You might have noticed that every music blog in the world and half of its tech blogs are linking to Daft Punk’s iTunes page right now. As one example, Gorilla vs. Bear’s post simply includes an image, a video, and the words: “It’s here. Listen now at iTunes.” If you make the jump from any of these non-critical, “listen…
What about the app of Geddy Lee? Well, here’s what: His band, Rush, has an app called Rush, published by band’s label and management company The Anthem Group, Inc., which makes Rush apps for Rush fans. In the other corner, we have Anthm, a nifty, free iOS app we wrote about two Februaries ago, which…
Five days after it was released, Twitter #Music is the most popular free music app in Apple’s iTunes app store. It’s now the sixth-most-popular free app overall, beating out Spotify at number 19: Twitter #Music’s main feature is a popularity chart, so it’s fitting that the app itself is also charting well, so far anyway….
The latest research from NPD Group shows that Apple’s iTunes still dominates the digital music sales market, although Amazon is gaining. Apple’s iTunes store sold 63 percent of the digital music purchased by consumers in the fourth quarter of last year, followed by Amazon MP3 with 22 percent. That leaves just 15 percent for every…
Apple makes iTunes. Android comes from Google. That doesn’t stop you from controlling iTunes using an Android phone or tablet, because iTunes is compatible with something called DACP, which you can use without knowing what it is. Once you run one of these apps, it’ll generate a four-digit code; enter that into iTunes once, and…
Kickstarter lets artists, inventors, and entrepreneurs fund projects by taking pre-orders and pledges. We’ve seen everything from song-dedicating apps to iPad speakers to a smart guitar to a country-western film ask for money there. Apple iTunes now lets musicians do something similar by taking pre-orders for their music on iTunes, as reported by CDBaby, which distributes…
DoubleTwist, which makes two of the most popular Android music apps in the world (AirSync at #7 and doubleTwist player at #23), just entered the U.S. streaming radio market alongside Pandora, iHeartRadio, and TuneIn. DoubleTwist’s Magic Radio has the power to extend your library, playlists, and musical taste to over 13 million songs. We’ll get…
The proliferation of social and music services are good for music fans, overall. But do we really need to see every song our friends play? I think we all know the answer: There is such a thing as too much information, at least where humans are concerned. (Machines are different.) It usually makes more sense…
If you try to buy MP3s using Amazon’s iOS app, you’ll see a warning that says “This mobile application does not currently support digital downloads. Add this item to your Wish List and you can view and purchase it from your computer.” As of today, however, Amazon has figured out a way around what we…
Every year, Apple boycotts the Consumer Electronics Show in favor of its own MacWorld, opting instead to hold its own, Apple-only event shortly thereafter — where this year, some of the smart money anticipates an iPad 3 (which would almost certainly be a more exciting announcement than any tablet launched at CES this week). As…
(Ed. note: Some people review stuff five minutes after it came out. Sometimes we do that too, but with iTunes 11, we took our time.) When I first installed iTunes 11, I felt a sense of panic. Most iTunes upgrades, these past few years, haven’t changed much of anything, which is one reason some people have been…
If you know people who work at record labels, you know they are not without complaint. From Napster to YouTube, half of the new technologies in the world at any time seem specifically designed to subtract money from their bank accounts — oh, and everyone thinks they’re too rich, serve no purpose, and are quite…
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…
The internets are abuzz once again with news that Apple will release a new version of iTunes today, after Apple senior vice president of internet software and services Eddy Cue dropped a hint to the Wall Street Journal. What will it be? Actually, that’s not much of a surprise, because Apple lays out its vision…
We must admit: Budtobud is not our favorite-named app. Is it supposed to be a riff on “peer to peer?” We’re not sure. Regardless, what it does is neat. First, it turned your iTunes into a free group listening party for your friends. Then, the interface improved, although it still had too many windows and…
