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Spotify introduces skip button for podcast sponsorships but keeps its own ads

By Rowan Davies Last updated

Spotify quietly added a new way for you to skip through ads in podcast episodes, but some fear it's the beginning of the end for creators.

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Spotify lacks album folders, so I've started using third-party apps

By Rowan Davies Published

Spotify still doesn't let you add albums to folders, so I've been using Musicboard to keep track of my favorite releases instead.

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Spotify plans AI-powered remix feature as new subscription add-on

By Rowan Davies Published

Spotify's agreement with Merlin brings it one step closer to launching its AI-powered remix tool, but where do industry professionals stand on it?

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Musician recording with a guitar and keyboard.
Suno, the biggest AI music company, is finally trying to solve a problem its own success helped create

By Graham Barlow Published

The AI music revolution has hit an awkward reality — even Suno is starting to put the brakes on.

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Creator of software label A Vinyl Bar in Shibuya, Mauhan M. Zonoozy, and the company logo
Former Head of Innovation at Spotify is building interactive 'digital music playgrounds'

By Rowan Davies Published

Mauhan M. Zonoozy was Head of Innovation at Spotify, and now he's taking on the world of music streaming with his own interactive platforms.

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The Spine Music album dispplay next to an image of its founder, Ricardo Amorim
New digital display Spine organizes streaming libraries like CD collections

By Rowan Davies Published

Spine Music founder Ricardo Amorim is putting his love for albums and CD collecting into a new digital music display.

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Split image of a black iPod nano 2006 in person's hand (left) and a man sat on a sofa looking at the nano's screen listening through wired headphones (right)
I found my 2006 iPod nano during a clearout — and it was an emotive pre-streaming time capsule

By Timothy Coleman Published

From iTunes to Spotify: what recovering my iPod nano 2006 during a clearout revealed about how my music listening habits have changed

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A split-screen image with Qobuz's managing director Dan Mackta and the Qobuz app on a smartphone, with TR's 'On the Record' franchise badge in the foreground
‘Let's be real: we're doomed — but let’s also try to hold it at bay’: Qobuz’s Dan Mackta on music’s big AI issue

By Becky Scarrott Published

‘The whole thing is just a really, really big bummer’ — Qobuz’s Managing Director on the scourge of AI-generated audio in streaming, and why he still refuses to call it music

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A split-screen image with Deezer's screen depicting AI content on one side, Manuel Moussallam (Deezer's head of research) on the other, and TR's 'AV Insider' badge in the bottom left corner
Deezer's Head of Research on the company's industry-leading AI filter

By Becky Scarrott Published

‘Just by relying on some plain signal processing and mathematical tools, we were able to actually detect these artifacts for most models out there’

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Spotify is reportedly working on a native song identification feature

By Rowan Davies Published

Spotify is tipped to launch a built-in song identifier tool to one-up Apple and Shazam.

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