YouTube Music gets a lot of flack for plenty of reasons, and the main one is the lack of background listening for free users. If you aren’t a YouTube Premium subscriber, your device’s screen needs to ...

Upcoming changes will allow background listening for unpaid users, but limit video playback to Premium. I've covered the technology field for a decade, beginning a freelance career in 2017 and working ...

cmus will popular its Terminal User Interface (TUI) with your music collection, which you can navigate with the arrow keys ...

Everyone has different habits. Some people prefer to have some background noise, like music, going when they’re working or exercising. Others need complete and total silence to be able to accomplish ...

YouTube Music free background listening will finally be a feature starting November 3. Unfortunately, this feature will only be available in Canada. There’s no word on when this feature might expand ...

Does listening to music boost productivity? Does listening to music boost productivity? It's an interesting question, one I've never really thought about before. I'm sure some people really hope it ...

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December brings fall semester's final exams and some students turn to music to help while they study. But is that a good idea? A September article from University of Maryland Global Campus touts the ...

Are we all imagining the same thing when we listen to music, or are our experiences hopelessly subjective? In other words, is music a truly universal language? To investigate those questions, an ...