Bargain Alerts: Google Music, Concert Tickets, AutoRap, More
A penny saved is a penny earned. We’ve spotted some digital music bargains:
VB On The Radio: Google, Collecting, Self-Driving Cars
I really like appearing on the radio to talk digital music with John Schaefer, the host of WNYC’s SoundCheck, which appears on National Public Radio stations across the country. Here’s the latest (and here’s the archive):
Apple Approves Rogue App for Google Music
Well, it happened — Apple has approved an iOS app called gMusic that has long allowed the iPhone crowd to access their Google Music locker, and now, as of Wednesday, lets iOS users access Google Play Music All Access from their devices. It will be interesting to see how this plays out, because when we…
This Unreleased iOS App Puts Google’s Music Subscription on iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch
Google’s new music subscription service, Google Play Music All Access, lacks an official iOS app, which comes as no surprise. Google and Apple are hardly “besties” when it comes to digital music or smartphone platforms. However, Evolver.fm has learned that an iOS app called gMusic, which is already capable of playing music from a Google…
Q/A: Google Music Product Guy on Differentiation, Collecting Music, iOS Violators
We’ve been writing a lot about Google’s new music subscription service this week, because of course we would. Google is a force to be reckoned with — and now, that force is reckoning with the likes of Spotify, Rdio, and Rhapsody in a bid for your $10 per month, in return for unlimited access to…
Google’s Launching Two Music Subscriptions? It Should Solve the Biggest Problem in Music Instead
The Google I/O conference takes place today, and the most exciting part of it for music fans will be Google’s new music subscription — or rather subscriptions, plural, because as reported by my former CNET colleague Greg Sandoval, Google has been readying two separate music subscriptions — one aligned with Google Play and Android, and…
3 Musical Instruments You Can Play Elsewhere on the Planet
They say the internet of things is coming. When it does, everyday objects will go online, many with IP addresses. It’s already happening, in particular with personal area network (PAN) devices. These non-computer-type objects can monitor our heartbeats, rate of motion, and even our brainwaves to select the right music, among (many, many) other things. Another internet…
Why YouTube Is Launching a Music Service
A Bloomberg report that Google would launch a “Spotify killer” gained credence on Tuesday with Fortune’s report that YouTube — a division of Google — is in fact working on a subscription service, according to unnamed sources at Google and in the music industry. Notably, this latest report refers to YouTube as the one to launch…
Google Music Adds ‘Scan And Match’ But You Don’t Care – Here’s Why
When Apple launched iCloud, it included a feature that let you put your music in the cloud without manually uploading each song, which takes forever. That’s why we thought Apple, ironically given its download slant, might be your best bet for this ‘cloud music’ thing. Today, as reported by Engadget, Google added the same feature,…
Google Finally Wakes Up to AirPlay Threat
We’ve been hopping up and down, waving our metaphorical hands in the air, wondering when Google will realize that Apple AirPlay represents a fundamental threat not only to its budding media business, but to everything from its mobile operating system to Chromebook sales. Finally, Google gets it. Eight years after Apple unveiled AirPlay, four years…
Google Leverages Search to Push Play
Google users may have noticed a new addition to the black navigation bar pictured above — you know, the one that was supposed to go away, but instead has become an omnipresent springboard for Google’s growing list of non-search services, seemingly designed to keep you frolicking in Google’s “free-and-open” garden for as long as possible….
This Week In Music Apps: Local Music, Sexy Sax Man, YouTube MP3s
We have some ground to make up in this latest installment of This Week in Music Apps, which is really more like “the past three weeks in music apps” this time around. Thankfully, that leaves us plenty of new apps worthy of mention on the Apple iOS, Google Android, web platforms, as well as the…
Surprise, Surprise: Google Plans Wireless Music for the Home
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…
Watch Google’s Music Announcement (Taped)
Google announced a music store today, Wednesday, November 16. We had the live embed earlier; now we’ve switched to Google’s cached version of the announcement. (See also: four reasons Google should sell music.)
Why Would Google Sell Music? 4 Big Reasons
Google will announce a music service this afternoon in Los Angeles. Evolver.fm won’t make good on our invite, but instead plan to watch a private webcast of the announcement, which appears to be a rather poorly-kept secret. According to Bloomberg and others, Google’s music store will do the same thing Amazon and iTunes do: sell individual…