It’s a little behind schedule, but Sony’s released an iOS app for its Music Unlimited service, expanding its range beyond Android and Sony’s own Bravia and Playstation devices.
When it comes to audio technology, there are two unfortunate trends that are quite prevalent: listeners are ambivalent towards sound quality and few audio products are built to last generations. In fact, audio equipment has become rather invisible in the home. Symbol Audio, a company with a background in furniture design and marketing, hopes to reverse that trend with its Modern Record Console, on display at ICFF 2012.
So, Spotify’s just launched in Australia. But who needs Spotify when you can listen to the entirety of Radiohead’s OK Computer… as run through an 8-bit sound chip?
You can try out Spotify for yourself, but just how broad is its local catalogue? And how many of its customers does it expect to pay up? To get some answers, Lifehacker chatted with Spotify Australia’s managing director Kate Vale.
How many times did you hear your parents yell at you to “turn down that racket” as you blasted songs from your speakers? Turns out, they had a few reasons — a new study has found that kids that spend a lot of time listening to loud music are more likely to smoke weed, binge drink, and have unprotected sex.
After months of promises, Spotify Australia has launched with an aggressive pricing strategy and something of a focus on Australian music. How does it compare to the existing music streaming services?
You spend days at work in the studio, cranking out track after track with your trusty MIDI controller. On a whim, you decide you’re tired of using it, so you wad it up into a ball, throw it away, and draw a new one. Wait, what? Yeah, SketchSynth will someday make this a reality.
Even if you’re not a guitar nerd, you know what Electro-Harmonix’s Big Muff guitar pedal sounds like. Since 1969 it has been the dirty fuzz coating for countless guitar solos and backing tracks on songs by everyone from Santana to Dinosaur Jr. Today, Electro-Harmonix hand-assembles and tests 75 different effects pedals in its New York headquarters.
