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Sonos to officially support Apple Music starting today

Following its public beta last December, Sonos has announced that it will officially add support for Apple Music to its connected speaker lineup tomorrow, February 10th. “We’re big fans of Sonos,” Apple senior vice president of internet software and services Eddy Cue said to BuzzFeed. “We’ve been looking forward to this.” When asked why Sonos […]

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Beatles catalog to be available on Apple Music on December 24th

It’s official. Apple will be releasing The Beatles catalog on Apple Music on Thursday, December 24th. The current report says that The Beatles’ music will be available on nearly every streaming service beginning December 24th. That includes Apple Music, Spotify, Google Play, Tidal, and Amazon Prime Music.

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Nielsen ratings show more than 54.5 monthly Apple Music app users in 2015

While specific Apple Music user numbers have yet to be released, the early estimates are looking good. A year end report from consumer research firm Nielsen states that Apple Music was one of the most popular smartphone apps of 2015, and with more than 54.5 million monthly users ranked among offerings from Facebook and Google. […]

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Rumor: Apple developing higher-quality audio file format for use in 2016

You can’t knock an upgraded sound file. Apple is rumored to be working on a higher-quality audio streaming file format for use in 2016 and beyond. Anonymous sources at the Portable Audio Festival in Tokyo cited that the company has been developing Hi-Res Audio streaming up to 96kHz/24bit in 2016.

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Analyst: Apple Music to reach 8 million subscribers by end of 2015, 20 million by end of 2016

The estimates are in and they’re impressive. According to music business analyst Mark Mulligan, Apple may have 8 million Apple Music subscribers by the end of 2015 and 20 million by the end of 2016, thereby making it the second most popular streaming music service behind Spotify. “Apple might not have found the subscription market […]