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Wave Control Uses Proximity Sensor To Allow Touch-Free Music Playback [Android]

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Music playback on Android can be controlled in various ways. The conventional way, of course, is to use the media controls present on your favorite music player’s interface. Then there are a few music apps that support controlling playback via your device’s volume keys. The button on your headset/Bluetooth device proves to be sufficient for most users as well. We also know of a few apps that allow controlling music playback through the accelerometer (by giving your device a shake). As you can see, all aforementioned solutions require you to touch (or tap buttons on) your device in one way or the other. Read More

X-Screamer Radio: Listen To & Record Screamer Radio Stations With Ease

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There are certainly a host of desktop applications and online services available out there that let you tune in to your favorite radio stations within a few clicks. If you’re a fan of music, then you might have heard about Grooveshark, Pandora and Spotify, but when it comes to top online radio services, Screamer Radio also needs no introduction. X-Screamer Radio, is a portable desktop application that lets you listen to the massive library of radio stations available on the Scream Radio website. There are almost 400,000 different radio stations that you can listen to from within a unified interface. Apart from streaming online music tracks, it also lets you record any tune from a selected radio station. The application keeps a log of all the radio stations that you stream, so that you can instantly jump to these stations without having to look for them every time. Read More

Stream & Purchase MP3 Songs On Your WP7 Using The Official 7digital App

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There aren’t many services for Windows Phone 7 that have the potential to challenge the Zune music store, as for now, it remains the the number one place to purchase music if you have a Mango phone. When you look online, or even on other smartphone platforms, there are many stores which offer MP3 purchases. Not the least popular among these stores is 7digital. The service offers MP3 songs, albums and artist collections at pretty decent prices, and thankfully, they have now released their official WP7 client. Mango users have finally got a good alternative to the Zune store (not that it isn’t good in its own right). What’s more, the 7digital app comes with a music player of its own (background play is supported, of course) and will let you stream all of the songs, so you can get a preview before spending any money. If you are already a 7digital user, the app holds even more charm, and you can find out about that by heading past the break. Read More

Ivy FM: Discover Great Music By Genre, Get Artist Info & Bio [Web]

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Bored of listening to the same kind of music everyday, and want to experience something new and different? Ivy FM is a cool web application that lets you sit back, relax and enjoy non-stop music from popular artists from all over the world, without any ads or commercials. The service allows you to switch between different genres and skip through unlimited tracks. You will notice that Ivy FM does not have the usual list of artists or tracks, but offers you with something unique and interesting. Not only does the service let you listen to music and watch videos, but also learn about artists by displaying info and Top albums for each. With it, you will be able to discover and enjoy new music every day. Read More

Beem For WP7: Stream Dance, Trance & Techno Music From DI.FM Radio

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A lot of people might disagree, but in my humble opinion Windows Phone 7 has got the best stock music player when it comes to smartphone platforms. However, Android and iOS have the advantage of having a host of third-party apps to replace the stock player, whereas the apps for Mango aren’t as good. Fortunately, WP7’s lack of good apps is being rectified gradually, and the Marketplace has become home to a number of well-developed apps. Beem is one such app that is not a music player, but rather a client for a radio broadcaster, DI.FM. Having said that, the app will let you listen to your favorite music, specially if you are a fan of trance or fast-paced music genres. The interface of the app is really good, and streams songs at a pretty efficient rate. Read More

z33k: Listen/Download Music From MP3Skull Database Or Internet Radio

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Everyone loves listening to online radio for a number of reasons. Not only is it free but the library is also huge. Just a few days ago, we reviewed Hypegram, which we found to be one of the best (if not the best) applications available for streaming internet music. It not only had a sleek and stylish looking interface, but also packed awesome functionalities. z33k, is yet another new open source desktop application that might replace your current internet radio. It lets you listen to live internet radios as well as search and download your favorite music from the huge databases of MP3Skull and Dilandau. It is a portable application and is currently in beta version, but still looks and performs excellent. There is not much to talk about aesthetics though as it has a minimalistic looking metallic grey GUI design. More details after the jump. Read More

Hypegram: Find & Listen To Latest And Popular Music Around The Web

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If you’re a music lover, you must have heard about hype machine, a web service that keeps track of the bloggers across the world wide web that write about the best music available. This not only saves you time to find that awesome tune you might have wanted to listen to, but also keeps you stumbling upon the latest and greatest music trends around internet. If you want to experience the love of hype machine on your desktop, then meet Hypegram, a beautiful and elegant application that will let you stream music right on your desktop. This tool will also help you keep up with all the latest and popular songs that people have been sharing on the various blogs. Keep reading for an in-depth review of the application. Read More

