Sonos was way ahead of the game when it comes to piping digital around the home. It took years for Apple to catch up, which it might have, by implementing AirPlay across its operating systems, iOS devices, AirPort Express, and AppleTV. Before that happened, I used to call Sonos the “iPod Home” that Apple should…
If you own an iPhone, iPad, or iPad Touch — and an AppleTV, AirPort Express or AirPlay-enabled system — you probably already know that you can play the music from any Apple AirPlay-enabled app (like Spotify or Pandora). All you need to do is tap the button within the app that looks like this: Suddenly,…
Apple unveiled a developer preview of its upcoming “OS X Mountain Lion” on Thursday morning, the latest of the company’s operating systems to be confusingly named after a cat. As with previous releases, Mountain Lion will offer the Mac faithful and fresh converts a host of new features once it launches to the general public in late summer….
Just yesterday, we posted a widely-disseminated guide to zapping music from Android smartphones and tablets to Apple AirPlay devices. Why? Because Google has been slacking on its wireless Fling technology, leaving Apple to eat its wireless music lunch. As we put it yesterday, “Google should be worried. This is how people develop a taste for…
Apple’s AirPlay gives people the pleasure of watching movies, looking at photos, and of course listening to music wirelessly, zapping the content from their iPhones, iPod Touches, or iPads to their televisions and home speaker systems with a variety of popular iOS music apps. What about Google’s Android devices — do those work with AirPlay too?…
We have long maintained that the television is a killer music app platform waiting to happen, so we’re not too surprised to find that Apple sold 1.4 million Apple TVs during its stunning fourth quarter of 2011, when it earned more profit than Google did revenue. As GigaOm points out, that’s half as many units…
First, the bad news: This little wireless speaker costs $200, which is far more than most people would pay for a little portable speaker. Experts in the consumer electronics industry generally assume that starting at $200, people have to check an expenditure with their spouses, and for something like this, the response would probably be…
Each year, hundreds of thousands of new recordings recordings emerge. It takes legions of music bloggers to keep track of it all so you don’t have to. The thing is, the job of keeping track of those music blogs themselves is almost as daunting as keeping tabs on the releases themselves. Joining the suite of…
Apple’s Airplay, a proprietary method for zapping music all through your house without running wires everywhere, is expanding beyond the realm of iOS devices. Could it be on its way to becoming an industry standard — one that would allow Apple to charge the same sort of licensing fees for wireless music connections that it…
Probably the most under-appreciated product Apple has ever made is its AirPort Express. This humble device lets you play music from a wide range of AirPlay-enabled iOS apps on your stereo, where they sound good, without running wires through your living space. It rules — and so does its younger cousin, Apple TV, which adds…
Google’s new to the party, and Apple hasn’t even shown up yet, but mSpot has been helping people build their own cloud music services since 2007 — first by letting them stream songs from their PCs to their smartphones, and now, by hosting it in the cloud so you can play it on your computer,…
Shuffler.fm relaunched its web app on Tuesday with a slew of new, convenient ways to listen to music blogs on a web browser — and, soon, the iPad. The first iteration, which I covered just before it launched about a year ago, reduced the entire “muso-blogosphere,” if you will, into neat genre channels. This simple…
First, let’s state the obvious: Google TV has awesome potential for music fans, as well as anyone else with a clear motivation to use electronics. This platform, available in a set-top box or built into televisions and Blu-ray players, could realize the dream of internet-capable electronics that has blistered like a raisin in the sun…
This iPhone music player for the car represents what iSwipemusic and other gesture-based player apps should look like, and with its responsive, user-tailored controls, it’s probably what they should feel like, too. FluxTunes ($1) works great for controlling music with finger movements as your eyes are otherwise occupied. 25 multi-fingered gestures are reassignable to perform…
You can now play over 15 million Spotify songs on your computer for free in this country — partially because Spotify counts on the fact that if you get addicted to listening to music and building playlists on the service, you’ll want to play those playlists and listen to that music on other devices: your…
