How to play Audible Audiobook on MP3 player

We know that Kindle Audiobook are purchased from Audible.com, and people can use Audible.com to download audiobooks to your iPhone, Android, Windows Phone, Kindle or other listening device and listen to Audible audiobooks by best-selling authors anytime.
After you paid the Audiobook, you can listen to the Audiobook after you authorize the device, for the DRM limits you.
Would you like to get rid of the DRM from the paid Audiobook?
Here Macsome iTunes Converter can help you, which supports converting audiobooks and apple music even on the latest iTunes and supports saving audiobook's chapters when you convert to AAC format. But it don't support the split function.
All the steps to get rid of the DRM are quite simple, and no additional app to install.
First, free download the software according to your computer system, and install it on your computer.
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Then run the iTunes Music Converter, and choose the Audio book files you want to convert from the iTunes Books library.
Please make sure that you have authorized the purchased Audiobooks to the device or the computer so as to play them normally.
And now click Profile button and select the required profile in Output File Format drop-down list.

You can also click the software menu and select Preferences to customize the Output Settings by clicking Choose... to set the destination.
Finally, click the Convert button to start the conversion. Meanwhile the paid Audiobook's DRM is removed as well.

After the conversion is done, you can play the purchased Kindle Audiobook on any MP3 or other audio player as you like without DRM any more.

Apple Music brings Up Next Live to global cities this summer

Apple today announced Up Next Live, a series of intimate performances from past and present Apple Music Up Next artists including Bad Bunny, Daniel Caesar, Khalid, Ashley McBryde, King Princess, Lewis Capaldi and Jessie Reyez. Each artist will perform for fans in one city, for one night only.

Apple Music Up Next is a monthly program showcasing the best new artists in the world. Each month, Apple Music tastemakers and editors identify one artist to feature, then utilize the power of the platform to raise awareness of that artist to Apple Music's growing audience of music fans. Apple Music Up Next also includes a deeply curated companion playlistfull of incredible new artists across genres from all over the world.

Each artist on the diverse Up Next Live roster has been featured as an Apple Music Up Next artist in the monthly program or through the playlist. All shows will be hosted after hours in local Apple stores in Milan, San Francisco, Brooklyn, Paris, London, Chicago and Washington, D.C. Apple stores frequently offer free creative sessions through Today at Apple and serve as the place where the local creative community can come together and share ideas, making them the perfect backdrop for Up Next Live. Performances kick off July 9 with global sensation Bad Bunny at Apple Piazza Liberty in Milan.

“The impact [of being part of Up Next] can be seen in everything, in numbers, in plays, in shows,” said Bad Bunny. “There are a lot of fans that, when I go out in the street in the US, people who do not speak Spanish, I think they will not know me and they stop me, they ask me for pictures and they sing my songs. It helped me very much to make myself known in a market different from mine, not only the USA, but in places where Spanish is not spoken or where perhaps Latin music does not dominate, exposing my music and giving people the opportunity to get to know what I do.”

Source from https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/07/apple-music-brings-up-next-live-to-global-cities-this-summer/

 

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Spotify is building shared-queue Social Listening

Spotify appears to be testing a "Social Listening" feature that lets friends control the music together. This is similar-ish to its collaborative playlist feature, but it contains a real-time component. The idea is that collaborators are listening to the same songs, together — whether physically in the same room, or apart.
Software engineer Jane Manchun Wong, who is known for discovering unreleased app features by digging through code, recently spotted the feature and posted about it on Twitter. Manchun Wong found the feature buried in Spotify's Android app code, which she combs through for "clues" of what the company is working on.
While Manchun Wong has found her way in, Social Listening is currently only available to Spotify employees. You can see screenshots of the feature in her tweets below.

A help screen describes Social Listening as “Listen to music together. 1. On your phone, play a song and select (Connected Devices). You’ll see a code at the bottom of the screen. 2. On your friend’s phone, select the same (Connected Devices) icon, tap SCAN CODE, and point the camera at your code. 3. Now you can control the music together.” You’ll then see friends who are part of your Social Listening session listed in the Connected Devices menu. Users can also copy and share a link to join their Social Listening session that starts with the URL prefix https://open.spotify.com/socialsession/. Note that Spotify never explicitly says that playback will be synchronized.

