#streaming-music — Public Fediverse posts

What’s a streaming service outside of apple / Spotify?

#streamingmusic #streaming #foss

Associated Press: Taylor Swift and Bad Bunny top Spotify’s first all-time most streamed artists list. “It’s her, hi! Taylor Swift has topped Spotify’s first ever list of the most streamed artists of all time, published Thursday morning. She’s followed by Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny. That comes as no surprise: In 2025 the artist born Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio was named the […]

Local News Matters Bay Area: Bay Area Gen Z revives physical music formats over streaming platforms. “Last December, 17-year-old Navya Chitlur had only one thing on her Christmas list: a portable CD player. She’d been collecting CDs from her favorite artists for the last few months — but now she wanted to go all in and actually listen to them.”

Taylor Swift’s ‘The Life Of A Showgirl’ Helped Drive Music Industry To Record Sales In 2025; Vinyl Tops $1B For First Time Since 1983, RIAA Says
#News #2025 #BadBunny #Music #Musicrevenue #RecordingIndustryAssociationOfAmerica #Streamingmusic #TaylorSwift #Vinyl

https://deadline.com/2026/03/taylor-swift-music-industry-record-sales-2025-vinyl-1236756626/

Gen Z loves AI for homework, hates it in their headphones

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/03/gen-z-ai-music-study/

The Register: Pop music fans literally dying to stream hot new albums – in car crashes, that is . “A group of researchers affiliated with Harvard Medical School recently issued a working paper reporting an association between the release days of the most-streamed albums and an increase in US traffic fatalities. The authors say the pattern is consistent with smartphone-enabled driver […]

Since discovering #RadioParadise in a café whilst visiting Romania last year, it's #RadioParadiseMellowMix has been regular background music in our house. When the Mrs is out or when I'm working, #RadioParadiseRockIt! is my go to. I can't recommend it enough. No adverts, 5 great music channels and entirely listener donation supported. Give it a go, I rarely use #Deezer anymore. It's Radio Paradise or my own collection now. 📻 https://radioparadise.com/home
#Music #StreamingMusic #Radio #WorldMusic

Associated Press: Music streams hit 5 trillion in 2025. Christian, rock and Latin lead growth in the US. “The global music industry hit 5.1 trillion streams in 2025. It’s a new single-year record, up 9.6% from 2024, which held the previous record. That’s according to a 2025 Year-End Report from Luminate, an industry data and analytics company that provides insight into changing behaviors […]

Spotify Raising U.S. Price Of Premium Subscription
#News #Price #Spotify #Streamingmusic

https://deadline.com/2026/01/spotify-raising-subscription-price-1236684093/

Gig! Gig! Gig!
Saturday, Dec 20th, 6-9pm
With my wonderful friends at Chapter Two Brewing Company

This is it, my last real gig for 2025! And I get to do it at one of my forever favorite places

There will be some Ginger Folky standards, your Beer Runs, your Irish Rovers, your Last Shanties.... But there will also be some of the Xmas/Festive/Seasonal songs I've been lashin out for the last bunch of weeks all over Windsor/Essex County.

Then, Xmas Eve Eve, Tuesday Dec 23rd, at I think 7pm Eastern, I'll do that live stream to YouTube. About an hour of the Festive Folky Show. You can Sub here and click the bell to get notified https://www.youtube.com/c/ClintonAndersonAllen

Then I'll be done till 2026

Maybe I'll even change some strings

Cheers!!!
#WindsorON
#FolkMusic
#LiveMusic
#Ontario
#Canada
#CraftBeer
#StreamingMusic

When Musi was taken off the App Store, many users lost their preferred service for streaming music.

In 2025, free music alternatives are available, but not all are independent of app store control.
Read the full blog to find the best options.

https://neuronus.net/en/blog/best-free-music-alternatives-to-the-musi-app-in-2025

#MusiAlternatives #FreeMusicApps #MusicApps #AppStoreAlternatives #StreamingMusic #2025Music #Neronus

"If everyone who streamed All Hell on Spotify had done so using Tidal instead, we would have received an extra £31,847.38, which would double the amount we made from streaming of the album in this time period. Or if everyone used Apple Music it would have been £12,331 more."

Really liked this very honest overview of streaming income from Los Campesinos.

(fwiw, have been using Tidal for a year now I think, and really no regrets.)

#Spotify #Tidal #StreamingMusic

https://loscampesinos.com/heres-how-much-money-los-camp-make-from-streaming/

Spotify users in the U.S. may see another price adjustment coming 📱 in Q1 2026, according to industry reports. The streaming platform faces pressure from music labels while balancing profitability goals after heavy investments in podcasts and audiobooks 🎧. Read the article to learn what this could mean for your subscription.

