What follows is a new twist on our This Week In Music Apps series. Instead of simply bringing you a selection of the most interesting new music apps, we’re grouping them into themes. This week’s theme is web apps for your browser. But first… Recent Reviews Speakerfy: How To Listen Together/Alone with iPhone, Android Friends…
Out of all the great things music apps do for us, music identification is one of the most helpful, not to mention amazing. No matter where you are, if you hear a song you like but don’t know, a click and some taps will usually solve your problem. Fortunately — or unfortunately, depending on whether you’re a…
You can buy a camera that doubles as a phone and music player, as if your smartphone weren’t already amazing enough for enjoying music on the go. In the home, Apple AirPlay has delivered unity of speaker and app on the cheap, even with Android — and if that’s not enough for you, there are…
Clark Dinnison, founder of Noon Pacific, emails a hand-curated mixtape to subscribers each Monday, for free, made up of music he’s read about on leading blogs, or heard about from friends, family, or wherever. It runs on the 8tracks platform, and it sounds good. As such, we figured we’d check in to see what advice…
The following is a guest post from Peter Kirn of CreateDigitalMusic, which focuses on music apps for creating sounds. It’s a bit outside of our usual scope, but this software looks pretty far-out. Thanks, Peter. If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times: manipulating sound presets should be as intuitive and powerful…
Some people like to hear music precisely as it was recorded, which is why the most expensive audio equipment purports to do absolutely nothing to affect the original audio signal. Others like to tweak their sound, often in the bass range. Reducing bass frequencies stops music from bleeding through walls and waking up babies, which…
Many of us first experienced voice recognition as horrible customer service: You inevitably find yourself screaming “representative,” “operator,” or, most desperately and least effectively, “HUMAN!” while your coworkers laugh at your plight. I expected the worst from Apple’s Siri, only to be pleasantly surprised the first time I encountered it, when my friend’s iPhone sent me…
We had “a sad,” in the internet-ese parlance of our time, when app developer Reality Jockey retired its flagship app, RjDj last fall. The app tapped the mic on your smartphone to incorporate sounds from around your actual person — street noise, conversation, a whooshing subway, or whatever — into thematically-arranged songs. Every time you…
App developers are no dummies, and many have figured out a way to get noticed in the vast morass of apps today. It’s become common practice to drop the price of a paid app to zero, in the hope of sending it up the charts and increasing its install base — and then ratcheting the…
We focus on apps for mere mortals here — and, by that, we mostly mean people who are not musicians. Still, there are plenty of musicians and music types out there who might appreciate SongDasher (iOS) app, especially because it’s free until February 15, after which it will cost $6. This is not an app for…
This installation of This Week in Music Apps brings great redesigns of some of our favorite apps as well as some new music players, an app for playing guitar, ukulele and banjo songs, another great way to discover music via music videos, and more. But first…. This Week in Reviews Artiphon: Super-Interesting, Pricey iPhone Instrument The…
An exploration in interactive sound, Synesthetic Din ($1) for Android creates unique musical compositions out of your immediate surroundings. Buildings, trees, cars, and even people turn into instruments as you observe your world. Unlike some other augmented reality apps, however, this one always sounds great, because the sound is canned instead of randomly grabbed by your…
This week brings the ultimate music app for fans of Arabic music, a nice Android music player, a new way to stay updated on your favorite artists’ album releases, and more. First, our latest reviews: This Week in Reviews The Nifty Trick Behind Pulselocker, a.k.a. ‘Spotify for DJs’ iWitness Reports: The Real Stories Behind Rock’s…
Add 67 speakers and a microphone to London’s iconic black cab, and what do you get? The Sound Taxi, a project by audio design company AIAIAI and sound artist/designer Yuri Suzuki. Basically, it’s what would happen if a music app turned into a car (we already saw one become a building.) This is by no means…
Here’s a new way to listen to music you are likely to like, for free on your iPhone or other iOS device: the recently-updated Playground.fm, which turns people’s playlists into free radio stations for your phone. To use Playground.fm at all, you must log in with Facebook — however, you can decide whether it shares…
