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…
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…
I set out this morning to build a chart listing the various features of the major music subscription services: Rdio, Rhapsody, Spotify, and we assume the recently-launched Google Play Music All Access, although it remains to be seen whether it will succeed on the level of those standalone music services — or whether it will…
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…
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…
DRM, or digital rights management, used to be a big conversation point — and not just among techies. Steve Jobs even wrote a letter to the whole world in 2007 about how it needed to go away. In a sense, DRM did vanish from music after the major labels dropped their requirements that iTunes and…
This morning, I composed and played music with someone in Spain and some people standing around in a museum in London. You can do it too, for free, right now, as soon as you’re done with reading all the new articles on Evolver.fm. All you need is the Google Chrome web browser, a few minutes,…
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…
Armed with little more than a web browser, you can listen to just about any song in the world, for free, one way or the other. A problem exists with using a browser as your music interface — and it’s a big one. If, like the author, you often have dozens of tabs open in…
On Wednesday night, I ran into Billboard senior branding correspondent Andrew Hampp at the Digital Media Wire Music awards dinner (I was on a panel there), who dropped some interesting news: Billboard was announcing that night that it had begun integrating YouTube into its charts, which instantly put the “Harlem Shake” song atop the charts….
Oh, internets. Just when we get so excited about how amazing you are, you let us down by being wrong — and then reinforcing that wrongness. Let’s start at the beginning. Bloomberg followed up on an AllThingsD report that Google/YouTube is looking to invest in Vevo. The reported $50 million investment would value the venture, owned…
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,…
At first blush, Moment.me struck us as one of those startups we’re not supposed to cry for. People already spend seemingly every waking minute updating their stati and taking sepia-toned pictures of their feet. Do we really need another social network — especially one that doesn’t add anything new, but simply piggybacks on top of all…
Apple’s iOS created the modern smartphone as we understand it today, but Google’s open-source copycat Android quickly made up ground, and is now the top-selling operating mobile operating system. According to the latest IDC predictions, Android’s top sales rank will persist next year. So why are there so many more great apps for iOS than…
We devoted inches to wireWAX’s “shoppable” music video, which started us thinking about other promotional techniques that might make sense these days. Now, we shift our focus to interactive music videos as a species. We found a degree of variation. Aside from the viral, more traditional version we’ve all become accustomed to — and which…
