What an original idea: A bunch of rooms where cute little avatars can DJ music to each other! That’s what we said last May, before breaking the news (we think) about Turntable.fm, after surprising its cofounder Billy Chasen with a call to his cellphone. If you’ve tried the social DJ web or iOS app Turntable.fm,…
The music section of the Chrome Web Store has amplified quite a bit since its initial rollout of 23 apps. In addition to offerings from heavy hitters like MOG, Rdio, and Pandora, it’s also home to a wide selection of apps and extensions from smaller developers from off the beaten trail. Getting an app into…
Here’s one for the “How on earth did nobody think of this before?” files. Video Star for iOS facilitates the creation of homespun music videos to go along with any song on your device. To use it, you simply choose a song from your music library and start shooting. You can act along with the…
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…
Google announced a neat addition to its still relatively shiny and new music store on Thursday: a special spotlight on the best independent bands, as judged by Google’s in-house editorial staff as well as by traffic to those bands’ pages within the music store. Yes, in case you missed it, Google has its own music blog,…
By now, you’ve probably heard about SOPA, PIPA, and the controversies surrounding these proposed, well-meaning legislations, which threaten the end-to-end nature of the internet in the name of copyright (if not, here’s what you need to know). Because you’re on the internet right now, you may have noticed that the English version of Wikipedia is totally blacked…
This was the first full year of Evolver.fm, which we recently redesigned with a new, cleaner look, and the world’s first cross-platform directory of music apps with categories, reviews, videos, and more. To celebrate, we figured we’d take a look at Evolver.fm’s top five stories of 2011, as chosen by our readers. (Note: This doesn’t…
Google announced on Friday that it has purchased the music licensing company RightsFlow for its detailed information about who should get paid when any of over 30 million songs get played. Neither Google nor Rightsflow would comment on the deal beyond their official statements, but we have pieced together some of the reasons Google would…
Did you miss the live webcast announcement of Google Music? Forget about the live blogs — they never read properly after the fact. Here’s our quick checklist of what Google announced today, so you can decide whether Google Music is worth a try (you might also check Google’s official blog post). Google Music is only…
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.)
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…
We’ve learned more about Google’s exciting plan to launch third-party Android and web apps for Google TV, available in the Android market. Google spokesman Jacques Hebert tells Evolver.fm that the following apps will be included when the new Google TV rolls out starting next week. We can’t wait to try it out, because television will be…
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…
In this era of apps and clouds, the old Apple vs. Microsoft dichotomy is giving way to a superpower triumvirate: Amazon, Apple, and Google. Only these combine hardware, media, apps, and cloud storage — and connect them for consumers — as personal computing becomes a layer spread throughout our lives, rather than a discrete sector. Specifically, these…
Back in June, Google was said to be launching a music store possibly by this fall. Now that it’s fall, Google has reportedly been telling labels that its music store, and possibly subscription service (not to be confused with Google Music Beta locker), will launch by the end of 2011. This would constitute the third in a string of music announcements…
