Pitchfork started as site called Turntable when founder Ryan Schreiber was barely out of high school. Now it’s a Spotify app, a “TV” channel, and many other things. We asked Pitchfork vice president of video programming RJ Bentler about the evolution of Pitchfork TV and had a pretty interesting conversation by phone about how video on the internet still…
We were surprised to find, back in November 2011, that Google Android devices can play music on Apple’s AirPlay devices. It’s like Coca-Cola offering a free glass to anyone who drinks Pepsi, and quite frankly, it confused us. Then we found a whole slew of great Android apps for playing music on AirPlay devices, including Apple…
The late Steve Jobs told the handpicked scribe of his biography Walter Isaacson that he had figured out “one more thing” — how to unite the world of Apple devices and services with the ubiquitous television. Jobs is no longer with us, but at the AllThingsD conference, Apple CEO Tim Cook confirmed that television remains…
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…
There are plenty of reasons not to buy Apple TV or Google TV, and some of them have to do with the people who hold many of the cards being perfectly happy with the way things are today. You can’t really cut the cord if you like television programming, as many of us do, which is…
Cable boxes don’t run music apps, and judging from the cable companies’ record, they’re not going to be any time soon. Standard cable boxes still aren’t at the level where TiVo was five years ago in terms of interface and functionality. Adding a healthy selection of music apps seems out of the question. Boxee, on…
Not to be outdone by Apple’s revamped plans to reinvent the television, the other sleeping giant when it comes to TV apps, Google, announced a big software update for its Google TV televisions and set-top boxes, adding the ability to run third-party Android apps. This is a big deal, not just because it means music…
Google’s generous policy towards its YouTube API (application programming interface) lets app developers build all kinds of neat music apps out of the music videos found there. Most recently, we came across Cull TV at a recent NYC MusicTechnology meetup. It’s something like the 50th app we’ve seen to date that applies a filter to YouTube…
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…
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…
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA — Apps are no longer just for smartphones and tablets at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, as vendors look to integrate them into the television and car (although Whirlpool stopped short of including them in its washing machines, much to our disappointment). Among these, Roku — a veteran up-start television set-top box…
One of Apple’s most powerful yet under-appreciated products for the past five years or so has been the Airport Express, which has long been capable of playing the music in your iTunes library on any sound system in the house. Apple has kept Airport Express in production for the past six-plus years more or less…
Boxee, an upstart that made a name for itself turning old computers into full-fledged, television-connected media centers with slick streaming software, released the hardware version of its product last week. You can now watch videos and listen to music in your living room using Boxee without plunking down a computer next to your TV. Boxee…
When was the last time you really listened to music, letting it suffuse your mood like so many leaves in a teapot, as opposed to listening while you multitask or bang your head against the steering wheel in traffic? Aweditorium , free on the iPad, is the work of The Sixty One (a music discovery website that…
