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Customers booking domestic or international flights through IndiGo's official website or mobile app can avail a four-month free trial of Spotify Premium Individual Plan
Reportedly, the new subscription tier of Spotify will offer lossless audio similar to what the company announced in 2021 with Spotify HiFi
The 1.7 million streams for these songs establishes how much our customers are enjoying the content while we help the artist, Amit Tripathi said
Support for lossless audio enables audio streaming in high resolution. Select other music streaming services, such as Apple Music, Amazon Prime Music, and Tidal, already support lossless audio
Available in beta for Spotify premium users, the AI-generated playlist feature is currently limited to the UK and Australia
ByteDance, best known for its short video app TikTok, launched Resso in India, Indonesia, and Brazil in March 2020
Spotify's chief financial officer will step down next year, according to the music streaming service, just days after it announced its third round of layoffs for 2023. In a statement announcing CFO Paul Vogel's departure, CEO Daniel Ek said that the two had come to the conclusion that Spotify is entering a new phase and needs a CFO with a different mix of experiences. Spotify said this week that it would be axing 17 per cent of its global workforce, citing the need to slash costs and become profitable. About 1,500 people will lose their jobs, a spokesperson confirmed. Shortly after the layoffs were announced Monday, Spotify's stock jumped about 8 per cent. On Tuesday, Vogel moved to sell more than USD 9.3 million worth of shares, according to securities filings. Two other senior executives also cashed in over USD 1.6 million in shares, The Guardian reported. The Associated Press reached out to Spotify for further comment on Friday. Vogel will leave Spotify on March 31. Ben Kung,
Spotify would not allow users on free tier to use rewind tracks and reorder track list features, but it would put no restriction on streaming
Wynk Music said that it would add music catalogue from Yash Raj Films (YRF), Saregama, and Phonographic Digital Limited (PDL) in Dolby Atmos format in eight languages
Last year, Indians paid over Rs. 1,000 crore to listen to (audio) books, drama series and political discussions among other things, going by data from London-based research firm Omdia
The company has resorted to aggressive expansion to supplement its earnings from music streaming with other revenue-generating formats such as podcasts
The feature, where users can instantly see detailed song information, such as who the singer is and who wrote, produced, and composed each track, has long been a part of many other streaming services
The company last week announced to slash 6 per cent of its workforce, or about 600 staffers, globally, and Ek announced that he was too ambitious in investing ahead of their revenue growth
Google-owned music streaming platform YouTube Music gets mood filters, i.e. "activity bar" with various moods to tune what appears in the Home feed on the web
Music streaming platform Spotify on Friday said that it has fixed the issue that affected its website and application
In October, Spotify laid off 38 people from its Gimlet Media and Parcast podcast studios
Tech giant Apple is reportedly working on a standalone classical music application, according to hidden code found in iOS 16.3, which it planned to release last year
Some 82,000 New Year's Eve playlists were created between December 25, 2021 and January 31, 2022, and around 40,000 playlists were created on New Year's night itself
Last month, Spotify added a one-button voice isolation feature in its Anchor app for podcast creators
In April, the Swedish audio service had integrated its live audio capabilities from its companion app, Spotify Greenroom, into its main app itself