SongFreaks Syncs Lyrics Stream With Songs On Your iPhone

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Music players might not belong to the most populated genre of iOS apps, but there are still plenty of good music-related apps available in the App Store. We have covered a few of them, like Skins and Music Player All-in-1, and most music players for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch have some distinguishing features. Some are unique in their looks, while other focus more on functionality. SongFreaks falls under the second category, and narrows down to just one main feature; lyrics. This app just might be the best music players for iPhone users who are interested in lyrics, and like to everything about the songs they are listening to. SongFreaks comes with a feature named Lyrics Stream which will highlight the part of the lyrics which are currently being sung. There are other features in the app as well, and you can learn all about them by heading past the break. Read More

RarmaRadio: Listen To Thousands Of Radio Stations & Record Live Stream

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Whether one should listen to music while working or not is a topic that has been debated for a long time. While some people say we should not listen to music during work because it makes us lose concentration, others, including myself, like to listen to music while working simply because of the fact that it works as white noise and blocks all those other distracting sounds, such as two other people talking, which may divert my attention while working. RarmaRadio is an internet radio player that allows you to listen and record thousands of radio stations from around the world. The radio directory contains stations from all over the world and supports recording in MP3, WMA and OGG audio formats. Keep reading to find out more about RarmaRadio. Read More

DJ1-Social Player: Listen To & Share Legal Music With Your Friends

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Sharing is caring, and we live in an age where sharing has not only become much easier, but also, a lot more fun. Social networks have totally taken control of our lives, and it’s suffice to say that people love spending their time on Facebook and Twitter. At AddictiveTips, we have covered a few different options that let you share what you’re listening to, to your friends on different social networks, ranging from applications like CloudTune to online services such as ListenTo.Fm. DJ1- Social Player is another new entry which lets you share your music instantly with your friends on Facebook. The application has an integrated music player and a Facebook chat box. So when you’re listening to your favorite tune and want to share it with your social community, just drag and drop it onto the chat box to instantaneously parcel it’s link. This is a great new way of sharing your music as the application works on the bases of iCloud messaging, which lets you and your friends to enjoy the same music. Read past the jump to find how it works. Read More

MediaSpeak: Hear The Name Of Each Song As It Starts Playing [Cydia]

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Having an iOS device without music is like having French fries without ketchup. There are many things you can use your iPhone for, looking at the number of apps available in the App Store, but a large portion of most people’s day is spent listening to songs on their iPhone or iPod touch. Due to this fact, there are many apps and Cydia tweaks that allow users to make the stock Music app a bit more useful and efficient than it already is. Every music-related tweak might not bring features that are too important, but most of them are useful to some extent. MediaSpeak is one such tweak for jailbroken iOS devices, and with this tweak, you will be able to hear the name of each song every time the next track in your playlist starts playing. This can be really useful if your phone is in your pocket, or if your attention is not on the screen. Read More

Automatically Add All Media Files To iTunes Library On Mac [Tip]

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If you often download videos and music files instead of purchasing them in iTunes, you have to then manually add them to Apple's native multimedia behemoth. It isn’t difficult, but if you keep downloading media and neglect adding it to iTunes, you get clutter, and lots of it. A much simpler way of doing so is by pasting your media files directly to the Automatically Add to iTunes folder. By adding files directly to this folder, iTunes indexes them and they appear in their respective category when you launch the software. Bear in mind that this means the file is copied to iTunes, and not just indexed at its original location. Read More

Tabster: Music Tablature Manager With Search, Store & View Options

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Learning to play music is a difficult job, specially when you are doing it on your own. Instruments like the guitar, drums and keyboard require a lot of practice and demand dedication from the learner. If you are one of those people who are (or have been) lucky enough to attend a music school, you must know the importance of being able to read “Staves”, but most self-taught music enthusiasts rely on tabs (tablatures) to learn how to play new songs. Ultimate-guitar is a hugely popular website specially among people learning to play guitar because of its massive collection of songs. However, with all the tablature versions each song has on the website, it is difficult to manage all your favorite tabs. Tabster is an application for Windows that takes care of this problem and provides you with a simple tab manager to search, store and retrieve stored tabs for easy viewing. Moreover, you can edit, as well as create new tab documents to save them to your computer or upload onto the internet. More on Tabster after the break. Read More

Stay Aware Of Ambient Noise When Listening To Music On Earphones [iOS]

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Who doesn’t enjoy listening to music on an iOS device? The Music app is pretty good, and there is a plethora of music-related apps available in the App Store. Listening to your favorite songs on the speaker of your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch is not usually a good idea. For one thing, you will end up annoying everyone in your vicinity, and there is also the problem of reduced volume levels if you don’t use a headphone. However, using headphones has its own set of problems. The use of headphones leave you almost completely oblivious to the surrounding sounds (specially if you are using ear buds). If you are walking on the road while listening to music, things might turn nasty if you fail to hear a car’s horn honking behind you. The solution to this problem is the awesome iOS app Awareness. The app will overlap background noise over the currently playing music every time it exceeds a fixed level. Read More

