Long before Mark Zuckerberg dropped out of Harvard to found Facebook, Last.fm allowed music fans to keep an online record of the music they had been listening to in all sort of music players, including iTunes, Winamp, and more. Last.fm’s feature for this is called “scrobbling,” based on the fact that it had acquired a…
If you’ve already heard of the social cross-service music app for the desktop, Tomahawk, you already know how cool it is. Freelance developer Syd Lawrence, the same man who brought us the frivolous This Was My Jam, donned his thinking cap to build Toma.hk, a simple-to-use web app that lets anyone embed music on blogs or link…
Android users who subscribe to Spotify or have joined the 30-day free trial have a treat waiting for them this morning: a brand new Spotify Android app that has been completely redesigned, and it looks pretty slick. The new app supports the Android 4.0 operating system as well “all-new slide-out navigation, ” the ability to…
Update: SXSW appears to have forced this site to shut down. The holidays are over, leaving us with 356, 339, and 357 shopping days until Christmas, Hannukkah, and Kwanzaa respectively. Let’s use that time productively, shall we? You might not want to think about this now, having recently braved the crowded malls and shopping centers, but…
Last.fm essentially invented the idea of tracking what people play in various services and sharing it with others about ten years before Mark Zuckerberg announced last month that Facebook would do the same. Today, Last.fm actually “scrobbles” from more devices and music services than Facebook does, but Facebook has the users — and therefore, the…
Right now, if you want to try Spotify’s new app platform, you need to download a special preview version of the Spotify desktop application. However, Evolver.fm has learned, Spotify plans to roll out its app platform to all of Spotify’s 10-million-plus active users by the end of next week. [Update: we later learned that the launch…
At one San Francisco store, shoppers decide what music plays using mobile apps for iPhone or Android — or simply by checking in to the store and allowing their musical preferences to color the soundtrack. Roqbot, whose ingenious method for crowdsourced music selection in venues (bars, clubs, bowling alleys, etc.) we first profiled at SXSW,…
The old staleness: hiring an expert to design soundscapes for bars, restaurants, museums, and the like. The new hotness: allowing the sonic environment to shape itself around the musical preferences of the people in the room. The catch: If you’re the private type, your taste will be left out of the equation. Everyone else will…
(We’re reposting this one in advance of Valentine’s Day, just in case you’re looking for someone.) Are you dating? More specifically, are you dating a music fan? Don’t talk about your undying fealty to Nickelback, Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, or any of the other artists mentioned above. Tastebuds.fm, which promises to match people based on…
Attention music fans: You might want to watch what you listen to on music apps that connect to Facebook and other services. Each song you listen to helps these services build a detailed view of your listening preferences, so if you favor a guilty pleasure too often (here’s mine), it could come back to haunt you…
Where would we be without APIs? Actually, we’d probably be right here; we’d just be way more bored. Developer Rony Fadel contacted Evolver.fm alerting us to his creation Twist Radio for iOS, powered by APIs (application programming interfaces) from SoundCloud and Last.fm. If you’ve been dutifully scrobbling your music playback to Last.fm (now owned by CBS),…
Put on your headphones. It’s time to listen to music in a new way that might just blow your mind. The above headline doesn’t really do justice to Tomahawk and the new Tomahawklet add-on, which added support for the popular Turntable.fm group-listening service today. Here’s how to work this strange magic for yourself. First, get…
With the release of Songza’s free iPhone and Android apps, fans of the socially-fueled playlist service can finally bring it anywhere. Songza — previously available as a web or Chrome app only — has been through many iterations. The current one includes stations that are hand-curated by other users. Funnily enough, you can’t listen to…
Owners of the Apple iPad have a new way to listen to their own music and find new tunes to listen to: Groovebug, which appeared in the iTunes app store on Thursday. The free Groovebug iPad app offers three ways to play music. First, you can listen to the music already stored on your iPad…
Just yesterday, we found ourselves wishing for a way to scrobble songs played in Turntable.fm rooms to our Last.fm accounts. Today, we received word from Conan Neutron of the band Victory and Associates that such a thing is possible. For the uninitiated, Turntable.fm is a group listening service. And scrobbling is when you track what you’re…
