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Spotify Launches Real-Time Listening Activity and Request to Jam Feature
Spotify has introduced two new Messages features, Listening activity and Request to Jam, to make music sharing more social. Listening activity lets users share what they are playing in real time with connected contacts, while Request to Jam allows Premium users to invite others into shared listening sessions. Free users can join Jams when invited. ...
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YouTube Music Users Raise Concerns Over AI-Generated Songs Flooding Their Recommendations
YouTube Music is dealing with a wave of AI-generated songs cluttering Explore and recommendations, frustrating listeners trying to discover new artists. Users say disliking tracks or resetting history has not helped filter them out. Similar issues are being noted on Suno-driven platforms like Spotify and Amazon Music, highlighting a broader AI musi...
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Spotify Reportedly Removes ‘Nefarious’ Accounts Used to Scrape About 86 Million Music Files
Spotify has identified and disabled various user accounts from its platform that were involved in scraping music files from its platform, according to a report. The music streaming service made the move after Anna's Archive, an open-source library, highlighted in a blog post that it had discovered a way to scrape Spotify at scale. As a result of th...
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ChatGPT Announces ‘Your Year With ChatGPT’ as a Personalised End-of-Year Experience
OpenAI announced the Your Year in Review feature for ChatGPT on Tuesday. Inspired by Spotify Wrapped, it is a personalised year-in-review experience for the app, which highlights the recurring themes from the conversations users have had with the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot throughout the year. The feature is currently limited to select ma...
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Spotify’s New Prompted Playlist Feature Provides More Control Over Your Listening Algorithm
Spotify on Wednesday announced a new feature that provides users with more control over the streaming service’s algorithm. Dubbed Prompted Playlist, it is currently rolling out in beta to select global markets. As per the company, users can describe what they want to hear and set rules for the personalised playlists. Prompted Playlist is claimed ...
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Spotify's 2025 Wrapped Gains Party Mode Feature for Live, Group Stat Comparison
Spotify has begun rolling out 2025 Wrapped. The personalised experience, which the platform has been releasing since 2019 on the first day of December, features top artists, albums, songs, playlists, and podcasts that you have played throughout the year. Big changes, however, have been made this year, beginning with a new multiplayer feature called...
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YouTube Begins Testing Built-In Chat and Video Sharing Feature on Mobile App
YouTube is experimenting with the return of private in-app messaging six years after discontinuing the feature. The test, limited to users aged 18 and older in Ireland and Poland, allows people to share videos and chat directly within the YouTube mobile app. It includes strict safety measures, with all messages governed by YouTube’s Community Gui...
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How to Add and Use ChatGPT With Spotify, Canva, Google Drive and Other Apps
ChatGPT’s app connectors extend the chatbot beyond text or voice interactions, allowing users to perform tasks inside third-party apps without leaving the interface. By linking services like Spotify, Canva and Google Drive through OpenAI’s new SDK, ChatGPT can create designs, organise files or control music playback. The feature offers agentic ...
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Spotify Acknowledges Issue Causing Frequent App Crashes on Samsung and Pixel Phones
Spotify users have been reporting issues with the app on Android devices in recent weeks. It resulted in the music streaming app frequently crashing or freezing under certain conditions for a sizable number of users, primarily on Samsung and Google Pixel devices, hampering the user experience. The company has now acknowledged the issue and said it ...
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OpenAI DevDay 2025: From ChatGPT Apps to AgentKit for Developers, Here's Everything You Need to Know
OpenAI hosted DevDay 2025 on Monday, unveiling several updates for users and developers. The biggest highlight is a new ChatGPT feature that lets users interact with third-party apps like Canva and Spotify without leaving the interface. The company also introduced AgentKit for developers to build and optimise agentic workflows, while GPT-5 Pro, Sor...
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Spotify Free Users in India Can Finally Search and Play Any Track, Design Playlist Covers, and More
Spotify has announced a new experience for free users. It has lifted some of the previous restrictions, and listeners can now play any song that appears on their home page. They can also search for tracks and play them directly, without having to shuffle through a random playlist. Apart from this, the music streaming platform also announced the abi...
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Spotify Finally Rolls Out Lossless Audio for Premium Users in Select Regions
Spotify has launched Lossless audio for Premium users in select markets, with rollout expanding to over 50 countries by October. Subscribers are notified when available and must enable it manually on each device, choosing Wi-Fi, cellular, or downloads. Lossless streams in up to 24-bit/44.1 kHz FLAC and works on mobile, desktop, tablet, and many Spo...
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Apple Teams Up With TuneIn to Boost Radio Features Amid Streaming Competition
The Cupertino, California-based technology giant's six radio stations will be available outside its app for the first time on TuneIn to its 75 million monthly active users.
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Spotify Users Can Now Send Direct Messages to Each Other to Share Music, Podcasts
Spotify has announced, in a press release, that the company will start rolling out a new feature that will allow users to send direct messages to each other. Users will be able to recommend music, podcasts, and audiobooks to their family members and friends, and to people with whom they share a Family or Duo plan. Starting this week, the feature wi...
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Spotify Flags Price Rises as It Introduces New Services: Report
Spotify will raise prices as it invests in new features and targets 1 billion users, the Financial Times reported on Sunday citing the music streaming provider's Co-President and Chief Business Officer Alex Norstrom.
