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WiMP Launches Lossless CD Quality Music Stream
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HypeBot
Today EU subscription music streaming service WiMP launched WiMP HiFi, a streaming music service with lossless music in CD quality. Its is available for Sonos, Bluesound, iOS and Android at double WiMP Premium price. At launch, WiMP HiFi was named HiFi-product of the year by Scandinavian magazine Lyd & Bilde (Sound & Image). WiMP also simultaneously opened an editorial feature series called High Fidelity. WiMP HiFi joins the ranks of new WiMP services: Both WiMP DIY (do it yourself) and ...
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Why Musicians Are Being Warned About Upgrading to Apple's iOS 7
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HypeBot
By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. Apple's iOS platform is widely considered by musicians (at least the ones who care about such things) to be the superior mobile platform for music creation, because Android isn't up to the task. However, as millions of iOS users the world over keep checking iTunes and their devices for Wednesday's iOS 7 upgrade to appear, audio app developer Audiobus warns those who make music on iOS to avoid iOS 7 like the plague, due ...
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Music Tech Moves Beyond Music: The Echo Nest Meets Nuance Voice Recognition
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Dedicated music fans offer a large market opportunity, but nothing compared to the broader consumer markets. That realization is increasingly driving music tech, as innovators seek to build broader businesses with higher valuations. The Echo Nest stuck a toe in those waters today with the announcement that its Dynamic Music Data solution will power Nuance voice recognition capabilities for music on a broad range of devices including smartphones, tablets, cars and computers. Nuance builds popular voice recognition products like Dragon; ...
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Casket Streams Spotify when You're Six Feet Under
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For those of us whose dreams of an afterlife include plenty of our favorite music. an audio-in-you-coffin solution promises to allow you to to take your playlists with you. Of course, your estate still has to keep making those monthly payments to Spotify, but Swedish audio makers Pause Ljud & Bild have created product called the CataCombo Sound System that makes it all possible. “We want to [communicate] to people that we are the best you can have when it comes to [tailor-made] sound ...
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Kollect.FM Beautifully Gathers Your Music from Youtube, Facebook and Soundcloud
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Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. Kollekt.fm aims to help music listeners corral music from Facebook, SoundCloud, and YouTube, so they can keep it all in one tidy place. The Amsterdam-based Kollekt.fm plans to let you collect music from other places in addition to Facebook, SoundCloud, and YouTube, which will be nice, because music is too hard to collect. Your Facebook music (from the music-related groups you follow) and SoundCloud favorites show up there automatically, once you connect your accounts. In ...
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Neil Young Describes 2014 Launch of Pono
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Music services of all kinds are being funded and launched with some showing early if mixed signs of success and others appearing doomed to assured failure. One of the more interesting efforts underway is Neil Young's Pono project aka PonoMusic aka PONO that combines a unique music player with audio files created from studio masters. Young definitely gets an “A" for this Audacious effort. Neil Young and Pono are promising to bring incredibly high quality digital music via an interesting ...
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Set.FM Raises $1.2m to Help Artists Record and Sell Live Recordings
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Set.fm today announced a $1.2 million seed funding round led by Golden Venture Partners of Toronto. The free app and site, which helps artists record generate additional revenue from live performance, also exited beta today. With Set.fm Studio, artists can capture, promote, and sell recordings of their live performances. The DIY audio-recording platform is available on iOS or desktop. After recording, artists set the price, typically $5-$20, and put them on sale on the Set.fm site and app. The split ...
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How to get your missing scroll bars back
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Michael Ricci
Note: See the comments section below for the Windows tip. Wondering what happened to the scroll bars on your Mac’s desktop windows? Believe me, you’re not the only one. In older versions of the Mac operating system (as in just a couple of years ago), prominent scroll bars were present at all times—handy for letting you know where you were in a lengthy web page, or for simply letting you know that there’s hidden content either above or below. Since ...
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