Music
iTunes 9: Blu-ray And App Organization And Twitter
By MG Siegler, Tech crunch This is completely a rumor, but an awesome one. Citing a “pretty reliable” source, Boy Genius Report is saying that the next version of iTunes will add a bunch of new, highly requested features. Specificially, BGR’s source says iTunes 9 features Blu-ray support, a new way to organize iPhone apps [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Credit Card Sized MP3 Player
By Laura June, Engadget We’ve seen some ultra-thin MP3 players, even ones that were credit-card sized, but this newest one actually maraudes as a credit card, numbers and all! There’s perilously little information available about the device, but we can tell you this: you’ll look and feel awesome sporting it, should you ever be able [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Kideo player: curated YouTube for kids
By Jay Hathaway, Downloadsquad I don’t have a good history with YouTube sites for kids. My first experience was with TotLOL, where I found the selection of videos lacking and had my wits nearly destroyed by that green gummi bear video. Today I decided I had recovered enough to brave the wilds of the kid-vid [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Last.fm music downloader
By Martin, Ghacks.net There are several ways to listen to music online. One of the popular music community websites is last.fm which does provide extensive options to listen to music online by offering custom music radios. Users can tune into those radio stations on the last.fm website and listen to their favorite music genres there. [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Playlist.io: store music in the cloud with Drop.io
By Jay Hathaway, Downloadsquad Drop.io is known for having one of the best, most simple file storage interfaces out there. They’ve already expanded into file sending (usend.io) and tweeting (tweet.io), and music playlists are the next thing on the hit list. Enter playlist.io. It gives you 102mb of space to upload audio files into a [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )YouTube blocks music videos in the UK
By Brad Linder, Downloadsquad Google and the group that licenses music videos in the UK have hit a stumbling block in negotiations. And that’s led Google to block UK users’ access to premium music videos. That covers music that has been uploaded by artists and record labels for which Google pays a licensing fee, as [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )kre-8 cellphone concept is only for music buffs
By Nicholas Deleon, Mobilecrunch.com This is one of the better concepts I’ve seen ’round these parts, and I see plenty of them. It’s called the kre-8 (the name could use some work, yes), and it’s a cellphone designed, as it were, for those who fancy themselves as DJs, music creators, etc. So what is it, [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Survey shows increasing preference for MP3 by youngsters, audiophiles weep
By Darren Murph, Engadget.com We can already envision the flame fest on this one, so we’ll just cut to the chase. Jonathan Berger, professor of music at Stanford, has been conducting some pretty interesting tests on incoming students, and he’s been recording results that’ll surely make audiophiles cringe. He has been asking his students to [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Big Music Will Surrender, But Not Until At Least 2011
By Michael Arrington, Techcrunch.com I had a surprisingly candid lunch conversation last week with a big music label executive, and a good part of our talk focused on the future of music. I asked the usual question: Why are you guys so damned clueless? Your business is disintegrating before your eyes, and all you do [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Pay-For-Play Comes To Online Radio.
