Category: music
5 things you need to know about Apple WWDC – including Apple Music, Beats 1 and Apple Pay
While the big news was all about Apple's 'Spotify Killer' - a new digital music streaming service called Apple Music - the company also found time to announce an update to its OS and the roll out of its contactless payment system, Apple Pay, across the UK. Chris Price reports. 1. Apple Music Seems like…
Oppo Digital adds Tidal integration to Blu-ray disc players
OPPO Digital (www.oppodigital.co.uk) who make Blu-ray disc players and Planar Magnetic headphones is integrating TIDAL streaming service into its range of Blu-ray players. After a simple firmware update, users can sign into the service via the latest OPPO MediaControl app and browse the library of over 25 million songs streaming at CD quality. Available shortly for download from…
Spotify has just got a little bit more annoying
It seems that Spotify is a little bit worried about Jay Z's new streaming service Tidal, if a new feature is anything to go by. In the latest version of both Spotify's desktop and mobile app there's a new "Tweet the Beat" feature, which will pop up whilst you're in the app, encouraging you to…
SPOT THE DIFFERENCE: Spotify v Tidal. BUT who ripped who off?
Spot the difference: Top, Spotify's User Interface and below, Tidal's UI Seems like the gloves are well and truly off in the digital music streaming wars. On Twitter a row is brewing as developer and founder of SimpleAsMilk James Seymour-Lock has accused Tidal of double standards, ripping off Spotify's user interface for its own digital…
Sonos adds support for Tidal
Quick off the mark as ever, elite home streaming company Sonos has announced that its expensive speakers will be fully supporting Tidal from the get-go. "Artists are more in tune than ever with how people are listening to their music," said Sonos CEO, John MacFarlane. "The game just changed – TIDAL represents the future of…
Onkyo announces £499 high end audio player, DAC-HA300
New from Onkyo is this industrial looking, high end DAC (Digital Audio Converter), headphone amplifier, music player. Costing £499, the new DAC-HA300 features a slot accommodating up to 128 GB of music stored on a microSD card, an OLED screen, and playback controls. It will be available at the end of April. The DAC-HA300 also serves as a…
Jay Z announces $9.99 streaming version of Tidal to rival Spotify
At an event in New York last, rapper and media mogul Jay-Z, real name Shawn Carter, announced an updated version of his recently acquired high quality audio service, Tidal. It was also announced that several other artists had become co-owners of the site, including fellow rapper Kanye West as well as Madonna, Beyonce, Alicia Keys…
Apple goes head to head with Spotify, plans to launch streaming service and revamp iTunes Radio with Zane Lowe
According to the New York Times, Apple and Beats - the headphones company Apple purchased for $3bn in 2014 - are set to take on Spotify with a new music streaming service. Unlike Spotify, there will be no free option with the streaming service. According to several music executives, Apple recently tried but failed to persuade…
Spotify launches on PS4 and PS3 in the UK
Today's the day: Streaming music service Spotify has launched on Sony's games consoles. Spotify for Playstation gives Spotify Premium subscribers the ability to listen to tracks and playlists on the PS4 - which could be a straightforward way to get your tunes on the living room speakers. On PS4, the app runs in the background,…
Why are all of the Twitter profiles blue? Millionaire musicians appropriate the language of charity to promote more expensive alternative to Spotify
Forget Spotify - why not pay double for a nominally higher quality audio service instead? That's the message being sent out by a bunch of popular celebrities on the Twitters today. You may have noticed that a bunch of famous names that the kidz like, including Kanye West, Rihanna and Madonna have all turned their…
