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Control Music From Spotlight Via Commands Using SpotPod [Cydia]

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The Spotlight search area is made more and more useful with the release of each Cydia tweak that allows users to type commands in it to perform various tasks. Examples of such tweaks for iOS devices include CommandSpot and Fbspot, which convert the Spotlight area into a command prompt of sorts. Now you can add another tweak to this list, as SpotPod is a new tweak which will let you enter a few basic commands in the Spotlight search area to control the stock music app in your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. Admittedly, the number of commands is pretty limited for now, but if you have SpotPod installed on your iDevice, it becomes possible to control the music with ease and efficiency. All you have to do in order to control any area of the Music app is to type a one-word command in the Spotlight search area, and hit the enter button on the keyboard. Read More

Create Personalized Feed Of Music News With Muzine For iPad

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Music these days goes way beyond just listening to songs. Singers are some of the biggest celebrities around, and that is why there are many sources where you can stay in touch with the latest happenings in the music industry. Muzine is one such app which will make sure that you are always the first to know each time your favorite band is about to release their new single, or your favorite singer signs a record deal. You can find these new items all over the web, but Muzine aggregates everything for you, and goes a step further by letting you personalize everything and choosing the artists you are interested in, so that the newsfeed in the app is arranged accordingly. The app will even analyze the songs which are already there in your iPad’s music library, and that’s what makes this iOS app perfect for music lovers. Read More

Listen To Shared Music Playlists By Genre With MoodMusic For iPhone

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If you are one of those people who are always listening to music, then it is very likely that you frequently run out of good songs to listen to. There are many solutions to this problem; you might ask your friends if they know of any new good songs, or you can make full use of your iPhone’s intelligence, and use an app like MoodMusic. This iOS app will let you listen to music shared by other users of the service, and also by your Facebook friends. The app can be considered a jukebox, which any user can customize according to their likes and dislikes, as it can be set up in a way that only songs from your specified genres will be displayed by MoodMusic. So, the app suggests music for you, but not at random, you are very likely to actually listen to most of MoodMusic's suggested tracks rather than just moving on to the next one. Read More

Seamless: Resume Music/ Podcast On iPhone From You Left It On Mac [Paid]

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The great ting about iTunes is that you can sync your playlists and tracks, so that you have the same music available, no matter what device you’re using. However, what can be rather annoying is that when you leave your Mac and resume listening to your music on your iPhone (for instance), you have to play the song all over again. Not fun! Imagine if you were listening to a podcast and you had to find your place again? Seamless is a Mac app that makes this transition easier, by allowing you to listen to music on your iPhone right where you left it off on your Mac, and vice versa. While the Mac app is free, the iOS app costs $0.99, and totally worth it! Read on to know why. Read More

Calculate Total Time Of Audio & Video Playlists With PlayTime

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Sometimes, while creating playlists, we want to create playlists according to the number of minutes they will last. For instance, if we are making a playlist of songs to listen to during a particular journey in our car, or we want to get a collection of songs together to play as background music in a party, we want to make sure that the music lasts for the whole time period and the songs are not repeated. Similarly, if you are planning a movie or TV series marathon to watch with your friends, you might want to know how long all the video files will last in order to make appropriate plans for having enough pop corns and drinks to last till the end of the session. What you can do is go to each file, check its properties, see its total running time and manually add them together to calculate the total running time, but that can turn out to be quite a time consuming and annoying task. Today, we have an application for Windows that automates the whole process and gives you the answer in an instant. PlayTime is a portable application for Windows that allows you calculate the total play time of a list of any type of music or video files. Read More

Hanso Tagger: Batch Tag Music Files With Case Sensitive Corrections

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Properly tagging files allows you to easily locate them when you need to. A lot of people like to keep their files, such as their music, organized in separate folders. Tagging your music files helps you in searching for the required file in any music player. Tagging files using the default Windows options is a lengthy process of opening each file individually and correcting the tags separately for each file. Windows Explorer lists down all the tags of selected images in image preview pane, but it is both time consuming and wearisome to manually select each image in order to edit tags. What you need is a proper tool designed to perform the job without making you input much effort into it. Previously, we have covered some very good file tagging tools, such as Elyse, MusicBrainz Picard and Tigo Tago. Today, we have another great tool for editing file tags called Hanso Tagger, which lets you edit ID3v1.1 and ID3v2.x meta tags of files. Read on to find out the more about it. Read More

Plugication: Resume Music Play On Connecting iPhone Headphones [Cydia]

