(This is a guest post by James Martin of Midemblog.) The winners of TNW Conference’s hackathon in late April tackled a common, but as-yet-unaddressed problem for format-shifting music lovers: What do I do with all those CDs on the shelf that I don’t listen to anymore? Covify’s solution: rather than laboriously enter each album name into Spotify, why not show my…
Lyrics might not be the sexiest thing in online music. For that, you might look to the second-most-popular Spotify app, Soundrop, which brings real-time group listening to the Spotify desktop client — or perhaps one of these musical hook-up facilitators. However, lyrics are always among the most popular searches on Google, and anything that’s more…
Step aside, Chuck Woolery! There’s a new matchmaker in town — actually, two. The latest round of Spotify apps — Tastebuds.fm and Fellody — offer to help people find romance through music. These are by no means the first apps to attempt to match lonely hearts based on their musical taste, which is as good…
Long before Mark Zuckerberg dropped out of Harvard to found Facebook, Last.fm allowed music fans to keep an online record of the music they had been listening to in all sort of music players, including iTunes, Winamp, and more. Last.fm’s feature for this is called “scrobbling,” based on the fact that it had acquired a…
A confidential report forwarded to Evolver.fm indicates that independent labels saw a major boost in revenue from the Spotify unlimited music subscription service in the first quarter of 2012. Merlin calls itself “the virtual fifth major label” for the way it represents many of the world’s leading independent record labels. It’s one of the “good guys,”…
The Washington Post is in bad shape, and its social reader app, which spams your Facebook friends with the fact that you just read an article about Kim Kardashian’s latest hangnail atrocity, isn’t helping. As noted by Forbes, usage of the Washington Post Social Reader plummeted over the last 30 days from 17.4 million to…
This is a new one. A crop circle has appeared near Stonehenge that bears a striking resemblance to the Spotify logo, below. First, here’s the crop circle in question, courtesy of Wiltshire Times and Matthew Williams, whom it credits with the photo:
President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney will go head to head in the 2012 presidential election, as you’re probably all too aware, given that this campaign already feels like it’s been going on for five years. The two contenders also doing battle as DJs on the fields of Spotify. No, we are…
If you’ve already heard of the social cross-service music app for the desktop, Tomahawk, you already know how cool it is. Freelance developer Syd Lawrence, the same man who brought us the frivolous This Was My Jam, donned his thinking cap to build Toma.hk, a simple-to-use web app that lets anyone embed music on blogs or link…
When we finally saw Spotify’s new iPad app in the company’s New York City offices this week, we breathed a sigh of relief on behalf of all the breathless Spotify fans who have been demanding its release. A web search for “iPad Spotify app” on the eve of the announcement revealed millions of matches, including…
Android users who subscribe to Spotify or have joined the 30-day free trial have a treat waiting for them this morning: a brand new Spotify Android app that has been completely redesigned, and it looks pretty slick. The new app supports the Android 4.0 operating system as well “all-new slide-out navigation, ” the ability to…
We’re being a bit tongue in cheek with the above headline, which plays on the old Coca-Cola slogan, but it’s core to these new partners’ vision. Coca-Cola will underwrite Spotify’s spread to new territories where the service is not let available. “Coca-Cola’s distribution network is arguably larger than the internet,” said Spotify CEO Daniel Ek…
Application Programming Interface, thy name be “awesome!” Excuse the geek-out, if you’re not up on your API ABC’s, but how else are we to react to the fact that Facebook just added a Listen button to its artist pages that lets you play songs from that artist just about instantly, by hooking in to each…
Say you’re a big fan of Sleigh Bells (the band, not the wintertime equine accessory). Wouldn’t you want to listen to whatever Derek Miller and Alexis Krauss rocked on their iPods last week? We already have the technology to make that happen, in what could be the biggest Untapped App of them all: artist radio apps that…
Spotify has received plenty of attention for its app platform, and rightfully so. Rdio also has an app platform, offering access to the same songs, more or less. Evolver.fm caught up with Rdio vice president of engineering Todd Berman to discuss the one-year anniversary of Rdio’s developer API; the service’s approach to third-party apps; and his belief…
