by Mike McGuire | April 28, 2010 | Comments Off
Rhapsody, one of the very earliest of legitimate online music services and, as a result, one of the first to be hammered by the juggernaut that became iTunes, has finished the spin-off process from Real Networks and like a divorcee celebrating the end of a rocky marriage, has made some changes. First, an iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch [...]
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by Mike McGuire | February 19, 2010 | 1 Comment
Just when you thought there weren’t any more ways one could use “social” as a modifier for music, along comes Soundtrckr (www.soundtrckr.com). What Soundtrackr has done is marry streaming music, shared playlists and geo-tagging. The result: what the company calls a “geosocial music service.” What users can do is seed a “station” based on a [...]
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by Mike McGuire | September 23, 2008 | Comments Off
With Google dropping its first Android-based phone, the G1, on the market today, the galaxy’s search giant almost made the online music/mobile music market a bit more interesting by preloading Amazon’s MP3 download store software onto the device. But today’s press reports leave me thinking that this is barely a music-capable mobile phone. G1 users will be able to [...]
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Category: Mobile music Uncategorized Tags: G1-Amazon MP3
by Mike McGuire | September 22, 2008 | 3 Comments
In hopes of giving the physical format-upgrade cycle one last spin – not to mention maybe increasing the standard unit price the majority of consumers pay for prerecorded music to anything more than $.99/song — all four major music labels have banded together with SanDisk to announce“slotMusic” an effort to build consumer interest in the [...]
Category: Mobile music Online Music Tags: PhysicalMedia
