Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Streaming: Apps like Likewise , Sofa , Listy , Listium , Letterboxd , Trakt , and Reelgood let you compile lists of favorites. Its also uniquely able to generate an audio summary piece about your favorites. The video accompanying this piece has an excerpt of an audio piece generated with my reading highlights).

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The Verge

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Amazon is adding a large vault of music videos to its Amazon Music Unlimited service. Unlike some competitors like YouTube Music, Amazon’s videos are only available to paying subscribers, according to Android Police — not listeners on the ad-sponsored free tier. There will also be music video playlists to watch through.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Today, Facebook Gaming is set to allow its partnered streamers to play copyrighted, popular music in the background of their live stream s — which means they’ve seemingly solved the copyright problem that’s plagued live-streaming (and basically the entire internet) since the beginning.

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The Verge

MARCH 17, 2021

Live Captions uses machine learning to spontaneously create captions for videos or audio where none existed before, and making the web that much more accessible for anyone who’s deaf or hard of hearing. Live Captions captioning audio from a podcast player.

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The Verge

AUGUST 30, 2021

Apple Music is pushing more extensively into classical music. Today, Apple announced that it has acquired Primephonic , a service that specializes in streaming the classical genre, and will incorporate the app’s functionality and playlists into Apple Music. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 24, 2025

The app is also where you’ll connect other apps like Spotify or Audible to stream them on your Echo devices using Alexa voice commands. Both devices were excellent for playing background music in my office or listening to podcasts while doing housework, providing fuller, clearer sound and increased volume compared to my smartphone.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

2021 has been a big year for lossless music now that Apple has gone in on the higher-quality streaming and Amazon is no longer charging an added premium for it. But one of the main challenges confronting lossless audio is how to play it wirelessly (at full fidelity) on wireless headphones and earbuds.

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Digital Trends

MAY 24, 2022

Waze has finally added Apple Music to its audio player, enabling easy access to the streaming service's content from within the Waze app.

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Digital Trends

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Sonos is adding the ability to play Dolby Atmos Music and hi-res audio tracks directly from Amazon Music on compatible products like the Arc and Beam soundbars.

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The Verge

APRIL 13, 2021

No matter what you do during your waking hours — work at home or outside of it; commute in a car, a train, or by walking from your bedroom to your living room; or spend your days watching the kids or job hunting — you’re probably spending at least some of that time listening to music. But where do you find that music? YouTube Music.

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TechSpot

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The Roku Streambar features four internal speakers that can reportedly fill a room with Dolby Audio. Clever audio settings also allow you to automatically lower loud commercials, increase speech clarity, add depth to music and optimize sound for night listening. The unit is controllable via Alexa and Google Assistant devices.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

Interactive voice advertising startup Instreamatic , which can insert interactive voice ads into an audio stream, has raised $6.1 SF-HQ’d Instreamatic lets brands that advertise through streaming music apps and podcasts (for instance) have interactive voice-based dialogues with consumers.

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TechSpot

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Spotify is finally getting into high-end audio. The streaming music giant on Monday during its online “Stream On” event announced a new subscription offering catering specifically to audio enthusiasts.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

It also featured a musical performance from Metallica. But on the Twitch Gaming feed that was also carrying the stream, well, things took an amazing turn. Within seconds of the song beginning, the audio was replaced by what AV Club perfectly summed up as “the dorkiest, most Zelda forest-ass music imaginable.”.

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Digital Trends

MARCH 24, 2021

After years of resistance, Sonos has enabled support for hi-res audio on virtually all of its wireless speakers, but only when using a Qobuz streaming account.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 21, 2020

With its upcoming Galaxy Buds Pro, Samsung is planning to counter one of the differentiating features of Apple’s AirPods Pro (and now AirPods Max): spatial audio. Spatial audio crams an immersive, surround sound-like experience into a set of earbuds or headphones. But Samsung seems to be readying its own take on spatial audio.

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The Verge

MARCH 4, 2021

the financial services company founded by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, is acquiring a majority stake in Tidal, the high-fidelity audio and video streaming service led by Jay-Z. Asking the obvious question in a thread on Twitter, Dorsey said : “Why would a music streaming company and a financial services company join forces?!”

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The Verge

JANUARY 8, 2021

Amazon’s Echo Studio speaker, which supports Sony’s 360 Reality Audio format. Sony has announced an expansion of its 360 Reality Audio platform , bringing the 360-degree music format to more devices and media as well as offering new creation tools. Now, Sony is expanding the audio tech into video.

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TechSpot

MAY 17, 2021

Starting in June, Apple Music will allow users to stream songs in ALAC (Apple Lossless Audio Codec) format in various resolutions. When Apple announced the news, it did not explicitly mention that some of its most important audio accessories would not support it—namely the AirPod line.

