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Tech has waded into another feud with artists. After a week of wrangles about AI mimicry of pop stars and training models on copyrighted content, Spotify has sparked fresh controversy over a new royalty scheme. The streaming giant announced on Tuesday that its new payment policy will exclude songs with fewer than 1,000 annual streams. According to Spotify, more than 60% of the platform’s catalogue doesn’t reach this threshold. However, they account for under 1% of the streams. Spotify said it…

Last updated: November 21st, 2023 at 10:07 UTC+01:00 A lot of information about the secret deals that Google has inked with some of the largest tech companies has come to light during the Epic v. Google trial. For example, it paid Samsung $8 billion to make its apps default on Galaxy devices. The latest tidbit is about a juicy deal that Spotify secured with Google, enabling the world's largest music streaming service to avoid Google Play Store fees for subscriptions. It was confirmed by Google's head of global…

Spotify is rolling out a redesigned TV app that should make it a little easier to find what you want to listen to. The app comes with a new homepage that’s similar to Spotify on mobile and desktop, featuring your most-listened-to content at the top, followed by your Made For You playlists and your recently played albums or podcasts.There’s also a new playback queue that you can open up from the right side of the screen, allowing you to see the audio that’s currently playing as well as what’s coming up next. Spotify added…

Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge After 12 years, the price of Spotify Premium is increasing in the US. The subscription will now cost $10.99 a month, the company announced today. Spotify has charged $9.99 for its Premium subscription ever since its launch in the US in 2011. “So that we can keep innovating, we are changing our Premium prices across a number of markets around the world,” the company wrote in a post announcing the increase. “These updates will help us continue to deliver value…

Spotify is going to raise the price of its Premium subscription plan in the US, according to The Wall Street Journal. The price is “likely” to go up by $1, meaning it would cost $10.99 per month, and the change is “expected” to be revealed next week, the publication says. The price of Premium has remained $9.99 per month since it launched in the US 12 years ago.While perhaps not the most welcome news, it’s not entirely a surprise. Spotify CEO Daniel Ek has been signaling that prices would go up in 2023 and reiterated in…

Apple will on Friday seek to fend off a revised EU antitrust charge and possible hefty fine linked to claims it prevents music streaming companies such as Spotify from informing users of other buying options outside its App Store.The iPhone maker will set out its arguments to senior European Commission officials and their peers at national competition agencies at a closed hearing in Brussels.EU antitrust enforcers earlier this year boosted their case against the company's so-called anti-steering obligations, but dropped…

This Friday, Apple will defend itself against a Spotify accusation that the Cupertino firm prevents music streaming companies from informing users about other buying options, reports Reuters. At the time, Spotify said Apple “purposely limits choice and stifles innovation at the expense of the user experience.” The accusations have changed a bit since the Swedish firm first complained to the European Commission in 2019. The Commission started investigating in 2020, and in 2021, it issued an initial “statement…

Spotify’s desktop app has just received a significant redesign. The company has been focusing more on its mobile apps over the years, given that growth of music streaming on smartphones has been a lot higher than desktops. However, the company has now released a redesign, and you can use it on your Galaxy Book running Windows 10 or Windows 11. The music streaming giant is calling the new design of its desktop app “one of the biggest revamps yet,” now going toe to toe with its smartphone and tablet apps. The company has…

Spotify’s desktop app has been long overdue for an update, and today, it finally happened. In a blog post, the company announced that its desktop app is getting an upgrade after looking quite the same for a number of years. The two biggest changes to the app, when you are using it on the desktop or the web, are a new Your Library and Now Playing view. You can also now collapse the library, search and filter the library, and resize the Your Library and Now Playing views. One of the big changes coming to…

Spotify has had its fair share of issues with the designs of its app. One of the most recent changes completely overhauled the mobile app, and left it looking a little less than stellar.Thankfully, however, Spotify doesn't seem to have completely lost its eye for good design. The new look that it has brought to its desktop app looks to streamline users' experiences, putting more of their favorite music at their fingertips, with personal libraries and playlists more easily accessed than before. This puts the desktop app…