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Shazam Takes On Apple Music Connect With New Social Features Aimed At Musicians And Their Fans
Music discovery platform Shazam is today rolling out a new feature in partnership with over two dozen artists that will allow Shazam users to see which songs their favorite musicians are listening to on the service. The news comes just ahead of Apple Music’s worldwide debut tomorrow, which will introduce streaming music, radio and other features,… Read More
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Kobalt Quietly Acquired AMRA To Launch Its Own Global Collection Group For Digital Music
Kobalt, the London-based startup that has built big-data technology to track and collect digital music royalties from across multiple streaming platforms, is turning up the volume on its business. The company has quietly acquired and redesigned one of the main collection agencies in the U.S. — the American Mechanical Rights Agency. The new organization — which was “small… Read More
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Yandex Launches Yandex.Radio, A Curated Free Music Service For Russian Users
Amid reports that Russia will be one of the first countries to get access to the new music service that Apple is reportedly launching next week, Russian search giant Yandex is enhancing its own. Today it announced Yandex.Radio, an ad-supported streaming music service that provides around 100 ready-made “stations” to users organised around moods and themes, initially available… Read More
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Amazon Prime Music Takes On Pandora With Addition Of “Prime Stations” On iOS
Prime Music, Amazon’s free music streaming service for Prime members, has been upgraded on mobile today with a new feature that will see the service better competing with similar offerings like Pandora or iTunes Radio, for example. The company has now introduced “Prime Stations” for users of its iOS application, which are are ad-free streaming music stations that offer… Read More
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Fradio’s New App Lets Anyone Be A DJ, Broadcast Live Radio To Friends And Fans
A new application called Fradio is officially launching today, offering a service that allows anyone to become a DJ, broadcasting their favorite tracks to their friends or fans, and even talking over the tunes with a push of a button in order to engage their audience. The app, which is backed by Australian music service Guvera, is making its debut at the SXSW music festival in Austin where… Read More
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Spotify Adds Press To Play And Swipe To Save Gestures, Taking Cues From Snapchat And Tinder
Music streaming service Spotify is updating its iOS app today with features reminiscent of two other popular apps out today, Snapchat and Tinder and their press-to-play and swiping gestures. Perhaps not a moment too soon, considering Snapchat’s potential interest in a music service of it own. Specifically, a new Touch Preview option lets users listen to a song by pressing… Read More
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SwipeRadio Is A Faster Way To Listen To Terrestrial Radio On Your iPhone
On-demand music streaming services like Beats and Spotify continue to grow, but terrestrial radio also remains a popular way to listen to music on mobile via top-ranked apps like iHeartRadio (#8 in free Music apps on iTunes) and TuneIn Radio (#13). Now, newcomer SwipeRadio has launched its own minimalistic take on radio apps with a music app that lets users quickly access their favorite… Read More
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Watch A Tech Blogger Play Against Charli XCX In Just Dance 2015
The wonderful Charli XCX stopped by TechCrunch HQ this morning for a quick interview and a round of Just Dance 2015. T-Mobile Doubles The Number Of Music Streaming Services That Don’t Count Towards Data Caps
T-Mobile has today doubled the number of streaming music services supported with its recently launched “Music Freedom” program which allows the company’s customers to stream music from a variety of apps without counting towards their data caps. T-Mobile announced this feature in June with a limited number of services, including then only “top” industry… Read More
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Concert Discovery Superstar Songkick Starts Selling Tickets
“The average American goes to one concert per year. If you double that, it has a profound impact on the lives of artists,” Songkick founder Ian Hogarth tells me. The problem is “It’s easier to buy a taxi to the concert than a ticket.” That’s why seven years and 10 million active users later, concert-discovery app Songkick has begun to sell concert tickets… Read More
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