Last November, we got all hot and bothered about Artiphon, which promises an oasis of quality construction in a desert of poorly-designed plastic things that attach to iPhones. Like the gTar, it’s a musical instrument that uses an iPhone as its brain. However, instead of modeling itself after a guitar, Artiphone is a whole different…
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…
You’re throwing a party. You take an iPhone. You plug it into the stereo. Any other iPhone at the party — not an online party, an actual party — can pick the music. That’s the basic premise of JukeBox Hero (not to be confused with the Foreigner song or Android music quiz), which simplifies the “Hey everyone with an…
For almost as long as scientists have devised ways to store digital music in ever more efficient ways, other scientists have agonized over how to “repair” that work. This typically involves trying to replace what the process of acoustic compression has removed — compression that is necessary for the files to fly around the internet…
Just Hear It made playlist-making quick and painless on the web app a few years ago, with the tagline “any song, legal, free.” The web version pulls music from the web and YouTube, but the new $1 iPhone version can only make playlists from the music on your iPhone. That’s probably all you need to know. However,…
We only have the following, fleeting images of the Artiphon Instrument 1, but we’re intrigued. This deluxe, sub-$1,000, wood-crafted musical instrument will accept an iPhone, just like the awesome gTar learning/gaming guitar. The Artiphon Instrument 1 has fretboard and strum interfaces, multiple instruments, and the ability to record them all. Supposedly, anyone can use this…
Finally, the “first” digital music magazine designed for iPhone and iPad has arrived. What’s so great about a magazine in app form? And haven’t other people done this before? Aside from the obvious benefits of convenience and portability, web and app platforms also translate to lower risks for publishers, which translates to lower prices — or in…
If you like to stand your iPhone or iPod Touch up on your desk so you can remote-control Spotify, zap music from any app to your stereo, and so on — and you are one of those tree-hugging hippie lunatics who thinks maybe we shouldn’t destroy the only planet where we can currently live in part…
We have new and interesting apps to share with you in our latest installment of This Week In Music Apps, including iOS, Android, and web apps, just like we do (or try to do) each and ever week. First, take a peek at our latest app reviews (as opposed to hardware):
Apparently, plenty of people have cassettes lying around that they want to turn into MP3s on their iPod or iPhone — to the point that Hammacher Schlemmer has sold out of the Cassette to iPod Converter, pictured to the right. Don’t be fooled by this product’s name — it also rips MP3s to the iPhone, unless…
Apple and every cellphone provider that sells the iPhone 5 are over the moon this Monday morning, as the new iPhone set new sales records – even as its ship date gets pushed back to accommodate the flood of interest from consumers. People simply cannot wait to get their hands on the sixth coming of the “Jesus…
You might not know the name Smule, but you probably know one or more of the apps that have earned the company approximately gazillions of dollars. Smule co-founder, CTO, and chief creative officer Dr. Ge Wang, who when he is not helping to make millions of people sound like T-Pain, is also an associate professor…
Eleven years ago, I watched Steve Jobs unveil the iPod at Apple’s Cupertino headquarters. The following week, I made my best prediction to date: that descendents of the iPod would replace the PC, as they are now doing. Gizmodo generously called it the best iPod prediction of all time. A colleague once suggested that I get…
Let’s just get right down to it. As usual, in our This Weeks In Music Apps series, we’ll kick things off with the latest reviews, then proceed to the new and notable releases — in this case, for iOS, Android, the web, and Spotify. This Week in Reviews Rolling Stone‘s Concert App is Sort of ‘Meh’…
Before we get to the weekly app roundup, a quick note to our Bay Area people at the sold-out Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival this weekend: Make sure to download the event app (iOS, Android, and Blackberry) so you don’t miss a thing. On to the latest and greatest music apps!
