Streaming Archives

Amazon Music is now available on Garmin smartwatches

30/08/2019

Amazon Music is now available on Garmin smartwatches joining Garmin’s existing iHeartRadio, Deezer and Spotify apps. Amazon Music subscribers can now download and play music from their libraries, including their favourite songs and playlists on compatible Garmin smartwatches. With Amazon Music, Prime members have access to more than two million songs and hundreds of hand-curated playlists and stations at no additional cost to their membership. With an Amazon Music Unlimited subscription, customers will have access […]

Spotify Family Plan adds parental controls

29/08/2019

Spotify Family Plan adds parental controls as part of an upgrade to its Spotify Premium Family subscription which is available in Ireland now and will roll out globally in autumn 2019. The upgraded plan gives subscribers on-demand access to 450,000 podcast titles and 50 million tracks of ad-free music. Parents will now be able to control the Explicit Content Filter setting of all other accounts on their plan (these parental controls are a long-requested feature). […]

Pandora for Podcasters blog announcement

Submit shows on Pandora for Podcasters portal

27/08/2019

Creators can now sub submit shows on Pandora for Podcasters portal using Pandora’s new self-service hub in a recent blog posting. The launch of this dedicated hub for podcasters comes hot on the heels of Spotify’s launch of its Spotify for Podcasters platform. Podcasts on Pandora was launched in December 2018 with hundreds of shows and over 100,000 episodes, and in just months has grown to thousands of shows and over 500,000 episodes spanning Daily […]

Deezer rolls out Dark Mode to iOS and desktop app

26/08/2019

Deezer rolls out Dark Mode to iOS and desktop app joining the Android version launched in July 2019. According to the streamer, Dark Mode is the most sought-after feature from its users and the new feature gives users the freedom to switch from their normal light music player to a dark grey background. The claimed benefits are reduced eye strain and improved readability in low light conditions. Dark mode setting can be turned on or […]

Apple launches Apple Music for Artists

23/08/2019

Apple launches Apple Music for Artists, a portal for artists and creators which provides ‘Everything you need to understand your music’s impact across Apple Music and iTunes’. Apple Music for Artists joins other streaming services such as Spotify (Spotify for Artists) and SoundCloud (SoundCloud Creators) providing a dedicated portal for its artists and creators Apple Music for Artists features Keep tabs on how your music is performing View a quick snapshot of your music’s overall […]

2019 State of Music Streaming report

22/08/2019

Primephonic have published the 2019 State of Music Streaming report which is an online study into the streaming experiences of users. Conducted by YouGov and sponsored by the classical music streamer they have published a summary of their findings in a recent blog posting. The survey asked US adults who had streamed music in the past six months about their experiences and found that 60% of music streamers were frustrated by their streaming experience. The […]

Deezer updates ‘Queue List’ feature

20/08/2019

Deezer updates ‘Queue List’ feature which syncs your tracks across multiple devices no matter how often you switch. Premium users listening to a track on mobile, tablet or desktop can change devices and listen to the same track without having to look for it. Each user’s queue list is now stored in the cloud, making it effortless to switch between mobile, web, desktop, smart watches (Apple Watch and Android Watch), In Car (Carplay and Android […]