Spotify Ending Free Music Streaming

  

The days of free Spotify streaming may soon be over. According to reports, the company — which just hit a whopping 15 million paid subscribers earlier this year — is being pressured to limit. Spotify is a free music streaming media player on which whole albums can be streamed with playback occasionally interrupted by adverts for unsubscribed users. It's also has inbuilt last.fm scrobbling. This tag is used for artists and albums that are available on the service which has a ever growing library of over 15 million tracks. Stream free albums and hits, find a song, discover music, and download songs and podcasts with the Spotify free streaming and music player app. Free streaming, music search and hits library – Spotify is all that and much more. Play songs, sync music, discover music and free albums with Spotify, your go-to music downloader. Spotify also offers thousands of Podcasts, including originals that. For free, your music was regularly interrupted by ads; for a tenner a month, you got endless music of the kind that would have once left even the most talkative DJ speechless. Do it yourself It was the indies – and those championing them – that brought us the final component of modern streaming: listening to specific tracks or albums on demand. Spotify's unlimited free streaming and sharing service was music to American ears when it launched in July 2011. Now comes a dissonant note: ten-hour monthly caps will be implemented on all free.

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As it prepares to launch a new streaming music service, Apple is said to be pressuring music labels to force rivals like Spotify to abandon their free tiers — something that has apparently brought scrutiny from the U.S. Department of Justice.

Citing multiple sources, The Verge claimed that Department of Justice officials have already interviewed music industry executives about Apple's business practices. In particular, concerns have been raised about Apple using its influence to persuade labels not to renew licenses with Spotify that allow that company to stream music for free. Additionally, Apple allegedly offered to pay YouTube's music licensing fee to Universal Music Group if the latter pulled its songs from YouTube.

'All the way up to Tim Cook, these guys are cutthroat,' one of the sources was quoted as saying.

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Discouraging free alternatives could help Apple's upcoming service, but those actions could potentially be deemed anti-competitive by the Department of Justice. Early last month, reports surfaced that Apple may already be facing a probe from the European Commission regarding the same issue.

Past reports have indicated that Apple is hoping to score artist exclusives for its new service, and until recently was trying to push for a monthly subscription fee under the industry-standard $10. Record labels appear to have balked, likely worried that increased subscription numbers wouldn't compensate for missing per-subscription revenue.

Apple could make an announcement as soon as the Worldwide Developers Conference on June 8. Little else is known about what the service might look like, except that it's expected to take on the iTunes name, and mark Apple's first major push into the world of on-demand streaming, which has been slowly eating into the marketshare of the iTunes Store.

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This week, Spotify launched the “Stations by Spotify” app, a new music streaming platform. According report The Next Web, the application is free, but supported by ads, and allows the user to listen to lists of songs already determined.

Instead of searching for artists and albums, the user chooses a variety of playlist according to the genre. In addition, lists can be unlocked according to the songs the person likes.

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Unlike Spotify, Stations does not allow you to skip songs or create your own playlist. For now, the application is only available for Android and Australia, as a testing phase – meaning that it may not be released in other countries.

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