Spotify is preparing to unveil its long-rumored lossless audio feature, but the company won't be taking Apple Music's approach. Lossless audio & AirPods optimization coming to Spotify The concept of Spotify offering lossless audio isn't new. Initially dubbed "Spotify HiFi," the idea was first teased in 2021, hinting at a premium subscription model named "Supremium." However, it seems Spotify has revised its strategy, opting for an add-on model instead. The new feature, "Music Pro,"...
Meta has updated the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses with a little more functionality, especially for Apple Music, Messenger, and WhatsApp users.Part of the appeal of Meta's glasses is listening to music through the built-in speakers, but if you're in Apple's ecosystem, that requires first manually queuing up music from your phone's Apple Music app. Now, as first reported by 9to5Mac, Apple users can control their music entirely with their voice.Using the Ray-Ban Meta's voice assistant, you can now...
Meta just announced a slew of new updates for its Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses. CEO Mark Zuckerberg just dropped an Instagram reel showing off a new cat-eye frame style for the glasses and a video calling feature. You can also now connect the glasses with Apple Music, and last but not least, the multimodal AI assistant is live for everyone in the US and Canada. You can peep a pretty clear demo of the video calling feature from Zuckerberg’s reel. In it, he talks to Eva Chen, who runs fashion at...
Yesterday we learned that Spotify decided to pass on Apple’s new EU terms that would allow it to use alternative payment methods due to the Core Technology Fee. Instead, it submitted an app update with pricing info and details on how to subscribe outside of the App Store without giving users a link. Now Spotify says Apple has unjustly blocked the update and again “defied the European Commission”. more
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[Editor’s note: This is a recap of Fallout episode five. The recap of episode six publishes April 17.] War never changes. It’s the first line of almost every Fallout video game, a weary reminder—voiced, more often than not, by the great Ron Perlman—that while the circumstances of annihilation might change, the impulses driving humanity toward it probably won’t. It’s an idea Fallout the TV show has mostly only danced around so far, illustrating self-destructive impulses on the part of the...
Spotify is rumored to have revived plans for a new tier that will offer higher quality streams called Music Pro.
Again? Less than a year after hiking up the prices of its subscriptions, Spotify will do so again, it’s told customers via email. The streaming service is sending emails advising of the following changes to its current subscription tiers: Single plans: $1 AUD/month increase to $13.99 AUD Duo plans: $2 AUD/month increase to $19.99 AUD Family/Premium plans: $3 AUD/month increase to $23.99 AUD “We’re increasing the price of Premium Family so we can continue bringing you the best experience,” reads...
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“I have this sneaking suspicion that something is going to happen today,” Milwaukee Dan sagely introduced Wednesday night’s edition of Top Chef: Wisconsin. And he was quickly proven right: Even before host Kristen Kish could delight the chef-testants by bringing out baking great Christina Tosi—the James Beard Award-winning mastermind behind Milk Bar—to announce this week’s dessert-themed QuickFire Challenge, things were looking surprisingly crowded in the Top Chef kitchen. That’s because not...
Spotify has not been able to get Apple to approve an EU app update that added information on subscription pricing and links to the Spotify website, and it turns out that's because Spotify has not agreed to the terms of Apple's Music Streaming Services Entitlement. A recent antitrust ruling from the European Commission fined Apple nearly $2 billion and mandated that Apple "remove anti-steering provisions" for music apps in the European Economic Area (EEA). As a result, Apple updated its App...
Some YouTube Music for iOS users today are facing a bug where the app opens to a black screen on certain Google Accounts with no ability to play songs. more