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Apple Music app is now available on Samsung smart televisions. The app is available on Samsung Smart TV App store. Being a subscription-based app, the Apple Music app requires Apple account and subscription to activate and stream music on Samsung-branded televisions. Besides general features, the Apple Music app for Samsung Smart TVs comes with a dedicated section called “At Home with Apple Music”, which includes new editorial playlists as well as interviews and recorded FaceTime chats with artists at home – according to a report in tech news portal Mashable. Read More

YouTube has signed up more than 800,000 subscribers for its paid services in India since debuting in March, according to people familiar with the matter, vaulting it past competitors in one of the world’s fastest-growing media markets. The services are growing faster than rival paid music offerings in India, including Spotify and local players Gaana and JioSaavn, according to the people, who asked not to be identified because the subscriber data hasn’t been released. The one paid service that could have more users than YouTube is Apple Music, which has been tight-lipped about its subscriber figures. YouTube has long struggled to to gets users to pay for its services, especially since the company’s main website is synonymous with free videos. But the Google division has started to gain traction, and the numbers out of India suggest it’s having particular success in the world’s second-most-populous country. YouTube sells two paid services in India: YouTube Music Premium an...

Students with an Apple Music subscription of $4.99 per month, will now be able to enjoy Apple TV+ at no extra cost after its launch on Friday. The deal was revealed in an Instagram story by Hailee Steinfeld, who stars in Dickinson, a new show on the service and later it was confirmed by the Apple on Wednesday, CNET reported. Steinfeld announced the bundle deal by saying that "For those of you who are students and are subscribed to Apple Music student subscription, now can get Apple TV+ for free." Apple Music costs $9.99 per month for individuals and a family plan for $15 per month in the US. The Apple Music student subscription currently is $4.99 per month, which provides full access to Apple Music's catalogue of 50 million songs, live local radio stations and more. Meanwhile, Apple TV+ will cost $4.99 per month and this tier also supports Family Sharing. Apple has reportedly planned to spend $6 billion on creating original content but mostly in English...

There are many portable speakers, but there remains a need for one that could offer more than just rich sound quality. That’s where Sony XB402M comes into the picture. It has all the abilities of an ideal portable speaker, however, there is more it is capable of offering. The first thing that one notices is the speaker's looks and design. Inside the body is nestled the angled speakers that help in creating the surround effect. The passive radiators boost the bass of the speaker. The lightweight speaker can be carried with just one hand, due to its design, and has fabric coating over the front grille that makes it look elegant and fit for modern home decor. Sony SRS-XB402M speaker review The speaker has soft touch buttons on the top with LED indicators. There is a dedicated button to control the pattern of the lights on the strip. I think it’s a good improvisation as in the case of SRS-XB32, it’s done from the Music Centre app which is a bit of a task. The SRS-XB402M has b...

Apple Inc on Thursday confirmed than the company's streaming music service has more than 60 million subscribers, trailing rival Spotify Technology SA's 100 million premium subscribers. A company spokesman confirmed the figure that Eddy Cue, senior vice president of services for the iPhone maker, disclosed in remarks made to French publication Numerama in Paris. Apple executives had not disclosed a new number since May 2018, when the company said it had 50 million Apple Music subscribers. The 60 million figure includes Apple customers who are on a free trial of Apple Music. In April, Spotify reported it has 100 million "premium" subscribers. Spotify's definition of premium subscribers also includes those on free trials of its paid service so long as the user has entered a payment method such as a credit card. When including listeners to its ad-supported service, Spotify has 217 million users. Apple and Spotify are locked in an antitrust dispute after ...