Is Streaming Music the Apple Watch Killer App?; Pandora Adds Curated Playlists to On-Demand Music Service
Streaming Music On The Apple Watch May Not Be Perfect, But It’s Still A Boon For Runners — www.fastcompany.com
Streaming music could turn out to be the connected Watch’s killer app.
With just your Watch and your AirPods (or some other earphones), you have access to all your music in the cloud, the Apple Music catalogue, and live “radio” streams like Beats 1.
Pandora adds curated playlists to its on-demand music service — www.engadget.com
For years, the main feature of Pandora’s music streaming service has been stations generated from the company’s vast Music Genome Project. A system that analyzes songs based on 450 different attributes, it helps Pandora build stations of songs that the company claims go together better than what other services offer.
But, the company finally launched a full-fledged, on-demand service earlier this year, and now it’s expanding the kinds of music it curates for users.
Can artificial intelligence beat musicians at their craft? — thenextweb.com
Should musicians, whose job relies on the unpredictable and mysterious workings of human imagination, heed the warnings about artificial intelligence driving humans into unemployment?
Apparently, the answer to that question is bit complicated.
Songkick Discovery says “we’re not going anywhere” — www.completemusicupdate.com
With the Songkickers gearing up for a full on fist fight with Live Nation and Ticketmaster in the American courts next month — having blamed the live giant for the demise of their own ticketing platform — the other Songkickers would like you to know that it’s business as usual, and that they’ll be kicking you in the direction of some fine live songs just like always.
Get Your Holiday Music on the Radio — blog.symphonicdistribution.com
December is approaching us quickly! Here’s how you can get your holiday releases on the radio.
SoundShare’s new app lets you create playlists with friends, stream them to Apple TV — techcrunch.com
SoundShare, an app that lets you text your friends entire songs, was already one of the more clever iOS applications available. Recently, the app rolled out..
Spotify’s Stranger Things mode sends your browser to the Upside Down — www.standard.co.uk
Stranger Things 2 is just a few days away — and Spotify has implemented a fun new feature to celebrate. The music streaming service has added a spooky Upside Down filter to its web player and desktop app that will make you even more desperate for the new episodes to drop.
YouTube music videos will count less in a hit song’s chart success — qz.com
Spotify has around 140 million active users. Apple Music, about 30 million. YouTube — which doesn’t present itself as a music-streaming service but is the biggest in the world, per the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry — is eight times larger than both combined, with 1.5 billion people logging onto its site every month.
Spotify says free service reaches more people than commercial radio but Radiocentre sceptical — www.thedrum.com
Spotify has said that its ad-supported service commands a greater share of unique listeners compared to UK commercial radio stations, however industry trade body Radiocentre has said the numbers fail to illustrate the “bigger picture”.
37 million Brits tune into YouTube — www.tvbeurope.com
New figures from comScore study.
Watch: See How Blockchain Is Revolutionizing Music In This Short Doc — www.magneticmag.com
RAC & UJO Music show how blockchain can change the music business.
