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Libre.fm is a music community website that aims to provide a free software replacement for last.fm. [2] The website was founded in 2009 by Matt Lee. Libre.fm can optionally store a user's listening habits using information sent to the website's server from the user's audio player via scrobbl
Last.fm is a music website founded in the United Kingdom in 2002. Utilizing a music recommender system known as "Audioscrobbler," Last.fm creates a detailed profile of each user's musical preferences by recording the details of the tracks they listen to, whether from Internet radio stations or from the user's computer or portable music devices.
MusicBrainz Picard is a free and open-source software application for identifying, tagging, and organising digital audio recordings. [ 21 ] Picard identifies audio files and compact discs by comparing either their metadata or their acoustic fingerprints with records in the database. [ 21 ]
In November 2023, Spotify expanded free access to 200,000 audiobooks for Spotify Premium subscribers. [222] In April 2024, Spotify expanded access to the audiobooks from the US, UK and Australia to include Canada, Ireland and New Zealand. The company also announced an expansion of its book catalogue to 250,000 books. [223]
Spotify Wrapped is a viral marketing campaign by Spotify released annually since 2016 between November 29 and December 6, allowing users to view a compilation of data about their activity on the platform over the preceding year, and inviting them to share a colorful pictorial representation of it on social media.
Spotify's most streamed song for the longest period of time was "Shape of You" (2017) by the English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran. Currently, 870 songs have surpassed one billion streams on Spotify, [1] 135 have surpassed two billion, 17 have surpassed three billion, and two have surpassed four billion Spotify streams.
Spotify, a music streaming company, has attracted significant criticism since its 2008 launch, [1] mainly over artist compensation. Unlike physical sales or downloads, which pay artists a fixed price per song or album sold, Spotify pays royalties based on the artist's "market share"—the number of streams for their songs as a proportion of total songs streamed on the service.
Cross Purposes is the seventeenth studio album by English rock band Black Sabbath, released through I.R.S. Records on 31 January 1994. The album marked the return of Tony Martin as the band's lead vocalist, after the second departure of Ronnie James Dio.