by admin | Jan 16, 2025 | Amazon, Audible, audiobooks, News, Other Tech News, South Africa
Feeling a little sheepish about the number of DNFs on your 2024 reading list? Trying to up those rookie numbers in 2025? You’re not alone. It’s hard – true, but there is an answer: audiobooks, an industry currently led by the Bezos empire. If you’ve yet to go down the...
by admin | Nov 9, 2024 | Audible, audiobooks, Column, Columns, guide, News, Other Tech News, Stuff Guides, Toby Shapshak
When I told people about Audible five years ago, most responded to ask what it was. Now, only one in five asks that. The rest? They’re asking me for recommendations. Audible has gone mainstream. Well, middle-class mainstream. Schmoogling the best value out of Audible...
by admin | Oct 7, 2023 | App, App News, audiobooks, News, Other Tech News, Spotify, subscription
Spotify has been busy of late, dropping all manner of new features (mostly to do with artificial intelligence) but there’s a good old-fashioned freebie waiting in the wings as well. Well, ‘freebie’ is a relative term since it’s reserved for those who already give the...
by admin | Jun 22, 2023 | App News, audiobooks, HiFi audio, Music streaming, News, Spotify, Supremium
Remember 2021? South Africa was still in lockdown; we were an entire Fast and Furious movie behind and Spotify said that it would add HiFi audio to its platform before the year had ended. Two years on, and Spotify’s ‘HiFi’ audio is nowhere to be seen. Unless you’re...
by admin | Mar 28, 2023 | Amazon, App News, Audible, audiobooks, Dolby Atmos, News, Other Tech News
Audiobooks are a form of media that haven’t really undergone many updates in recent years. Audible has just changed all of that by bringing Dolby Atmos support onto its platform. What this means is that in addition to single narrators and full-cast renditions of...
by admin | Sep 22, 2022 | App, App News, audiobooks, News, Other Tech News, purchase, Spotify, update
Spotify intends to be the only place you go to listen to anything. Except maybe your parents. You’ll only listen to them when you’re older and know better. In the meantime, you’ll keep telling your parents stories. Speaking of stories… Spotify has officially added an...