Category: Spotify
Rockstar bring GTA radio stations to Spotify ahead of Grand Theft Auto V release
Grand Theft Auto games usually hit the headlines due to their violent (if often humorous) depictions of crime. What's less often appreciated is just how great the soundtracks are; from the in-car talk radio stations to the lengthy playlists of…
Spotify music streaming coming to LG home cinema gear
LG are set to add Spotify music streaming to their connected home cinema systems. Plenty of LG's web connected Blu-ray players and speaker systems from 2013 will be getting the new Spotfy app, set to launch in April. No word…
Spotify lifting the five-play track cap for free UK users
Spotify is today set to remove the cap that limits those using the service for free in the UK to only five plays of each track. According to Musically, as of today, all UK non-paying Spotify users can listen to…
Spotify now has 6 million paying subscribers, 24 million active users overall
Spotify continues its charge towards mass-market adoption, revealing that they now serve streaming tunes to over 6 million paying subscribers. Those subscribers have now brought in over $500 million in revenue for the Stockholm-based company, while ad-funded revenue still keeps…
Spotify Web Player now in public beta phase
Spotify's Web Player has now entered a public beta testing phase, after first being revealed back at the company's major press event in November 2012. Working from inside any web browser and designed to get more people using the music…
Spotify in-car music streaming coming to new Volvo Sensus Connected Touch systems
Spotify have teamed up with Volvo, bringing in-car music streaming to Volvo cars kitted out with the new Sensus Connected Touch in-car entertainment system. Announced today at the Geneva Motor Show, it's the first time Spotify has been available as…
MWC 2013: Ford team up with Spotify for in-car music streaming
Ford have used MWC 2013 as the platform to announce that they will be adding Spotify music streaming to their in-car Ford SYNC AppLink connected dashboard service. The new EcoSport for European territories will be one of the first cars…
Spotify suspend MP3 music download purchases, bought songs may expire
Spotify has suspended the purchase and download of tracks through its music streaming service. As well as offering streaming of its 20 million song library, Spotify had offered iTunes-style MP3 track downloads for a one-off fee. However, this feature has…
Spotify add Metallica to their music streaming service, revamp discovery tools
Spotify have rounded off their most successful ever year with the announcement of an elusive band bringing their music to the streaming service's catalogue. Heavy metal superstars Metallica, a band with a notoriously icy, skeptical view of digital music and…
Gotye and David Guetta top Spotify most-streamed lists for 2012
Spotify have revealed the artists making waves through their music streaming service in 2012, publishing the lists of most streamed albums, tracks, and artists, both globally and in the UK, as well as the most used apps in the desktop…
