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Spotify Is Dead. The Future of Music Looks Like 1999.

📅 September 1, 2026 📂 AI & Machine Learning

The golden age of music streaming is over. Spotify is killing the open-source projects that made it great, squeezing artists, and flooding our feeds with AI-generated slop. The real threat to the streaming giant isn’t Apple Music—it’s a wave of users rebuilding the pre-streaming era from scratch.

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Winamp Is Back. But It’s Not Here to Save Your MP3s.

📅 July 30, 2026 📂 Tech Industry

Winamp is back with a Deezer partnership, but it’s not here to save your MP3s — it’s here to be a customizable front-end for someone else’s streaming catalog. The real story isn’t a comeback. It’s a bet that enough people still want the feeling of owning their music library, even in a world where Spotify and Apple have already won.

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