Rick Broida is the author of numerous books and thousands of reviews, features and blog posts. He writes CNET's popular Cheapskate blog and co-hosts Protocol 1: A Travelers Podcast (about the TV show ...

In Windows 8, Windows Media Player is no longer the default program to open your music files such as MP3 files. When you open a MP3 file, the Music app is used to open and play the file instead. If ...

The recently released iOS 14.5 beta gives iPhone and iPad users the ability to change their default music player for the first time. Third-party apps like Spotify and Tidal are supported, and ...

It’s rare to see Apple add options to iOS that allow you to set the app you actually want to use to accomplish something, rather than forcing you to use an official Apple app. And while I doubt you’ll ...

Google and Samsung on Friday announced a partnership that'll make Google Play Music the default music player and music service on new Samsung handsets and tablets globally. It starts today with the ...

Google could soon let users select a default music player for Now Playing results. The company has updated its Now Playing support page to highlight this change, but it is currently unavailable. We ...

There was something of a mystery report this week. Apple and Spotify are reportedly in talks over potentially allowing Spotify users to control music playback with Siri […] According to The ...

Amazon Echo owners can now set Spotify or Pandora to be their default music player. Previously, Echo users could have their device play music from Spotify or Pandora, but they needed to specify the ...

Karandeep Singh Oberoi is a Durham College Journalism and Mass Media graduate who joined the Android Police team in April 2024, after serving as a full-time News Writer at Canadian publication ...

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Apple has finally offered the ability to set Spotify as your default music player for Siri commands. This was previously only available on HomePods, and was a feature we asked for back in 2019. The ...

Like many Windows 8 users, I spend most of my time using Desktop mode, which affords me a more Windows 7-like experience. However, every so often the OS kicks me into an app that I don’t especially ...