Music posts for all ages
That there new fangled Pinterest thingy has got some answering to do. Not content with having the online world run around ‘pinning’ everything in sight to their boards, the interface has also spawned an unbelievably wide range of copycat services, all based on easy to the eye image blocks.
The music business is in a state of…ah…change? Is that an understatement? CD sales are dying, and although MP3 downloads are rising it’s not enough to compensate for lost revenue and keep those expensive music lawyers in the style to which they’re accustomed. Their saviour seems to be live music, now enjoying something of a resurgence.
There are a lot of musicians out there. Those who are in the field of music know how difficult it is to catch a break, as there is so much competition. Keeping up with rent and bills in a creative career, especially one that only provides income spontaneously from various gigs, can be rather difficult.
There’s a huge selection of software music players around at the moment, and they all have good and bad bits. However for the most part they all fail in one way or another, which means that you miss out on the best music choice on and offline. What’s missing is a tool which lets you combine just about every music source anywhere in one simple interface. Well, guess what…?
There are any number of annoying things in life. Things like having to tip bad waiters even though they’ve done an appalling job, or being forced to wear a tie to meet the in-laws. One of the real doozys though, is being hit with an earworm, a snatch of a tune you hate but you just. can’t. get. out. of. your. brain. no matter how hard you try.
We all know that classic �ding dong� that comes with a doorbell. Oftentimes you will hear it at a different pitch, but it’s always the generic bell tone. The people at Swann must have tired of that monotonous sound, so they invented the MP3 DJ Doorbell.
Two years ago we really slated Mufin MusicFinder Base as a sleazy ‘piece of garbage’ for pretending to be freeware when in fact it was a 7 day time limited trial. Well they must have heard us, because they’re now back in the market with a completely re-branded, genuinely free music player product, with some free cloud storage thrown in.
Look around and you’ll notice there’s no shortage of online streaming music services. In fact you could say there’s a bit of a glut, what with all these Last.fm, exfm, Grooveshark chaps and the rest hanging out trying to attract our attention. Each one offers something slightly different feature-wise, which makes it hard to pick out one service which is the definitive go-to place to beat the rest (although if we had to choose we’d still stick with the mighty Spotify).
There’s no shortage of streaming music services around, that’s for sure, from mega services like Spotify and Pandora to ‘please don’t sue us any more’ upstarts Grooveshark, so there’s obviously a demand out there for this stuff. Whoever it was that said streaming is the new radio is probably not far from the truth, although I suspect that most of the smaller services spend a good deal of time looking over their shoulder at either the RIAA legal activities or YouTube viewing figures.
YouTube is one of of the most revolutionary websites to come out of the last decade. It gave us the ability to not only share new video creations of our own, but to watch commercially-produced videos any time we wanted. Of course, it took a long time for the record labels to agree to have their music videos on the site legally (with advertisements and such), but now it’s pretty easy to find most songs that you want. When there’s…
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There is always a lot of controversy surrounding the downloading of music online. While piracy is an issue that can affect artists, there are plenty of bands that actually want you to download their music for free. Sure, these aren’t generally the ones you find on the radio, but that doesn’t mean that they don’t put out great music. So where do you find all of these tunes? NoiseTrade is a great place to look. If you head to NoiseTrade,…
Well waddya know, MP3.com is back. OK, so it’s not the good old, let’s get sued version, but at least it offers free music galore to stream and download, from a bunch of indie, unsigned and…gasp…signed artists. The whole thing is powered by Last.fm, with a dainty new design slapped on top. The site design is pleasant to look at for sure, and the catalogue is well laid out, but it’s unfortunately still got a bit of a ‘corporate’ feel…
Does one of your friends have really good taste in music? Or perhaps you want to spend some digital time together with someone, by listening to the same music. Either way, you might enjoy a website called Overhere. Overhere is an interesting service that lets you listen to another person’s Last.fm stream through Spotify. Just head to the site, enter in their username, and you’ll be able to listen in on their stream live.
When listing to music, it is only natural to want to sing along. However, this can be rather difficult if you don’t know all of the words. Sure, there are plenty of sites out there that let you search through lyrics, but they tend to be full of annoying ads and such. If you find yourself looking for these words very often, you might look into a piece of software called MiniLyrics. MiniLyrics is an add-on that works with a…
If you live in the US like I do, you’re probably not very familiar with Spotify. For those not in the know, Spotify is a music streaming service that is very popular in Europe. With a collection of over 13 million tracks to choose from, you can create playlists for your desktop, laptop, cell phone and just about any other device for free. So why the mention of this service? Well, it has just been announced that it will finally…
