Wi-Fi desktop radios have been around for a while now. Most of them are lame. The one I have lets me surf a bunch of different internet radio stations on a tiny screen, bookmarking some of them as favorites. It’s like listening to internet radio on a computer ten years ago. These Wi-Fi enabled radios,…
The top-ranked Spotify app, most days, is TuneWiki. This app plays lyrics in real time as you listen to music in the desktop version of Spotify. Holding down the number two slot on a fairly consistent basis is the Pitchfork app, which presents the top-rated freshly-reviewed music on the Pitchfork music reviews site. But before…
By now, you’re almost certainly familiar with the idea, if not the term, “freemium.” Spotify, with its free and premium versions, brought the concept to music in a way that took its competition by storm. An artist app for the LA rock outfit Warren Charles takes a new approach to the freemium concept by offering…
“Lyrics” is one of the most sought-after words on the internet — above even “MP3″ and “sex”: As the above chart shows, “lyrics” reached maximum Googled-ness in 2006, but the term has now dropped below “sex” in popularity. Perhaps this is because several apps now let you search for lyrics in new ways, or…
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…
Music fans who were reluctant to replace boomboxes, turntables, and shelves of physical media with digital music players and spreadsheet-like displays of their music collection have plenty of new reasons to change their minds and get onboard. Or, if you embraced digital music from the get-go, well, now you have new reasons to justify your…
We write about music apps because they enable all sorts of amazing things that manufacturers could never do with hardware — or if they could, it would be prohibitively expensive. For example, if you had to buy a special MP3 player to display lyrics, you probably wouldn’t do it — and yet that same function…
Lyrics might not be the sexiest thing in online music. For that, you might look to the second-most-popular Spotify app, Soundrop, which brings real-time group listening to the Spotify desktop client — or perhaps one of these musical hook-up facilitators. However, lyrics are always among the most popular searches on Google, and anything that’s more…
It’s all hands on deck for This Week in Music Apps, authored this time by no fewer than three Evolver.fm peeps — all part of our grand, non-sinister plan to bring you even more great music apps to enjoy on iOS, Android, or your good old-fashioned web browser. All of this week’s picks — as…
Spotify’s desktop application became an app platform three months ago, and 15 third-party apps are now accessible within the Spotify client, whether you pay for it or not. These apps let you listen to the music recommended by tastemakers and friends, find music based on your mood or Twitter trends, set up real-time group listening…
Right now, if you want to try Spotify’s new app platform, you need to download a special preview version of the Spotify desktop application. However, Evolver.fm has learned, Spotify plans to roll out its app platform to all of Spotify’s 10-million-plus active users by the end of next week. [Update: we later learned that the launch…
(Some doubt the impact of Spotify’s announcement of third-party music apps that run within the Spotify application. We know, our Spotify coverage has gotten a bit out of hand this week. We’ll post about something else soon, really. But because we concur that Spotify apps are all kinds of interesting, we herewith present the following…
One one level, Spotify’s transformation into a music platform was a simple technical matter of exposing an application programming interface (API) to app developers and publications and allowing them to treat Spotify like a web browser for their HTML5 apps, linking each song to Spotify’s catalog. Big whup, as we used to say. Want to…
At Spotify’s big press event in New York today, CEO Daniel Ek announced that, as suspected, Spotify has become a music platform atop which app developers can build their own apps. These apps will appear in a new Apps section on the left side of the desktop version of Spotify starting Wednesday afternoon. Paying and non-paying…
At a posh press event in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village on Wednesday, freemium music subscription service Spotify revealed the “new direction” at which it has been hinting: a new API (application programming interface) that will let developers create apps that are powered by Spotify. (In other words, we were right, for the most part.) Spotify CEO Daniel…
