Whyd: Do We Really Need Another Social Music Discovery Site?
Another week, another thing for collecting music on the internet that people might or might not want to use. The latest: Whyd, a social music service that lets you find music from free music sources...
View ArticleThis Week In Music Apps: Shazam Alternative, Album Email, Arabic Pandora
This week brings the ultimate music app for fans of Arabic music, a nice Android music player, a new way to stay updated on your favorite artists’ album releases, and more. First, our latest reviews:...
View ArticleForever.fm Plays Beat-Matched Music Without Stopping… Ever
Forever.fm was designed to do one thing and one thing only: Play music that never stops, for any “DJ chatter,” advertisement, or lack of musical ideas. This impressive-looking, open-source web app...
View ArticleWill MOG Flounder Without Its Founder, or Is Cloud-to-Headphones Really The...
One thing I realized as CNET’s senior editor of headphone, MP3 player, and music service reviews was that music hardware companies seemed to do well — even as music services went under, and friends,...
View ArticleGIF Spinner Is Turntable.fm for Memes
Is your internet palate getting too internet-jaded? Allow us to refresh your sensory overload with GIF Spinner. Animated GIFs are — actually forget it if you’re not an animated GIF person, because...
View ArticleSkrillex Videogame Suffers Intentional Glitch
Have you played the Skrillex videogame yet? Well, it is here, and you can play it using nothing more than your browser, arrow keys, and space bar. Jason Oda, who gained notoriety with the breakout...
View ArticleThis Week In Music Apps: Redesigns, Video Discovery, Qwerty Beats, More
This installation of This Week in Music Apps brings great redesigns of some of our favorite apps as well as some new music players, an app for playing guitar, ukulele and banjo songs, another great way...
View ArticleThis Week In Music Apps: Tunigo, GroovePond, and the Best YouTube Player Yet
With the end of the year approaching, “Best of” lists are everywhere. To help you cope without ignoring them, we’ve aggregated a lot of those into a “streamable” article: the ultimate collection of the...
View ArticleThis Is My Jam Odyssey: Listen To Your 2012 in Minutes
In a time of musical deluge, when the stuff seems to come at us from all angles from so many firehoses, This Is My Jam represents a refreshing glass of water. Rather than sharing everything you listen...
View ArticleBoil The Frog: The Coolest Playlist Generator We’ve Seen All Year
Paul Lamere, the man who brought us the Infinite Jukebox, Bohemian Rhapsichord, Bangarang Boomerang, and other fun stuff is at it again with Boil the Frog, a free web app that’s a little bit like “six...
View ArticleTop 28 Facebook Music Apps: The New Generation
When you’re in charge of a publication, sometimes you look at server logs to see what people are reading. We try not to obsess too much about it, because it encourages repetition of the same formulaic...
View ArticleJustin Timberlake Relaunches Myspace to Promote Single, Vice Versa
Some artists send out a press release when they have a new single. Justin Timberlake invests in an old social network, rebuilds it, and then relaunches it to the public. In other words, the new MySpace...
View ArticleFacebook Graph Search Ties Music to Everything Else
Facebook already lets you see what people listen to in Facebook-connected music apps, check out which bands they like, and even unfriend them for liking the wrong band. On Tuesday, at its big...
View ArticleLost in Music? These 11 Apps Can Help You Find Your Way
Most of us probably remember having a song, album, or band change our lives. It’s a fairly common experience, even for those unfortunate beings who don’t live and breathe music. It’s a good thing to...
View ArticleOraStream Brings HD Music to the Cloud
Against all odds, 2013 is shaping up to be the year when people started caring about sound quality — not only as regards their choice of headphones, but also in terms of the music files themselves. Why...
View ArticleAmazon MP3 Circumvents iTunes with HTML5 Music Store for iOS
If you try to buy MP3s using Amazon’s iOS app, you’ll see a warning that says “This mobile application does not currently support digital downloads. Add this item to your Wish List and you can view and...
View ArticleInventor of ‘Pitchfork + Spotify’ Doesn’t Hold a Grudge
The top-ranked Spotify app, most days, is TuneWiki. This app plays lyrics in real time as you listen to music in the desktop version of Spotify. Holding down the number two slot on a fairly consistent...
View ArticleWhat Is Dropbox Doing with Audiogalaxy, Anyway?
Most companies making strides in the cloud are big. Apple (iCloud) and Google (Drive) are front-runners in the general cloud storage space. If you count the music cloud, Amazon’s also a factor,...
View Article7 Amusing Games from Music Hack Day Stockholm
As some of us enjoyed a long weekend, hardware hackers and software savants were building some of the future of music at Spotify’s worldwide headquarters for Music Hack Day Stockholm. These hardy souls...
View ArticleThis Week in Music Apps: Scrobbler, Colorhits, and Road Trip Playlists
We’re back with another batch of fresh music apps as part of our This Week in Music Apps series, which usually includes Android apps, but this time it’s iOS, the web, and desktops only. First, the...
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