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      How a musician accused of fraud got his music back on Spotify, iTunes

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Thursday, 15 February - 16:41

    Musician Benn Jordan, who performs under the alias The Flashbulb, successfully defended his music against streaming fraud allegations.

    Enlarge / Musician Benn Jordan, who performs under the alias The Flashbulb, successfully defended his music against streaming fraud allegations.

    Last Friday, musician Benn Jordan assumed his phone was glitching when he tried to pull up one of his albums and couldn't find it on Spotify. Then he noticed all the notifications he'd gotten from fans asking why he'd removed his music on all the streaming platforms where his music could typically be found, including Apple Music, iTunes, Deezer, and YouTube Music.

    But Jordan had not made any such decision. By the time night fell on Friday, the gravity of what had happened finally sank in, and he realized something was "very, very wrong."

    For the past 17 years, Jordan has paid his digital distributor, TuneCore, thousands of dollars to manage his music on streaming platforms. Under his alias The Flashbulb, Jordan had released more than a dozen albums, reaching 1.9 million listeners on Spotify who added his songs to more than 300,000 playlists last year alone. In total, he had earned over $400,000 in sales for TuneCore since signing up for its services in 2007.

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      YouTube Premium announces 100 million subscribers

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Friday, 2 February - 17:07 · 1 minute

    YouTube Premium announces 100 million subscribers

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    Hot on the heels of Google's "One" subscription plan obtaining 100 million users, YouTube is also hitting that big milestone, with 100 million people paying for Premium and YouTube Music. YouTube's subscription data didn't make it into the earnings call three days ago.

    It's hard to know what exactly is driving YouTube's subscriptions. Premium gets you both ad-free YouTube videos and YouTube Music, and it's easy to imagine people sticking to one or the other. Ad-free videos have been getting the most aggressive promotion lately, with Google cracking down on ad-block users by blocking video playback and displaying interstitial pop-ups. After warning users that ad blockers violate YouTube's terms of service, the pop-ups show a big "try YouTube Premium" button. Premium also added an exclusive "enhanced bitrate" 1080p setting, although 2K, 4K, and 8K options have always been free.

    There's not much new on the music side of things. YouTube Music is free with ads and a more limited feature set, but subscribing gets you ad-free playback, background playback on phones, and access to YouTube Music streaming on Google's various speakers. YouTube's blog post highlights quotes from many big music industry CEOs celebrating the service.

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      Pourquoi Spotify, Deezer, Apple Music et YouTube se disent obligés d’augmenter leurs prix ?

      news.movim.eu / Numerama · Saturday, 5 August, 2023 - 10:55

    Historiquement, les services de streaming musical ont toujours été proposés au tarif de 9,99 euros par mois. Ce prix symbolique, sous la barre des 10 euros, a disparu entre la fin de l'année 2022 et l'été 2023. Tous proposent désormais un abonnement mensuel à 10,99 euros. [Lire la suite]

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      YouTube Premium et Music : les prix gonflent en France

      news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Friday, 4 August, 2023 - 12:55

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    Mauvaise nouvelle pour les abonnés YouTube Premium et YouTube Music, les prix augmentent en France. Google suit la tendance du moment chez les services de musique et de vidéo en ligne.

    YouTube Premium et Music : les prix gonflent en France

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      YouTube Music n’est pas mort, et déploie une nouvelle fonctionnalité gratuite

      news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Friday, 28 April, 2023 - 11:00

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    La plateforme de Google a encore espoir de détrôner un jour Spotify et Apple Music.

    YouTube Music n’est pas mort, et déploie une nouvelle fonctionnalité gratuite

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      YouTube Music teste une file d’attente dynamique

      news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Saturday, 30 July, 2022 - 10:00

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    Les algorithmes ne sont parfois pas les conseillers les plus fiables en matière musicale. S'il leur arrive plus d'une fois de tomber juste, il y a parfois des loupés ! L'application YouTube Music veut donner plus de place à l'utilisateur et à ses choix parfois contradictoires.

    YouTube Music teste une file d’attente dynamique

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      Comment transférer vos playlists d’un service de streaming musical à un autre ?

      news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Wednesday, 8 June, 2022 - 15:18

    transfert-musique-service-streaming-158x105.jpg Transfert musiques Deezer Apple Music Spotify Amazon Music.

    Les services de streaming musicaux occupent une grande place dans le cœur des Françaises et des Français. Néanmoins, changer de plateforme de streaming est complexe, surtout lorsque l'on possède de nombreuses playlists ou album enregistrés. Pour vous faire gagner du temps, de nombreux services annexes proposent de transférer vos playlists et vos musiques en quelques clics d'une plateforme à une autre.

    Comment transférer vos playlists d’un service de streaming musical à un autre ?

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      AudioTube: A YouTube Music Client For Linux-based Operating Systems

      pubsub.do.nohost.me / FossBytes · Saturday, 27 March, 2021 - 11:20 · 1 minute

    AudioTube Is A YouTube Music Client For Linux-Based OS And PinePhone

    Recently, we discussed YTFZF utility that lets you watch and download YouTube videos in your Linux terminal.

    However, if you want to listen to music using the ‘YouTube Music’ streaming service, then this brand new Linux native client application named AudioTube might be the perfect fit for you.

    AudioTube: A Linux Client For YouTube Music

    AudioTube is a client application for YouTube Music for Linux platform developed by KDE Developer Jonah Brüchert.

    As Jonah says, he has used KDE’s Kirigami UI framework to build the interface of this app. Hence, AudioTube is available for both Linux desktops and mobile devices like PinePhone .

    Since you can also use YouTube Music directly in your browser, it mainly fits for those who prefer a native app over an extra browser tab.

    Currently, AudioTube lets you perform the following actions in the app:

    • Search YouTube Music
    • List albums and artists
    • Play automatically generated playlists and albums
    • Put your own playlist together
    • AudioTube Mobile Playlist
    • AudioTube Mobile View

    Under the hood, it uses two popular libraries: ytmusicapi for interaction with YouTube Music API and youtube-dl for finding the streaming URLs.

    Also, it is important to mention that the app is still in an early stage of development. Hence, you may encounter some bugs or irregularities in the app.

    How To Install AudioTube KDE App?

    Before installing AudioTube, you first must need to have the following four dependencies installed in your system.

    • Qt
    • Kirigami
    • youtube-dl
    • ytmusicapi

    If you’re using KDE-based Linux distribution, Qt and Kirigami would already be present. The only thing you need to install is the other two python packages using pip, if they are not already there in your distros.

    You can follow the instructions to compile and build the app in the video below by KDE Contributor Niccolò Venerandi. 

    $ git clone https://invent.kde.org/jbbgameich/audiotube
$ cd audiotube
$ sudo python3 pip install youtube_dl ytmusicapi
$ mkdir build && cd build
$ cmake ..
$ make
$ sudo make install

    For non-KDE distros, you need to make sure that you’ve successfully installed all the required dependencies for AudioTube.

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