You have got plenty of options if you want to listen to music. From Internet radio to online services such as Spotify or YouTube to CDs or ripped mp3s. Some services have changed over the years, and Last.fm is without doubt one of those services. It is still highly popular thanks to its vast database, [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Is It Legal To Use Music2PC?
Music2PC is a free music downloader for the Windows operating system. All that users need to do is type in an artist, band, song name or album to see results populated instantly in the interface. A single click on the download button is all it takes to download the music to the local PC. The [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Ex.FM Music Discovery Service With A Twist
Most music discovery services let you only play music that they have available in their databases or on their servers. That’s great and all but may be limiting at times. Ex.FM offers a solution. The web service at its core is still a music discovery service, with the difference that it will pick up music [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Grooveshark Pulls Out Of Germany
Grooveshark’s ride to popularity has abruptly ended, at least in Germany. German users trying to access the website of the popular music streaming service Grooveshark are now greeted with an informational page telling them that the service has ended its operation in the country. According to the information, cost of operation reached a level in [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Mentor FM Tunes Into Your Facebook Account To Play Music You Like
Mentor FM is one of those tools that it is pretty awesome and scary at the same time. The Internet radio tunes into your Facebook account to play music that you like. The awesome part is that it usually gets things pretty right in this regard. All you need to do is to give the [...]
- Author: Mike Halsey MVP
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Did online piracy really hurt music sales in 2011?
The digital music and video industries have been under increasingly scrutiny in recent weeks because of the US government’s SOPA anti-piracy legislation. Now the UK’s British Phonographic Industry (BPI) have released figures that prove piracy is to blame for all their woes… or does it? The figures released today and reported by the BBC show [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Listen to and Download Music from blocked Music Services
Some of the best web services may not be available to you if that service is limited to users from a specific region or country of the world. This is for instance the case with Pandora and many other entertainment related services. Your only option to access the service is to use a proxy server [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Google Music In A Nutshell
Music in the cloud, that’s where the journey goes. At least if you trust Apple, Amazon and Google in this regard. All three companies have introduced a cloud hosting and streaming service for music in past months. You can get an overview of the core services here. Apple recently has added iTunes Match to iCloud [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Instant Elevator Music Makes File Operations Less Boring
Did you ever stare at a file operation process bar, for instance a download or upload that you needed to finish, a backup process or a file conversion? Then you might have enjoyed elevator music during that progress. Instant Elevator Music is a fun application for users who like to be accompanied by calming soothing [...]