By Erick Schonfeld, Techcrunch.com When it comes to promoting new music, pay-for-play schemes are generally frowned upon. The practice, which involves music labels or artists paying radio stations to play their songs in heavy rotation, dates back to the beginnings of terrestrial radio. It got so bad in the 1950s that Congress had to intervene, [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Zivix Headliner Digital Guitar Is Rock Band & Guitar Hero Friendly
By Andrew Liszewski, Ohgizmo.com A Minneapolis-based company called Zivix has developed a real guitar with special fingertip sensors allowing it to be used with games like Rock Band or Guitar Hero. The idea is that players who’ve spent countless hours mastering the games might actually be able to learn to play a real guitar at [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Nokia to Talk Music on March 11
By Chris, Mobilewhack.com Nokia has scheduled a music-related event for March 11. What will “Your Music Player Is Ringing” event reveal? Is Nokia going to launch a new music oriented phone? More music services? DRM-free tracks? We don’t have any inside information so we’d have to wait for a couple of days to get to [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )PlayOn adds Amazon VoD and Revision3 content
By Dave Freeman, Crunchgear.com If you haven’t heard about PlayOn, MediaMall’s PC-to-console video streaming software, you will soon. Moving to become a major player in the streaming content world, PlayOn has grabbed some major wins lately, and it doesn’t look like they’re planning on slowing down. In a software update hitting today, PlayOn has added [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )More Bad News For Online Music Fans: Economy Kills Fabchannel
By Robin Wauters, Techcrunch.com Amsterdam-based online concert destination site Fabchannel is calling it quits after 9 years of digital goodness, blaming the poor state of the economy as a whole and the crisis in the online music and advertising industries in particular. This is the official press release: FABCHANNEL STOPS ITS ACTIVITIES Online concert channel [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Amua: cool, minimal Last.fm player for Mac
By Jay Hathaway, Downloadsquad.com I went looking for a Last.fm client for my Mac recently, and discovered that Amua is well worth considering. It passes the basic tests for a good Last.fm app: it scrobbles tracks, it lets you skip, love and ban songs, and provides access to artist, user and tag stations. It also [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Ffffoundtape is the new Muxtape, Ffffound-style
By Jay Hathaway, Downloadsquad.com The photo-bookmarking and discovery site Ffffound still has of the most sought-after invitations online, and it’s been around for quite a while. Now there’s a sister-site called Ffffoundtape that’s trying to apply the Ffffound approach in the world of mp3s. To add an mp3 to Fffoundtape, you can either enter its [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Open source Elisa Media Center goes cross-platform
By Brad Linder – Downloadsquad.com Elisa is an open source media center application that looks and behaves an awful lot like Apple’s Front Row software. The program was initially developed for Linux, but in January the Elisa team released the first version of the application that can also run on Windows. The media center suite [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Amazon VoD now rocking Roku set-top video player
By David Chartier, arstechnica.com Roku on Tuesday announced that Amazon’s Video On Demand service would join Netflix on its cheap streaming video player. The addition of Amazon’s à la carte video service complements Netflix’s subscription model, elevating the Roku player to an even better position for competing with the Xbox 360, Apple TV, and anything [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Amazon’s VoD now working through the Roku
By Justin Mann, TechSpot.com Both Amazon and Netflix are about to collectively reach a much larger audience, with the introduction of Amazon’s Video on Demand service to the Netflix Roku. The tiny media player that Netflix sells, originally designed solely for their streaming service, has been somewhat displaced by other hardware that the video rental [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )MyMediaPlayer 2 improves the desktop Hulu player experience
By Jay Hathaway The last time Download Squad took a look at MyMediaPlayer, Christina praised the concept of an Adobe AIR-based Hulu viewer, and the ability to watch shows and search for new ones at the same time. She also knocked MyMediaPlayer because it only showed the embedded versions of Hulu videos, which meant a [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Hulu Gets An Unofficial Desktop App In MyMediaPlayer2
By Erick Schonfeld Everything comes around full circle. First we had Joost, Babelgum, Veoh, and others create standalone client software for watching online videos, but the ease and ubiquity of watching directly in the browser trumped whatever technical benefits a standalone client provided. The rise of YouTube, and more recently Hulu, proved that. But now [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Tap Tap Revenge 2 Has Landed
By Jason Kincaid The sequel to Tap Tap Revenge, the iPhone’s most popular game ever, is hitting the App Store tonight. The original version(iTunes link) of the game has been downloaded over six million times and spawned a number of spinoffs featuring licensed music from Weezer and Nine Inch Nails. You can learn more about [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Music recommendation site Mufin releases desktop player
By Lee Mathews Back in October of 2008, our own Christina Warren snagged some beta invites for Mufin‘s web-based service for our readers. Now their crew has now released a public beta version of their desktop player for Windows. Once you install the player and show it the way to your stash of audio files, [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Apple, EMI unveil iTunes Pass
Apple has just launched a new service called Pass for its popular iTunes music store. It’s like a season pass for a favorite artist, in this case the electro band Depeche Mode. Fans who pay $18.99 for this first iTunes Pass immediately get two Depeche Mode singles, Wrong and the “Black Light Odyssey Dub Remix” [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )5 iPhone apps that will make you a hero
By Jay Hathaway You don’t need to be super-strong, invulnerable or able to fly to be a hero. Sure, that worked for Superman, but don’t forget that Batman got out of all kinds of tough situations just using his gadgets. Maybe you don’t have a tricked-out car or a utility belt, but if you have [...]
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