August 27, 2012
Imagine you want to play your favorite album in Spotify. Naturally, you'll be hooking your computer up to a better sound station. But what if you're lying in bed, or sitting on the couch? Ideally, you'd just stream the music to your speakers. Streaming your content locally, between devices, is where AirPlay comes in. With Apple's latest operating system release — Mountain Lion — it's easier than ever.
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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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July 26, 2012
With a catalog of nearly 19 million high-quality music tracks 7digital, the digital media delivery company based in the United Kingdom, is a serious player in the online music space. Now, 7digital has launched its music store on Windows 8 giving Release Preview users an advance look at the 7digital app and the service it connects to.
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June 20, 2012
Music is the one thing that really translates well among all people groups, and with that said, it's very exciting to discover new music and share it just to generate discussion! The Internet is likely the best tool for discovering new tunes by independent artists, but with so many different websites to choose from, it can be a little daunting to know where you can find the best selections.
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June 18, 2012
If you're a Spotify (Premium) user and an iOS user, chances are you've already tried using Spotify on your device. The Spotify iPhone app is very decent, and it was recently joined by a rather spectacular iPad application.
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June 13, 2012
Streaming media has become big business in the past few years, with YouTube, Hulu and BBC iPlayer all great examples of how the web has changed the way we enjoy music, TV and film. Many of these new companies have rode the back of the founders of the Internet age, companies such as AOL, Microsoft and Apple. But where does this leave Microsoft?
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May 24, 2012
Spotify was already a great product before the addition of apps. Fast, fun, and free (for those unwilling to pay), it offered everything you could want in a music streaming service. Or at least that's what I and many others thought prior to the apps making it even better than it previously was. The rolling out of its API and the first selection of apps turned Spotify from a great product into a must-have product.
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May 23, 2012
Streaming music service Spotify is now available in Australia and New Zealand after launching on Tuesday morning, taking the total number of supported countries to 15. As is the case in other territories, there are three tiers of membership available: Free, Unlimited and Premium.
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May 12, 2012
The staff at Spotify have been busy as of late. To go along with their long-awaited iPad app, they just launched a brand new version of their desktop applications for Mac and Windows with some great new features. The first feature, long-awaited by many users, is the ability to create a radio station from a [...]
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May 4, 2012
Following Spotify’s launch on the iPad, rival streaming service Rdio is upping its game, and has now launched its music-streaming service in the UK and France. While no official word of this has come from Rdio at the time of this writing, users in the UK and France are reporting they can can now sign [...]
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May 3, 2012
Attention Spotify premium users; you can download an official Spotify application on your iPad right now! Of course, you could always use Spotify on your iPad with the iPhone app, but the iPhone version doesn’t look anywhere near as good as this dedicated app for iPad. In fact, Charlie Hellman, Spotify’s director of product development [...]
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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 27, 2012
French online music streaming service Deezer has just announced availability in three more countries – Canada, Australia and New Zealand. The service operates a premium service with a free trial to entice users and currently serves more than 20 million users worldwide. The service, which requires Facebook to register an account, uses a combination of [...]
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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 19, 2012
It’s been half a year since Spotify made its debut on Android, and that seems like as good a time as any for a major update. Though still in beta, the next version of the Spotify app is available for download on the company’s blog. Only subscribers can use the service on a mobile device, [...]
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