Tag: SONG

A while back, an .APK installer for an updated Android Music App was yanked out from the digital aether and put on display. Unfortunately, it was a little too force-close-happy for our liking. A little volatility has never derailed the enthusiastic testers at XDA before, though, so we weren't surprised to read that several users had recently discovered something very cool about the app. After ...

YouTube has been a favorite place for music fans to watch and listen to music videos for a long time now. Along with official music videos, there are all sorts of treasures to be found, particularly when it comes to obscure live performances. It looks like YouTube is embracing the fact that it is increasingly being used as a music service, and has launched a new project called the Music Discovery ...

Pollux is a new Mac OS X application by Chetan Surpur and Shashwat Kandadai that will automatically tag your music files in iTunes. It is capable of tagging the name, artist, album, album art, genre, year, and lyrics for each song, and it does so by analyzing the song's audio fingerprint. This means that it can draw on a database of tag information, and do so very accurately, even if the song has ...

Creating playlists can be tedious, and every bit of information can help. While some people maintain the ID3 tags in their MP3 files in excruciating detail, others (like me) can't seem to find the time. But when it comes to finding the tempo, no amount of manual ID3 tag maintenance will help. If you're trying to put together a playlist that contains songs that are a similar speed, knowing the ...

Postcard.fm is a brilliantly simple idea: choose a photo, choose a song, and send them to a friend as a "postcard." The interface is totally free of frills and junk, making it incredibly easy to use. There's no way anybody could confuse this with the totally obnoxious animated postcards your mom or grandma email you. Plus, it's all hosted at Postcard.fm, so you won't be filling up your friend's ...

Yahoo is letting users of the World Wide Web share in a sing song with the release of song lyrics. Yahoo has teamed up with Gracenote to bring users song lyrics from all five major music publishers featuring the words for songs from U2, Price, The Beatles, Elvis Presley and Kanye West. The new lyric database will be available through the Yahoo Music portal. This new initiative has just made Yahoo ...

You know weird Al Yankovic right? I suppose you blocked that out from several years ago right? He has a new song out untitled "Don't Download this Song." He is trying desperately to get people to buy the CD, "like you know that you should" and extols young thugs and hooligans NOT to download his new song, because "cause you start out stealing songs, then you're robbin' liquor stores, and sellin' ...