Outloud.fm, one of 2011′s outbreak of group listening apps, lets people set up quick chat rooms to play MP3s for each other. You won’t see any cute avatars like the ones on Turntable.fm and Rolling.fm there. Nonetheless, listeners who prefer a feed-like interface, familiar from social networks, might prefer Outloud.fm’s approach, which also democratizes the…
Ever wondered what kind of music people are making right now in Rio De Janeiro? What about Paris, Berlin, or Istanbul? Think about what it would be like to descend upon a city and immerse yourself in the musical styles, energy, and ideas of its inhabitants… you guessed it, without leaving your computer or Apple…
Somehow, in the relatively advanced year of 2006, when YouTube, Vimeo, and several other sites helped us share video, we still lacked a good way to do the same with music. Sure, there was imeem, which aspired to be “the YouTube of music,” but it was designed more for posting music recorded by other people…
There is nothing quite like a line-art rabbit running frantically in two-dimensional space while avoiding musically-synchronized obstacles to really light up the crowd at Music Hack Day, as the above video demonstrates. Robert Böhnke’s homage to the Japanese cult classic PlayStation game Vib Ribbon, which he cunningly named “Vib Riboff,” uses HTML5 to make a browser-based…
Uri Nieto created a simple app at Music Hack Day New York to answer a simple question: Are you screaming, or not? Record any sound into this as-yet-unreleased iOS app for iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, and the app measures a various scream-indicating audio attributes (the standard deviation of the spectrum, the wave form’s centroid, and the number of…
SoundCloud has been impressing onlookers for over a year now with its clean interface for sharing music on the web, which appears to be the first major update to the MySpace concept that makes sense to people who use Twitter. Now, the site has added a big old record button, allowing anyone with a microphone…