#Spotify #StreamingMusic #MusicStreaming #Subscription #TechNews

https://true-tech.net/spotify-us-subscription-price-hike-early-2026/

MakeUseOf: I tried 5 apps that let you stream free music and this one is better than Spotify. “I discovered an ecosystem of open-source music streaming apps, all of which are YouTube Music clients that deliver ad-free streaming without subscriptions, logins, or guilt trips about premium features. Each one has a distinct personality and a reason you might pick it over Spotify. After testing […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/18/makeuseof-i-tried-5-apps-that-let-you-stream-free-music-and-this-one-is-better-than-spotify/

Spotify spotted working on a ‘SongDNA’ feature that showcases the people behind your favorite music

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/15/spotify-spotted-working-on-a-songdna-feature-that-showcases-the-people-behind-your-favorite-music/

Neil Young plans to pull his music off Amazon as he calls out Jeff Bezos for supporting Trump - The landing page for Neil Young’s music archive on Amazon Music. (Amazon Music sc... - https://www.geekwire.com/2025/neil-young-plans-to-pull-his-music-off-amazon-as-he-calls-out-jeff-bezos-for-supporting-trump/ #streamingmusic #amazonmusic #jeffbezos #neilyoung #geeklife #amazon #music

Weekly output: Ford’s EV strategy, Open RAN security risks, Waymo + Spotify

After a week and a half on the West Coast that began with Black Hat, I can now turn my attention to catching up on the talks I had to skip at that conference, since on-demand video is now available for all but a handful of its sessions. Video of some DEF CON talks is also now starting to pop up, and I’m looking forward in particular to seeing the Voting Village talks that I missed because I bugged out of Vegas Friday afternoon of that week.

Patreon readers got a recap of Black Hat that included some observations about Washington’s wilted presence at this security conference and the generally skeptical take of conference speakers on AI hype.

8/11/2025: Ford Announces $5B Plan to Make EVs Cheaper, Starting With $30,000 Pickup, PCMag

With PCMag’s automotive writer traveling, I stepped in to write this breakdown of the automaker’s ambitious plan to reinvent electric-vehicle production. I hope Ford can deliver on this, and I hope the coming family of cheaper EVs will include a four-door hatchback (even if they call it an SUV or a crossover because it’s a little taller than a sedan).

8/14/2025: Researchers recap some security downsides to open RAN, Light Reading

This Black Hat briefing on Thursday of the previous week about possible vulnerabilites in Open RAN (Radio Access Network) sites went much deeper in the weeds than I usually get when covering telecom infrastructure. So I took an extra couple of days to look over the presentation again, read the reports linked to from it, listen again to my recording of the session, and briefly quiz researchers Tianchang Yang and Kai Tu over e-mail. And then I somehow typed two numbers wrong in the same graf, both of which I’d had correct in my notes. Fortunately, my editor quickly fixed those flubs after Yang brought them to my attention.

8/16/2025: Waymo Picks Up Spotify: Cue Up Personal Playlists on Robotaxi Rides, PCMag

I found out about this change to the Waymo ride experience not from one of that Alphabet subsidiary’s social-media posts, a note from any of its publicists, or an announcement on its site, but from an e-mail I got as a Waymo customer Friday morning. I felt a little bad learning that Waymo had posted this news on four different social platforms Tuesday, but then I realized that earlier news coverage had not mentioned Waymo’s removal of online documentation about an older, jankier way to play music from your phone through a Waymo robotaxi’s speakers.

#5G #BlackHat #correction #electricCars #electricVehicles #EVs #Ford #OpenRAN #robotaxi #Spotify #streamingMusic #telecomSecurity #Waymo

PSA for those who are thinking of leaving #Spotify: Tidal has a very similar UI, so it'll be very easy to migrate to. I highly recommend it; I jumped from Spotify to #Tidal back when I heard about Spotify giving money to Joe Rogan, and haven't looked back.

They pay artists more, pay Rogan less (i.e., zero), don't cram playlists with AI-generated pabulum, and don't support military weapons development.

https://tidal.com/

#TidalMusic #music #StreamingMusic

And another student Elijah Mubanga, ready to graduate! #MusicIndustryCareers #MixingMusic #StreamingMusic #SpotifyArtists #AppleMusic 
#SoundCloudRap #BeatMakerLife #TrapBeats #RapBeats #HipHopBeats #RockvilleMD 

June 7 Omega Studio Tour! Sign up now to be part of an incredible experience of live music, surround mixing, beat making and more!

#MusicIndustryCareers #MixingMusic #StreamingMusic #SoundCloudRap #BeatMakerLife #TrapBeats #RapBeats #HipHopBeats #EDMProduction #RockvilleMD

Spotted on Kottke: I Don’t Have Spotify. Enter a Spotify song URL and get it “translated” to other music services, including Apple Music, Deezer, and my favorite, Tidal.

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/13/i-dont-have-spotify/

Omega graduate Nyx Radov is really happy with the two mix playback.

#FutureProducer #MusicIndustryCareers #MixingMusic #StreamingMusic #SpotifyArtists #AppleMusic #TidalStreaming #SoundCloudRap #BeatMakerLife #TrapBeats #RapBeats #RockvilleMD

Omega graduate Nyx Radov is really happy with the two mix.

#FutureProducer #MusicIndustryCareers #MixingMusic #StreamingMusic #SpotifyArtists #AppleMusic #TidalStreaming #SoundCloudRap #BeatMakerLife #TrapBeats #RapBeats #RockvilleMD

AFP: US music industry posts 100 million paid streaming users. “The US music industry passed 100 million paid streaming subscriptions for the first time in 2024, according to the latest report from the Recording Industry Association of America released Tuesday. The US industry’s total revenue last year increased 3% to $17.7 billion retail, the report said, up half a billion dollars from […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/21/afp-us-music-industry-posts-100-million-paid-streaming-users/