April 7, 2009
For me, the measure of a good free music site is how quickly I can play the song I’m looking for and with the fewest number of strings attached. I don’t want to have to sign up for yet another site only to be bombarded with email updates and special offers. There are only a few sites that do this well (which I will highlight in this post) but in the interest of all of the other people out there who enjoy music sites for their communities and advanced features I felt the need to cover a fuller spectrum.
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March 3, 2009
I don’t own an iPhone, but I do own an iPod Touch so I’m hip to all the apps floating around out there, and this app alone is almost reason enough to buy an iPhone.
Shazam uses some sort of magical algorithm to identify any song that you play in the vicinity of your iPhone’s built in microphone. It’s perfect for naming that song you’re listening to on the radio. Initially, I figured that it was using a special tagging technology to pick up on the songs, but then my coworkers and I decided to put it through the ringer and were astounded by [...]
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