Two interesting updates hit the App Store on Monday as new Apple subsidiary Beats Music unveiled a number of refinements to the app's user experience and popular gaming title Clumsy Ninja added a slew of new content.
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Two interesting updates hit the App Store on Monday as new Apple subsidiary Beats Music unveiled a number of refinements to the app's user experience and popular gaming title Clumsy Ninja added a slew of new content.
With work, stress or Netflix binges, achieving the perfect amount of shut-eye can be difficult. Here are 10 smartphone apps to help you turn off your brain.
This week's apps list includes a new Reddit client, an app to optimize your phone's battery life and a new game based on 'Guardians of the Galaxy.'
Music and television show discovery app Shazam on Monday rolled out an update that integrates Internet radio service Rdio, offering in-app track streaming to users of both products.
Shazam doesn't want you to leave its app, and has partnered with music streaming service Rdio to make that happen. A new update to Shazam's iOS app that went out today â and is headed to the Android version â lets you play full versions of songs you've identified using the company's tagging technology. It requires being a Rdio subscriber, and allowing Shazam access to your account. Once you've linked the two, you can also add songs to Rdio playlists right from Shazam, listen to full tracks from...
Product Hunt, the buzzed about site for early adopters offering a mixed of new products, sites and apps as well as undiscovered older gems, is soon getting its own gorgeous and fully featured iOS application. According to founder Ryan Hoover, the app will offer the same daily list of products as on the web, as well as user comments, profiles and push notifications for when your name gets…
The iRing may look like a toy at first glance, but once you spend some time with it, you'll soon be impressed by the power and accuracy of this gesture-based music system.
No ProTools, no record players, no DJ skills required. With Crossfader, you just swipe between songs, pick two you like, and tilt back and forth to mix them into a mashup. This is Turntable.FM co-founder Seth Goldstein’s plot to turn legions of young ravers into creators.
SoundCloud's new iPhone app puts discovery front and center.
You might have heard of Yo....
Today SoundCloud launched a completely redesigned app for iPhone that ditches its recording functionality in favor of making listening as fast and beautiful as possible. It's a huge update that finally brings SoundCloud up to date with its streaming music competitors â and with the demands of its customers. Two-thirds of SoundCloud listening now happens on mobile, the company says, up from half six months ago, yet for some time the company's app has felt dated. No more....
StarMaker updated its app Tuesday with new video capabilities, that allow users to create their own "music video selfies."
Amazon today released its first numbers offering some insight into how many people are streaming music over its new Amazon Prime Music service a little over a week after its launch.Before you ask, I’ll say straight out that par for the course with Amazon, there are no specific sales numbers: “Prime members streamed tens of millions of songs—that’s millions of hours…
Following the closing of a $700,000 seed round at the start of this year, music streaming social network Whyd has been busy putting some of that modest capital to work with the development of its first foray into mobile.
The iRig Voice microphone and accompanying EZ Voice app for iOS are the latest products from IK Multimedia intended for non-professional musicians who want to sing along with their favorite songs. Together they work well, and can make homemade karaoke recording a lot of fun.
There are aspects about learning to play piano where the iPad can help, and there are others where it can hurt. The following will look at both sides and hopefully make learning a bit easier.
While Apple fans consider the iPad hardware itself to be a work of art, it's an app that was designed for the iPad in part by Icelandic singer Björk that has earned the distinction of becoming the first application of its kind accepted into the permanent collection at New York's Museum of Modern Art.
There have been a lot of murmurs that Amazon would turn on a new music streaming service this week, and it looks like that’s just what it quietly did a little while ago. A link to Amazon Prime Music, if you are an Amazon Prime subscriber that is, now takes you to a page heavy on playlists, promising over 1 million songs ready for your streaming pleasure, on top of the downloading…
A team of three young coders has come up with a way to turn your iPhone’s speakers into a wireless surround-sound system, thanks to a mobile app called Audibly.The app, which is perfect for parties or for blasting music when decent speakers aren’t readily available, uses technology found on newer devices (running iOS 7 or higher) in order to sync songs to multiple…
For years, IK Multimedia has been making tools for musicians with popular products like T-Racks and the iRig guitar adapter. Now the firm is dipping its toes into computer vision with a gesture-based music creation tool called iRing.
Hot on the heels of its just-announced acquisition by Apple, Beats Music has lowered its annual subscription fee. The service now costs $99.99 for a year, down from $119.88 â there was previously no saving on paying the regular $9.99 price every month. That monthly fee remains the same, but Beats has also extended the free trial period from 7 to 14 days. AT&T customers still get a three-month trial....
Hot off its acquisition by Apple, Beats Music announced in an update to its iOS app on Wednesday that new users can take advantage of an extended 14-day free trial period and decreased annual subscription pricing.
These four apps got their start in fictional TV shows, but now they're available IRL. So meta.
Apple's latest installment of its 'Your Verse' iPad short films takes us into the worlds of classical music and travel writing.
iPad-toting disk jockeys now have a wealth of new material to play with thanks to new Spotify integration in djay 2, while users who have been waiting for a way to broadcast iOS notifications to their Mac can do so with new entrant Notifyr.