Control Grooveshark, Pandora & Other Music Playback From Chrome Toolbar

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Unity Player is a Chrome extension that allows you to control music for various popular services, such as Pandora, Grooveshark , Google Music, SoundCloud and more. With it, you can control music from multiple sites from one handy pop-up. Now you no longer have to be worried about whether you're playing music in Pandora, Grooveshark or any other service, as you may easily pause, skip, rewind, thumbs up or check out the cover art from the pop-up in your toolbar. Another great feature of the service is that you can quickly focus the current site that is playing your song by clicking the album art cover photo, and if you start playing music from another source, the current one will pause itself as the new one starts. Read More

Hanso Player: Lightweight Music Player With Dynamic Playlist Function

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Listening to music relaxes you and takes your mind off of stressful things. It can also help people block off the disturbing sounds while working on their computer. However, whether listening to music while working increases or decreases the productivity and efficiency, or lowers it down, is a debatable topic. Some days ago, we covered Hanso Tagger, an application for Windows that allows you to easily tag your music files and add or edit meta tag information to them. Today, we bring to you another tool, from the same developer, called Hanso Player. Just as the name suggests, it is a music player that lets you play audio files on your computer. The reason for selecting this music player for review is its simple, yet useful options, and the low memory consumption even during audio playback. The number of formats that the audio player is capable of handling covers all of the popular ones, including MP3, MP4, MPC, FAC, OGG, WAV, WMA etc. The capabilities of Hanso Player are not just limited to playing tracks, its easy-to-manage playlist feature allows users to control and listen to your favorite songs in a richer way. Read More

BPMinus: Control Speed, Pitch & Equalizer Settings Of Audio Tracks

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Audio editing doesn’t only mean cutting out the favorite part of your song, changing the format, or bit rate of the track, other tweaks, such as changing the tempo, pitch, stereo mix and equalizer settings of the song are also a type of audio editing. There are a lot of tools available, such as Audacity, an open source free audio editing and recording program that matches in functionality to a lot of paid audio editing applications. However, the more options a tool has, the higher will be its learning curve, and there is no point in learning a difficult software when you only have to perform basic editing. BPMinus is an audio editing application for Windows that allows you to play and control the speed of music tracks while maintaining its pitch, as well as the sound quality. That’s not all; other than the speed, you can also change the pitch and equalizer options in isolation. The application maintains all other qualities of the track while you are changing the one you want. With a user friendly GUI, it has a very low learning curve and is easily customizable. Keep reading after the break to find out more about BPMinus. Read More

Vote-Based Online Music Streaming App Jelli Radio Released For Android

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Jelli Radio is a fun-filled music streaming app for Android and iOS-powered devices that utilizes the concept of crowdsourcing to play music tracks as per user votes. Yes, using the app, you can explore dozens of category/genre-based music stations to listen to only the tracks that you prefer. This can be done by voting for your favorite music tracks in real-time. To push your favorite track higher on the playlist, you need to vote up for it. The more up votes a track gets, the better chances for it to be played next. No need to listen to the dull music, as is the case with other music/radio streaming apps. Instead, with Jelli Radio, it’s you who’s in control of the tracks that should be played. That’s not all, the app also sports a native chat interface that allows music-loving Jelli users to share their thoughts with each other via text chats. Apart from that, you can manually search for music stations, add tracks to your favorites list to listen to them anytime you like, explore other user profiles, and keep a close tab on your recently played tracks. Read More

Display An Album Art HUD Every Time The Song Changes [Cydia]

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When it comes to looks, iOS is a pretty neat platform, and its interface is one of its major selling points. To complement the stock interface, there is a plethora of themes and other cosmetic tweaks in the Cydia store which serve the purpose of letting users give a personal touch to their iPhone, and also make the device look more beautiful. Hud is one such tweak, and although it's not a theme or custom font for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices, it still goes a long way towards making your iDevice look better. Hud will flash a heads-up display on your device’s screen every time a new song starts. The HUD will consist of the album art associated with the new song, as well as the volume level currently set on the iPhone. Of course, the name of the new song will be displayed as well, and the tweak makes a push notification appear at the start of each new song. Read More

Create & Listen To Public Playlists With wahwah.fm For iPhone

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There are thousands of radio stations all over the world, and the internet has brought them all within everyone’s reach. You can find any kind of music on the radio these days, but still it is a hectic task trying to find a station which is exactly to your liking. That’s where the awesome new iOS app named wahwah.fm can help you. Using this app on iPhone, anyone can create their very own radio channel and start broadcasting songs they like. The playlists shared over wahwah.fm are public, and users can listen to them. If you really think that a broadcaster’s shares match your taste closely, it is possible to follow them on the app, so you can stay up to date with their activity. Read on to know more about wahwah.fm. Read More