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Spotify’s big Rogan mistake
Your five-minute guide to what's happening in tech this Monday, from Spotify’s messy problems to the artist behind the Bored Apes.
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Joe Rogan pledges to try harder after Neil Young Spotify row
Joe Rogan has pledged to try harder to offer more balanced views on his podcast, after he was criticised by Neil Young and Joni Mitchell for helping to spread Covid misinformation. The Canadian musicians asked to have their music pulled from the streaming platform as a result. Spotify has since said it is working to add advisory warnings to any podcast discussing Covid-19.
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Spotify overwhelmed with requests to cancel following Joe Rogan saga
Spotify appears to have been overwhelmed by cancellations requests and customer support issues following the Joe Rogan/Neil Young Saga that started earlier this week. Earlier this week it emerged that artist Neil Young had told Spotify he wanted his songs to be removed from the platform because of Joe Rogan's podcast and the spread of misinformation about vaccines. Spotify took the decision to remove Young's catalog, and the hashtag #cancelSpotify started to trend on Twitter, as did Apple Music as many flocked from one rival service to the other.
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Joni Mitchell removes music from Spotify in protest of Joe Rogan’s podcast
Mitchell says she stands "in solidarity with Neil Young."
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Neil Young says he "felt better" after leaving Spotify and its "shitty" sound quality
Even after departing the platform, Neil Young isn’t done criticizing Spotify yet. Today, the rock legend has published another letter on his website, describing Spotify as a purveyor of “more songs and less sound.” Young says that he “felt better” after pulling his music catalog from the leading streaming music service earlier this week while noting that he’s strongly opposed to censorship and that “private companies have the right to choose what they profit from, just as I can choose not to have my music support a platform that disseminates harmful information.”
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Joni Mitchell says she will follow Neil Young by removing her music from Spotify due to vaccine misinformation
Singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell said she will remove her music from Spotify, following controversy over vaccine misinformation hosted on the streaming platform. "Irresponsible people are spreading lies that are costing people their lives," the Canadian musician wrote in a statement posted on her website Friday. "I stand in solidarity with Neil Young and the global scientific and medical communities on this issue."
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Joni Mitchell to remove songs from Spotify in solidarity with Neil Young's stance against COVID 'misinformation'
The legendary singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell says she will take her songs off the streaming service, saying "irresponsible people are spreading lies that are costing people their lives".
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Joe Rogan, confined to Spotify, is losing influence
Going exclusive has its effects
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Spotify Premium might become free with Xbox Game Pass Ultimate - Gaming Route
According to a Data Miner on Twitter who usually leaks stuff related to Microsoft, Spotify Premium is coming to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate; he leaked this image
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Spotify explains how its voice assistant uses your data
Spotify has outlined how its 'Hey Spotify' voice assistant works, including how it uses your data.
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Spotify Tests Audiobooks With Classics Collection (Exclusive)
Nine classic audiobooks — including Cynthia Erivo's narration of 'Persuasion' and Hilary Swank's narration of 'The Awakening' — are now available on Spotify.
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Spotify’s Car Thing shows up in FCC filings with a new design and bigger screen
It resembles a small tablet.
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Spotify’s ‘plagiarism detector’ will expose unoriginal music
Spotify has patented a method which uses artificial intelligence to detect plagiarism in music, able to detect a “similarity value” between songs. The “Plagiarism Risk Detector And Interface” technology will be “trained on a plurality of preexisting encoded lead sheets” (which specifies the melody, lyrics and harmony) to compare new tracks to those in Spotify’s database.
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Spotify catches up with Apple Music with new lyric song search feature
Spotify has rolled out a useful new feature today for iOS and Android that allows users to search for songs by its lyrics, something that Apple Music users have enjoyed for a couple of years.
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Spotify is getting rid of its ridiculous 10,000 song library cap
Probably the biggest drawback to Spotify as a heavy user has been the arbitrarily low music library cap the company imposed.
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Spotify podcast deal could make Joe Rogan world's highest paid broadcaster
Streaming service must convince podcast listeners to switch from their favourite app
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‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ to become a Spotify exclusive, leaving Apple Podcasts - 9to5Mac
Joe Rogan has announced today that his podcast The Joe Rogan Experience will become a Spotify exclusive starting later this year. The show is currently available on a variety of platforms, with full video versions posted to YouTube. As of today, it sits in second place on the Apple Podcasts charts.
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Switching from Spotify to YouTube Music: My experience after one month
I've been using Spotify for as far as I can remember, and decided to subscribe to Premium in 2014. I've been able to cast music to my speakers, download...
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Pandora shows Spotify how to make a proper Apple Watch app
Pandora is out with an update today that brings Siri support to its Apple Watch app as well as improving Siri support on iOS. The underdog music service that is Pandora continues to show Spotify how third-party music services should work on the Apple Watch. Pandora now supports two key features that are must-haves on watchOS…
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New Podcast Explores Whether the Scorpions Hit 'Wind of Change' Was Written by the CIA
Eight-episode documentary series from journalist Patrick Radden Keefe to premiere on Spotify
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