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No matter how polished iOS has become compared to its earlier versions, there are a few things in your iPhone which still remain as annoying as ever. One such annoying thing is the stoppage of music play whenever you unplug the headphones from your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. This can prove to be a real life-saver when you unplug the earphones accidentally, but it would have been even more useful if the music resumed playing when the headphone was plugged back in. For some reason, this is not the case, and music doesn’t start playing automatically the way it stops upon unplugging. Not any more. Enter Plugication, a new Cydia tweak which makes sure that your flow of music is never broken. The tweak will start playing your music from where you last left it, as soon as you connect the headphones to your iDevice. Read More

MusicGestures: Add Gesture Control To iOS Stock Music Player [Cydia]

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A few months back, we covered a Cydia tweak named LSMusicGestures, which allowed users to perform some basic functions related to the iOS music player by performing just a few simple gestures, and that, too, while they are on the lockscreen of their iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. As awesome as that tweak might sound, it isn’t the only one of its kind. MusicGestures is another Cydia tweak which brings gesture controls to iOS music, but this tweak acts directly on the stock music player’s interface rather than on the lockscreen. If you have MusicGestures, you won’t need to use the Music app’s controls ever again, as just about everything becomes possible through gestures. Unlike other tweaks of its kind, MusicGestures does not have a small number of gestures and actions available in it. There is a long list that allows users to define music controls from the ground up. Read More

N7: Stylish Android Music Player With An Innovative Artist Tag Cloud

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New to the Android Market, N7 is a slick, stylish and feature-rich music player for Android that vows to replace any alternative that you’re currently hooked to. The app focuses on enhancing your music playing experience on Android through its good-looking interface, and easy-to-use features that include exploring music by artist, genre, playlist, albums and even by folders, a 5-band equalizer with almost a dozen audio presets, reverb effects, SRS/Dolby surround sound and bass boost support, a full-fledge ID3 tag editor, automatic/manual album art download from multiple sources including Google, Bing and Discogs, a native file browser, a full-screen supported lockscreen, a nifty homescreen widget, and on top of that all, a fantastic zoom-able homescreen plane that displays your favorite artists and all the underlying albums in the form of separate tiles and thumbnails respectively. The eye-catching animations while shifting between tracks, advanced queuing of tracks in a custom order within playlists, and ample customizability are some of the app's other highlights. Read More

Be A DJ To Remix Or Ruin Any Song With Beat Slice For iPhone/ iPad

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Just about everyone likes music, and change is always welcome. That’s what Beat Slice does; it lets you change your favorite songs in any way you want. Looking at a DJ you might have wondered how tough it must be to create a brand new remix for a song, but after you use this awesome iOS app, you will feel that you can be a DJ without breaking a sweat. Beat Slice is an app for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, using which you can remix any song. If you get the mix right, you get an awesome track, but even if you get it wrong, there’s still a really enjoyable (and mostly comical) product of your efforts. Ever wanted to be a DJ? If yes, head past the break. Read More

Mp3 Rename Is A Powerful, File Rename Rule-based Music Collection Organizer

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Organizing a large music collection into separate folders and then rename each audio track’s ID3 V1 and V2 meta tag information is arguably a time consuming task, as it requires creating a list of audio tracks that are to be moved to folders, and then manually editing each track’s file name and meta data. If you’re looking for an all-in-one music collection organizer, Mp3 Rename is probably just what you need. It’s lightweight, music library manager that lets you perform a wide range of operations over the music folders including rule-based file renaming, use ID3 info as file name, remove specified characters from file names, make directories according to file names, and change audio tracks’ names by removing directory names and more. The application has specifically been designed for MP3 files, but it provides you with an option to change file extension to seamlessly organize all types of music files. More on MP3 Rename after the break. Read More

AlbumFlow For WP7: Beautiful Music Player With A Cover Flow View

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When it comes to looks and user interface, Windows Phone 7 can surely hold its own against Android and iOS, and this is evident from the beautiful Zune music player on WP7. The Music & Videos hub, as it is properly known as, got even better with the Mango update, due to the lockscreen album art support which was added to it. However, as they say, there is always room for improvement, and apparently that’s what the developer of AlbumFlow thought. The app features your music library in a fluid and interactive way, and you can literally float through your music in this simplistic music player. Read More

YouTube Producer For iPhone: Add Background Music To Videos & Upload Them To YouTube

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iPhone users have a lot of options available when they want to share their photos with the world. When it comes to videos, the options are not as vast, but still a satisfactory amount of methods exist. Though, most of the video editing apps in the App Store might not be as convenient as the set of options YouTube Producer has to offer. With this useful app, not only can you upload your videos to YouTube with ease, but also add background music to it before you do so. Read More

GRAMMY Live: Get GRAMMY News, Videos, Photos, Nominees & Trivia [iOS]