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Spotify Launches Real-Time Listening Activity and Request to Jam Feature
Spotify has introduced two new Messages features, Listening activity and Request to Jam, to make music sharing more social. Listening activity lets users share what they are playing in real time with connected contacts, while Request to Jam allows Premium users to invite others into shared listening sessions. Free users can join Jams when invited. ...
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YouTube Music Users Raise Concerns Over AI-Generated Songs Flooding Their Recommendations
YouTube Music is dealing with a wave of AI-generated songs cluttering Explore and recommendations, frustrating listeners trying to discover new artists. Users say disliking tracks or resetting history has not helped filter them out. Similar issues are being noted on Suno-driven platforms like Spotify and Amazon Music, highlighting a broader AI musi...
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Spotify Reportedly Removes ‘Nefarious’ Accounts Used to Scrape About 86 Million Music Files
Spotify has identified and disabled various user accounts from its platform that were involved in scraping music files from its platform, according to a report. The music streaming service made the move after Anna's Archive, an open-source library, highlighted in a blog post that it had discovered a way to scrape Spotify at scale. As a result of th...
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ChatGPT Announces ‘Your Year With ChatGPT’ as a Personalised End-of-Year Experience
OpenAI announced the Your Year in Review feature for ChatGPT on Tuesday. Inspired by Spotify Wrapped, it is a personalised year-in-review experience for the app, which highlights the recurring themes from the conversations users have had with the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot throughout the year. The feature is currently limited to select ma...
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Spotify’s New Prompted Playlist Feature Provides More Control Over Your Listening Algorithm
Spotify on Wednesday announced a new feature that provides users with more control over the streaming service’s algorithm. Dubbed Prompted Playlist, it is currently rolling out in beta to select global markets. As per the company, users can describe what they want to hear and set rules for the personalised playlists. Prompted Playlist is claimed ...
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Spotify's 2025 Wrapped Gains Party Mode Feature for Live, Group Stat Comparison
Spotify has begun rolling out 2025 Wrapped. The personalised experience, which the platform has been releasing since 2019 on the first day of December, features top artists, albums, songs, playlists, and podcasts that you have played throughout the year. Big changes, however, have been made this year, beginning with a new multiplayer feature called...
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YouTube Begins Testing Built-In Chat and Video Sharing Feature on Mobile App
YouTube is experimenting with the return of private in-app messaging six years after discontinuing the feature. The test, limited to users aged 18 and older in Ireland and Poland, allows people to share videos and chat directly within the YouTube mobile app. It includes strict safety measures, with all messages governed by YouTube’s Community Gui...
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How to Add and Use ChatGPT With Spotify, Canva, Google Drive and Other Apps
ChatGPT’s app connectors extend the chatbot beyond text or voice interactions, allowing users to perform tasks inside third-party apps without leaving the interface. By linking services like Spotify, Canva and Google Drive through OpenAI’s new SDK, ChatGPT can create designs, organise files or control music playback. The feature offers agentic ...
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Spotify Acknowledges Issue Causing Frequent App Crashes on Samsung and Pixel Phones
Spotify users have been reporting issues with the app on Android devices in recent weeks. It resulted in the music streaming app frequently crashing or freezing under certain conditions for a sizable number of users, primarily on Samsung and Google Pixel devices, hampering the user experience. The company has now acknowledged the issue and said it ...
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OpenAI DevDay 2025: From ChatGPT Apps to AgentKit for Developers, Here's Everything You Need to Know
OpenAI hosted DevDay 2025 on Monday, unveiling several updates for users and developers. The biggest highlight is a new ChatGPT feature that lets users interact with third-party apps like Canva and Spotify without leaving the interface. The company also introduced AgentKit for developers to build and optimise agentic workflows, while GPT-5 Pro, Sor...
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Spotify Free Users in India Can Finally Search and Play Any Track, Design Playlist Covers, and More
Spotify has announced a new experience for free users. It has lifted some of the previous restrictions, and listeners can now play any song that appears on their home page. They can also search for tracks and play them directly, without having to shuffle through a random playlist. Apart from this, the music streaming platform also announced the abi...
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Spotify Finally Rolls Out Lossless Audio for Premium Users in Select Regions
Spotify has launched Lossless audio for Premium users in select markets, with rollout expanding to over 50 countries by October. Subscribers are notified when available and must enable it manually on each device, choosing Wi-Fi, cellular, or downloads. Lossless streams in up to 24-bit/44.1 kHz FLAC and works on mobile, desktop, tablet, and many Spo...
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Apple Teams Up With TuneIn to Boost Radio Features Amid Streaming Competition
The Cupertino, California-based technology giant's six radio stations will be available outside its app for the first time on TuneIn to its 75 million monthly active users.
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Spotify Users Can Now Send Direct Messages to Each Other to Share Music, Podcasts
Spotify has announced, in a press release, that the company will start rolling out a new feature that will allow users to send direct messages to each other. Users will be able to recommend music, podcasts, and audiobooks to their family members and friends, and to people with whom they share a Family or Duo plan. Starting this week, the feature wi...
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Spotify Flags Price Rises as It Introduces New Services: Report
Spotify will raise prices as it invests in new features and targets 1 billion users, the Financial Times reported on Sunday citing the music streaming provider's Co-President and Chief Business Officer Alex Norstrom.
