Tag: Music
Sony’s Music Unlimited streaming service coming to iOS
Sony is working hard to keep their heads above water in the music game. Their Music Unlimited streaming service is promoted heavily on the PS3...
Recompress your music for your iPhone on the fly in iTunes 10.6
Most people like to keep their music in iTunes at a pretty high bit rate. Hell, some people exclusively use Apple Lossless for their music...
Apps of the Week: They Need To Be Fed, ListBook, and Skip Tunes
It’s Friday, and that means it’s time to take a look at some awesome apps for each platform: iPhone, iPad, and Mac OS. Today, we’re...
Gapless listening makes its way towards Spotify
Gapless playback is a vital part of the listening experience for some albums. For example, the second half of The Beatles’ Abbey Road album is...
Spotify for iOS takes audio quality to the EXTREME
Spotify, the popular streaming music service, can now play very high quality music on iOS as well as the desktop. Previously, the Spotify app for iOS...
The state of Apple’s ecosystem lock-in, and where we’re at today
Every couple of months articles crop up on the Internet calling Apple’s ecosystem a “walled garden” or a “golden cage” (1, 2, 3). These articles...
Sony’s Music Unlimited coming to the App Store
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Sony plans to offer their Music Unlimited service on iOS in the first quarter of this year. With...
Hipsters shed ironic tears: Digital music sales pass physical media sales for the first time ever
It may be a generational thing, but it’s pretty surprising that 2011 was the first year that digital music sales surpassed physical media sales. But,...
Moog releases Animoog for iPhone at introductory $0.99 price
The Moog synthesizer is an iconic electronic instrument developed by the late Dr. Robert Moog in the 1960s, and one of the first commercially successful...
Logic Pro 9 and MainStage 2 now on Mac App Store, prices reduced
Apple’s music software Logic Pro 9 and live performance environment MainStage 2 have made the transition over to the Mac App Store, following similar moves...
Richard Branson, the world’s most unsquare person, invests in Square
Square just got a little bit cooler today. Sir Richard Branson, the founder of Virgin Group, and that iPad magazine that we’ve apparently forgotten about...
DigiTech gives us the iPB-10 Programmable Pedalboard
It seems like every day we see yet another kickass example of how to use the iPad for the cause of awesome, and DigiTech offers...
Rdio for iOS and OSX, \är-d’E-O\
With thousands of songs in your iTunes, and devices with limited memory, there must be a better way. Enter Rdio, a music subscription service with...
Apple readying Logic Pro X, says it won’t look like GarageBand
A few details were revealed this week about Apple’s plans for the next version of Logic Pro, Apple’s music editing and sequencing program. According to...
Soon app developers will be the new rockstars, a study shows it to be so
Nerd is the new cool, bloggers are getting picked up in limos to go to events, and now app developers are quickly becoming the new...
While Apple focuses on music in the cloud, Microsoft may be bringing TV along
A lot of digital ink has been spilled both here on the website, and around the blogosphere about Apple’s iCloud and where the music industry...
iCloud music deals costing Apple $150 million, consumers $25
Looking to start your own online music streaming service? You might want to head to the bank for a giant loan first. According to the...
Apple is close, but not quite there, on music-streaming deals
Apple is hoping to have all things worked out before WWDC so they have something to announce, something that’ll hold people over for the next...