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Grab a card game (20% off) for deep convos or this one ($25) that’s a lot sillier.
Put your favorite pic on this custom Spotify plaque ($10) with the soundtrack of your love story.
Need to vent? Write all your troubles on a funny notepad ($7.25).
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Hug it out with cute salt-and-pepper (11% off) shakers.
Celebrating Singles Awareness Day? Gift yourself under-eye patches (17% off).

Smart home upgrade: It only costs $30 to make your garage door smart, just sayin’. I love being able to check if mine is closed no matter where I am.

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🎵 Cool site: Spotlistr turns any list of songs into a Spotify playlist you can stream or share. Paste in a list in pretty much any format, connect your account, and then wham, bam, a playlist without all the manual searching.

Spotify won't remove Kanye West music but you can

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Kanye West lost his empire over antisemitic tirades. Everyone dropped him — except Spotify. Here’s what you can do, in 60 seconds.

🚨 Don’t fall for it: Scammers are posting AI videos on TikTok promising free versions of Microsoft Office and Spotify. All you had to do? Run a short line of code. Plot twist: It installed malware that could steal your passwords and credit card info. And with no links involved, it was harder to detect.

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Royalties Spotify paid nearly 1,500 artists in 2024. You need over 20 million streams a month to earn that. Guess who is the number one earner on Spotify? Yup, it’s a “Tay Day” pay day for Taylor Swift who made an estimated $79.8 million to $133 million from 26.6 billion streams.

🎧 Spotify sounding flat? On mobile, it might default to lower audio quality to save data. On iOS, go to Settings and privacy > Audio Quality and set it to High. On Android, go to Settings and privacy > Media Quality and set it to High. If you have Premium, there’s also a Very High option. One great option that always sounds great is my show, IMHO.

🔊 Customize Windows audio: You can control the volume of individual apps right from your task bar. Just right-click the volume icon and select Open Volume mixer. Slide it down for something like System Sounds, and bump it up for Spotify. FYI: The Device slider changes overall volume, but app levels stay put.

Don’t buy drugs online: Investigators found over 200 Spotify podcasts with AI voices or no sound at all. The goal? Get people to click the link in the bio, which led to sites selling sketchy prescription meds like Xanax. They weren’t hard to find, either. Some appeared in Spotify’s Top 50 when you searched drug names.

🍝 Tunes al dente: Next time you boil pasta, skip the timer and hit play instead. Barilla’s Spotify playlists are perfectly timed for cooking different pasta types. When the music stops, your food’s ready to eat. Choose from Italian pop, indie or hip-hop artists to find your perfect vibe.

🎶 Auto-tune up: Driving an older car without Android Auto or Apple CarPlay? Load your favorite songs onto a USB flash drive, plug it into your ride’s USB port and rock on. Just stick to common formats like MP3 or AAC. It’s like turning your car into a Spotify time capsule.

🎶 Binge-worthy tunes: Stream music from your favorite shows on Spotify and Apple Music’s hubs for Netflix, Disney+, Max and more. Just tap Search > TV & Movies (Spotify) or Film, TV & Stage (Apple Music) for playlists filled with hits from those iconic moments.

Sick of hearing the same songs? On Spotify, tracks repeat in shuffle mode because it uses cached data. If you want more variety in your playlist, clear your cache. Here’s how: Go to Settings > Storage > Delete Cache. Do it every now and then.

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Watching podcasts on YouTube. Their monthly numbers blow Spotify and every other streaming service in the podcast game out of the water. Yup, you can watch my show there!

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Kendrick Lamar’s fee for performing at the Super Bowl. He will get a tiny performers’ union payout. Last year’s headliner, Usher, got a check for $671. The real payment? His Spotify plays shot up 550% after the show.

🎵 Work hack? Studies show surgeons work faster and more accurately when listening to classical music. For those of us not in the operating room, the best tunes are any that put you in a better mood. The most popular songs on work-related Spotify lists are Train’s “Drops of Jupiter,” “Dreams” by Fleetwood Mac and “Don’t Stop Believin’” by Journey. I hear you humming!

Shady streaming: Spotify is filling playlists with “ghost artists” so they don’t have to pay so much in royalties. Just 20 songwriters are behind over 500 artists and thousands of tracks. The genres most affected? Classical, jazz, ambient and lo-fi hip-hop.

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“Last Christmas,” for the second year in a row. Wham!’s iconic classic is racking up about 7.7 million streams a day on Spotify. That’s almost 90 plays per second. No kidding, it barely missed the No. 1 spot 40 years ago. It’s holding down the No. 3 spot now in the U.S.

A buck is a buck: If you stream music on Spotify, you’re most likely on the $11.99-a-month plan that includes 15 hours of audiobooks a month, too. Don’t use ‘em? Go into your account and downgrade to “Basic” ($10.99 per month). Hey, it all adds up!

Robotic sherpas, Spotify karaoke, FCC fights spam

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Start saving your money now. Apple is gearing up to launch a ton of new devices this fall! Plus, Disney patents “robot sherpas” to carry your belongings, the FCC plans to prevent ringless spam voicemails and Spotify is working on a new karaoke mode that judges your singing skills. I’ve also got the secret to booking airplane seats with the most legroom.

How to solve the Joe Rogan Spotify problem

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Wondering how Joe Rogan’s strange Spotify streaming situation will unravel? Listen now for my solution, in one minute.