Music Apps

Here's a short history of Spotify's attempt to become a musical operating system for the Internet, web and apps.

The iPhone, iPad, and Android smartphones may not be the best-sounding portable devices we've ever heard but they can pull crazy stunts like pretending to be a cassette player, vinyl turntable, or boombox.

GarageBand, the popular music-making application for the Mac desktop operating system and the iPad, is now available for the iPhone and the iPod Touch...

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos revealed a new line of tablets on Wednesday morning including one, Kindle Fire, that unleashes a clear warning shot across Apple's bow. It could even score a direct hit.

After using Turntable.fm since May, we're not too surprised that it has reportedly pulled down a $7.5 million investment round from a venture capital firm. Here's why.

Because music players can take on nearly any function imaginable now, the sky is the limit in terms of what they can do. To find out what music fans want them to do, we launched the first Untapped Apps poll a few months ago.

To bring you the cream of the crop in iPhone car music apps, we contacted the developers of every car music player app in the iTunes store, then we tested every single one of them in the interest of science, safety and entertainment.

We cover music apps like the waterfront at Evolver.fm. But without a solid way to turn the ones and zeros comprising today's music into vibrating air,...

The Mog music subscription service updated its iPhone app on Monday, introducing a strange new "experimental/beta" feature called Moggles, which lets you take a picture of an album in order to load it in the Mog app for playback, downloading, and so on.

In the year 2000, when MP3.com launched a service that allowed people to stream their own music from "the cloud" by authenticating it with a CD, the l...

Khu.sh's excellent reverse-karaoke app LaDiDa, which used to cost $3, is now free, giving you the power to compose music by simply singing a melody into your iPhone.

Much ink has been spilt on the wisdom of crowds, and that ink has a good point: Sometimes the most difficult problems can be solved by simply floating...

Each song has its own rhythm. So do the Space Invaders and other arcade videogame foes who swarm hapless gamers as they pilot their crafts through the...

After polling this year's crop of amusing falsities, we present the finest "news" stories in music for this first day of April 2011:

The most interesting apps we're seeing these days, some of which have yet to be released, buck the decades-long trend towards solitary listening.

Apple's subscription system will work in much the same way that app purchases already do, except that customers choose how long they want to subscribe for, and Apple earns 30% of each purchase.

One might expect software developers to recoil from the notion of a single gatekeeper skimming 30 percent of their revenue, but the developers we canvassed were unanimous in their praise for the Mac App Store.

The iPhone has always been great at listening to music, but, if you're like me, you eventually get tired of listening to your collection and want to t...