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Tonverk is Elektron’s new polyphonic sample mangler and groovebox | The Verge

Elektron’s Tonverk is a powerful sample mangler and groovebox built on an entirely new hardware platform.

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Spotify adds lossless streaming after 8 years of teasing | The Verge

Spotify is finally adding support for streaming lossless 24-bit / 44.1 kHz FLAC audio to its Premium plan.

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Spotify is adding DMs | The Verge

Spotify’s direct messaging feature allows Free and Premium users to share music, podcast, and audiobook recommendations with each other without leaving the app.

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YouTube Music turns 10 and adds new ‘taste match’ playlists | The Verge

The shared playlists will change based on what people are listening to.

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TikTok is putting the spotlight on songwriters | The Verge

TikTok is rolling out new features for songwriters, allowing them to highlight the music they’ve written or co-written on their profiles.

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05.07.2025

Deerhoof didn’t want to fund ‘AI battle tech’ — so it ditched Spotify | The Verge

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Lorde’s new CD is so transparent that stereos can’t even read it | The Verge

Lorde fans are reporting that many CD players, car stereos, and other sound systems are unable to play her transparent ‘Virgin’ disc.

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02.07.2025

Apple Music marks 10 years of streaming with a new all-time Replay list | The Verge

Apple Music is celebrating the 10-year anniversary of its streaming service by giving users a throwback to their favorite hits over the last decade.

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02.07.2025

Can the music industry make AI the next Napster? | The Verge

Suno and Udio are both facing down copyright suits for the unauthorized use of music for training data. The music industry has a secret weapon: sampling cases.

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21.06.2025

Spotify’s HiFi lossless streaming might really, finally, actually be coming soon | The Verge

Spotify announced its intention to add a lossless tier more than four years ago, and hidden mentions of lossless are buried in the client.

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14.06.2025

Instagram grid customization is coming next week | The Verge

Instagram’s long-awaited profile grid customization feature will start to roll out widely next week.

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31.05.2025

Taylor Swift now owns all of her music | The Verge

Taylor Swift now owns “all of the music I’ve ever made,” she says in a letter posted on her website on Friday. Swift has purchased the masters of her music back from Shamrock Capital, which owned them after Scooter Braun sold them to the company.

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22.05.2025

Miniot returns with a sleeker Wheel 3 vertical turntable | The Verge

Miniot’s Wheel 3 vertical turntable has a new tonearm, improved optical stylus and amplifier, in a sleeker aluminum design.

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21.05.2025

Fender’s free new recording app lets you simulate its iconic amps and pedals | The Verge

Fender has released Fender Studio, a free new recording app for smartphones and PCs with multitrack recording and classic simulated Fender amps and pedals.

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14.05.2025

Samsung’s Music Frame speaker is more of a bargain at 69 percent off | The Verge

Woot is offering a sweet deal on the Samsung Music Frame, knocking the cost down from $399.99 to $124.99.

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14.05.2025

Apple turned pop songs into lofi beats to work / study / sleep to | The Verge

Apple has teamed up with Universal Music Group (UMG) to make a new Sound Therapy collection of tracks for Apple Music that are “designed to help listeners attain clearer focus, deeper relaxation, and better sleep.”

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14.05.2025

Spotify’s AI DJ now takes requests | The Verge

Spotify is allowing subscribers to use voice commands to control which songs are spat out by its AI DJ feature.

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17.04.2025

Spotify is back online after an outage | The Verge

Spotify went down Wednesday morning, according to widespread user reports across the US and Europe, with issues preventing the platform from loading or streaming music.

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26.03.2025

Ticketmaster may have violated consumer protection laws | The Verge

The UK’s Consumer Markets Authority has announced an update into its investigation of Ticketmaster

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25.03.2025

Splice CEO Kakul Srivastava says AI won’t ever replace human creativity | The Verge

The head of sample platform Splice on what kinds of AI tools make sense for the music industry.

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19.03.2025

Our five favorite dunks from Drake’s label over his ‘Not Like Us’ lawsuit | The Verge

Universal Music Group has filed a motion to dismiss Drake’s lawsuit, which accused the label of defamation and payola tied to Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” diss track.

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19.03.2025

US music subscriptions cross 100 million as digital downloads drop | The Verge

The RIAA reports that 2024 digital music revenue is up by 4 percent as streaming service subscriptions now top 100 million in the US.

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07.03.2025

Police have shut down a StubHub ticket ket re-selling crime ring | The Verge

Using a simple backend exploit, thieves managed to steal and resell hundreds of StubHub tickets to concerts like Taylor Swift’s Eras tour.

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25.02.2025

Our favorite iPhone and Android apps for streaming and collecting music | The Verge

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16.02.2025

Spotify signs Warner Music deal heralding new subscription tiers | The Verge

Spotify and Warner Music Group have inked a new multi-year deal covering publishing and recorded music that aims to “shape the future of audio-visual streaming.”

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16.02.2025

The Practice Pro app has all the tools I want for music rehearsal | The Verge

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16.02.2025

That AI-restored Beatles song won Grammy for Best Rock Performance | The Verge

The Beatles have won their eighth competitive Grammy award for “Now and Then” thanks to a little help from artificial intelligence.

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16.02.2025

Microsoft is bringing major MIDI improvements to Windows 11 | The Verge

Windows 11 is rolling out MIDI 2.0, the biggest update to MIDI since the musical communication format was first released in 1983.

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31.01.2025

Amazon Music Unlimited is getting a price hike | The Verge

Amazon is raising the price of its Music Unlimited service from $9.99 to $10.99 per month.

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28.01.2025

New Spotify and UMG deal could create pricier ‘superfan’ subscription - The Verge

Spotify and Universal Music Group have a new multi-year agreement that lines up with UMG’s “Streaming 2.0” vision, which includes pricier subscriptions for “superfans.”

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17.01.2025

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Spotify’s rise reshaped the music industry. Liz Pelly’s Mood Machine is an investigation of what it means to make music for playlists.

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16.01.2025

Drake axes ‘Not Like Us’ diss track petition against UMG and Spotify - The Verge

Drake has withdrawn the petition he raised accusing Spotify and Universal Music Group (UMG) of illegally boosting Kendrick Lamar‘s diss track “Not Like Us.”

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16.01.2025

Drake sues his label, UMG, saying ‘Not Like Us’ is defamatory - The Verge

Drake’s lawsuit claims that Universal Music Group used bots and payola to promote Kendrick Lamar’s song ‘Not Like Us.’

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