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Stitcher Radio announces a Car Mode, but it's not quite what I want

by Mike Schramm (May 17th, 2013)

I use my iPhone a lot to listen to music and podcasts in my car -- I connect it right up to my car stereo, and it's my main listening source while driving around LA. As a result, I really wish there were more options to control my music while driving around. Music- and podcast-streaming app ...

Google Play Music All Access announced at Google I/O

by John-Michael Bond (May 15th, 2013)

Google's long-rumored music streaming service became a reality today with the announcement of Google Play Music All Access. The company has already cleared licensing deals with all three major labels left standing -- Warner, Universal and Sony -- meaning they'll have millions of songs available ...

Drums! gets redesigned for version 3.0

by Mike Schramm (May 7th, 2013)

There are quite a few "drum simulator" apps on the iPad and the iPhone -- it's one of the first ideas a lot of developers had when the touchscreen devices became available, and lots of devs carried that idea out to release. But Drums! is one of the most popular of these apps -- it's gotten ...

Songza 3.0 update available now

by Mike Schramm (May 2nd, 2013)

We mentioned Songza's iOS app last year around when it came out, and the music sharing service has just updated the app to version 3.0. The free app has been almost completely reimagined, and while it still offers plenty of tunes to listen to, the interface has been revamped -- it's much ...

Origin Stories: Tango Remote allows you to control music using iOS devices only

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (May 2nd, 2013)

I've run into this issue a number of times while producing comedy shows: I want to play intro music for a comedian, but I don't have a staff available to sit there and punch buttons on my iPad. Enter Tango Remote, a handy tool which allows you to remotely control your playlists from iOS to iOS ...

Daily iPhone App: Robot Unicorn Attack 2 turns Adult Swim's biggest hit freemium

by Mike Schramm (Apr 29th, 2013)

Adult Swim has built up a nice stable of games on the App Store, and the biggest workhorse in it is Robot Unicorn Attack, a Flash game that's an endless runner where you play as the titular creature dashing and jumping to '80s music playing in the background. That game's been very successful, ...

TUAW Giveaway: Win a copy of Tabular for Mac

by Matt Tinsley (Apr 27th, 2013)

Thanks to the guys at Chromatic Labs, we've got three copies of Tabular for Mac to give away, worth US$19.99 each. Tubular is a comprehensive application for reading, editing and writing tablature music on a Mac. If you're a musician, music teacher or composer of music who's looking to use ...

Slayin soundtrack now available

by Mike Schramm (Apr 25th, 2013)

I remain a big fan of Slayin, a little game that got released on the App Store a while ago, that compresses a full fantasy-style RPG into a fascinating little endless game. I think the game's mechanics (where you simply move back and forth across the screen, holding your weapon out in front of ...

Twitter #Music to debut later today (Update)

by Matt Tinsley (Apr 18th, 2013)

As reported by ABC News, the new Twitter #Music app will officially launch today. It will be available through the Twitter #Music app for iPhone and on the web here. Details are coming in this morning. A post has been published to Twitter's blog with a lot of information. The Twitter #Music ...

iTunes maintains its music download dominance as Amazon plays catch-up

by Yoni Heisler (Apr 17th, 2013)

Nearly 10 years after the iTunes Music Store first opened up for business, iTunes remains the market leader in digital music downloads. According to a research report published by the NPD Group earlier this week, iTunes accounted for approximately 63 percent of all digital music downloads in ...

Rockstar shares the Grand Theft Auto soundtracks on iTunes and Spotify

by Mike Schramm (Apr 12th, 2013)

Rockstar, the developers of the very popular Grand Theft Auto series, has kindly set up playlists for every one of the series' radio stations, for use in both iTunes and Spotify. The GTA series is well-known for its music, and when Rockstar ported both GTA3 and GTA: Vice City over to iOS, we ...

Bump removes ability to share iTunes tracks in latest update

by Mike Schramm (Apr 11th, 2013)

We see tons of app updates come through the App Store every single day, but it's very rare that one of those updates removes functionality rather than adds it. The latest update for Bump for iPhone does exactly that, unfortunately. Bump is an app that came out very early in the App Store's ...

Turntable.fm releases Piki app, for music recommendations and streaming

by Mike Schramm (Apr 11th, 2013)

Turntable.fm is one of the many social streaming music sites out there -- it allows you and your friends to stream music and even listen in together to your favorite albums and songs. The company already has its own standalone app for the App Store, but it's trying a new tactic now to grab ...

Better Ears: A music theory and ear training app for Mac

by Matt Tinsley (Apr 10th, 2013)

Better Ears (US$24.99) is a new Mac app that teaches you music theory while enhancing your hearing through training exercises. Do you know your intervals? Your minor second, fifth or major seventh from a given root note? Or a major harmonic scale from a mixolydian chordal mode? Not only can you ...

Amazon AutoRip for Vinyl Records gives customers free MP3 copies

by Steven Sande (Apr 3rd, 2013)

Vinyl record fans don't have to rip their own digital recordings any more. Amazon today announced AutoRip for Vinyl Records, which gives customers who have purchased vinyl records from the company since 1998 a free MP3 version of those albums. This expands on the AutoRip CD program announced in ...