📅 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. I

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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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📅 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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