In the spirit of Download Like a Pirate Day, whether you want to take to the airwaves and be your own radio broadcaster, Pirate Radio, a PC based Net broadcasting app can help you get your own radio station launched with minimum equipment and no technical skills called for. All you need is a P…

I love the RIAA. They compose certain the tough working bands that record the music we love can still squeak out a living in the face of an ever-growing number of freeloading downloaders. Without them, how many talentless, lip-synching, manufactured performers would be able to afford homes in Or…

I love the RIAA. They construct certain the tough working bands that record the music we love can still squeak out a living in the face of an ever-growing number of freeloading downloaders. Without them, how many talentless, lip-synching, manufactured performers would be able to afford homes in …

Music discovery service and online radio station Pandora may have to shut down, thanks to high royalty fees imposed final year by the US Copyright Royalty Board. Pandora founder Tim Westergren says his company is currently paying 70% of its revenue to SoundExchange, the organization that collect…

If you ever tried your hand at transcribing audio to text you’re probably familiar with rewinding and playing back passages by and by again. What whether you could slow down that audio file without altering the pitch to form it easier for you? Well whether you’re a Mac users, you’re in luck as J…

There’s no shortage of music recommendation engines. Whether you want to find music from artists that sound like Madonna or Meat Beat Manifesto, all you have to do is hit up Pandora, Last.fm, or a similar site and pop a name in the box. whether the web site starts playing a song you like, you gi…

Have you ever heard some music, be it in the background in a shop, or played on the radio and ever wished you knew the track’s name? That’s the dilemma Shazam sets out to solve.

By launching the application, holding your iPhone to the sound source you want to ‘tag’ and waiting a few seconds t…

We’ve covered several apps that integrate with the social music platform final.FM, and we’ve expressed our worries about what might happen to the site when it was bought by CBS. As it happens, though, final.FM has only gotten better lately. And now that they’ve released a shiny new version of th…

If you’ve ever played a musical instrument the concept of playing in key is nothing new. But what about DJs? Are there lessons out there that go by majors, minors or even basic chord progressions? Having 2 songs mixed in key gives the impression that the songs were made for each other.

MixedI…

VolumeTouch is a utility that replaces the sound icon in the Windows system tray with a volume meter that gives you a habitable preview of your volume settings. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg. The program additionally lets you adjust your system volume using your mouse.

Here’s how it …