Quartz
Music streaming may actually be falling because of coronavirus
2 min · · People are listening to the most popular songs on Spotify less frequently in coronavirus impacted countries. · Shared by 154, including Scott Monty, tylercowen, Azeem Azhar, Benedict Evans, Jeremy Liew, #BLM #StopAsianHate
NPR
How The Brain Teases Apart A Song's Words And Music
2 min · · Brain scans show that when people listen to songs, an area in the left hemisphere decodes speech-like sounds while one on the right processes musical information. · Shared by 224, including Dr. Price-Mitchell, Liv 😷, Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute, Jane
VICE
Musicians Algorithmically Generate Every Possible Melody, Release Them to Public Domain
2 min · · Damien Riehl and Noah Rubin generated and saved every possible melody to a hard drive, then turned it back around to the commons. · Shared by 155, including Cem Sertoglu 🤖, Chris Heilmann codepo8@toot.cafe, John Koetsier, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Dan Gillmor is at mastodon.social/@dangillmor, Sam Proud, Elizabeth Picciuto, hardmaru
Spotify Engineering
Spotify Unwrapped: How we brought you a decade of data
5 min · · The Spotify Wrapped Campaign is one of Spotify’s largest marketing and social campaigns of the year. It enables our users to see a detailed breakdown of their listening habits over the past year.… · Shared by 212, including Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Oscar MacDonald, Tom Connor, Tauno, Stephanie A Kowalski, Dr. Ganapathi Pulipaka 🇺🇸, sircharlsxavier, Ferit (at 🏠) 🌙, Mike Tamir, PhD
Vox
Spotify is buying Bill Simmons’ The Ringer to boost its podcast business
4 min · · It’s the fourth podcast deal Spotify has done in a year. · Shared by 72, including Richard MacManus, Florian Jungnikl-Gossy 🦋, M.G. Siegler, Frank Gruber, John Koetsier
engineering.shopify.com
React Native is the Future of Mobile at Shopify
9 min · · After years of native mobile development, we’ve decided to go full steam ahead building all of our new mobile apps using React Native. As I’ll explain, that decision doesn’t come lightly. Each… · Shared by 195, including Ahrbil, danabramov.bsky.social, René Clausen Nielsen, Rebecca (Slatkin) Sloane, Andreia Costa 🇵🇹, Stan Chollet, Clemens, Zain Fathoni, Matthias Lampe, EQuimper, Ben Sandofsky, Max Stoiber
Rolling Stone
Has Amazon Already Figured Out the Future of the Music Streaming Business?
4 min · · In order to grow, streaming services may need to offer customers more, better, and cheaper subscription options — something Amazon is already doing · Shared by 74, including Bas Grasmayer, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯
The Verge
Spotify will use everything it knows about you to target podcast ads
4 min · · New ad technology for Spotify-exclusive podcasts is coming · Shared by 79, including Konrad Weber, Builtvisible, Stephanie A Kowalski, Chris Messina, DHH, Stefan Diepolder, Matthias «Delay» Göbel
Quartz
Music streaming services mishandle our data—and our culture is paying for it
12+ min · · Major music streaming services and media outlets lack an understanding of how new music culture evolves, but they still hold the power to determine success. · Shared by 53, including Bas Grasmayer, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer
Next INpact.com
La Cour de cassation confirme la redevance sur les musiques libres diffusées dans les magasins
2 min · · Jamendo SA, Audiovalley SA (ex-Musicmatic SA) et Storever France SAS (ex-Musicmatic France SAS) avaient formé un pourvoi en cassation. Selon eux, la c... · Shared by 4, including jean marc manach @manhack@social.tcit.fr
spotify.design
Reimagining Design Systems at Spotify
10 min · · How we build design systems that fit our culture of autonomyIn November we introduced Encore, Spotify’s new approach to design systems. What’s cool about Encore is that it’s not just one thing: it’s… · Shared by 252, including Tom Connor, Gabriele, Veerle Pieters, George M 🇪🇺, Marius Bleuer, Johannes Dornisch, r͏a͏m͏o͏n (🔥, 🚀, ✨), Luca Longo, Bas Grasmayer, Matt, Stu Collett, pizza.lottie 🍕, Chris Heilmann codepo8@toot.cafe, Oscar MacDonald, Adham Dannaway, Karl Schwaier
TNW
The makers of TikTok are testing a new swipe-to-skip streaming music app
2 min · · TikTok owner ByteDance has just started testing its music streaming app, Resso, in India and Indonesia. The TikTok-styled app was quietly released at the end of the last month. A report from Bloomberg… · Shared by 10, including Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯
Presse-citron
Vous allez bientôt pouvoir utiliser Spotify comme un karaoké !
1 min · · Très bientôt, vous devriez pouvoir utiliser Spotify comme un authentique karaoké. Explications.
Presse-citron
Spotify permet, à tous, de diffuser de la musique via les enceintes Bose, Sonos, IKEA...
1 min · · Spotify permet désormais aux abonnés à l'offre gratuite de profiter de nouvelles fonctions, notamment avec les enceintes Bose, Sonos et IKEA.
la-fabrique-culturelle.sacem.fr
Que peut (vraiment) apporter l'IA à la musique de demain ?
6 min · · Deux spécialistes imaginent avec nous la place que prendront les IA dans notre rapport à la découverte musicale.
The Verge
Spotify thinks its algorithm can find your next favorite podcast
2 min · · Spotify is launching Your Daily Podcast, a daily playlist that gives listeners podcast recommendations · Shared by 34, including Matt Navarra, Builtvisible, Thomas Power