Portable Audio

TuneCrank is another crack at a familiar problem: How do you make people listen to unfamiliar independent artists, and help the good stuff float to the top? Uvumi tries to do this, and so does Bandcamp in a completely different take. TuneCrank is yet another attempt, with a stress on bare-bones simplicity and minimalism. It’s [...]

This is just a small note to say Foobar 1.0 has reached the end of its Beta testing and is now a full-fledged V1.0 release! As suspected, very little changed between Beta and Release. There isn’t much else to add that I didn’t cover in the previous article. Foobar is a music player. That’s basically [...]

Pandora, the popular music streaming service, is finally making a profit. The ten-year-old company is no stranger to problems and hurdles to overcome in the music industry, but is finally making a turn for the better. So what does Pandora want to do with this renewed success? They want to become a household name and [...]

After months of detailed (and no doubt painfully boring) discussions involving copyright issues, Slacker Radio is now on the air in Canada! The news was announced today in an official post on the Slacker website. In addition to accessing Slacker via the web, mobile options are also now available to my Canuck brethren – Blackberry [...]

eMusic is a solid place to purchase and download music. They’ve always had a great catalog of music that is “off the beaten path,” as well as recordings of live performances. Their catalog is about to get even larger: eMusic has finally reached an agreement with Warner Music and will be adding around 10,000 new [...]

Like all other music-loving residents of North America, I spend half of every day foaming at the mouth with jealousy over Europe’s access to the streaming music service Spotify. Well, now I have at least one university full of Europeans to be a little less jealous of: Oxford University has banned Spotify on campus. Was [...]

We’ve covered TheSixtyOne before, and the site has long been one of my favorite ways to discover new music online. It’s chock-full of musical goodness — including lots of Creative-Commons licensed music that can be freely downloaded. It turns music discovery into a social game and lets you “heart” songs (you only get so many [...]

Ever wish you could make sweet, sweet music by mixing the sounds of two artists, movies, viral videos, or pretty much anything else you can find on YouTube? Two Youtube Videos and a Motherfucking Crossfader Dot Com can help. In case you didn’t get it from the domain name, the web site basically presents you [...]

If you can’t stand to hear another word from the obnoxious voice that delivers turn-by-turn directions on your GPS device, you may have a way out. If you’ve got a Garmin GPS, you can use the new Garmin Voice Studio to replace the device’s recorded phrases – “recalculating!” – with recordings of your own. Personally, [...]

DoubleTwist is an iTunes alternative that can sync your media library with tons of mobile devices, not just those made by Apple. The app has supported Android devices for some time now, and a brand-new partnership with T-Mobile means it will be used on many more Android phones in the future. The wireless provider has [...]