Spotify
New technology with Sarah Putt
Sarah Putt discusses Vodafone's Sky Subscribers getting a new deal; the challenge to the copyright law; how streaming music service Spotify has filed to be publicly listed on the NYSE, and two major… Audio
Spotify plans to list shares, fend off Apple and Amazon
Music streaming service Spotify has filed for a direct listing of shares, laying out financial data for the first time.
Too much music: can you listen to all the music you own?
James Jackson Toth is a music writer for NPR, Stereogum and Salon. He talks to Yadana Saw about his failed experiment to listen to only one album per week. Video, Audio
Music101 Pocket Edition 168: Spotify/Summer Jams
In this week's Pocket Edition, Melody Thomas speaks with Liz Pelly about what is behind Spotify playlists; BBC Future reporter Melissa Hogenboom shares the story of her father's dementia and his love… Audio
Is Spotify narrowing our taste in music?
With its easy-to-access content and vast selection of ready-made playlists, Spotify has amassed more than 100 million users globally since its inception. But according to writer Liz Pelly it’s… Audio
Bits+Bytes: chip emergency and Spotify's legal woes
Flawed computer chips, Spotify gets ready to go public as it gets sued for using unlicensed music, why facial recognition will be big in 2018, and another faulty Apple product, this time an iPad… Audio
Tech news: music streaming options
Tech correspondent Peter Griffin with the latest tech news. This week, music streaming options including YouTube Red and Spotify. Also Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund invests US$3.5 billion in… Audio
Rüfüs' Spotify Spins and EDM Wins
Sydneyside electronic dance trio Rüfüs tell Sam Wicks about their EDM wins in Australia and beyond. Audio
James Rhodes: madness, medication and music
Charlotte Graham interviews the acclaimed British concert pianist, writer and television presenter who tells his story in Instrumental: a Memoir of Madness, Medication and Music. Video, Audio
Music Streaming: Spotify and SoundCloud Go
The global business of music streaming services is going off. This week SoundCloud's launching a paid subscription service called Go and Spotify's raising US$1 billion as it gears up for a public… Audio
Apple Music Roundtable
The M101 team and guests take Apple Music for a test drive to let you know whether it lives up to the hype. Audio
Tech: Apple's WWDC
Peter Griffin on the news the Inland Revenue will choose a US company for a major technology contract. Also the main developments coming out of Apple's Worldwide Developers' Conference. Audio
Tech news: Budget 2015 and Spotify
Peter Griffin reviews how the science and technology sector fared in Thursday's budget. We're also looking at the music streaming service Spotify's plans to stream videos and podcasts, and commission… Audio
The Secret Life Of Music Royalties
Recently Iggy Pop delivered a lecture on BBC Radio called 'Free Music in a Capitalist Society', in which he lambasted record companies for screwing musicians into penury. If the "computer Putins" had… Audio
NZ Music Charts 2014
The Official Top 40 and NZ Singles Chart have included streaming audio in their chart calculations for the first time this week. CEO of Recorded Music NZ which publishes the chart, Damian Vaughn joins… Audio
The Secret Life Of Music Radio
Music radio has proven to be one of the most durable members of the old media club, but the move to mobile devices and streaming music services coupled with short attention spans are further diluting… Audio
Vulfpeck on Sleepify
Just over a month ago US funk group Vulfpeck released an unusual Spotify only album called Sleepify. 10 songs, around thirty seconds each, all completely silent. In an accompanying video, the group… Audio
Spotify bandwidth
A listener called Paul is having some issues with his internet data plan blowing out recently, and the culprit's the popular music streaming service, Spotify. Our tech correspondent Peter Griffin… Audio
Music Biz 2014 - Digital Sales And Streaming
Journalists Duncan Grieve and Matt Nippert mull over the state of the local and international music industry- the downturning of digital sales and the upswing of streaming. Audio
Tech news: Spotify
Peter Griffin on the news that Spotify, the online music streaming service, has opened for business here in New Zealand. Plus why are people suing Facebook after its IPO last week? Audio