Music Spotify Wants Another $5 a Month in 2027 to Let You Remix Songs You’re Already Paying to Stream Spotify may charge $4 to $5 extra per month for AI remixes in 2027. What does the service mean for subscribers, artists, royalties, and... Ian WhiteNovember 1, 2026
Music Streamers Spotify Wants Proof You Live Together: Family Plan QR Checks Come With a 12-Month Penalty Spotify is enforcing Family plan rules with QR code checks. Here's what the 7-day deadline and 12-month restriction mean for subscribers. Ian WhiteOctober 22, 2026
Music Qobuz Starts Labeling AI Generated Music and the Fraud Numbers Are Ugly Qobuz adds AI music labels as 60% of streams from identified AI tracks are deemed fraudulent and four million tracks disappear from search. Ian WhiteSeptember 25, 2026
Music Spotify Adds All 58 Taylor Swift Music Videos as Its YouTube Ambitions Get Harder to Ignore Spotify spent years owning your ears. With all 58 Taylor Swift videos now onboard, it would rather YouTube stop borrowing your eyeballs too. Ian WhiteSeptember 17, 2026
Car Audio Spotify Car Thing Is Back From the Dead Thanks to Mira 1.0 Open Source Firmware Spotify killed Car Thing in 2024, but free Mira 1.0 firmware has brought the hardware back to life with Spotify control, lyrics and voice... Ian WhiteAugust 18, 2026
Music Spotify Will Label AI Artists and Stop Recommending Them. So Why Is It Letting Fans Remix Real Music With AI? Spotify will label AI artists and keep them out of recommendations while preparing paid AI remixes of real music. So where exactly is its... Ian WhiteAugust 13, 2026
Music Spotify Wants Fans to Remix Real Songs With AI and the Labels Smell Another Payday Spotify will let fans create AI covers and remixes of real songs. Artists can opt in, but who controls the rights and who gets... Ian WhiteAugust 10, 2026
Music Streaming Is Booming but Universal Music Lost Nearly €9 Billion in One Day Streaming is booming, so why did Universal Music lose nearly €9 billion in market value, and will consumers pay more as labels chase faster... Ian WhiteAugust 2, 2026
Music Amazon Music Opens Alexa+ AI Playlists and Conversational Search to Every U.S. User Amazon Music opens Alexa+ AI playlists and conversational search to every U.S. user, including free and paid tiers, on iOS and Android. Ian WhiteJuly 23, 2026
Music Apple Music Raises Prices to $11.99 as Family Plan Jumps Nearly 18% Apple Music now costs $11.99, while Family jumps nearly 18% to $19.99. Subscribers get no major new feature with the increase. Ian WhiteJuly 22, 2026
Music AI Music Labels Are Coming to Streaming, But Will They Actually Work? AI music labels are coming to streaming as industry groups back AI Generated and AI Assisted tags for sound recordings. Ian WhiteJuly 14, 2026
Music TIDAL Says AI Music Can Stay, But It Won’t Get Paid TIDAL will label fully AI generated tracks and stop royalties, while Qobuz, Spotify, and Apple Music take different paths against AI music fraud. Ian WhiteJuly 9, 2026
Music Spotify Finally Tries Hi-Fi: Lossless Listening Lounge in London Built Around Horn Speakers and Bryston Power Spotify finally builds a high-end Listening Lounge to showcase lossless audio, but after years of delay what exactly took so long to take sound... Ian WhiteMarch 31, 2026
Music Spotify Exclusive Mode Delivers “Bit Perfect Audio” on Windows Desktop but MacOS and Mobile Users Are Left Waiting Spotify adds Exclusive Mode for bit perfect desktop audio playback. Does this mean Spotify Lossless now rivals Apple Music, TIDAL, and Qobuz for sound... Ian WhiteMarch 18, 2026
Exclusive Videos Spotify and Liquid Death Launch Eternal Playlist Urn So the Music Never Dies Even If You Do Spotify and Liquid Death launch the Eternal Playlist Urn and generator so your music lives on after you’re gone. Limited to...5 per customer. Ian WhiteMarch 4, 2026
Music Spotify Raises Prices Again — Is It Still Worth It? Spotify is raising prices across Premium plans, now ranging from $6.99 to $21.99. Is the added cost justified, and who really benefits? Robert SilvaJanuary 18, 2026
Articles The Biggest Consumer Audio & Video Stories of 2025: What Mattered, What Changed, and Why Content Still Rules A year-end look at the biggest consumer A/V and media stories of 2025, from streaming wars and AI to vinyl, TV tech, and high-end... Ian WhiteDecember 29, 2025