By Emily Price |
This weekend I finally got around to checking out Turntable.fm—and I’m totally addicted. I’m a huge Pandora nut, just because I like listening to and discovering new music that I might not otherwise. Turntable is in many ways just a manually run version of Pandora.…
By Emily Price |
Would you use a Facebook music service? According to GigaOm the company may be integrating a music service into its existing site, allowing you to listen to tunes while you check out pictures from your friend’s latest trip to Hawaii. Based on pitches made to…
By Emily Price |
Today along with its new iCloud service, Apple announced iTunes in the Cloud and iTunes Match. Amazon and Google already have cloud-music services that let you upload your music to a cloud, and then stream those tunes to your devices. Apple is taking a different…
By Sean P. Aune |
According to the New York Post, Apple has agreed to pay between $100 to $150 million to the four major music labels – EMI, Sony Music, Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group – to get them onboard with the launch of iCloud. While it…
By Emily Price |
Vintage Buffalo is a weekly feature here at TechnoBuffalo where we take a look at our old gadgets, why we bought them, and what made us replace them. Are you like us and hanging on to some gadget relics of the past? Submit your story…
By Sean P. Aune |
Despite the fact that Apple has yet to say one word officially about launching a streaming music service, that hasn’t stopped rumors from popping up every time you turn around. From tales of intense negotiations going on with all of the major music labels to…
By Mike Perlman |
Just when I thought the Lasonic i931 was the ultimate jam cannon, Altec Lansing releases the MIX iMT810 iPhone/iPod digital boombox. I can hardly contain the elation as I dream of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five being piped out of the fierce MIX iMT810.…
By Sean P. Aune |
Amazon is selling the new Lady Gaga album, Born This Way, for the insanely low price of $.99. While it is certainly garnering the site the attention it is sure to have desired, the negative tone is probably not what they were hoping for. Lets…
By Damon Brown |
Herd member Emily Price has a great post this week on e-books taking over the traditional paper book market. As an author, I absolutely love physical books, but I also read e-books when I’m on the road and have happily published a couple digital books…
By Noah Kravitz |
I take an epic (uh, 20 minutes?) walkthrough of Music Beta by Google on a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, Samsung Nexus S 4G and a MacBook Pro’s Web browser. Google’s new music service streams tracks from the cloud to your computer or Android device (2.2…
By Damon Brown |
Earlier this month I fell in love with one of the stupidest apps on the planet: VinylLove. Here’s how it works: VinylLove turns your digital music album into a virtual analog album. Load it up and you’ll see a big-ass turntable, needle and all, and…
By Sean P. Aune |
In what is potentially one of the weirdest cross-promotions ever, Lady Gaga has teamed up with Zynga, the company behind FarmVille, to launch GagaVille. Starting May 17th, all of the “Little Monsters” – the nickname for fans of Lady Gaga – will be able to…
By Noah Kravitz |
Google’s Keynote this morning at Day One of I/O was easily the best Google presentation I’ve ever seen. From a pacing, delivery and excitement-generation standpoint, Google pretty much nailed it, raising their game to a new level of slickness (bad haircuts notwithstanding) while still honoring…
By Emily Price |
Google announced “Music Beta by Google” this morning. The currently free (for a limited time) music streaming service allows you to sync 20,000 songs to a cloud, and allows you to listen to those tunes on any phone or tablet running Android 2.2(or higher), your…
By Adriana Lee |
Spotify is making big waves in the digital music business today. If you don’t know the application, that might be because it’s not available in the U.S. yet outside of a very limited beta release, but the streaming music app and service is hugely popular…
By Adriana Lee |
Amazon.com seems extra obsessed with besting iTunes lately. In March, it debuted a music locker service that’s strictly cloud-based — a feature that many iOS users would like to see the Apple program take on — and now it’s slashing its already lower than iTunes-pricing…
By Emily Price |
The FOX affiliate in Charlotte, North Carolina recently did a news story on Apple’s 180-acre property in the state. The area, which got bad marks last week from Greenpeace, has been designated as a data center, which many believe will house a cloud-based iTunes ……
By Sean P. Aune |
There has been a lot of talk about Google launching some sort of streaming music service for some time now, but it never seems to quite materialize. With the news last week that Amazon was coming from out of nowhere with its Amazon Cloud Player…
By Noah Kravitz |
Happy Opening Day! Happy Final Four! Happy Amazon taking over mobile! Well, maybe not on that last one. But what is Amazon up to? App stores and streaming video and cloud drives and cloud players? Could a tablet be next? How about a smartphone powered…
By Emily Price |
Earlier this week Amazon launched its Cloud Drive, and Cloud Player service. The cloud drive allows you to store 5GB of music for free that you can then access from any computer or Android phone. If you buy an MP3 album from Amazon your amount…
By Emily Price |
Amazon has officially launched its Cloud Player service we heard rumors about yesterday. The free service allows US customers to upload their MP3 purchases to their own personal 5GB of cloud storage, and then access that cloud from any computer or Android device. Purchasing an MP3 album…
By Noah Kravitz |
I told you Amazon’s really the one Apple had better look out for this year. They might just be prepping an Android tablet to go toe-to-toe with iPad on its own turf: Content. The pieces are falling into place like so many iDucks in an…
By Emily Price |
Rumor has it that the newest version of MobileMe may include a music locker. The service is expected to get an update in April of this year, with many speculating the update to include some cloud-based services. The Music Void is reporting that one of…
By Emily Price |
In an interview with Sunday Times Magazine, Bon Jovi attacked Steve Jobs, saying that the Apple CEO “is personally responsible for killing the music industry.” Jovi claims “Kids today have missed the whole experience of putting the headphones on, turning it up to 10, holding…
