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Spotify is plotting lossless streaming, interactive podcasts, and world domination Launch in 80+ more countries In the last few years, Spotify has introduced its service in new countries, including India and South Korea. Now, the company is expanding its presence in more than 80 new countries that cover more than 1 billion people. Spotify is also adding 36 languages as part of the process. New regions include Bangladesh, Pakistan, the Caribbean, Cameroon,Rwanda,and Namibia....

Spotify’s first-ever piece of consumer hardware haslanded, and it’s literally called theCar Thing. As you might’ve surmised by now, it’s a thing… that you put in your car. Said ‘Thing’ is essentially a touchscreen with a big volume knob and voice controls that you can use to play Spotify music through your car’s speakers. The device also has four preset buttons at the top you can use for podcasts or playlists you regularly listen to....

Spotify patents eerie ‘mood-detecting tech’ to recommend you songs The proposed system analyzes speech to work out how you feel Don’t worry, be happy? Spotify has always stressed that it recommends a diverse range of music — because there are only so many times you can listen to the Black Eyed Peas before you go van Gogh on your ears. One, to be precise. Still, the idea of determining music tastes based on demographic data sounds rather restrictive....

Spotify, the hot streaming music startup with involvement from such people as Sean Parker, formerly of Facebook, is preparing for a hugeFacebook Musicinitiative that could be announced at F8 tomorrow. Up until now, tracks could be shared by clicking the track info on the bottom left of the desktop app. It was a bit clunky and not very obvious. That appears to have changed with a Spotify desktop client update that comes without even having to download it....

Swedish music streaming service Spotify today announced it had reached one million paid subscribers, achieving the milestone in under two years from when it launched. Detailing the feat ina blog poston the company’s website, Spotify founder Daniel Ek urged users to help bring their friends to the service, to help boost the 10 million free usersreported in Septemberand to raise the number of paying customers the company had registered for its premium services....