With streaming apps largely having the same music catalog and similar $9.99 per month premium pricing, they have to compete on discovery and user experience. Spotify has long been in the lead here with its algorithmically personalized Discover Weekly playlists, which were promptly copied by Apple and SoundCloud.
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‘Game of Thrones’ hits record 19.3 million viewers in series finale despite fan backlash

Despite high criticism from fans, the final episode of “Game of Thrones” shattered single-night viewing records Sunday, with 19.3 million tuning in to watch the finale.
The final season of HBO’s television adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s “A Song of Ice and Fire” was widely criticized by fans who felt the pacing and its treatment of previous character developments were not up to par.

 

Still, the show continued to have record-breaking viewership. Each episode, save for one, topped viewer counts from the season seven finale, which was the series high prior to season eight’s release.

Each year “Game of Thrones” has seen its audience grow, a rarity for television shows. Typically, a series will lose viewership over the course of a run. The eighth season had high viewership because it was the show’s last. More than a decade of storytelling was coming to an end, and everyone wanted to know what happened.
While some fans of the long-running fantasy drama felt satisfied by the show’s final bow, others were quick to express their displeasure with how events unfolded. One of the chief complaints surrounding the eighth and final season was its pacing and its treatment of previous character developments.
While the first six seasons all contained 10 episodes, season seven was comprised of only seven installments and season eight had only six. The truncated nature of the final season seemed to have played a major factor in fan dissatisfaction. Plot lines that may have been developed further given more time fell flat for many longtime viewers of the show.
Source from cnbc.com.
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Different methods to make Spotify collaborative playlist on your devices

When you find some wonderful music songs, do you want to share with your friends?
Spotify lets users create a collaborative playlist so as to share the collaborative playlist to your friends. So both you and your friends can manage your playlist.
On the Desktop:
To turn on Collaborative playlist on desktop, right click (Ctrl-click on Mac) a playlist in the left panel and select "Collaborative Playlist". If the playlist is currently playing, you can also click on "..." icon and select Collaborative Playlist.

On the Mobile or Tablet:
Run Spotify on mobile or tablet, tap "Your Library" --> tap "Playlist" and select a playlist --> tap "…" icon at the top-right corner > tap "Make Collaborative".
Then share this playlist with your friends to let them know. When your friend clicks on the link, it will be opened in Spotify and they can continue to modify this playlist and share it to others.
Since after you create a collaborative playlist, both of you and your friends can edit or manage them, however all the options can only be worked on Spotify. In the following we will show you how to send the collaborative playlist to your friends via email. And then the playlist can be played on most audio player devices.
You can also use Spotify Audio Converter to free your Spotify playlist so as to manage with your friends easily.
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Spotify is first to 100 million paid subscribers

More than 100 million users worldwide now pay for Spotify Premium, the company has announced. Spotify reached the milestone by growing paid subscribers by 32-percent year-on-year. Including free subscribers, Spotify now has a total of 217 million monthly active users worldwide. That includes two million Indian users who joined after the company launched its service there in February.

Globally, the numbers put Spotify well ahead of Apple Music, its closest competitor, who reportedly had 50 million paid users worldwide at the beginning of April. However, in the US Apple’s music streaming service in winning, according to the Wall Street Journal, with 28 million subscribers compared to Spotify’s 26 million.

Spotify’s latest earnings also further illuminates the company’s podcasting ambitions. The company says it intends to develop a better advertising model for podcasts, which will include better “targeting, measurement, and reporting capabilities.” This suggests the company plans to develop ways of letting podcast producers place different ads in a podcast depending on the user being targeted, similar to the ads played during ad-supported music listening. Spotify recently acquired the podcasting companies Gimlet Media, Anchor, and Parcast, and currently offers a quarter of a million podcasting titles on the streaming platform.

By the end of this quarter, Spotify says it expects to have 222 to 228 million users, including between 107 and 110 million paid subscribers. The company also says that voice speakers are a critical area for its growth. Last year Spotify ran a promotion where it gave away a free Google Home Mini speaker to every family account subscriber. However, the company’s rumored first-party speaker hardware is yet to materialize.

Spotify is still losing money despite its subscriber growth. The company posted a loss of €142 million ($158.3 million) for the January to March quarter, compared with a loss of €169 million in the same period last year.

