Let’s get it right out of the way: broadcasting a Live365 internet radio station is not for everyone. It’s not to be taken lightly. If you want to set up your station, you’ll need to load the MP3s into the station yourself, for example, among other things. That said, if you want to run your…
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…
Spotify’s strategy, from the beginning, has included allowing people to listen for free on the desktop. There’s a catch when it comes to playing that music away from a computer. If they want to take the millions of tracks on Spotify to their iPhones, Androids, televisions, or other devices, Spotify users have to pay for…
Android folks are used to reading about stuff they can’t use. Today, it’s the Apple iOS crew’s chance to feel left out. Hotspot.fm purports to be the “world’s only 3D music service,” and it’s only available for Android. Indeed, this Finnish-born Android app does have some elements that might be considered three dimensional. To use it,…
It’s going to take a while. Eventually, online listening rooms such as Turntable.fm will feel as normal as radio — another tool for letting people listen to music at the same time, even if they can’t talk to each other — does now. Just because music gets distributed digitally and over the internet doesn’t mean…
Most of us probably remember having a song, album, or band change our lives. It’s a fairly common experience, even for those unfortunate beings who don’t live and breathe music. It’s a good thing to have happen to you (unless you become too obsessed). Still, anyone can get bored of the music they already know,…
The Hype Machine is great. It tracks music from the latest blogs so you can harvest what you will, into whatever you are calling your music collection these days — iTunes, web/YouTube bookmarks, Spotify playlists, your Rdio collection, or whatever. The Brooklyn-based Hype Machine makes a fine front-end to 800 or so of the best,…
The internet has radio for every genre. Mashups? Yep. Dubstep? Check. A station solely for music featured in Breaking Bad? You bet. If you’re looking for music from a twenty-something metalhead in his garage, ta-da! Try Radio Reddit. Given the social link-sharing service Reddit’s large, diverse user base, you’d expect to find at least a few…
At first blush, you might think the world doesn’t need a new online radio service — not when there are already so many of them, and they’re already so good at what they do. That’s what we thought too, until we delved into Radionomy’s unique offering, which rolls out to United States users for the…
A bold upstart from Venice, California turned heads this week with the proclamation that it’s about to unveil a “new ultra-fast HTML5 player to rival Pandora and Spotify.” Another audacious claim: “This alpha test of our innovative player shows it to be a Ferrari in a field of minivans.” Let me get this straight: The…
SoundCloud was originally designed to help musicians send songs (or bits of songs) to each other and their “people” within the industry. Maybe that’s why it still has so many users who seem to be either professionally, semi-professionally, or just obsessively involved with music. We hear SoundCloud even has a really cool Fletch ringtone among its many…
The details often vary, but most streaming radio apps function in the same general way — cue up an artist station, start giving feedback in the form of “likes” and “dislikes,” and let the app respond by giving you music that fits the profile of what you’ve told it you’re into. The technology behind the…
Not to toot my own horn, but I’m going to do it anyway, a little bit. If you don’t like it, go listen to 50 years of summer jams or sign up for our Twitters: @evolverfm, @evolverfm_apps, and @evolverfm_news. I have appeared all over the media talking about music apps and other digital music issues, for over a decade,…
Spotify shows no signs of slowing down since its desktop app became a successful app platform in its own right last December. On the heels of the last batch come two more Spotify apps: musiXmatch, which lets you identify songs through a lyrics search engine and build playlists based on lyric search terms; and KCRW Music Mine, which creates daily…
The internet is run by a loose consortium of wizards called ICANN. According to legends, which are true except that ICANN is mostly just a bunch of self-appointed people who gather to hammer out the internet rules every once in a while, this organization will announce the winning ideas for what “We The Internet” should…
