If you are a fan of NPR (National Public Radio), as I am, you might like “Infinite Player”, an NPR streaming player that wants to establish a personal relationship with you and learn to guess the type of programming that you would like. Clearly influenced by →
Access your music and movies anywhere on any device with Qvivo media player and organizer
In the future, your media library will reside in the cloud, and you will be able to access your videos and movies on your computer, on your smartphone or other device, anywhere you are. Qvivo is a software platform that aims to make that a reality →
Mentor FM provides one-click discovery of new music you will like
Wouldn’t it be terrific if you could just switch on the radio and just get the music (or kind of music) that you like, without a lot of messing around? That, in a nutshell, is what Mentor FM tries to do. Mentor FM is an internet →
How to use unlimited Spotify in countries where it is not supported
You may have heard about Spotify, the ad-supported music service that will let you listen to almost any music on-demand, and a favorite of mine. Spotify is only supported in a handful of countries though, so what do you do if you go to their site →
Integrate Last.fm and Grooveshark into your desktop with GrooveWalrus
Another app that proves that our local music and the music we listen to online are becoming one and the same. GrooveWalrus is a free music desktop client that connects to your Last.fm and Grooveshark accounts and provides instant access to these on the desktop. But →
Access geo-restricted sites from anywhere in the world with Tunnelbear
Geographically restricted web services turn up at a seemingly alarming rate. For example, if you are outside of the US you cannot watch programming from Hulu, listen to Pandora or stream Netflix, to name a few examples. Moreover, up until very recently, US residents could not →
Groovedown: download MP3s from Grooveshark quickly and easily
These days, there are many services where you can just type in the name of the song or artist you are interested in and instantly download the mp3. Most people use YouTube (which typically involves converting a video to an Mp3), or even Google. But in →
Moby Gratis adds new music
I previously wrote about Moby Gratis, a repository of downloadable music created by pop star Moby that’s available for filmmakers to use in independent, student, and non-profit films or videos. This week, the service seems to have been expanded, with the following recently added (according to →
Grooveshark Windows App: stream songs and playlists straight to your desktop with this free app
Imagine a media player on your desktop that can find and play almost any song you want from the internet, on demand. Hold that picture in your head and add a recommendation engine on top of that and you would have a fairly good idea of →
Songr: finds and downloads mp3s, identifies songs by their lyrics, and downloads (audio or video) from YouTube
Songr is a free desktop app that can find downloadable MP3s from multiple sources on the internet. In addition, it allows for a “lyrics search” option that can identify and download songs based on parts of lyrics that a you might remember. It also can download →
Tubemaster Plus Plus: download media from media sharing sites (including encrypted sites)
Tubemaster Plus Plus (the sequel to previously mentioned Tubmaster Plus) can download media (video/audio) from video sharing sites such as YouTube, Vimeo, MySpace, Dailymotion and others, as well as encrypted media from “ani-leeching” websites sites such as Imeen, Pandora and Last.fm. TM++ can also perform on-the-fly →
Stitcher: one stop-shop news podcasts radio
Stitcher is a web service that brings together a number of internet radio news podcasts, creates virtual stations by topic, and allows users to customize stations and bookmark favorites, etc. Stitcher is also available on the iPhone. The principle behind this site is rather simple: bring →