Source from theverge.com.
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Solution to play Apple Music on Airplane mode without Wifi

Sometimes you need to open your Airplane Mode, but how to open your Airplane Mode?
On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, open Control Center from the Home screen, then tap iPhone Airplane Mode icon. You can also go to Settings > Airplane Mode and tap the slider to turn it on.
If the airline allows it, you can use Wi-Fi and Bluetooth while in Airplane mode. But most of the time, you don't have wifi at all, if you want to still enjoy the Apple Music songs, how to do?
Here you can try to use Macsome iTunes Converter to convert your downloaded Apple Music songs to the plain audio formats like MP3, AAC, FLAC and WAV, and then you can transfer the unprotected audio files to your iPhone.

Quick guide to Convert Apple Music to MP3, AAC

Step 1, Go to download the latest version of iTunes Music Converter by clicking the next download button according to your system, and then install and run it.
In the next, all the conversion are working with Macsome iTunes Converter for Mac.
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Step 2. Click "+" to import the downloaded Apple Music files.
Please make sure that you have downloaded the Apple Music files you want to convert and they can work normally on your iTunes.

Step 3. Click the setting icon to set the output format and output folder.

There are four output formats including MP3, AAC, FLAC and WAV for users to choose. If necessary, you can also reset the related audio parameters.
Step 4. Click the "CONVERT" button to start your iTunes music converting.

After the conversion, you can find the converted files and sync them to your iPhone and then play them anywhere and anytime.
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Alexa Support for Apple Music Expands to Sonos Speakers

Amazon Echo devices have been able to use Alexa-based voice commands to control Apple Music since December, but the feature has been limited to Amazon's own devices until today. 

Sonos One and Sonos Beam owners in the United States, United Kingdom, and Ireland are now also able to use Alexa to control Apple Music after adding the Apple Music skill to the Alexa app. 

 

To get Alexa controls for Apple Music on Sonos, users will need to update to the newest version of the Sonos app, enable the Apple Music skill in the separate Amazon Alexa app, and link an Apple Music account.

From there, Sonos owners will be able to use commands like "Play My Chill Mix on Apple Music," or "Play Beats 1 Radio on Apple Music."

It's not yet clear if other Alexa-enabled devices will also be gaining support for Apple Musiccontrols in the future, but right now, the feature is available on all Amazon Echo and Fire TV devices along with the Sonos One and Sonos Beam.

Source from Macrumors.com

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How to turn off Canvas videos in the Spotify Android app

If you are Spotify Android App users, you will find that when you listen to Spotify Music, there always videos popping up on the playback screen in place of the normal album artwork. Spotify calls these "Canvas" videos. But maybe you don't want these videos, how to turn off them?
The following guide will show you how to turn off Canvas videos in the Spotify Android app.

1. Open Spotify on your phone.
2. Tap Your Library on the bottom navigation bar.
3. Tap the settings icon in the top right corner.
4. Scroll down and tap the toggle next to Canvas.

That's it — you've officially turned off Spotify's Canvas videos. Should you ever find yourself wanting to turn them back on, simply repeat the steps shown above.
It looks so simple, now you can also go to take a try and turn off Canvas videos in the Spotify Android app.
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Cast Apple Music to your Chromecast, TV or Google Home speaker, maybe

A recent teardown of the Apple Music app on Android revealed that the iPhone-maker is working Chromecast support into its music streaming service.

As with all APK teardowns, it’s important to remember that uncovered features are often works-in-progress and may not be representative of the final product. Further, features may never see completion. With that said, let’s take a look.


Apple released Apple Music 2.8 at the beginning of the week with support for Chromebooks and a revamped ‘Browse’ tab that featured more editorial highlights. However, the company quickly released update 2.8.1 and 2.8.2 to fix a bug that caused the app to “unexpectedly close or fail after an upgrade for some users.”

9to5Google decompiled that latter APK, which rolled out on March 29th, and found four code strings related to Chromecast. These strings included two application IDs.

Developers receive these IDs when they register an application for Cast support with Google. Registering allows developers to add custom colours and branding on TV screens and smart displays. However, it’s odd that there are two different IDs.

This likely means users will be able to send music playing in the Android app to a Google Home speaker, smart display, Android TV or Chromecast. Further, depending on how Apple implements support, users should be able to control playback from Apple Music on their phone.

Earlier this year, Apple Music for Assistant briefly appeared in the Google Assistant settings page alongside YouTube Music, Google Play Music and Spotify. Google later removed Apple Music, noting the appearance was related to a software bug.

