Apple Music on April 11th will launch a new South American initiative dubbed “Stream Local.” The program forms part of the music streaming giant’s…
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Spotify hits 124 million subscribers, but reports loss of $231 million
Spotify hit 124 million subscribers at the end of 2019, up 29% from the previous year, the company reported Wednesday. However, tempering that…
Echosmith’s ‘Lonely Generation’ laments iPhone addiction
Cool kids Echosmith are out with a new album and the title track laments the artificial screen Apple’s iPhone has constructed between reality and “a pixelated version” of real life for a lonely generation…
Introducing MusicBot: The all-in-one Apple Music assistant, powered by Shortcuts
For the past several months, I’ve been working on a shortcut designed to be the ultimate assistant for Apple Music…
Apple Music launches new curated playlist ‘New Music Daily’
Updated every day with fresh songs, Apple Music today launched a new curated playlist called “New Music Daily.”
The fate of Apple’s iTunes Store in macOS Catalina
With the new Music app in macOS Catalina, which retains most of the music functions of iTunes…
Spotify reports bigger-than-expected loss, paid subscribers disappoint
Spotify Technology SA’s lighter-than-expected number of new paid subscribers drove shares as much as 5% lower…
Apple Music may be reducing its free trial period to just one month
Apple may be planning to start offering a one month free trial of Apple Music instead of three months…
Apple’s GarageBand: Better than ever (and still free)
I was in the audience for the 2004 Macworld Expo keynote where Steve Jobs unveiled GarageBand…
Only 17% of Apple AirPods owners have sex while wearing them
It seems that those whose preferred genre is country music were the most satisfied with their sex lives…
Things you need to know as Apple ‘kills’ iTunes
Don’t worry. All your music, movies and podcasts will be fine – they’ll just be stored in a different place and made available through…
It’s alive! Apple’s iTunes doesn’t look very dead
So many publications have been publishing articles about how “iTunes is dead,” but it doesn’t look very dead to me…
No, Apple isn’t killing iTunes on Monday
Why are there so many headlines saying iTunes is ending and the age of digital downloads is over? Because, apparently, writers can’t read, fact checkers can’t check facts, and editors are too busy baiting clicks…
Apple to kill off iTunes as it embraces streaming music with replacement app
For nearly 20 years, iTunes has been the primary way for people to buy, organize and listen to music. It was unveiled in 2001…
Apple updates Music Memos app with full screen support for latest iPhones
Apple’s Music Memos app has finally been updated with full-screen support…
Apple’s new macOS 10.15 Music app code is based on iTunes, not iOS
The new standalone Music app to be included in the next major version of macOS will be an AppKit application…
Amazon preps hi-def music streaming service for $15 per month
It’s a better bit rate, better than CD quality…
Apple to begin dismantling iTunes?
If you use an iOS device, you have long had access to the TV app…
Huntington Beach educators mold musicians of tomorrow using Apple products
At the Huntington Beach Academy for the Performing Arts (APA), production is in full swing…
Apple presents the best apps, games, music, movies, TV shows, podcasts and more of 2018
Today, Apple reveals the Best of 2018, a global collection of top charts and selects from our editors across every category highlighting all of the amazing things to watch, read, listen to and play across apps, music, podcasts, books, TV and movies…
Kris Wu’s massive iTunes U.S. sales acquired fraudulently and won’t count toward charts
A strange thing happened on the iTunes U.S. store on Monday (Nov. 5) when Kris Wu…
Music artists are losing billions because small businesses use personal Apple Music or Spotify accounts
Artists and record companies lose $2.7 billion in revenue annually because small business…
Apple buys music analytics company Asaii
We are incredibly excited by their recent acquisition by Apple where they will have the opportunity to dramatically scale…
‘Everyone Can Create’ curriculum now available on Apple Books
Apple today announced its Everyone Can Create curriculum is now available on Apple Books…
Sony deal brings 23 more Prince albums to Apple Music
An avalanche of Prince albums is hitting Apple Music this week, thanks to a June agreement,,,
Building a home theater network for Apple fans
If you want your devices to play nicely on a home theater network, you’ll need to put some thought into purchasing and setup…
iTunes Store at 15: How Apple killed the mixtape
In a matter of years, Apple’s innovations had completely changed the way in which we bought and played recorded music…
Apple’s Phil Schiller talks HomePod
When Apple announced in June its intention to deliver the HomePod by the end of the year…
Apple’s Siri isn’t HomePod’s biggest problem
The HomePod ads — featuring a black screen with the word HomePod across it and a clip of a popular song — are reminiscent of the iPod silhouette ads…
How Apple’s HomePod will handle software updates
As HomePod pre-orders began last week and some first impressions came out…
What Apple’s HomePod 2 should offer
iPhone, Apple TV, iPad, Apple Watch – all of them were super interesting new products that…
Apple debuts four commercials for HomePod’s debut
Apple had debuted four new television commercials on U.S. broadcast and cable networks for their new HomePod smart speaker…
Plex Labs introduces Plexamp music player for Mac
Plex Labs is taking the wraps off a project called Plexamp today…
Apple reveals 2017’s most popular apps, music, movies, TV shows, books and podcasts
Apple has unveiled its 2017 charts and trends, celebrating the most popular apps, music, movies, TV shows, books and podcasts…
Renting iTunes movies and the value of ownership
Back in September Apple made a welcome improvement to iTunes by automatically upgrading, at no cost…
Tom Petty currently has 26 albums and 28 songs in Apple’s iTunes Top 100 charts
Rock legend Tom Petty died at age 66 of cardiac arrest in his home in Malibu, California on Monday…
As Tom Petty passes at age 66, his music tops Apple iTunes’ charts
More sad news in a week full of sad news: Rock legend Tom Petty has died at age 66…
iPhone X and 8/Plus support FLAC playback, iOS 11 brings it to iPhone 7
Apple’s new iPhone X, iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus have hardware codec support for FLAC…
How to rebuild your iTunes library
Every now and then, an iTunes Library has problems…
Apple pulls plug on Apple Music Festival after 10 years
Apple will no longer be hosting the annual Apple Music Festival at London’s Roundhouse…
Apple’s future is Siri
The iPhone shows no signs of going away, and it’s possible to imagine that we’ll still be carrying some…
The iPod’s legacy: How Apple’s music player reshuffled the company’s future
The iPod, as most of the world understood it, is no more…
