A couple years ago we bought a Simon and Garfunkel record on eBay and it arrived as a vinyl record. Well that was a surprise! Because we thought we would be getting a CD and had no way to play a record.
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Several years ago, Bob was browsing Amazon’s online music store and ended up putting two dozen classical CDs in the shopping cart. He planned to look the list over again before going to check-out. But Joy surprised him and just bought the whole batch. Yesterday, all of those CDs popped up online, ready to play from any computer, tablet or phone. Amazon’s new “AutoRip,” is a free service that automatically uploads any CD you bought from them, going all the way back to 1998. It puts the contents into your personal “Cloud Player” ready to stream online. We are more than slightly awed by this; just consider the amount of storage they must have. A playlist online is much easier [...]
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If you make YouTube videos, podcasts, radio or TV programs, you’ve probably looked for music to go with the action. We ran into this problem when we did a podcast on BlogTalkRadio a couple years ago. It’s illegal to use copyrighted music without paying for it.
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“Smart Soundtracker” fits a soundtrack to your videos, and has a button for sharing on Facebook or YouTube. The 99 cent iPhone/iPad app comes with five soundracks, and you can buy more from within the app.
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PairShare for the iPhone, iPad and iPod lets you listen to your friend’s music or share yours with them up to 300 feet away, and it will do an “auto-scan” to find friends nearby. It’s 99 cents in the App store.
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We were going to go toKohler, Wisconsin, for a demo of an outrageously expensive bathtub that pipes in music. Then we discovered the iShower for $99.
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Magic Piano is free for iPad/iPhone/Android devices and lets you play the piano by tapping dots on the screen. The first few songs are free. They said we went too fast, but we got an “awesome” rating on Beethoven’s “Fur Elise.” (That’s Ludwig, not the other Beethoven.)
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Song Pop is free for iPhone/IPad/Android or Facebook. It’s a contest that pits you against a friend in a “name that tune” sort of game. It’s multiple choice. We’re terrible on the latest hits. We wouldn’t know a current hit even if it, well, hit us in the face, but Joy’s a killer on the ‘60s. More info at SongPop.fm.
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Amazon Cloud Player is a place to store and play back your music collection. You get five gigabytes of free storage, but any tune you bought from Amazon is stored for free. It was previously available only on Android devices but is now available on the iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch as well.
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