The upcoming Cast support could herald the future release of Assistant integration as well. While similar in purpose, the main difference between Cast support and Assistant integration is the latter doesn’t require the Apple Music app. Users can just ask Assistant to play a song from Apple Music.

Finally, version 2.8.2 of Apple Music does not include Cast support, just the beginnings of its integration. Users should expect that to come in a future release when Apple finishes it.

Source: 9to5Google

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How to get Apple Music for Free on Android devices

There are kinds of Android devices, like Android phones, or Tablets. You may know that you can download Apple Music for Android App from Google Play and then enjoy Apple Music on your Android devices.
Do you know you can also transfer Apple Music files freely to your Android phones?  The article will show you how to free your Apple Music files and then enjoy them on your Android devices without limitations.
This is a good solution and can be easily achievable. And you can try use Macsome iTunes Converter to convert Apple Music to MP3, and you can enjoy the Apple Music MP3 files on your Android devices like Android phones, tablets, Smart TV and so on.
First of all, please free download the iTunes Converter, and then install and launch it.

And it will launch the iTunes automatically, if you have launched iTunes before running the Converter, click Relaunch iTunes and make sure that the software works successfully.
Second, click Add button, select "Music" library, and import the audio files of iTunes.

Choose the music files you select, and click OK button, all the files are in the File list of the software.

Third, You can reset the output format and folder by clicking "settings" icon.

Finally, click "CONVERT" button, and start your Apple Music conversion.

When the conversion is completed, all the converted music files are free without DRM, and you can play them anywhere as you like.
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Apple Music Now Available on Amazon Fire TV

Good news for Amazon Fire TV with Apple Music users, there is no need to convert Apple Music and then upload to Amazon Music Unlimited. You can directly ask Alexa to play songs from the Apple Music service.
Amazon today expanded its Apple Music integration to the Amazon Fire TV, allowing Fire TV owners to ask Alexa to play songs from the Apple Music service.

According to CNBC, Apple Music on the Amazon Fire TV is available starting today.


The expansion comes three months after Apple allowed Apple Music to be streamed on Amazon Echo speakers using the Alexa voice assistant.
On the Fire TV, users can use commands like "Alexa, play music by Stevie Nicks," or "Alexa, play a Fleetwood Mac album" to play content directly from Apple Music.
It can be enabled by going to the Alexa app on an Android or iOS device and activating the Apple Music skill. Those who have already set up Apple Music with Alexa for Echo devices will not need to repeat the steps.
Right now, Apple Music is limited to the Fire TV and Amazon Echo speakers, though it may be expanded to third-party Alexa devices in the future.
Apple's effort to allow Apple Music to be streamed on third-party platforms is part of a deeper push to grow services revenue. Apple is also planning to expand iTunes to Samsung Smart TVs in the form of an iTunes app, and AirPlay 2 functionality is being built into recent smart TV sets from a number of manufacturers like Sony and LG.
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Proven Method to download the hottest podcast on Spotify

More and more popular Podcasts can be enjoyed on Spotify, sometimes you know that you don't have the good internet or you need to download these podcasts so as to play them offline, or you maybe like to transfer these downloaded podcasts to your MP3 and like so on.
Please don't worry, with the following guide, you can free download Podcasts, music tracks, playlists as many as you like, and you can also copy and transfer the download files to other devices without the amount limitations.
To complete the downloading easily and quickly, here we need a helper – Macsome Spotify Music Downloader. With it, users can download Spotify music tracks, playlists and podcasts and save them to MP3, AAC, FLAC or WAV with almost 100% output quality and fast speed. With the conversion, all ID3 tags and metadata including title, artwork, artist, album, and track number will be kept in order to organize your music library.
Step 1. Go to download and install Macsome Spotify Music Downloader for Mac and run it.
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Step 2. Drag and drop the podcast playlist from Spotify to Macsome Spotify Music Downloader.
Open Spotify application, check the podcast playlists you would like to convert, and then drag them to add window.

If you want to convert the whole playlist, just click "OK" to load all the files to convert, or you can choose some one or more files to convert.
Step 3. Set the Output Format.
Directly click setting button on the program interface to open the Preferences window.
In the output settings, you could change the output folder as you prefer.

Step 4. Start Conversion
After the above steps, now click "Convert" button to start conversion.

After the conversion, you can open the output folder to find the converted podcast files and then play and listen to them anytime as you like.
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Google Home isn't getting Apple Music, at least for now

For a second there it looked like Google Home was gearing up to partner with one of its major rivals in home audio and music streaming: Apple Music.
An iOS user noticed that Apple Music had joined the ranks of compatible music streaming services listed on the Google Home app, alongside Spotify, Deezer, Pandora, YouTube Music – and naturally, Google Play.
The Apple Music integration didn't seem to be functional yet, but the fact it was appearing on the iOS app suggested the launch was imminent.
However, we now have official word from Google about whether Apple Music is really coming to Google Home – and it's probably not happening.
As reported by Bloomberg, Google blamed the appearance of Apple's music service on the Google Home iOS app as a bug, caused by confusion with the Google Assistant AI – which does work with Apple Music (say through a smartphone) though not through the Google Home speaker itself.
In order to play Apple Music with Google Home, we need Macsome iTunes Converter’s help. As you know that all the files via Apple Music are DRM protected. That is to say, you can’t freely play these Apple Music downloaded files via Google home freely, unless you can remove DRM from Apple Music files and then upload the converted files to Google Play Music and then you can use Google Home to play the converted music files easily and freely.
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How to play Apple Music via Amazon Echo

Apple Music supports streaming music like Amazon Music Unlimited, which are DRM protected. That is to say, you can't freely transfer them to other audio players even you have "downloaded" for playing offline
Similarly, you can't upload these downloaded Apple Music songs to Amazon as well. If you can remove the annoying DRM, and then you can upload them to Amazon without limitation any longer.
Macsome iTunes Converter is the tool which you are looking for. It supports an ideal solution for converting protected iTunes Audio files, including downloaded Apple Music files, and purchased music and Audiobooks from Audible.com and so on.
First of all, free download the Apple Music files you want.
Open your iTunes, and find your whole Apple Music category. And then select the Apple Music files, click "..." to add them to "Playlist". After this, you can choose the Playlist and click the cloud icon to download it to play offline.
Second, free download the latest version of Macsome Apple Music Converter, install and run it.
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Third, when you click "+" button, all the music files including the downloaded Apple Music files will be listed, now select them and click "OK", and all the music files has been added. Batch conversion is also supported.

Forth, after you add these music files, now you can click the setting icon to set the output format and output folder. Here are MP3, AAC, FLAC, WAV for kinds of users.

Fifth, you can click "CONVERT" button and start conversion.

Upload the Converted Apple Music Songs to Amazon

After the conversion, you can upload the converted Apple Music songs to My Music on Amazon from your computer. And then you can control the music playing via your Alexa device.
Amazon.inc supports free users up to 250 songs storage to My Music.
Now Run Amazon Music app on your PC or Mac and log in your ID, then drag and drop files from your computer into the Upload selection in the right sidebar under Actions.

And then Select My Music > Songs > choose Offline filter in the right navigation sidebar and click the upload icon to choose the converted Apple Music files or folder to upload. And now you can start uploading.

After the above steps, you can use Alexa to play these songs on your Amazon Echo and so on.
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SoundCloud Now Lets You Distribute Your Music to Spotify, Apple Music

SoundCloud is getting into the distribution game. A new set of tools in their SoundCloud Premier program, announced today, allow SoundCloud Pro or Pro Unlimited users to distribute their music to other platforms that aren’t SoundCloud, including Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music Unlimited, YouTube Music, and other streaming services.
Artists that use the new SoundCloud Premier distribution feature “keep 100% of their rights, keep 100% of their distribution royalties from third-party services, and pay no distribution fees,” according to a press release.
Last fall, Spotify announced that it would begin allowing artists to upload music to its streaming service directly instead of going through distribution services. In October 2018, the Verge reported on terms in the SoundCloud Premier contract that would prohibit artists from pursuing legal action against the company under any circumstances, as well as ambiguous language with regards to payout schedules for artists. (SoundCloud subsequently amendedthe contract to address that report.)
Source from https://edm.com/news/soundcloud-distibution-premium-accounts
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American Airlines will be able to stream Apple Music over in-flight Wi-Fi for free

Apple Music is taking flight in more ways than one.
The company announced Tuesday a partnership with American Airlines that will allow Apple Music subscribers to stream songs, playlists and music videos on any domestic flight equipped with ViaSat satellite Wi-Fi for free. This makes American the first commercial airline to provide exclusive access to Apple Music through complimentary Wi-Fi.

