February 19, 2013
SoundTracking is an example of an app that makes the iPhone a better device for music lovers. If offers all kinds of cool features that should make any music lover incredibly happy. It's featured on our Best iPhone Apps page, and it's there with good reason. If you are looking for an app that identifies music, shares it on social media, and is a fantastic social network in and of itself, you need to look no further than SoundTracking.
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December 14, 2012
SoundCloud is the premier website for people to share the music they have created. For a while, SoundCloud has had a new version brewing, and it has been hanging out in a private beta waiting to unleash itself upon the world. What was once a private beta is now available to masses, and it certainly brings some awesome changes to the music sharing website.
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September 17, 2012
For iPod owners, iTunes has long been the most obvious choice of music management and synchronisation software. Despite its bulkiness on Windows computers, iTunes is a highly capable piece of software, and suffices for a large majority of people. With the advent of cloud music, it might be time to reconsider. It feels strange — awkward, almost — to use iTunes solely for syncing with an iPod.
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September 6, 2012
If you’ve invested time and money in playlists and a subscription, it makes sense to learn some of the lesser known functions and quirks that the Spotify client has to offer. There’s no denying the platform is intuitive and easy to use, but you’d be forgiven for missing some of the more advanced features. Here are some of the less-obvious things you can do to make your time with Spotify even better.
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September 5, 2012
With Spotify making it onto the MakeUseOf Best iPhone Apps list, we're taking a closer look at what you can get out of using Spotify on your iPhone. You can select between the free or premium Spotify account, depending on how much you want to do with Spotify on your phone or tablet. Spotify Premium on your iPhone or iPad gives you on-demand music and the potential for offline access to Spotify's entire music library with millions of songs.
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August 4, 2012
Yes. It’s possible! With a simple browser extension in Google Chrome, you can listen to Pandora without any ads or even having it open. How? Let me introduce you to Anesidora. So how does Anesidora manage to pull out the audio ads and access Pandora? I have no idea, but that’s ok – I just enjoy the distraction free listening, and now you can too!
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May 6, 2012
No matter where you go in the Google universe, you will find a little piece of Google+. Now, Google Play is no exception, as Google has added the ability to share songs purchased in Google Play with friends. It’s no secret that sharing music is popular, with Spotify and its Facebook integration taking the music [...]
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May 1, 2012
Some users may wonder whether they should stick with music streaming services and ditch downloading songs to their local drives, or simply rely on the streaming options, because let’s face it, music streaming services are plentiful these days. With their low subscription fees, mobile streaming apps, and sometimes even no limits at all, music services, including Spotify and Grooveshark, represent convenience and portability.
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April 25, 2012
Spotify recently added a new selection of apps to its platform. We have already looked at five of the best, including Classify and Tweetvine, but here are another five worth exploring in order to get the most out of the music streaming service from Sweden. What the following five Spotify apps all have in common is that they're run by and for specific record labels. Which is a notable change in strategy.
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April 4, 2012
Do you love Pinterest? If you do, then you will love these two websites which give you a Pinterest styled music sharing (and discovering) experience. Even if you don’t like Pinterest, and find it to be a faddish pretender for the crown of the social networking world, you just might like the eye-catching visual appeal of these sites.
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February 20, 2012
It’s safe to assume that there are a lot of tunes floating around on the Twitter Ocean and it’s not only the Tweety bird that’s singing them. Monstro is a new Twitter based service that aims to be the deep sea mining vessel that can search the twitosphere and catch what’s being shared on the micro-blogging network.
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January 17, 2012
Sometimes it feels like the entrenched music industry (embodied by the big labels) is doing everything it can to keep us feeling like pirates for wanting to download music. But no matter how much they try to keep the old model ("artist to label, label to consumer”) alive, it is actually dying. Things are changing, and artists have amazing tools for reaching listeners directly these days.
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December 8, 2011
Discovering a new artist, album or record label that corresponds with your tastes and expectations can be a rewarding experience. These golden discoveries can be few and far between and that’s where I turn to using a few extra tools to help hone in on the music I love. We first featured SoundCloud on MakeUseOf initially back in 2008, and while the core service largely remains the same; much has changed.
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December 4, 2011
Music service Spotify has announced recently that they are opening their servers to developers, who will be able to create apps that integrate with Spotify’s desktop app. In short, third-party developers can now expand on Spotify’s native functionalities by using Spotify’s API.
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November 29, 2011
Do you ever witness interesting things happening whenever you go out? Better yet, are you one of those people who seeks out interesting things? If so, you probably cherish those moments with your friends, especially the ones who were there with you at the time. But how do you share a place with those of your friends that weren't with you?
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