Tag: Digital Music
UK digital music spending overtakes physical sales for first time
It's a landmark day or the British music business, as the British Phonographic Industry has just announced that, for the first time ever, digital downloads and streaming have overtaken the sales of CDs, tapes and vinyl in the UK. 55.5%…
Spotify Play Button lets you embed tracks and playlists on your blog
Spotify are today introducing the Spotify Play Button. An embeddable widget for blogs and websites, it lets you add tracks and playlists to your posts, firing up the streaming service directly from the widget itself. "Today we're giving every blogger…
Spotify add crossfade and gapless playback features
Spotify users rejoice! Your party playlist megamixes just got a whole lot more professional sounding, as the digital music streaming platform have added gapless playback and crossfade features to the desktop application. Gapless playback means that you'll no longer get…
HTC boss planning Beats-enabled Spotify rival?
HTC may be preparing to unleash their own digital music streaming platform to take on the likes of Last.fm and Spotify. Having paid $300 million for audio specialists Beats, HTC have gone hell-to-leather pushing out as many Beats Audio…
Spotify Premium hits 3 million subscribers mark
Spotify have reached the 3 million Premium subscriber mark. 20% of their 15 million users are now opting to pay for the ad-free, unlimited service, showing that the streaming giant are well on their way to hitting the conversion figures…
Facebook adds "Listen With Friends" social music service
Facebook have announced a new social music feature, rolling out across their network today, called "Listen With Friends". Music fans on Facebook will now be able to see what their pals are listening to from within the Facebook Chat pane,…
iTunes Match officially launches in the UK
After yesterday's false start, UK Apple fans can finally get playing with the Cupertino team's latest service, iTunes Match. The service prematurely went live yesterday across the UK, France and Australia, lacking full functionality and having a troublesome sign-up system….
Give the gift of music and do your bit for charity with Fairshare Music giftcards
Got a music-loving philanthropist on your Christmas gift list? Then why not pop a Fairshare Music giftcard in their stocking? For every track you buy through Fairshare Music, half the profits go to a charity of your choosing from…
Spotify App Finder bringing apps to the music streaming platform
Spotify have announced the next big upgrade for their music streaming platform. Described as the "Spotify revolution" and the "next big step for music". Spotify founder and CEO Daniel Ek revealed App Finder, set to bring a wealth of apps…
INTERVIEW: Electro legend Jean-Michel Jarre on his 11ft AeroDream iPad dock
Tech Digest got a little starstruck at this year's IFA 2011 conference, as we got to meet electronic music pioneer Jean-Michel Jarre. The electro star's presence caused quite a stir at the show, not least of all thanks to…
