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Spotify is the biggest music streaming service today, beating out a long list of competitors from the biggest names in tech.

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Spotify finally brings Taste Profile to the US, and it sounds like a boon for your iffy feed

After testing it among a small pool of users, Spotify is finally rolling out the new Taste Profile feature for users in the US market. Broadly, it lets you conversationally change what you see in your music, podcast, and audiobook feed.
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Spotify can finally stop your kids from wrecking your Wrapped and music recommendations

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Silicon Valley wants AI everywhere. It just doesn’t want us to notice

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Google Home finally fixes its clunky voice commands, but most users can’t get them yet

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Spotify’s new Running Mode takes workout playlists to another level

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Spotify’s Playlist Notes makes it easier to add context to your favorite picks

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Spotify is finally calling out AI artists, and you’ll see it right away

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Spotify’s new Running Mode knows exactly when your playlist should speed up

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The music industry wants AI slop kicked off the charts, and it finally has a plan

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Spotify meets Snap Map in Snapchat’s latest update

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Volvo is rolling out Apple Music to over 2 million cars with a simple OTA update

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Every app on my phone has decided I need AI, and none of them bothered to ask

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Your child can now get a free Spotify account with parental controls

Kids can now get a music only Spotify account for free, complete with playlists, recommendations, and their own Wrapped summary.
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Spotify’s new conversational AI can play tracks you request and answer your music questions

Spotify is rolling out a conversational AI feature that can play requested tracks, answer music questions, and refine selections through follow-up prompts.
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Your next song could soon carry an AI warning label, and the music industry is all for it

The music industry wants Spotify and Apple Music to label AI-generated songs, giving listeners greater transparency as artificial intelligence becomes increasingly common in music production.
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Spotify just gave Release Radar new controls so you can find new music your way

Spotify is rolling out new session controls to Release Radar globally, letting you filter your weekly new music playlist by genre, new artists, or editor picks before you hit play.
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Spotify finally lets you pin more than four items in your library, and it only took a few years

Spotify raised its library pin limit from four to 20 for all users, free and premium, making it more generous than Apple Music's six-pin cap.
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Spotify’s streaming fraud issue runs so deep that Kalshi traders are profiting from rigged charts

Spotify has removed more than half a million streams from Malcolm Todd’s song “Earrings” after finding suspected bot activity, according to a report by Financial Times. The track, first released in 2024, suddenly rose to No. 1 on Spotify’s daily U.S. chart after a sharp jump in streams. At the same time, traders on prediction […]
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Tidal lays down the rules for AI music. I wish Spotify and everyone else would follow

Tidal's new AI music policy, effective July 15, prevents fully AI-generated tracks from earning royalties, adds AI labels, and lets listeners filter out all AI-generated content.
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Spotify adds editor-led videos to New Music Friday so you can meet the people picking your music

Spotify is embedding editor-led videos inside its New Music Friday playlist for US listeners, giving the weekly discovery experience a more personal feel.
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Spotify removed tens of thousands of fake podcasts tied to online drug sales

A congressional report claims thousands of fake podcasts were used to boost illegal pharmacy websites, prompting Spotify to remove more than 57,000 episodes.
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Deezer is fighting against slop with a tool that detects AI music on streaming platforms

Deezer's free AI music detector checks playlists across major streaming platforms, but the bigger move is its push to license synthetic-song detection across the music industry.
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A jazz label covered an AI-generated hit to make a point the music industry has been avoiding

A jazz label turned a faceless AI song into a statement about human creativity and built a tool to back it up.
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After years of yearning, Spotify will let you organize playlist folders on mobile

After years of being desktop-only, Spotify playlist folders are finally on mobile, joining bulk editing, background downloads for iOS, and a reshuffle button in a new wave of app updates.
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Spotify now lets you clip and share your favorite podcast moments on social media

Spotify has introduced Podcast Clips, giving listeners the ability to save and share standout moments from podcasts.
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Spotify’s new AI app can generate daily briefings and personalized podcasts for you

Spotify's new Studio app uses AI to generate personal podcasts and daily briefings built around your listening history, calendar, and inbox.
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Your most played artists on Spotify could get you early access to their tour tickets

Spotify's new Reserved feature holds two concert tickets for an artist's most dedicated Premium fans before tickets go on sale to the general public.
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Spotify will let you use AI to make covers and remixes of your favourite songs, for an extra fee

Spotify and Universal Music Group announced a deal that will let Premium subscribers use AI to create covers and remixes of their favourite songs.
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Spotify adds verified podcast badges so you know you’re listening to the real host, and not an AI clone

Spotify is rolling out verified badges for podcasts and tightening its rules around AI voice cloning to make sure the podcasts you love are actually made by the people you think they are.
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Spotify now wants you to relive your entire music personality arc

Spotify’s new feature looks back at your music history, from your first song and all-time favorite artist to a 120-track playlist of the songs you played the most.
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Spotify now lets AI agents like OpenClaw and Claude Code create Personal Podcasts for you

With Spotify's new tool, AI agents like OpenClaw, Claude Code, and OpenAI Codex can now turn your daily briefings, class notes, and travel plans into a listenable Personal Podcast.
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You can now request songs from Spotify DJ in French, German, Italian, and Portuguese too

Spotify is expanding its DJ feature in beta to Premium users in over 75 markets and adding four new languages, French, so more listeners can make voice requests in their own language.
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Spotify adds verified artist badges so that you know you’re listening to a human, and not AI

Spotify is rolling out a new Verified badge and artist activity details to help you know if there's a real human behind the music you love.
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Spotify apparently has no solid plan to label AI-generated music

Spotify has half a billion listeners, a recommendation engine that knows your mood better than your therapist — and apparently, no real plan to tell you if what you're hearing was made by a human or a chatbot on a Tuesday afternoon.
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Spotify wants to be your fitness coach with guided workout sessions

Spotify has launched a new Fitness hub, giving Free users access to curated workout playlists from top wellness creators, while Premium users unlock 1,400+ ad-free Peloton classes.
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You can finally organize your Spotify playlists into folders on your phone

Spotify's new mobile playlist folders let you group playlists, play everything inside a folder at once, and even hit shuffle across the whole collection.
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Deezer says AI-generated songs now make up 44% of daily uploads

Deezer says nearly half of daily music uploads are now AI-generated, raising concerns around quality, fraud, and originality.
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You can now buy physical books in the Spotify app

Spotify is now letting you buy physical books through its app in the U.S. and U.K., expanding beyond audiobooks with features like Page Match, Recaps, and Charts to build a more connected reading experience.

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