Today, Last.fm begins a new chapter as an independent company. Ownership has changed, but the product you use every day has not. Your account, your listening history, and your data remain exactly where they are. The team building Last.fm is the same. The service continues as normal. Support.last.fm Seit zwei Jahrzehnten schreibe ich dieses Blogweiterlesen

Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, and Tidal all offer the exact same product: A library of 100 million songs. As Jimmy [Iovine] points out in the podcast, this lack of differentiation turns music into a utility. Music is now indistinguishable from tap water or electricity. […] Iovine put it bluntly: “The streaming services have aweiterlesen

The feature is either in an expanded testing phase or it has started rolling out, and it is available in Australia and New Zealand according to an Apple Support document. Signs of the transfer option first surfaced back in February 2024, when an Android user saw a reference to the option in the ‌Apple Music‌weiterlesen

Die prognostizierte „You won the battle, but lost the war“-Situation ist nun eingetreten. Gonzalez Rogers specifically states: “Apple was tasked with valuing its intellectual property, not with reverse engineering a number right under 30% that would allow it to maintain its anticompetitive revenue stream.” This suggests that if Apple had conducted a genuine bottoms-up analysisweiterlesen

Playlisty zieht nicht nur Wiedergabelisten von einem Musik-Streamingdienst auf den anderen um, sondern nimmt über seine Scratchpad-Funktion auch URLs oder eine Liste von Dateinamen entgegen – von Webadressen mit Tracklisten bis OCR-Screenshots von Dateiordnern. Ich klebe im Anschluss gewöhnlich ein Plattencover von Denim drauf.

This is the reason why I get a bit frustrated whenever I see somebody in tech dismisses the EU as just trying to protect European companies from competition with their glorious and wonderful US companies. […] But the single market is what it’s for. Without it, the EU would cease to exist. To understand whatweiterlesen

Die Europäische Kommission hat gegen Apple wegen Missbrauchs seiner beherrschenden Stellung auf dem Markt für den über seinen App Store laufenden Vertrieb von Musikstreaming-Apps an iPhone- und iPad-Nutzer („iOS-Nutzer“) eine Geldbuße in Höhe von über 1,8 Mrd. EUR verhängt. Insbesondere stellte die Kommission fest, dass Apple App-Entwickler Beschränkungen auferlegte, die sie daran hinderten, iOS-Nutzer überweiterlesen