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Digital Trends

JANUARY 18, 2022

Lossless music is now easy to access thanks to support from major streaming services, and a quality headphone DAC/amp is one of the best ways to hear it.

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The Verge

MAY 21, 2021

Users will be able to stream audio in 96kbps, add and delete Spotify content on their phones, and sync with the Watch. Spotify added the ability to stream music using an Apple Watch in November; until that point, the Apple Watch only worked as a remote for Spotify music playing on an iPhone or other Spotify Connect-compatible device.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

As this is being written, we are still in the midst of the Spotify controversy , during which artists are abandoning the audio service in protest of that company’s contract with podcaster Joe Rogan. Neil Young was the first to pull his music from the service, followed by Joni Mitchell and others. Amazon Music. Amazon Music.

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The Verge

JANUARY 8, 2021

Earlier today, Sony announced that it would be releasing two new speakers compatible with 360 Reality Audio, its spatial audio technology that replicates the feel of live music by placing different sounds and vocals in a virtual sphere around you. It’s also certified for High-Resolution Audio. Sony’s SRS-RA5000 speaker.

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Digital Trends

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

If you're yet to try out Apple's music streaming service and you own one of its audio devices, you may be able to take advantage of a special offer.

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Digital Trends

OCTOBER 27, 2020

In search of the highest-quality streaming music available? It has a huge music catalog and higher-quality audio than many others can claim. Check out Tidal.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Last year Apple showed how it could embed Shazam’s music identification features even more deeply within iOS 14 , and now it’s taking things another step forward within Apple Music. Apple Music DJ Mix. Apple Music DJ Mix. This is a new path for getting DJ mixes onto Apple Music alongside older ones like Dubset’s platform.

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Engadget

MARCH 17, 2025

In our testing, the AirPods Max met Apple's promise of a 20-hour battery life with both ANC and spatial audio switched on. There's no support for high-res music streaming services either. We enjoyed the simple control system, which uses an Apple Watch-style rotating crown.

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The Verge

MAY 17, 2021

Streaming music might be entering a new era of hi-fi audio , but Apple’s AirPods Max aren’t technically ready to go along for the ride. The company has confirmed to The Verge that its premium noise-canceling headphones do not natively support playback of lossless music files. Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge.

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The Verge

JANUARY 20, 2022

Market share for the world’s largest music streaming services. Spotify was the largest music streaming service in the world as of the second quarter of 2021 with a market share of 31 percent, with Apple Music in second place at 15 percent, and Amazon Music and Tencent Music each tied at third with 13 percent apiece.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Today, Twitch releases Soundtrack , a new product that allows streamers to play music while they’re live — or, at least, that’s the simplest way to explain it. If the product works the way Twitch says it does, Soundtrack will be much more than just a way to play rights-cleared music while you’re broadcasting.

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Engadget

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

If youre currently in the market for a music-streaming subscription, have we got a deal for you. Pick up six months of Apple Music for just $3. Apple Music is a fine little streaming platform. The audio quality is on point, with lossless streaming available at no charge, and the UI is easy-to-navigate.

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The Verge

JUNE 9, 2021

At launch, it’s a very hit or miss experience Late on Monday night, Apple flipped the switch on two new features for its Apple Music subscription service : immersive Dolby Atmos spatial audio and lossless-quality streaming. Eddy Cue is Apple’s senior vice president of services and the person who oversees Apple Music.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The new Nest Audio sits between the Nest Mini and Home Max in price, size, and output. Despite that lower price, the Nest Audio is an improvement over the Google Home in nearly every way. Similarly, Sonos is now in the smart speaker game , bringing its rock-solid wireless streaming and class-leading audio quality to the table.

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Digital Trends

JUNE 9, 2021

We take Apple Music's new Dolby Atmos spatial audio catalog of tracks for a spin to see if the immersive format actually delivers a better music experience.

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Engadget

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Spotify is rolling out a Music Pro tier later this year that will give users access to higher-quality audio and remixing tools, according to Bloomberg. The service teased a high-fidelity streaming option way back in 2017 and had confirmed that it was working to provide users with access to lossless audio in 2021.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 15, 2020

The new Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) update is out, and as per usual it includes a bunch of changes and fixes that will make your streaming life just a little bit better. This release adds a second audio track when streaming to Twitch which will be saved to the VOD instead of the stream audio.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Twitch published a blog post today with the relatively anodyne title “Music-Related Copyright Claims and Twitch.” Twitch was unprepared for a sudden onslaught of copyright takedown notices from the music industry that started back in May. What was in it, however, was anything but. The bottom line?

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