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Spotify Reached 70,000 Paying Subscribers In First Week Of U.S. Launch

, Jul 22nd 2011 Discuss [6]

After launching for only about a week in the U.S., Spotify is estimated to have already reached 70,000 paid subscribers. The incredibly popular European-based music streaming service offers both free and paid subscription plans that offer unlimited access to a massive music library including the latest chart toppers as well as more obscure oldies. Read The Full Story

Spotify US Launch To Be Invite-Only?

, Jul 11th 2011 Discuss [2]

The much hyped European music streaming service, Spotify, is making its US debut this week after months of wrangling deals with US record label companies. If you've been hearing about all the love for Spotify overseas and are anxious to hop on board, you may be a little disappointed when Spotify does launch because it could be by invitation only. Read The Full Story

Spotify Plans U.S. Domination With Help From Facebook

, Jul 8th 2011 Discuss [0]

Spotify has recently confirmed a U.S. launch for next week. This news comes after months of delays as the popular European music streaming service struggled to close deals with U.S. record label companies. But perhaps the biggest deal it's landed is a rumored partnership with Facebook. Some leaked internal marketing materials reveal that Facebook will be a major key to Spotify's U.S. domination. Read The Full Story

Facebook Vibes Music Service Revealed In Video Calling Code

, Jul 7th 2011 Discuss [0]

The Google+ social platform was unveiled last week in an invitation-only beta form but has already generated lots of excitement for its new features, including a group video calling service called Hangouts. Perhaps as a response, Facebook announced its own video calling service yesterday in partnership with Skype. But upon close inspection of Facebook's video calling code, software developer Jeff Rose discovered evidence of Facebook's future music service. Read The Full Story

Amazon Cloud Drive, Cloud Player Now With Unlimited Music Storage

, Jul 6th 2011 Discuss [2]

Amazon was first to offer a cloud-based music locker back in March beating out competitors Google and Apple. Despite its early arrival, Amazon's Cloud Drive and Cloud Player services still have a tough battle ahead against the imminent iCloud-powered iTunes juggernaut. Perhaps as a preemptive measure, Amazon today announced several new improvements to its cloud music service that hopes to lure new users with unlimited music storage. Read The Full Story

Facebook Launching Music Service With Spotify?

, May 25th 2011 Discuss [1]

According to Forbes, Facebook may be launching a music streaming service any day now. Sources familiar with the situation have divulged that the giant social network is partnering up with European-based music service, Spotify. Read The Full Story

Apple iTunes, Rumblings from the Cloud

, Apr 25th 2011 Discuss [0]

I've been downloading music since I first figured out that I could minimize my AOL window in Windows 3.1 and open up a Netscape browser. My thirteen-year-old self was ravenous for the media that I could find searching on early FTP directories that shall remain nameless. MP3 blew my mind at the time. I was amazed that data could be compressed like that (a 600+MB music CD could be compressed down to as low as 50MB). That kind of stuff was a lot of fun for me, but the music itself wasn't the goal. It was as much about the hunt, the technical challenge and the WOW! factor. It took about a half-hour to download a 128kbps bit-rate MP3 of a 3-5 minute song. Now, Apple is signing a deal with Warner Music to offer streaming, cloud-based music services. They haven't said anything publicly, but both they and Google are looking to grab as much of this market as possible after Amazon released their Cloud Player last month. Read The Full Story

BlackBerry PlayBook gets 7digital MP3 download store

, Mar 9th 2011 Discuss [0]

RIM has inked a deal with digital music provider 7digital for a Music Store on the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet. The app will see over 13m MP3s available for on-device purchase on the QNX slate, when it launches in the US and Canada later this year, as part of RIM's attempt to take on iTunes and the iPad 2. Read The Full Story

Microsoft Working On New Music And Video Service Dubbed Ventura

, Mar 8th 2011 Discuss [6]

Microsoft’s answer to iTunes and the iPod was the Zune and the company wanted to push the idea of sharing the music you liked with your friends. If you were in the same vicinity you could send each other music, or even listen to the same song at the same time. The service never got enough traction and the Zune couldn’t sell enough units. But it looks like Microsoft is taking another stab at a music service with something called Ventura. Read The Full Story

Spotify hits 1m paid subscribers

, Mar 8th 2011 Discuss [0]

Spotify has announced that it has reached one million paying subscribers to its streaming music service. The news marks a significant increase in paying users; roughly this time last year, Spotify had 325,000 premium subscriptions. The milestone will likely aid the company in its ongoing - and lengthy - negotiations with US rights-holders as part of attempts to launch Spotify in North America. Read The Full Story

Cricket Muve Music Allows for Unlimited Song Downloads for $55 Per Month

, Jan 4th 2011 Discuss [1]

We've heard about Cricket's Muve Music in the past, and the idea is the same as other subscription-based music services before: you pay a certain amount per month, and you get an unlimited amount of songs to download. Of course, with that kind of deal, there's always some form of protection involved, and with this new service from Cricket, it's no different. However, unlike the other services, even the ones that are tied to a phone, it's an extra charge per month. Not with Cricket's Muve Music. Read The Full Story

Sony’s Qriocity On-Demand Media Streaming Hitting Europe This Fall

, Sep 1st 2010 Discuss [0]

Sony is already starting to make some waves at this year's IFA event, over there across the pond. With a few announcements ready to go public today, they've pulled the curtain off their video-on-demand service, which will now forever be known as Qriocity. It's been on the workbench for quite some time now, and it's good to finally see that Sony's unveiling the project for a market release here in just a matter of weeks. Though, if you're not in a few select countries in Europe, you'll have to wait a bit longer to get your hands on the streaming digital content. Read The Full Story
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