Two South by Southwests ago, I met a guy with a neat, as-yet-unreleased app called Wahwah.fm. An early group-listening app for iOS, the app essentially turned your iPhone into a radio station based on the songs stored on it, so that anyone, anywhere in the world, could tune in to your station using the same…
The processing power of smart phones — a huge step up from the MP3 players of old — gives practically anybody access to near-professional-grade audio effects. What used to require expensive high-end audio equipment can now be done with the so-called “phone” in your pocket, just by downloading an app. Assembling the top picks for this category was tricky. Many options…
Before the advent of recording, music, by necessity, brought groups of people together to listen with the exception of the odd lonely troubadour or lovestruck serenade. Once we could bottle the vibrating air otherwise known as sound, music became something we could summon up for private, on-demand listening — a phenomenon that grew more pronounced as MP3 players…
