Spotify, the leading music-streaming service, in its most recent quarterly filing announced that it now has a hundred million customers on its paid Premium tier.
Spotify zooms past 100 million paid subscribers
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Amazon is reportedly readying a $15 per month high-resolution music streaming service
After treating Alexa customers in the United States to free ad-supported music, Amazon is now thought to be gearing up to launch a premium music offering rocking higher audio resolution.
How to play songs at the same volume level in Apple Music
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How to get real-time song lyrics in Apple Music and Shazam
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ReachIt puts a Now Playing music interface in the empty Reachability space
Modern iPhones have become so massive that it’s becoming a challenge to operate them one-handed. For this reason, Apple implemented a feature in iOS called Reachability that pulls the contents of your display farther down so you can reach them with your thumb.
On any stock device, the Reachability interface leaves a large gap of unused space at the top of your display, but a new free jailbreak tweak called ReachIt by iOS developer Nepeta makes use of that wasted screen real estate by incorporating a Now Playing music interface into it.
This tweak enables true randomized playback shuffling in Spotify
I still prefer using Spotify over Apple Music, but that’s not to say that the former couldn’t do with some improvements. One of the most notable gripes about Spotify is that the random shuffle isn’t as random as some folks would prefer.
Here to a rescue is a new free jailbreak tweak called TrueShuffle by iOS developer Yung Specht, which, as the name implies, brings true song randomization to the Spotify app on jailbroken devices.
JumpSkip lets you skip between music tracks with your volume buttons
As you listen to music on your iOS device, you can move forward and back between tracks with the designated buttons in the Now Playing widget. But if your handset is in your pocket, then you can’t switch between tracks without first pulling the device out of your pocket.
JumpSkip is a new free jailbreak tweak by iOS developer Karimo299 that lets you move forward and back between music tracks without taking your device out of your pocket; instead, you can articulate specific volume button sequences to accomplish this task.
Unclutter your Lock screen’s Now Playing widget with Clean Player
As you listen to music on your iPhone or iPad, your device displays an interactive Now Playing widget on the Lock screen so that you can view information about what’s playing and control your music playback. On the other hand, some people would argue that the widget shows more controls than it needs to.
Clean Player is a new free jailbreak tweak by iOS developers Easy-Z and CloudDev that aims to resolve this problem by providing users with the ability to configure what does and doesn’t appear in the Now Playing widget.
Apple Music’s For You section gains theme-based recommendations & editorial highlights
Apple Music today began rolling out some noteworthy content suggestions, as well as theme-based editorial highlights and personalized playlists in the For You tab.
Amazon may challenge Spotify, Apple with free music that’d be available only if you ask Alexa
Amazon is allegedly in talks to launch an ad-supported music offering in a few days. While free of charge, it would come with a twist—you'd need to ask Alexa to play a song.
Artistry displays album artwork in every playlist in the Spotify app
Anyone who uses the Spotify app for their music streaming needs as opposed to Apple’s native Apple Music interface knows that Spotify can be somewhat skimpy in terms of displaying album artwork throughout the app, especially in song playlists. Fortunately, those with jailbreaks won’t need to put up with that any longer.
Artistry is a new free jailbreak tweak by iOS developer Yung_Specht that forces the Spotify app to display album artwork to left of the song information in each and every one of your playlist interfaces, as shown in the screenshot example above.
How to sort your Mac’s Music library the way you want
Learn how to sort your music collection to your liking, ensuring easy access to your favorite songs, albums, playlists, and more.