As we’ve noted before, YouTube currently drives a good proportion of the Web’s music discovery, but up to now we haven’t seen much in the way of basic, down home jukebox functionality from the service. Yes you can set up channels, or use your favorites as a form of playlist manager, but neither of these options gives a really satisfactory result.
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Like FM powers your music discovery with Pinterest elegance and YouTube videos
When the history books are finally written about the evolution of music in century 21, the major feature that will hold the historians spellbound is how swiftly popular music moved from being a strictly controlled, media manipulated fiefdom, to a digital free for all, curated by the global crowd. The other surprise is likely to be how much influence YouTube videos had on this shift in consumption.
Read MoreSubsonic lets you create your own Spotify cloud music service for free [Freeware]
Suddenly it seems like the world is awash with music services, but for many people it still isn’t enough. The problem is you need to pay for these services, which can be hard for those with a limited budget or a religious aversion to paying for music delivery. There are free alternatives to commercial music streaming though, and with a bit of time and effort the results can be excellent.
Read MorePyle PTCDS3UIP Trumpet Horn Turntable brings a classy touch to vinyl to MP3 conversion
You know what the world needs? More retro. All this gleaming chrome and glossy colors stuff is all right, but after a while it all begins to look the same. Maybe that’s why we’re starting to choose more materials like bamboo, to try and restore some sense of quality to the whole tech gadget thing.
Read MoreChartbrain serves up some cool music Pinterest style
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.
Read MoreLivebeats delivers live concerts to the world
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.
Read MoreMP3Gain cures the annoying LOUD and soft music tracks problem [Daily Freeware]
I’ve started to use my phone as a music player much more nowadays, especially when I bike down to the shops or whatever (yes I’m careful not to shut out traffic noise!). One of the thing I’ve noticed though, is how annoying it is when different tracks play at different volumes. I’m not just talking about quiet tracks, but also tracks which should be loud but which aren’t for some reason (probably because I ripped them poorly from my CD).
Read MoreMusikame lets you play DJ with Soundcloud tracks
Soundcloud is starting to build an ecosystem, which is a very good sign that an online application is getting popular. What we mean by ecosystem is a set of external applications and functions that add value to the core, rather like Skype apps make the Skype platform much more than just an Internet phone system.
Read MoreUnhearit.com promises to smash that annoying tune out of your head
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.
Read MoreMuffin Player Pro promises cloud storage and a free music player in one [Daily Freeware]
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.
Read MoreMusic Smasher serves up all your favorite music services with one click
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).
Read MoreSongspin lets you stream songs all day and night for free
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.
Read MoreiConverter Turntable Radio – retro your vinyls into the future
The iConverter Turntable with Radio marks a new high point in retro style geek tech. Tears of nostalgia will flow, nay flood, down your cheeks as you gently place your Loving Spoonful album on the deck for conversion to the digital universe. A lump will come to your throat as you twiddle the plastic silver knobs. Oh such happy happy times… 73.17 Euros. Simply playback all your records through the mains powered iConverter Turntable and coupled with the software supplied,…
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