding podcasts and video clips as well.
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Stream music to your Samsung Galaxy S6 with these great apps
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Get any song, any time with these streaming music apps for your Samsung Galaxy S6. Streaming services are a great way to enjoy music on your Samsung Galaxy S6. You don't have to deal with managing your local storage, or figure out which songs you're going to download; everything is available wherever you go. On the downside, you'll have to take a hit to battery life while listening,...
So long Music Unlimited
Sony partners with Spotify for new streaming service
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Sony is teaming up with Spotify to launch PlayStation Music, a new streaming music service coming in spring 2015. The service will replace Music Unlimited, which will shut down everywhere that it is currently available on March 29, 2015. Beginning Feb. 28, current active Music Unlimited subscribers will get free access to the service until its closure. Users will be able to link...
Shazam turns it up
Shazam 8.2 wants to keep you in Shazam
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Music identification app Shazam has received a major update today to version 8.2. It adds new features to the home screen of the app, a new way to play music, and deeper integration with Spotify and Rdio. Shazam's new home screen makes it easy to keep up with the artists you like, along with keeping up with what is trending with other users through quick access to Shazam's charts. If...
Spotify Offers
Spotify discounts for the festive holidays
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Spotify appears to be getting into the festive spirit with the holidays just around the corner. The popular music streaming service is offering consumers in both the UK and US special promotions on its premium subscription to tempt them into taking out new accounts for 2015. How does three months' worth of Spotify Premium for just $0.99 sound? If you reside in the US, you'll be able...
Uber and Spotify
Uber teams with Spotify to let you ride with your music
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Spotify has teamed up with Uber to let you ride with your music. Now rolling out in beta, Uber will let you choose what music you listen to during your ride when you connect your Spotify account. Because it's in beta, the service will only work in certain cities with select drivers. To use Spotify with Uber, you will first need a Spotify Premium account. Then request a ride from Uber...
Spotify Family
Spotify launches new family plan to include everyone
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Spotify has today announced a new plan for the entire family. If you've been wanting to have a single billing account for the household but keep individual playlists, it's now possible for up to five family members to share a single Spotify subscription, starting from $14.99 a month. While each family member will share the same billing account, listening history, recommendations and...
Spotify in Canada!
Spotify finally arrives in Canada
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After providing access to those who were interested in testing things out back in July, Spotify has today announced the popular music streaming service is now available in Canada! The patient wait for Spotify to arrive is now over and music fans across the country are now able to sit back and chill out to those ol' classic playlists. It's super easy to get started too. Simply...
Fire up your music
Spotify brings its 20 million songs to Amazon Fire TV
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Spotify is now available for US owners of Amazon's Fire TV set-top box, allowing them to access the popular streaming music service. In a statement, Spotify said: Using Spotify Connect on your Amazon Fire TV allows you to control your music using the Spotify app on your mobile or tablet. You can seamlessly switch your favorite music from your mobile to the TV and continue to make...
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Spotify free introduces video ads on desktop and mobile
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Spotify is a popular music streaming service, available for free and as a subscription. Those who have enjoyed the free, ad-supported experience will have some new advertisements to enjoy in the form of videos. The service has announced these new video ads, which will task streamers to endure both audible and two types of video-based advertisements. The new video advertisements to be...
Spotify everywhere
Qualcomm's AllPlay platform gets Spotify support
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Qualcomm has signed new hardware and software partners for its AllPlay media streaming platform as the vendor looks to realize its vision of universal media streaming. Qualcomm announced that AllPlay is now certified with Spotify Connect, which means that you can now stream Spotify over Wi-Fi using an AllPlay-compatible device to several speakers in the home. AllPlay already supports...
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Spotify is coming to Canada... soon
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Music streaming service Spotify is at long last gearing up to launch in Canada, and they're inviting some of those that have expressed interest to try it out first. The invitations will be sent out to a selection of those Canadians that have signed up at Spotify's Canada page, though it might take a while to get such an invitation if you're just now signing up. Spotify chimed in with...