People are noticing a “new” feature in Apple iOS 7 that lets you listen to music as you doze off to sleep, safe in the knowledge that the music will turn off after a certain amount of time. Televisions have long had a similar feature called the Sleep Timer — set that, and your set…
We’re waiting to check out Apple’s iTunes Radio, slated to roll out tomorrow as part of iOS 7, but we’ve been hearing quite a bit from app developers about how their apps will work with the new operating system for iPhones, iPod Touches, and iPads. But we already know one thing about iOS 7: the…
Artist radio stations, which base hours of programming around a single band, are one of the most popular ways to listen to music in Our Modern Era. You have many options for that, including one day, maybe, this. But, according to MoodSnap founder and CEO David Blutenthal, you only have one solitary option for picking music…
Gamers who use Microsoft Xbox 360 for music have three big reasons not to ditch it in favor of Rdio, Spotify, or another music subscription, because as of today, the Xbox Music service works on iOS and Android devices, as well as on the web at music.xbox.com. These apps aren’t as full-fledged as the versions…
Unless everyone around you took a vow of silence the moment you were born and you spent the intervening years in a sensory deprivation tank, a sound isolation chamber of some kind, or one of our planet’s rare, ultra-quiet environments, your hearing is already damaged, at least a little. It’s a part of life. Because our hearing…
Do you like dance music? Are you convinced that compressed digital music sounds like garbage? Well then, whip out your iTunes account, because we have found just the app for you. Dance HD, from high-quality digital audio pioneer MP4SLS, packages oodles of CD-quality dance music into its iOS app, which streams to you at the…
Any artist can decide whether or not to include their music in the big music subscription services, just like any app developer can decide whether to sell their app for iOS devices. Thom Yorke is the latest artist to make waves in the former area, pulling his new band Atoms for Peace from Spotify, Rdio,…
If you’re young and live in a city, you probably know people who say they “DJ” or “spin.” These days, that tends to involve plugging a laptop into some sort of sound system. To many of us out there dancing to whatever the person in the booth is spinning (or just enjoying or mocking the…
Spotify has released an update to their iOS app (0.7.1) which adds new functionalities previously only available on the desktop client, such as the popular Discover feature; a makeover to Now Playing; and the ability to edit playlists on the phone. Falling in line with recent updates to other apps like Rdio, Spotify now offers…
If you subscribe to Rdio and use iOS, keep your eye out for two new features designed to turn what the industry calls “lean forward” music (where you’re choosing songs intentionally) to “lean back” music (where something else chooses the songs for you). Rdio’s latest iOS app adds Song Stations, which builds streaming radio stations…
We apologize for the linkbait headline, but it’s true: Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak enjoys an upcoming app for iOS and Android called SoundWave. Apple senior vice president Eddy Cue even liked it enough to make sure the US and UK iTunes app stores approved it, and now that has happened. But why wouldn’t Apple approve…
The romanticization of the olden days-practice of making a mixtape for someone you like might be considered a “slow meme.” It never takes the internet by storm, but it’s consistently mentioned — usually in the context of apps that purports to let people make mixes for each other. Shared playlists are great, as are sites…
We all have different strengths, and for too many of us, they do not include computer programming. By converting drawings into programs that play music, Tunetrace (iOS; free) makes computer programming a touch (get it?) more accessible to the right-brained among us. From QApps, an app venture from researchers at Queen Mary, University of London, Tunetrace for iOS…
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…