 

"For most travelers, having music to listen to on the plane is just as important as anything they pack in their suitcases," said Oliver Schusser, vice president of Apple Music in a press release. "With the addition of Apple Music on American flights, we are excited that customers can now enjoy their music in even more places."
Those who subscribe to Apple Music will be able to access the service on Apple devices equipped with the platform, including iPhones, iPads, Macs and Android phones. Those who don't have a subscription, however, could sign up for a free three-month trial once on board. The new deal begins Friday.
"Our guests want to make the most of their time when flying us. That's why we're investing in faster Wi-Fi, a variety of entertainment options, and why we're so excited to introduce Apple Music to more of our customers," said Janelle Anderson, vice president of global marketing at American, in the press release.
Apple Music's partnership with American comes months after integrating the service with the Amazon Echo. Earlier in January, Verizon announced its plans to include Apple Music subscriptions in some of its top-tier U.S. data plans.
Apple Music's subscriber count still lags behind Spotify's 87 million subscribers recorded last November. While Spotify has a free version of their service, Apple Music only has a three-month free trial.

 

During the company's most recent earnings call, CEO Tim Cook said iTunes reached its highest quarterly revenue thanks to Apple Music, which now has over 50 million paid subscribers. The app helped Apple's services revenue reach $10.9 billion in the December quarter, which is up 19 percent from the previous year.
"We not only generated our highest global services revenue ever, but we also had all-time records across multiple categories of services including the App Store, Apple Pay, cloud services and our App Store search ad business and we had a December quarter record for AppleCare," Cook said during the call.
Source from https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/30/american-airlines-to-offer-free-apple-music-streaming-on-flights.html

Users will be able to Block Bands on Spotify

Go ahead and get the “Thank U, Next” joke out of your system. I’ll wait. Because that’s exactly what you’ll be doing with Spotify’s latest feature: telling various bands you can’t stand that you no longer want them to pop up on the curated playlists you otherwise enjoy.
And this isn’t just about annoying music. There are very legitimate reasons why you might have a moral objection to certain artists—known serial abusers, for example—and you’d rather they just go away for good. If you’re lucky, you might even be able to boot them out of your Spotify life right now.
As Thurrott reported yesterday, Spotify appears to be testing the new artist-blocking feature “with a smaller group of users.” I’m not running any alpha or betas of the Spotify app, but I noticed that I have the feature. You should check, too, as turning it on for any artist you dislike will ensure you don’t have to hear them on Spotify ever again. As Mehedi Hassan describes:

“This means it will block music from that artist on your personal library, playlists, automatically curated playlists, charts, radios, and everything else. In fact, you won’t be able to manually play music from an artist you’ve blocked even if you wanted to — and you’d have to unblock an artist before you can play a certain track from them. Blocking an artist doesn’t block tracks they have featured on, however.”

You would think that it would be easy to block an artist the minute one of their songs pops up, but the process is a bit more involved than that. When you tap on the triple-dot icon next to a song’s name in the Spotify app, the context menu doesn’t give you a way to block the artist outright.

Instead, you’ll have to scroll down a bit and tap on “View artist,” or just visit an artist’s Spotify page directly in the app. (Though I can access artist-blocking features on my iOS Spotify app, I didn’t see them on the web-based player or the Android app when I wrote this article.)
Once there, you’ll have to tap the same triple-dot icon in the upper-right corner of the app to access the contextual menu for the artist in question. If you have access to Spotify’s blocking feature, you’ll see a new option that reads, “Don’t play this artist.” Tap that, and you’ll be (almost entirely) free from them on Spotify—or, at least, until you have a change of heart (or become obsessed with a new single). If that happens, you’ll have to visit the artist’s page again to remove your block.
And it’s important to note that this “block” isn’t like to a Facebook block, where you’ll never see that which you block on the service. When I blocked Abba on Spotify, for example, they still appeared on Jonathan Van Ness’ (incredible) playlists. However, when I ran through the playlist, Spotify automatically skipped any and all Abba songs. (Sorry, Jonathan!)
There’s no word on when Spotify might roll this feature out to more users, so keep checking the app if you don’t have the blocking ability. You could also try enrolling in the service’s alpha or beta tests, if you want speedier access to whatever the company is working on.
Source from https://lifehacker.com/how-to-block-bands-on-spotify-1831951659

How to play iTunes Audiobooks on Kindle

When you transfer your Audiobooks from iTunes to Kindle, you find that you can't do this. All the purchased audiobooks from iTunes Store are by the name suffix ".m4b are protected with DRM. In other words, you can move these DRM audiobooks, unless you remove DRM limitations from these Audiobook files, and then you can easily and freely move the DRM-free audiobooks as you like.
In the following, we will show you the tips to decrypt DRM from iTunes Audiobooks and then play them on Kindle devices.
First of all, we need a DRM removal to help us deal with DRM Audiobooks from iTunes. Macsome iTunes Converter is the tool which you need.
To decrypt DRM from iTunes Audiobooks, users need to free download Macsome iTunes Converter at first.
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Step 1, Double click to install the trial version of iTunes Converter on your PC, and then run it.

Step 2, click the Add button and select the audiobook files you want to convert from iTunes library.
After you choose the Audiobook files you would like to convert, click "OK", and then all the audiobook tracks files you selected would be listed on the main window.
Step 3, Set the output format by clicking the Setting icon, here we choose MP3 format. After iTunes Converter V3.0.0, the default conversion speed is super fast. There is no need to set the conversion speed.

Step 4, click the Convert button to start converting.
Step 5, transfer the Converted Audiobooks to Kindle Devices
Now connect your devices like Kindle Fire to your computer with the USB cable, then open the Kindle Fire folder on your computer, and then open the Internal storage folder, and then drag and drop the converted Audiobook files into the applicable folder.
All the process is very simple, even you are a new user, you can easily use the program to convert your audio files quickly. Why not free download it and take a try.

How to get free trial Apple Music longer than 3 months

Everyone knows that if you want to play Apple Music songs, you need to subscribe Apple Music service. How to play Apple Music freely?
If you are a new user for Apple Music service, visit Apple's website, and choose "Free Trial" in the top right corner, or click "Try it free for three months" on the relevant plan, and you'll be able to get three months absolutely free of charge.
If you want to to get an extra three months of Apple Music, the family plan will be a choice.
If you're happy to use Family Sharing, you could get another member of your family to sign up for the free trial of the Apple Music Family Sharing plan, and then share that with you. You’ll then be able to take advantage of an extra three months for free.
Following the above methods, you have 6 months or more free trial date, but this is troublesome. Not everyone like to try this, in the following, we will show how to keep these Apple Music songs forever after your 3-months free trial.
You know, Apple doesn't offer a free version of Apple Music. After you cancel the Apple Music subscription, all the songs even you have downloaded on your computer can't work and be playable any longer, not to say that, you'll no longer be able to search through the streaming catalog or play custom playlists, because of DRM.
DRM protections limits users to get more freedom from Apple Music. Have you thought of removing DRM from Apple Music songs and then you get unprotected Apple Music songs and play them without limitation and backup them as you like.
Macsome iTunes Converter is the tool to help users get more freedom from Apple Music songs. What you only need to do, just download the favorite Apple Music songs during your 3-month free trial time, and convert them to unprotected AAC, MP3, FLAC and WAV audio formats, and then you can play or keep them according to your need.

Online guide to remove DRM from Apple Music and play them freely

Follow the next step-by-step guide to delete your Apple Music files' DRM
Step 1, Go to download the latest version of iTunes Music Converter by clicking the next download button according to your system, and then install and run it.
In the next, all the conversion are working with Macsome iTunes Converter for Mac.
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Step 2. Just click "+" to import the downloaded Apple Music files.
Please make sure that you have downloaded the Apple Music files you want to convert and they can work normally on your iTunes.

Step 3. Click the setting icon to set the output format and output folder.

There are four output formats including MP3, AAC, FLAC and WAV for users to choose. If necessary, you can also reset the related audio parameters.
Step 4. Click the "CONVERT" button to start your iTunes music converting.

After the conversion, all the Apple Music files' DRM have been removed. You can keep these music or transfter them to PSP, iRiver, Spotify, Pandora and so on.
More Apple Music Tips:

• How to move Apple Music to Google Play Music
• Tips to use Kindle to play iTunes Audiobooks
• How to rip Apple Music to AAC losslessly
• How to sync Apple Music to Samsung Galaxy S8
• How to get DRM-free Version of Apple Music