Back in my day, making mixtapes required patience and creativity. Spending hours recording songs from CDs or tapes onto a blank cassette meant taking time to sequence songs, making sure each song flowed into the next. Then music transformed from atoms into bits, and mixtapes into playlists, which only take seconds or minutes to make,…
This morning, I composed and played music with someone in Spain and some people standing around in a museum in London. You can do it too, for free, right now, as soon as you’re done with reading all the new articles on Evolver.fm. All you need is the Google Chrome web browser, a few minutes,…
We devoted inches to wireWAX’s “shoppable” music video, which started us thinking about other promotional techniques that might make sense these days. Now, we shift our focus to interactive music videos as a species. We found a degree of variation. Aside from the viral, more traditional version we’ve all become accustomed to — and which…
Microsoft just officially unveiled its new music service, Xbox Music, which it hopes will compete with iTunes, Spotify, and everything else like them. Rolling out on October 26, the new Microsoft Xbox Music service is divided into three parts, explained Xbox Music general manager Jerry Johnson and director of industry relations Christina Calio to Evolver.fm during a…
Spotify has received plenty of attention for its app platform, and rightfully so. Rdio also has an app platform, offering access to the same songs, more or less. Evolver.fm caught up with Rdio vice president of engineering Todd Berman to discuss the one-year anniversary of Rdio’s developer API; the service’s approach to third-party apps; and his belief…
As surprising as it may be to longtime computing enthusiasts, the mobile phone has become the template for the desktop computer. Witness the rise of the Mac App Store, where apps that run on Macs are sold the same way that Apple sells music for the iPod and apps for the iPhone: in one centralized…