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GRAMMY is rightly termed as music’s biggest night of the year. It is the time when singers and musicians from all over the world gather to find out whose work touched the heart of their listeners, as well as critics. If you like to follow the activity which precedes the famous award show, then there’s an app for that. With GRAMMY Live, all iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users can easily stay in touch with the happenings related to this year’s show, scheduled for February 12. Not only that, you can even participate in polls about who will win for certain categories, watch the stream of the show, and the app even offers some fun features, like GRAMMY trivia and a few songs on the GRAMMY Live’s radio. Read More

TimeFreeze For iPhone: Add Music & Slow Motion Effects To Videos

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It is a well-known fact that a vast majority of photos shared across various online services originate from the camera in some iOS device, but when it comes to recording videos with your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch, the camera is just as useful. Unfortunately, there aren’t as many apps for video editing as there are for photos, and that’s what makes TimeFreeze a really interesting addition to the App Store. The app lets its users add background music to their videos, and you can also make your footage looking like a snippet from the Matrix, by adding the slow motion effect to any area of the clip. Read past the jump for more. Read More

MusicBanners: Get Notifications For Song Change In iOS 5 [Cydia Tweak]

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One of the main reasons people own an iPod touch is to listen to their favorite songs on the go. Even on iPhone and iPad, the stock Music app gets used a lot, and that is why a music-related Cydia tweak for jailbroken iOS devices is always welcome. MusicBanners might not seem like a really useful tweak at first glance, but actually, it can prove to be pretty useful for people who like to listen to music for longer periods of time, and while performing various tasks. If you have this tweak, a banner notification will be displayed each time a song ends and a new song starts. Not only that, the tweak also comes with Notification Center and lockscreen support. Read More

music2pc: Download Music From A Library Of Over 100 Million MP3 Songs

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Whether listening to music while working increases or decreases productivity is a much debated topic. According to some studies, listening to music seems to impair task concentration as well as the ability to remember, while others believe it helps in drowning out the background noise, thus resulting in more concentration and better work performance. Personally, I also listen to music while working, and in my opinion, it allows more concentration as long as the track is not too distracting. In the end, its all about what you are used to while working. If you belong to group that listens to music while working, we have a music downloader for you today. music2pc is a portable application for Windows that allows you to download your favorite music from a massive library of over 100 million MP3 songs. Read More

TigoTago: Spreadsheet-Based Tag Editor For Multiple Media Files In Batch

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There are a lot of people, including me, who like to keep their music organized and well-tagged. Tagging the music helps you in easily searching for the required track, no matter which audio player you are using. Even though it has great usefulness, Microsoft hasn’t given a lot of options to users in this regard. Tagging files is a lengthy process of opening each file individually and editing the correct information for every track separately. The main reason that most people avoid tagging their music collection is the amount of time and effort it takes to do it. TigoTago is a tag editor that takes care of this problem and provides you with an easier and less time-consuming method to batch edit the tags of your media files. More on TigoTago after the jump. Read More

Little Piano: Virtual Keyboard With 174+ Instruments & Drum Patterns

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I believe we, at Addictive Tips, are guilty of not covering enough fun applications for the Windows platform. Mostly, the applications that we review are useful tools, which either perform a new function, or simplify a current process. However, there's a lot of truth to the saying “all work and no play makes jack a dull boy,” especially when working on computers. Games are a very nice way to release the stress caused by constantly working, but if games are not your cup of tea, you can try another activity which is very relaxing, i.e., creating music. Don’t have a musical instrument lying around? Here is a little application that will surely fill the gap. Little Piano is a simple virtual keyboard that provides you with a virtual piano, allowing you to exercise your creativity. More on Little Piano after the break. Read More

Convert Music Samples, Transpose & Shift Notes With Midi Sheet Music

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A lot of people like listening to music, but some of them also like to play an instrument, Leaning to play music not an easy task and it requires a lot of time and effort to even get your head around the basics of a musical instrument. Like any other skill, learning the theory of music, including how to read the language is very important.  Today we have a tool that converts songs into sheet music. Midi Sheet Music is an open source application that allows you to play MIDI files and convert them to sheet music. The application plays the music files in MIDI format, and automatically highlights the current music note being played. It allows you to set different custom colors for each note, and plays the track on a user-specified speed. You can choose which instrument to show & which to hide from the sheet, and view the staves according to a different Key Signature, Time Signature and Transpose, Shift Notes, Measure length etc of tracks. It lets you enable and disable note letters along with the staves, and show/hide Measure Numbers of notes. You can save the staves as images, and print them from within the application. More on Midi Sheet Music after the break. Read More