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Spotify is looking at the opportunity to make its Premium plan more expensive next year after Apple just announced price increases for Apple Music.

Spotify subscriber growth exceeded expectations, with the music streaming service announcing it now has over 456 million monthly average users.

Spotify has just made 300,000 audiobooks available for purchase in the US, and the company says it's just the beginning. 

Spotify has started rolling out a new Home screen experience on its Android app that offers separate feeds for music and podcasts.

As part of its quarterly earnings report, Spotify revealed that it now has over 433 million monthly active users. And it’s killing Car Thing.

As a long-time Sonos fan and customer, I’m well aware of the pros and cons of the Sonos ecosystem. At least I thought I was.

Spotify has started testing a new Community feature on its mobile app that will display the music your friends are listening to.

Spotify has quietly released a native Windows on ARM desktop client in beta.

As part of its quarterly earnings announcement, Spotify revealed that it now has 422 million monthly active users, up 19 percent year-over-year (YOY).

Spotify is now allowing content creators in the US, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and the UK to publish video podcasts on the platform.

Spotify announced today that it has updated its curious Car Thing accessory with several useful new features.

Google announced that Spotify will be the first Android app to be allowed to use its own billing system instead of Google Play’s.

As part of its quarterly earnings report, Spotify said that it now has over 406 million monthly average users, up 18 percent year-over-year.

Having missed its self-imposed 2021 deadline for a lossless tier of its music service, Spotify now says it has no idea when it will be ready.

In a dubious move, Spotify today issued a “call to action” for podcasters to create interactive displays ads that will appear over ad reads.

Spotify confirmed this weekend that it is retiring the Car View feature of its mobile app, which made it easier to use while driving.

It sounds like a little thing, but it’s odd that Spotify defaulted to shuffle play for albums. That is, until Adele stepped in.

Microsoft’s Panos Panay has teased a coming Windows 11 feature called Focus sessions that will include, among other things, Spotify integration.

Microsoft announced some big video-related updates to the Apple TV and Spotify apps on Xbox Series X|S, plus some new media apps.

Apple’s push into hi-res, lossless, and spatial audio has already upended the market, with Amazon lowering its prices to match and Spotify in an uncertain place.

As part of its quarterly earnings report, Spotify this week said that it now has over 356 million monthly active users, up 24 percent year-over-year.

Spotify announced today that it plans to release Spotify HiFi, a lossless audio tier of its music streaming service, sometime in 2021.

Spotify has quietly entered the market for audiobooks and is now offering 9 titles for free through its mobile and web apps.

As I’ve written in the past, it’s next to impossible to access your own music files with Spotify, the world’s most popular music service.

Because of the failure of its strategy to position Xbox One as an all-in-one entertainment device, Microsoft is taking a different tack with Xbox Series X|S.

Spotify reported that its subscriber base grew to 320 million monthly active users (MAUs), with 144 million paying for a Premium account.

Apple TV+ will be among several top-tier media services available on the PlayStation 5 when it launches next month, Sony said today.