Apple and Amazon both announced Monday they will make lossless audio available to subscribers at no additional fee. The format maintains CD-quality sound while keeping file sizes small.
Spotify s Changing Plans
On Apr. 27, Spotify announced the launch of podcast subscriptions. But it is only rolling them out for select partners at the moment, and has said podcasters won t have to pay it for the service for the first two years, meaning subscribers are unlikely to see it generate any extra revenue for the platform until 2023.
This is a similar story with the company s Car Thing music player, which is only getting a limited launch for now, and which the company is currently giving away instead of selling.
The report release follows Spotify s announcement that it would soon be increasing prices for its family plan in the US, and Duo, Student, and Family plans in the United Kingdom, and some European countries.
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In the last few days something amazing is playing out on Spotify Bruce Springsteen and former US President Barack Obama are chatting about race, fatherhood and societal divisions in America. Their podcast, Renegades: Born in the USA, come across as two guys who admire each other and are equally worried about where their country is headed.
“In our own ways, Bruce and I have been on parallel journeys. We still share a fundamental belief in the American ideal. Not as an airbrushed, cheap fiction or an act of nostalgia that ignores all the ways that we’ve fallen short of