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Apple's built in Music App is fine for normal listening, but what if you want to experience your music in a unique way? With so many choices in Apple's App store it can be difficult to figure out which ones are actually worth it. The following Apps allow you to break free from Apple's grip on how you listen and interact with your music.
9 Ways To Ditch Apple's iOS Music App - Business Insider
Quality music players are far and few between on the iPad—especially ones with an interesting twist. Enter BeatBlaster for iPad. Born from the collaboration between mobile conception, development agency AppConcept, and communication and design agency StagLabel, it recreates the look and feel of those old Hi-Fi sound systems with stunning graphics, head-turning design and an assortment of useful features.
BeatBlaster app turns your iPad into a jaw-dropping Hi-Fi sound system | 9to5Mac | Apple Intelligence
So-So the cat rocks out to Notekillers' "Airport" in the Video Star app through the app's tiling effect. Screengrab: Evolver.fm Here is one for the “How on Earth did nobody think of this before?” files. The Video Star app for iOS facilitates the creation of homespun music videos to go along with any song on your device.
Brilliant Video Star App Shoots a Music Video for Any Song on Your iPhone | Underwire | Wired.com
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Broadcast Yourself
Facebook wants you to listen to music with friends — even if you’re not in the same room. The social network announced a new feature Thursday called “Listen With” that gives users a chatroom in which to share songs. They get to DJ the tunes they are streaming via services such as Spotify and Rdio. Real-time sharing from such services was introduced with Open Graph in September. Users can already see in that chat sidebar what friends are listening to, and click on those songs to play them, but they don’t have the option to listen together in a unified virtual environment.
Facebook Launches 'Listen With,' Lets You DJ for Friends
In the beginning, music industry watchers hailed subscription streaming services such as Spotify , MOG, Rdio, and Rhapsody as saviors of the industry, an alternative for listeners and labels to the tyranny of the 99-cent iTunes download. But artists weren't singing the same happy song. There was the cautionary (and inaccurate) tale of Lady Gaga earning a mere $167 from a million streams of her hit single "Poker Face." Then came scores of complaints and horror stories related to shockingly minuscule streaming artist payouts, as low as $0.004 per play . Last week, Wired reported that more than 200 labels had withdrawn from Spotify over "poor revenues."
Spotify, Rdio, And MOG On Artist Payments: Don't Blame Us | Fast Company
Following a study that claims that streaming music is damaging to record sales, a distributor representing more than 200 labels has withdrawn its entire catalogue from Spotify, Napster, Simfy and Rdio. Disquiet from musicians and labels over the royalties paid out by Spotify has plagued the music service almost since it first launched The study, which was conducted by NPD Group and NARM, came out with results suggesting that subscription services — where you pay a flat fee each month to access a giant jukebox in the sky, rather than owning individual tracks — is discouraging other forms of music purchasing. You can find the further details of that study over at Digital Music News. That prompted STHoldings, which focuses on techno, grime, dubstep and bass music, to contact the 238 labels that it has on its books to ask if they wanted it to keep distributing content to Spotify or withdraw it. Only four said they wanted to keep their content on Spotify.
200+ Labels Withdraw Their Music From Spotify: Are Its Fortunes Unravelling? | Epicenter | Wired.com
Google Music Store Screenshots
These could be screenshots of the long-awaited Google Music Store, reports The Verge. If genuine, these images offer a bit of what to expect in terms of appearance and functionality when the Music Store launches. Pricing per song will vary -- in the screens we can see both $0.99 and $1.29 price tags. The cost of a full album will vary on popularity. And we like the sound of a "Free Song of the Day" feature.
Tracks.by founders Matt Schlicht and Mazy Kazerooni To build the next great tech start-up, some people start by studying engineering, while others may try for an MBA. But two precocious teenagers, Mazyar “Mazy” Kazerooni and Matt Schlicht , who were 17 and 19 respectively, elbowed their way in to work at a Silicon Valley start-up–without even living there. They then became social media advisers to top rap stars such as Lil Wayne , and have now founded their own start-up backed by $500,000 in angel and venture financing. The company, called Tracks.by, provides social tools for musicians to keep in touch with fans and build their own businesses.
How Two Teenagers Broke In To Silicon Valley--And The Music Industry - Forbes
YouTube Now Allows Music Partners To Sell Merchandise, Digital Downloads And Event Tickets | TechCrunch
We already know that YouTube is seeing 3 billion videos viewed per day day, but now the online video giant is now seeing a whopping 800 million people per month visiting the site, Google revealed in its third-quarter earnings report last week. And today, YouTube is also announcing the ability to sell merchandise, tickets and more via the site. Through a feature called the Merch Store, YouTube partners will be able to sell artist merchandise, digital downloads, concert tickets and other experiences to fans and visitors.
Les artistes sont souvent présents sur de nombreuses plate-formes telles que Soundcloud, Bandcamp, Facebook ou Twitter. Ce qui créé parfois de la confusion chez leurs auditeurs qui doivent aller chercher les informations à différents endroits. Groovebug est une application gratuite pour iPad qui propose de rassembler ces différents contenus et de les présenter dans une interface dynamique. L’application va scanner votre librairie musicale et aller chercher sur le web les différentes informations et médias disponibles sur l’artiste. On peut ensuite visualiser les bios, photos, vidéos ou paroles en plein écran et bien sûr, écouter la musique et l’acheter.
Groovebug transforme votre librairie musicale en application dynamique sur Ipad | Apple | Locita
955 Dreams is on a roll. They’ve released five iOS apps so far, and all five have been featured by Apple as an “App of the Week”. Band of the Day is the latest one, earning the distinction this week.
955 Dreams Brings Elegance, Disruption To Music Discovery With Band Of The Day | TechCrunch
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