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The best free music players 2025: organize and enjoy your digital music collection

By Daryl Baxter, Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson last updated

Organize and enjoy your music with a free player that offers smart tagging and advanced playback options.

Tidal's waving goodbye to MQA and Sony 360 Reality Audio: here's what you need to know

By Carrie Marshall published

Tidal is betting on FLAC and Dolby Atmos as the key formats for hi-res audio and spatial audio

Alexa+ is coming to Amazon Music, and it’s an AI DJ, playlist curator, and music encyclopedia all rolled into one

By Rowan Davies published

You can ask the new AI assistant to create specific playlists and even answer your burning music trivia questions.

AI music platform Udio and Universal Music strike a deal – is this AI music's Spotify moment?

By Eric Hal Schwartz published

UMG allies with AI music startup Udio for an AI-powered music streaming service.

A new Spotify and Tidal rival is coming with support for next-gen wireless Hi-Res Audio

By Carrie Marshall published

A new streaming service for audiophiles (and tech-heads) is coming, with support for MQA AIRIA.

Spotify may be raising prices, here are my 3 favorite alternatives

By Cesar Cadenas published

A recent Bloomberg report states Spotify may add an extra two dollars to the standard plan to make up for audiobook costs.

Finding new artists on Spotify just got harder after layoffs put an end to useful music encyclopedia, and I’m tired of it

By Carrie Marshall published

Spotify's cost-cutting drive means one of the best third party Spotify sites has lost all access to the service.

Record Store Day 2024 – the full list, plus five essential albums to pick up

By Rowan Davies published

Record Store Day 2024 is here, but it’s these five albums you should track down and listen to on the big day.

The 90s revival continues! WH Smith announces it's selling vinyl in shops again

By Becky Scarrott published

WH Smith is about to become your local record store again – someone tell me Woolworths is reopening!

Apple Music's awesome $2.99 deal is your reason to finally switch from Spotify

By Jacob Krol published

Apple Music is offering new subscribers an excellent deal ahead of Super Bowl LIX and the Apple Music Halftime Show. You can get six months for just $2.99, an exceptional savings.

Missing Spotify's lyrics? They're coming back for free users again, with no restrictions

By Becky Scarrott published

The general gist was that Spotify pulled free lyrics so it could add them to its additional $5 HiFi tier, so maybe that plan's scrapped…

Here's why I ditched Tidal for Spotify after just five days

By Tom Bedford published

I took the Tidal plunge after years with Spotify, then scurried back with my arms outstretched: here's why.

I’m swapping Spotify for CDs with the affordable Fiio DM13 in 2025 – here's why

By Tom Wiggins published

My tech resolution for 2025 is to breathe new life into my CD collection again – here's how I'm rediscovering shiny discs.

Our favorite budget audiophile brand has a new affordable hi-res music player, with a desktop mode to make it part of your hi-fi setup

By Carrie Marshall published

The FiiO M21 offers high-spec hi-res without a high price – and has a cool cassette deck case, because why not

Spotify Supremium leak reveals what the new tier and some features may look like at launch

By Cesar Cadenas published

Images show Spotify Supremium could have a compatibility checker to see if your phone can run hi-res audio and the tier might get a new name.

Spotify is adding another 1,000 audiobooks for Premium subscribers

By Carrie Marshall published

More books from smaller publishers are now available for you to stream

Streaming music is broken – here's why it's made me fall in love with vinyl all over again

By Carrie Marshall published

Streaming is great for the kitchen, the commute and the car, but physical media makes music feel like it matters more.

Best music samples of 2025

By Anna Sevilla published

We list the best music samples, to make it simple and easy to add royalty-free music, audio and sound effect loops to your recordings, whether for composing music or for a video audio tracks.

Best MP3 player 2025: top portable hi-res music players for any budget, all tested by our experts

By Becky Scarrott, Becky Scarrott last updated

Looking for the best portable hi-res music player? Here's our pick of digital audio players from Astell & Kern, Sony and more.

Audio file formats explained: the difference between MP3, ALAC, DSD, FLAC and more

By Tom Bedford published

Here's everything you need to know about 10 major audio file formats, many of which you've probably already used.

Finally, Apple Music might be making it easier to leave Spotify – with your playlists

By Becky Scarrott published

Reddit users spotted a feature in Apple Music for Android beta that offers up a third-party playlist import app natively.

Spotify has brought more handy upgrades to its interface - here are 4 you might have missed

By Rowan Davies published

Spotify has been busy bringing new features to its platform. If you haven't caught up, here are 4 new features to test out.

So, you got a Tidal subscription for Christmas... here's how to transfer your Spotify playlists

By Tom Bedford published

Got a Tidal subscription for Christmas, but missing your carefully curated Spotify playlists? Time to transfer them over to the high-quality audio world

Is Spotify Mix already overshadowed? This audio-mixing software lets you mix Spotify’s entire music library

By Rowan Davies published

Algoriddim's audio-mixing tool djay now allows you to access all of Spotify's music catalog.

Get ready for Spotify Supremium – Spotify CEO finally reveals ideas for 'higher quality' tier that's a lot pricier

By Matt Bolton published

Spotify's Daniel Ek gets even more candid about the long-rumored higher tier – but don't expect it right away.

How to find Spotify Daylist, to get daily (weirdly named) curated playlists just for you

By Rowan Davies published

Spotify Daylist is a unique insight to your daily music listening habits. Here's where you can find it.

DJ with Apple Music lands, allowing subscribers to build and mix DJ sets directly from its +100 million-song catalog

By Becky Scarrott published

Let's get this party started you Apple Music DJ, you!

The best audiobook sites 2025: easy listening anywhere

By Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson, Jacob Parker last updated

Whatever your preferred literary genre, there's an audio book site out there for you

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Audible is practically free for three months right now - here's how to get 85% off

By Alex Whitelock published

Audiobook fan? It's time to stock up on your free book tokens with this New Year Audible deal.

Apple Music wants more Dolby Atmos tracks and isn’t afraid to pay for it

By Carrie Marshall published

Expect lots more spatial audio like Dolby Atmos on Apple Music in 2024 and beyond because Apple is making it worth artists’ while.