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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →