Portable Audio

If you’re old enough to remember taping songs from the radio, you’ll immediately recognize how cool Snowtape is. It’s an OS X app that lets you easily find, listen to and record from online radio stations. It’s like the combination radio/tape deck of the future! If you were fortunate enough to come of age in [...]

Big news today from our friends over at the official WinAmp blog: you can now purchase and download music right inside your WinAmp window!
Like the Ubuntu One Music Store, Winamp’s downloads will be provided by 7digital. As I mentioned with U1, one of the key features here is availability: 7digital is available nearly everywhere, unlike [...]

Contrapunctus is a wonderful way to irritate those around your computer while claiming you’re trying to be artistic or learn about music.
It’s actually one of the classier (get it?) timewasters I’ve encountered as of late. You select one of several instruments, and start wagging your mouse all over the place. That’s what I did, at [...]

I’m not shy about my love of Grooveshark. No one pays me to say it, it’s just the best streaming music app I’ve used — and it’s fully functional in Canada unlike some of its geotarded cousins in the audio game.
They caused a bit of a ruckus recently when they decided to push their [...]

For there to be any chance of “the year of Linux on the desktop” ever becoming a reality, certain things have to happen. One of those things (like it or not) is for a major distribution to support the most popular portable media players on the planet — the iPhone and iPod Touch.
And it looks [...]

As Canonical continues work on Ubuntu 10.04, it’s becoming more and more apparent that they’re serious about delivering an OS with some serious consumer appeal. Ubuntu One — Canonical’s cloud sync service — and the U1 Music Store will no doubt contribute to that appeal.
After showing us a handful of early screenshots of the Music [...]

Over at Popey.com there are a whole slew of new screenshots of the upcoming Ubuntu One Music Store, which will eventually appear in Ubuntu10.04 Lucid Lynx.
It was widely reported that Amazon would provide the backend for the Music Store, but it now looks as though 7Digital will be handling things instead. I’m not surprised, as [...]

On paper, Jelli looks like a good idea.
It’s an online radio station which brodcasts an m3u playlist file that you can load in any player of your choice. The actual music which gets played is determined by the users who are online — who can vote songs up and down the list, making it all [...]

If you’re an Android phone owner who loves music you’re about to enjoy a second Christmas! Rhapsody, the streaming music service from RealNetworks, will have a beta version of its Android app out next week. The catch is that it’s a closed beta, so you’ll need to head over to Rhapsody’s Facebook page to get [...]

To say that the imeem purchase by MySpace has been messy would be a bit of a gross understatement. Its primary purpose — creating playlists — was broken by its transition to MySpace’s ownership and website. Right now imeem users are basically and functionally screwed: imeem currently does… well, nothing. Well, until today that is: [...]