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Spotify just got a neat upgrade, but YouTube Music is paywalling a feature

By David Nield Published

There's good news if you're a Spotify Premium subscriber, but less good news if you're on the free YouTube Music tier.

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Spotify competes with Amazon with new partnership that allows you to buy physical books

By Rowan Davies Last updated

Spotify's new audiobook upgrades allow you to purchase physical books from the app and more, and it's now in competition with Amazon.

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Spotify has rolled out three new features for Lyrics, including translations

By Rowan Davies Published

Spotify is finally launching Lyric Translations globally, and it's also giving it a new home in the mobile app.

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Deezer's AI music-detection tool is now available for rival services to use

By Rowan Davies Published

Deezer has been tagging AI-generated content for a year, and now it's encouraging its competitors to do the same.

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‘We think it’s vitally important to be transparent with listeners and fair to artists’: Deezer says viral ‘singer’ Sienna Rose, with millions of Spotify streams, is an AI fake

By Rowan Davies Published

'Singer' Sienna Rose is riding the Spotify charts, but her entire act is an AI-generated façade.

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Spotify's Prompted Playlist feature is fun, but it's still early days for the new music-curating tool

By Rowan Davies Published

Spotify just launched Prompted Playlists in the US and Canada, and it's a clever new playlist-making tool, but it could do with some TLC.

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Spotify is testing a handy new audiobook tool, and it's already beaten Audible

By Rowan Davies Published

Do you switch between physical and digital books a lot? This new Spotify audiobook feature could be a lifesaver

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New year, new upgrades – here are 5 improvements I want Spotify to make in 2026

By Rowan Davies Published

2025 was great, but 2026 could be even better. These are the upgrades I need to see from Spotify this year.

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ICYMI: the week's 7 biggest tech stories like Apple losing to Google, and Meta giving up on VR

By Hamish Hector Published

The biggest tech news stories from Meta, Amazon, Apple, and more for January 17, 2026.

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As Bandcamp posts a short, two-point policy banning AI music on its site, I wonder why it's so hard for Spotify…

By Becky Scarrott Published

Bandcamp just showed Spotify how it's done, banning 'any use of AI tools to impersonate other artists or styles'

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