AUSTIN, TEXAS — Wahwah.fm lets you turn the music stored on your iPhone into an internet radio station that gets broadcast worldwide, or to other people near your location. Not only that, you can also check out what other users are broadcasting. To get started with this innovative app, you can sign up with Facebook…
Normally, we write about music apps that exist. Not this time. I’ve been dreaming of the ultimate music app; maybe it’s because I used to do the same thing with hardware during my days as the guy who reviewed MP3 players at CNET (although they deleted the column), or maybe it’s just fun to make…
BlackPlanet Radio, a collaboration between Songza and a subsidiary of Radio One (not to be confused with the English radio station by the same name) called Interactive One, was designed to allow African Americans to create radio stations and share them with each other. The service includes 53 official stations from a catalog of 14.5 million songs and…
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),…
Say what you will about AOL, but it still reaches lots of people. Nearly 50 million of them visited aol.com last month, and approximately three million listen to AOL Radio. AOL Radio, which used to be powered by Last.fm and MP3.com owner CBS, relaunched on Wednesday with Slacker Radio underneath the hood. The new AOL Radio is…
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…
We have a bone to pick with one aspect of Facebook’s new music initiative, but can’t find anything wrong with the way it will let people join each other on streaming radio stations to chat about what they’re hearing. Here’s how this will work: We are friends on Facebook. I am listening to a streaming…
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…
Since 2002 — the year after the first iPod was unveiled — Sonos has built a business around making what I used to call “the ‘iPod Home’ that Apple never made.” Sonos’s digital audio devices for the home have taken many forms over the years, but they all create a mesh network in the home…
In an age when so many apps seem to come from a couple of people building stuff on nights and weekends, the big guys can still bring the goods too. AOL, which made its billions in part by snail-mailing countless CD-Rs to introduce web naifs to the internet (and AOL’s private version of it), has…
Local programming may keep FM radio going strong in some regions, but in many cases, syndicated radio broadcasts come from nationwide feeds, and only plug in those “[your city here]” identifiers to make them feel local. Geo-aware music services, such as the new Raditaz iPhone and Android app (first mentioned in our weekly wrap-up), are…
As some of the biggest tech companies in the world, Amazon, Apple and Google, attempt to solve the cloud music riddle, mSpot — which has offered a cloud music locker since last year — has a new answer. On Thursday, the company unveiled a one-of-a-kind music service called mSpot Radio Spotter, which streams customized streaming…
As music listening shifted from beautiful if clunky stereo systems to the internet, developers found ways to take the work of choosing what to play next out of the listeners’ hands, and into warm embrace of algorithmic intelligence. The concept is simple, though the practice is not: Create a recommendation service that gathers and organizes…
Stereomood isn’t online radio in the same vein as Pandora or Last.fm. Rather, it’s designed, to provide mood music; put it on and leave alone. Founded nearly three years ago in Milan, the site relies on one of the most comprehensive, creative tagging systems on the Internet, a wide net cast over such unlikely classifiers…
First, take note: The folks who own and operate Deezer Radio are French, as you will be reminded many, many times, should you explore this interactive radio service for the web and smartphones. [Update: Deezer is no longer available in the United States.] Deezer’s English-language version is still scripted largely in French, so Flash elements,…
