AudioVroom began as a nifty streaming app for iPhone, conceived over a 24-hour period at a Music Hack Day event. The iPhone version bundles social playlist suggestions with game mechanics — you earn listening credit by making friends and sharing playlists. This week, AudioVroom launched a web app that takes advantage of HTML 5 and Facebook’s flexible…
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…
When MTV’s second O Music Awards air later this month, we’ll receive an answer to a question pondered over many sleepless nights. No, it’s not about the future of the iPod or Facebook music, and it’s got nothing to do with Wub Machines and reality remixers. The question: Who is the web’s Hottest Music NYLF (Nerd You’d Like to…
Some longtime Spotify users are hopping mad about the service’s new requirement that all Spotify users must now log in via Facebook in order to listen, even if they want no part of Facebook’s new media-sharing functionality. A message board on GetSatisfaction about the policy change has attracted hundreds of responses, and now, a link…
Facebook wants to be the “connective tissue” desperately needed by music fans and the music industry alike, so that, at long last, people would be able to share music with each other without friction — and without breaking the law. However, despite all the other neat stuff Facebook unveiled today, it mostly failed in that…
We’re busy monitoring Facebook F8 for all the music news we already knew was coming, but in the meantime, it’s worth noting that Turntable.fm’s slick redesign has gone live during Facebook F8 – just like co-founder Seth Goldstein said it would – with a number of advantages over the old look: It’s easier to see where your friends…
As his partner, Turntable.fm CEO Billy Chasen flew to San Francisco for Facebook’s F8 conference, Turntable.fm co-founder Seth Goldstein demonstrated their creation at Manhattan’s Paley Center at an event hosted by SoundCtrl (which put together the FlashFwd Awards we covered earlier this year). We turned down a VIP seat in order to watch the event online, all…
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…
We can’t stop writing about Facebook today, because after months of anticipation, tomorrow is the day when it will announce new sharing features for music and other media that could form a “connective tissue” between the various services used by music fans. Today, Facebook remade itself (again), much to the consternation of users (again), who…
What music service isn’t overhauling itself in advance of Facebook’s big F8 music-sharing announcement on Thursday? Pandora, the most popular streaming radio destination in the country, just rolled out a soup-to-nuts overhaul of the web version of its service, which now runs on HTML5 instead of Flash, among other changes. According to Pandora CTO Tom…
We’ve learned of another music twist for Facebook’s F8 announcement on Thursday: Myxer Social Radio, from the six-year-old MP3, wallpaper, and ringtone company Myxer. It plans to join the social, smartphone world with a real-time group listening streaming radio service that will let friends listen together via Facebook — not only that, but it will…
It might be longer in the tooth than any of the other “big five” music subscription services, but Rhapsody, with its 800,000 claimed subscribers, is still going strong. Now, it’s doing something it probably should have done a long time ago: integrating more closely with Facebook and Twitter, the way most other things do now,…
Thanks to the DJ Jazzy Jeff and a free web app, we’re wondering why Darnell Jenkins is so important. How did we get here? First, Jazzy Jeff Townes made a whimsical video about his road manager Jenkins being the most important man in the world, and then he tweeted it. I follow Jazzy Jeff on Twitter, so the video was…
Music on Facebook is about to get a lot more interesting. MOG, the unlimited music service, has reinvented itself as a social game where the goal is to listen to, make playlists out of, and share music. If you do those things enough, you’ll never have to pay to use it, and the system will…
Turntable.fm, the popular web app that allows users to DJ their favorite songs in group-listening rooms, is now available for the iPhone and iPod touch as we expected. The service, unveiled earlier this year, has very quickly become something of a phenomenon. The idea is simple enough: five DJs pick tunes (either from Turntable.fm’s substantial…
