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Are Cassettes Really the Best Music Format for Toddlers? Here’s a Better Idea

Eliot Van Buskirk — Tue, 21 May 2013 19:57:32 +0000

As many of us do, I recently ended up in a Facebook conversation about parenting or music. In this case, it was about both conversational mainstays: Namely, how do you allow a child in 2013 to decide to listen to something of their choosing? “I’ve been thinking lately about the downside of having a digital-only [...]

Spotify Will Launch Top 50 Charts, But the WSJ Is Wrong about How (Updated)

Eliot Van Buskirk — Tue, 21 May 2013 15:27:28 +0000

As reported by the Wall Street Journal today (and echoed via Techmeme), Spotify plans to launch a “top 50″ chart that will give fans and the music industry insight into which songs are most popular on its freemium music subscription. Update: Spotify tells us Spotify must be running in the background to play the charts. [...]

Microsoft Puts Live, Interactive Music on XBox

Eliot Van Buskirk — Tue, 21 May 2013 14:56:54 +0000

Microsoft will launch a raft of new stuff today for the XBox at an event where it is expected to unveil a new gaming console. However, we already know about one piece of the announcement: an intriguing interactive live music show that will only be available to people who have Xboxes, called “The Music Room.” [...]

Tunetrace Lets You ‘Draw’ Music on iOS, Works Great

Aarti Kelapure — Mon, 20 May 2013 20:42:21 +0000

We all have different strengths, and for too many of us, they do not include computer programming. By converting drawings into programs that play music, Tunetrace (iOS; free) makes computer programming a touch (get it?) more accessible to the right-brained among us. From QApps, an app venture from researchers at Queen Mary, University of London, Tunetrace for iOS [...]

Daytrotter Adds Direct Artist Payment to Music Subscription

Eliot Van Buskirk — Mon, 20 May 2013 20:12:57 +0000

Well, this isn’t going to change the world, but it sounds like a step in the right direction. DayTrotter, the original music subscription that creates scarcity in a digital world by making about a hundred new, unique music videos each month, recently announced a twist on the idea of subscribing to music (a big deal, with [...]

Arrested Development Fans, Bluth Radio Is Here: Bluthify

Eliot Van Buskirk — Mon, 20 May 2013 16:22:18 +0000

If you were to build an online radio station that could channel characters from Arrested Development, what would you call it? Clearly, “Bluthify.” A free Arrested Development-themed web app, Bluthify.me lets you tune into radio stations “created” by all the main characters on the show. Yes, every single amazing, mind-altering Bluth character is represented in all of [...]

This Unreleased iOS App Puts Google’s Music Subscription on iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch

Eliot Van Buskirk — Fri, 17 May 2013 21:18:17 +0000

Google’s new music subscription service, Google Play Music All Access, lacks an official iOS app, which comes as no surprise. Google and Apple are hardly “besties” when it comes to digital music or smartphone platforms. However, Evolver.fm has learned that an iOS app called gMusic, which is already capable of playing music from a Google [...]

Q/A: Google’s Music Chief on Differentiation, Collecting Music, iOS Violators

Eliot Van Buskirk — Fri, 17 May 2013 15:38:39 +0000

We’ve been writing a lot about Google’s new music subscription service this week, because of course we would. Google is a force to be reckoned with — and now, that force is reckoning with the likes of Spotify, Rdio, and Rhapsody in a bid for your $10 per month, in return for unlimited access to [...]

Pros And Cons: Google Play Music All Access Subscription

Eliot Van Buskirk — Thu, 16 May 2013 15:45:34 +0000

I set out this morning to build a chart listing the various features of the major music subscription services: Rdio, Rhapsody, Spotify, and we assume the recently-launched Google Play Music All Access, although it remains to be seen whether it will succeed on the level of those standalone music services — or whether it will [...]

Google’s Launching Two Music Subscriptions? It Should Solve the Biggest Problem in Music Instead

Eliot Van Buskirk — Wed, 15 May 2013 16:22:16 +0000

The Google I/O conference takes place today, and the most exciting part of it for music fans will be Google’s new music subscription — or rather subscriptions, plural, because as reported by my former CNET colleague Greg Sandoval, Google has been readying two separate music subscriptions — one aligned with Google Play and Android, and [...]