Bruno Zamborlin has devised a way to connect a custom contact microphone to an iPhone app, with intriguing results. His invention, the Mogee, attaches to just about anything around you and picks up vibrations from these objects, turning them into sound with the iPhone app, and then out to headphones, speakers, a recording device, an…
If you’re a music fan, and your music collection is scattered all over the place, which it is, BitTorrent offers a great app called BitTorrent Sync that helps somewhat, by letting you access the music downloads on all of your computers, from all of your devices. It’s a good start, from the point of view…
Apple offers a remote control for its Mac computers, as well as a remote control app, but neither one can control the volume outside of Apple’s own software. Meanwhile, some Windows Media Center computers come with remote controls too, but they are similarly limited to Microsoft’s software. Since when did volume — something that we can…
Spotify made two landmark announcements at a Manhattan press event on Wednesday. The first: a free version of its iOS and Android apps that lets anyone with those smartphones play any track on Spotify, via Spotify playlists. It differs from the free desktop version, in that the playlists always shuffle, so you can’t play any track…
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…
