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YouTube is forcing the popular Groovy Discord music bot offline

The Verge

Google-owned YouTube is starting to crack down on Discord music bots. The search giant has sent a cease and desist to the owners of the popular Groovy Bot, which lets Discord users play music from YouTube videos and is installed on more than 16 million Discord servers. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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YouTube is also forcing the popular Rythm Discord music bot offline

The Verge

Just weeks after forcing the Groovy Discord music bot offline , Google-owned YouTube is now turning its attention to Rythm, the most popular music bot on Discord. The Rythm bot team is working on “something new in the music space that we’re very excited about,” says Yoav. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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Spotify finally adds offline music downloads on Apple Watch

The Verge

Spotify is adding the ability to download playlists, albums, and podcasts on Apple Watch to play offline, the company announced Friday. The offline feature will be available starting Friday on Apple Watch Series 3 or later running WatchOS 6.0 Your browser does not support HTML5 video. Spotify first launched its Apple Watch app in 2018.

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Apple classical music streaming service launch appears imminent

TechSpot

The company stopped accepting new subscribers and took the service offline on September 7. Existing Primephonic members were given a free six month subscription to Apple Music to hold them over while developers prepped a dedicated classical music app to launch this year.

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How to download music from YouTube

Digital Trends

Here are our two best methods: One for offline and one for online. Need to rip audio from a YouTube video?

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Apple Music is missing one major thing: a classic iPod to go with it

The Verge

It should keep the click-wheel of course, but I can’t stop thinking about how good an iPod, designed for the age of music streaming, AirPods, and high-res displays would be. The other, perhaps more obvious reason, is that the iPod is a music-centric device, and Apple literally has a service called Apple Music. But so what?

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Apple gradually restores multiple services knocked offline

Digital Trends

Multiple Apple services suffered a serious outage Tuesday night, with iCloud, the App Store, Apple TV+, Apple Music, and Apple Arcade among those affected.

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