April 10, 2013
I'm passionate about music. I couldn't live without it, valuing the time spent listening to my favorite tunes. I primarily listen to music while I'm working, and I strongly recommend it to those who don't have bosses breathing down their necks for 8 hours a day. Others listen to music while they're working out, others still while they're entertaining guests. That's the thing about music; everybody has their own preferences.
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November 7, 2012
While I think managing and playing tunes on your iPhone is not as good as doing so on the classic iPod, there are a few advantages with the iPhone and other iOS devices that you might not be aware of. The storage space on a typical iPhone is not large enough for say a 40+ GB iTunes library collection, so you definitely need to manage playlists on your iPhone.
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June 19, 2012
Have you ever been jogging and found yourself frustrated that all the songs in your playlist were not quite the right rhythm for the speed you wanted to run? Sometimes you get into the pace of a song perfectly only to find the next song is just a little slower or a tiny bit faster. Whatever the change in tempo, it leaves you unable to continue using the music to pace yourself unless you repeat the song that was working for you.
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April 5, 2012
At the end of 2011, Spotify, the insanely popular and rapidly growing music-streaming service, added apps into its already heady mix of awesomeness. There were some true gems hidden in there, with 5 of the apps in particular being truly addictive. Several months later and Spotify has added a second round of apps to its service. This next generation of apps are a mixed bag.
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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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December 29, 2011
The new Spotify has arrived, with version 0.8.0.952 and higher, and adding apps to the music streaming mix. A beta version containing the majority of the apps ready for launch was made available, which gave me ample opportunity to put all them all through their paces in advance. The following five Spotify apps are the ones which I strongly urge all Spotify users to install immediately.
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December 6, 2011
Spotify, the music service that is taking the world by storm, is rolling out some awesome new features. They recently added support for third party apps for developers, and now they are adding some killer new features for end users. The first of these is predictive search. When a user now begins typing something into the search box, Spotify will attempt to predict what the user is going to search for and offer suggestions.
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November 3, 2011
Has Spotify taken over your life and transformed your music listening habits for good? If you're totally addicted to Spotify, but have playlists across numerous other music services online, there's a fantastic little tool you should make use of right now called Playlistify.
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October 7, 2011
One of the great things about Spotify is the sheer amount of music it gives you access to. Every artist, song, and album is pretty much at your fingertips. Since there is so much, however, sometimes it can be difficult finding songs you might be interested in. But what if you could find quality music that has been pre-rated for you?
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September 16, 2011
Music is a very interesting space for me because it seems like major players rise and fall every few months. Whether it's Pandora, Grooveshark, Apple's Ping, Turntable.fm, or the eventual restructuring of MySpace, music will continue to progressively become more fun and social. Right now, Spotify seems to have the hot hand, mainly because of its ease of use and integration with Facebook.
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August 3, 2011
In 1981, MTV launched, with the first ever video broadcast. Now, 30 years on, we don't really need MTV any more. Why let someone else behind the scenes pick what music you should listen to (or watch, in this instance) when you can create your own personalised music channel using your existing playlists?
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July 28, 2011
Listen to Spotify on Linux without paying for a subscription. With PlayOnLinux it only takes a couple of clicks. After years of being a favorite application in much of Europe, Spotify is finally available in the United States. This means that, in the months to come, millions of people will slowly get access to what [...]
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July 1, 2011
Do you know what the problem is with YouTube as a music-listening platform? It wasn't really built for that, and because it wasn't, it lacks a few key things that a typical music platform would have, like the ability to save music playlists. YouTube does technically have a playlist feature for music, but I've found a simpler way to do things, and it's called SongSprite.
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June 20, 2011
A bit after I figured out that there is a wealth of programming tutorials on YouTube, I thought it might be a good idea to download them all so I can view them on the go on my mobile devices. Today, we’ll go over two ways you can download entire playlists.
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May 19, 2011
For those of us with access to Grooveshark, life is pretty good. We can listen to quite a bit of amazing music for free, simply by picking a playlist and kicking back to enjoy the tunes. Sometimes, you could be tempted to think things on the online music scene couldn't get any better. But then someone comes along and creates a little tool which completely makes your day just by adding a little bit more awesome to the mix.
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