Rhapsody music streaming lands on Android tablets with ‘magazine-style’ app
If you use Rhapsody to satisfy your $10-per-month musical appetite , then here’s another way to digest. The service can now be accessed through an app tailored to Android slates, featuring music discovery tools like expert playlists and guides, original editorial content, and exclusive recordings — all on top of a 14 million song catalog.
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Google Music now lets you download your entire library
Computer meltdown? No backup? Well, at least your tunes are safe
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Google Music now lets you download your entire library
Spotify tops three million paying subscribers, 20 percent of its active user base
It hit two million paying subscribers in September of last year and 2.5 million in November, and now Spotify has hit another big milestone. According to the Financial Times , it now has three million subscribers paying for one of its premium services, which reportedly represents more than 20 percent of its active user base. As the FT notes, that percentage is up from 15 percent in March of last year, and Spotify says that its “active” users don’t include folks who signed up for a a free trial of its premium service but didn’t continue to use the free service
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Spotify tops three million paying subscribers, 20 percent of its active user base
Fiio’s E17 Alpen headphone amplifier ‘peaks’ performance
Most people are likely content with built-in sound when sneaking elicit Numa Numa viewings, but if you’ve laid down a little more than average on some cans, you might want something purpose-built. Fiio thinks its E17 / Alpen USB DAC headphone amplifier is the tool for the job. With a passing resemblance to a PMP, the E17 has a single 3.5 output, SPDIF and AUX inputs, with mini USB and a proprietary dock for hardware / computer connectivity
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Fiio’s E17 Alpen headphone amplifier ‘peaks’ performance
Teenage Engineering introduces Oplab musical prototyping platform
After finally getting the OP-1 up for order last January, Teenage Engineering is getting its second product to market — Oplab.
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Line6 introduces StageScape visual mixer, lets you touch it up to eleven
It might seem like we’ve gone mixer mad around here, but with a huge music trade-show starting this week, it’s no surprise there’s a pile of new tech on offer. The StageScape M20d visual mixer from Line 6 being one such example
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Akai releases MPC Fly for iPad, waits ’til you get the pun (video)
We already knew Akai was refreshing its legendary MPC range, but the newest member to the family — the Fly — has to be about the cutest. It kinda looks, initially, like a knock-off MPC novelty case, until you realize those pads are real, and that software on screen is legit. The case-and-device approach seems a smart idea, so it feels like one unit — it even juices your slate when you charge its built-in battery.
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Numark outs new 4Trak DJ controller: no, it’s not half an 8-track
Thought you were all done for new products and first looks?
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A spreadsheet based music tracker: get ready to rock your accounts (video)
Art and geekery : two sides of the same coin. A fact wonderfully demonstrated by this spiffy spreadheet-based music sequencer. Live-coder and all-round music hacker Patrick — aka cappel:nord — spotted the LibreOffice spreadsheet’s sonic potential and decided to work his magic.
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Parrot reveals Starck-designed Zik Bluetooth touch-enabled headset, Zikmu Solo wireless tower speaker (hands-on)
Parrot’s AR.Drone 2.0 may have been one of the more joy-inducing wares we’ve seen here at CES, but that was yesterday. Today, we dare to say that that one of two audio devices just unveiled (and designed by Philippe Starck , we might add) has our jaw dropping, and our ears tingling — the absolutely gorgeous Sik Bluetooth touch-enabled headset, pictured above
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