Make Your Own Free Music Ringtones in iOS 6
New in iOS 6 with GarageBand: add song ringtones to your iPhone, no PC required. We show you how in 5 quick steps.
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This Week in Music Apps: Dark Knight Rises, Trade Mixtapes, Inflict Earworms
We have new and interesting apps to share with you in our latest installment of This Week In Music Apps, including iOS, Android, and web apps, just like we do (or try to do) each and ever week. First, take a peek at our latest app reviews (as opposed to hardware):
iOS 6 Music Scene: Major iCloud Tweaks, Easier Ringtones, Better Alarm
The iPhone music app got a makeover in iOS 6, which was released to the public (as opposed to developers) yesterday afternoon. At first glance, the changes don’t amount to much. Playlists have a new black and white color scheme, and the Now Playing screen sports new, svelte play and skip buttons. Though the facelift…
This Week in Music Apps: Wave Hands to Control Music, Classical Pop-Up Video, Rap Battles
The weather has cooled down, schools are back in session, and Evolver.fm back to its full-time schedule. Our latest installment of This Week In Music Apps, wraps up a bunch of new and noteworthy apps for you to check out, including iOS, Android, desktop, and web apps. But first, some new reviews: This Week in Reviews Celebrate…
Celebrate John Cage’s Centenary by Playing His ‘Prepared Piano’ (iOS or Android)
This year would have been the 100th birthday of the influential American composer John Cage, who is famous to most for composing the silent “4′ 33,”” but whose works are much more diverse, and contain notes. Don’t believe us? You can celebrate his sonic legacy with the multiplatform John Cage Piano app. Dreamed up by the John Cage…
What Music Services Are Available Where? (Updated)
After experiencing some confusion surrounding exactly which unlimited music services are available in Canada — in part because we don’t live there — we decided to look for an authoritative resource that details which music services are available in the various regions of the world. We think we found it at Pro-Music.org, a consortium involving a…
Video: Annoying Ringtones Transformed into Pleasing Chamber Music
The default ringtones on cellphones are among the most-heard melodies of our time. Like them or not, they are embedded in our collective consciousness, just like the dulcet tones of a dial-up modem used to be. As more proof that the internet has yet to meet a sow’s ear it cannot turn into a silk purse, here’s…
Guest Opinion: How The Music Business Actually Failed
What follows is a guest post from Angela Poe, founder of the Music Is My Boyfriend blog (where this post originally appeared), and director of online marketing, promotions, and social media at The Gary Group, whose clients include major labels and other brands. Whether you agree or disagree with this (we actually see several bright…
Myxer Celebrates Millionth Install, Wants to Bring Turntable.fm-Style Social Listening to Mainstream
While techie hipsters (techsters?) complain that Turntable.fm is so over, most people and even music fans only recently began to grasp the concept of downloading MP3s from the internet and transferring them to a portable MP3 player, in the grand scheme of things. When you obsess about technology all day, it can be easy to…
1 in 307 Americans Pays for Rhapsody, Thanks to Invisible DRM
On the heels of its purchase of Napster, Rhapsody announced on Thursday that it now has one million subscribers in the United States, which it says makes it the most popular premium (i.e. paid) unlimited music service in the country. Not all of these one million Rhapsody listeners pay for their music by entering a…
The Jingler Turns Any MP3 into a Christmas Song
Christmas music is great and all, but the canon is a bit, ahem, restrictive. As this graph points out, the top 20 Christmas songs you’ll hear on the radio are programmed to resonate mainly with baby boomers, and much of the Christmas genre was written much, much earlier.
Listen with your Facebook Friends – In Real Time – with Myxer
Wait — don’t switch the channel. We know you’ve heard all about how Facebook lets you see what your friends are listening to and play it back later. This is different. With the free, US-only Myxer Social Radio (previewed here), you can see what your friends are listening to via Facebook and join them in…
This Week In Music Apps: Change Your Ears’ Age, Collaborative AirPlay, and Spotify-as-Pandora
It’s been raining music apps at Evolver.fm headquarters again, and that means we’re due for another installment of our This Week In Music Apps series, which delivers the latest and greatest music apps from the iTunes App Store, Android Market, and the web each week. As usual, let’s start with reviews you might have missed…
Meet the 19-Year-Old Building 3 Bjork Song Apps – and Some of the First iPhone Apps Ever
During the first internet job wave in the ’90s, ambitious graduates moved west to San Francisco to strike it rich working for a dotcom. Fifteen years later, you don’t need the degree, the dotcom job, or even a San Francisco address. Meet Max Weisel, the 19-year-old wunderkind who began experimenting with iPhone app development in…
Animated GIF: 30 Years of Music Industry Change
Data visualizations can often tell you more than you’d otherwise get by poring over the actual data itself. The above animated pie chart, which is based on official RIAA figures and originally appeared on Digital Music News, demonstrates clear shifts in music revenue over the past 30 years that we’ve all likely noticed — or maybe even…