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📅 February 17, 2014

Questlove on Technology & Superstar DJs, Vinyl Snobs and More… [video]

OK, you’ve got 20 million songs in your pocket. Now what? With endless choice comes a serious challenge: cutting through all that noise to find the next song that will change your life. In this era, the real rock star are the curators—the people, tools, and algorithms that bring you the music you’ll love. In this months WIRED’s music issue, Ahmir ‘Questlove’ Thompson of the legendary The Roots crew, talks about how to find music you’ll fall in love with. Read the article here and jump over the break to check out Questlove talking about technology and the superstar laptop DJs, record shopping, vinyl snobs, J Dilla and cassettes, and more…

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📅 March 28, 2013

AnyPlay: A Free and Worldwide Available Alternative To Spotify [video]

AnyPlay is a music streaming app that is free, available worldwide and, most importantly, you can find songs/albums Spotify doesn’t offer you.

We all know and love Spotify, but just because it’s so popular it doesn’t mean that it’s the perfect streaming app. First of all is not available worldwide and second of all, if you want to use it on your mobile device you need to pay for it – which makes sense. But what bothers me more than anything is that their catalog is missing a whole lot of music. Apparently, this only happens with the US Spotify because, I don’t remember not finding most of my searches years ago when I was using an UK Spotify account.

If you have the same problem, at least when you’re mobile, you might be looking for another app that you can use in conjunction with Spotify, preferably with a similar UI so you won’t have to pay too much attention to it. Just hit play and go. Well, AnyPlay might just be the app you’re looking for.

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📅 November 22, 2012

Will We Ever Run Out of New Music? [video]

Although, mathematically speaking, there are so many possibile unique melodies that there will always be room for new music, our tiny human brains only enjoy a certain number of notes.

Although, mathematically speaking, there are so many possibile unique melodies that there will always be room for new music, our tiny human brains only enjoy a certain number of notes. That’s why you can sing 40 different songs using the same 4 cordes. Vsause explains our lack of creativity in his latest lesson.

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📅 September 7, 2011

aTV Flash (black) Beta7 Now Available With Music Playback, Cloud Backups and More

Great news from FireC0re: Beta7 is a major update for aTV Flash (black) and brings a number of great new features to the 2nd gen AppleTV including music playback, Last.fm powered artist slideshows, cloud backups and more.

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📅 December 6, 2010

Music Controls Pro: Expand Controls For Your Music Apps

Music Controls Pro adds backgrounding and system integration into many popular music applications, and gives you many ways to interact with your music

New day, new tweak in Cydia: Music Controls Pro. Music Controls Pro is the next step in how you control your music. Here are just a few of the changes:

Video backgrounding: videos keep playing when you hit the home button!
Remote server: use Remote from another device to control your music apps! Playlists not yet supported
Revamped engine: Multiple music apps can be open, and swipe controls are usable with natively-supported apps!
SBSettings toggles for the Remote server and Swipes
Dock metadata: Show what’s playing on your car stereo or speaker system!
Expanded app support: Audiogalaxy, rdio, Napster, and ZumoCast are now supported!

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📅 July 14, 2009

Music Controls: Now You’re In Charge

Apple gave us a great feature when they allowed us to control the iPod app from the lockscreen. Wouldn’t it be great if we could do that with any music app we have installed on our devices? Accidental screen touches can reek havoc on your mobile groove! Don’t even mention that when you have to unlock the device to thumbs up a song, or go back cause you just love that song that much! Perhaps it’s a song you can’t stand

the app open to maintain controls over it. Well you can always just lock the device, but with Pandora, Simplify, LastFM you have to unlock your device if the song sucks. So man wouldn’t it be great if we could use all our other music apps from the Lockscreen, Homescreen, or with in apps? Well we dreamed it and phoenix3200 made it a reality. The name of his app is Music Controls and it can be found in the Cydia store.

That’s right this app cost $4.99. Is it worth it? Lets find out.

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