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YouTube Music adds 14 new countries

17/06/2020

YouTube Music adds 14 new countries making a total of 95 countries where YouTube Music Premium and YouTube Premium are now available. In addition to rolling out these two services in Egypt, YouTube have added a Student Plan in that country and removed family plans from Belarus. The 14 additional countries are: American Samoa Aruba Belarus Bermuda Cayman Islands Egypt French Guyana French Polynesia Guadeloupe Guam Northern Mariana Islands Papua New Guinea Puerto Rico U.S. […]

Lyrics come to Deezer Free on desktop

13/06/2020

Lyrics come to Deezer Free on desktop enabling a full karaoke experience on computers joining users on mobile who have had this feature for a while. Since January 2020 Deezer has seen a 33% rise in music fans using their lyric feature worldwide. Available now, Deezer Free users can enjoy lyrics on their computer. Deezer’s Free plan users can now see real time lyrics on both mobile and desktop and also cast these to a […]

Deezer launches podcasts in Israel

11/06/2020

Deezer launches podcasts in Israel with both its shows and user interface in Hebrew as well as being able to listen to international podcasts. Deezer users in Israel can now access the podcast tab, ‘Shows.’ Similar to its music offering, Israelis can listen to both local and international podcasts. Users will be able to discover both recommended and top podcasts in its app such as “Hayot Kis” and “Osim Historia”. There are 13 categories ranging […]

Survey reveals the mood of generation isolation in lockdown

05/06/2020

Survey reveals the mood of generation isolation in lockdown in a Deezer study into love and loneliness among audio streamers. The results of the survey of 11,000 streaming users in 8 countries (Brazil, France, Germany, Egypt, UAE, Saudi Arabia, US & UK) during April 2020 were published in a recent blog posting by the streamer. Key findings Over 1/3 of people worldwide are using audio content to set a romantic mood at home in lockdown […]

Qobuz partners with Canadian telco

04/06/2020

Qobuz partners with Canadian telco, Québecor who launched QUB Musique, a streaming platform in Quebec in May. The streaming service is currently in beta with a web player and mobile apps (iOS and Android) offering 50 million tracks in 320kbps MP3. There is no information available about the possible availability of the service in the rest of Canada or whether higher audio quality streams could be rolled out in the future. The QUB music platform […]

Apple Music now has classical music iOS app

04/06/2020

Apple Music now has classical music iOS app in addition to a web front-end which was released towards the back end of last year. Concertino transforms Apple Music into a classical music jukebox allowing you to browse composers, genres and periods, create playlists of multi-movement works, start no-nonsense radio stations and more. The rationale behind Concertino according to its developer is that “Classical music demands a very different approach: it is based on composers, works, […]

Spotify library limit removed

01/06/2020

Spotify library limit removed giving users an unlimited number of saved items in their library although playlist and download limits will stay the same. The limit removal also applies to liked songs and albums. The limit removal was announced in a posting on Spotify’s community pages and points out that “Since 2014, the request to remove this limit has been very popular in the Community Ideas Exchange, with over 12,500 votes.” Before now, it was […]