• Music search by Artist, Track or Album
You can also browse through the Tag charts to discover music that other users have discovered using the app.
Shazam was initially launched as a free iPhone app but it has released Shazam Encore last year, which is the paid version of the app that is available for $4.99 (for Lifetime) or $2.99 (for 1 year) via In-app purchase. You can tag only 5 songs per month with the free version of the app.
) and (more…)

” of the media event will revolve around the enhancements made in the iTunes space. However, Apple will not make any announcements with respect to the
since the necessary agreements are still not in place.
With less than 24 hours to go for the media event, we have been hearing a lot of rumors and speculations with respect to the upcoming announcements.
. There were reports last week that suggested that the new iPod nano will have a squared design (more…)

iTunes Ping allows you to follow your favorite artists and friends just like Twitter but to discover the music they’re downloading, listening to and talking about.
“iTunes is the number one music community in the world, with over 160 million iTunes users in 23 countries, and now we’re adding social networking with Ping. With Ping you can follow your favorite artists and friends and join a worldwide conversation with music’s most passionate (more…)

But it didn’t last too long as Apple has removed the Grooveshark iPhone app from the App Store yesterday, due to a complaint they received from Universal Music Group UK.
Grooveshark is a free web based music streaming service that allows users to upload, share and stream tracks from a massive catalog of songs. The new iPhone app will allow their Premium/VIP members of the service use their iPhone to search for music from the huge database. Additionally, (more…)

While this feature has existed for over a month now, a number of bloggers have now started wondering if this could be Cupertino's latest leap towards the launch of an
. In a recent article on
, blogger Brian Barrett writes:
“Well this was unexpected: Apple has quietly enabled its devices to stream music to iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touches from online storage through iDisk. It's the very next-best thing to putting iTunes in the cloud.”
(more…)

Grooveshark is a free web based music streaming service that allows users to upload, share and stream tracks from a massive catalog of songs. The new iPhone app will allow their Premium/VIP members of the service use their
to search for music from the huge database. Additionally, users may also organize tracks into playlists, mark tracks as favorite and listen to songs offline. The web based alternative available on the company's website runs (more…)

However, Michael Robertson, the former CEO of MP3.com who is currently with MP3Tunes says Apple has a much bigger agenda on its list. According to him, Apple 's acquisition of Lala is the first step in moving towards a cloud music service where all of the users' existing library of content would reside online and which can be accessed from anywhere using any of Apple 's devices -
,
,
, Apple TV, etc.
Robertson claims that one of (more…)

available on the Cydia store, which brings a simpler music control alternative on
. It is not exactly an
but a system tweak that will let you change tracks or play music with the volume and power buttons while your iPhone is locked.
With GlovePod installed, you can use your Volume Down button to go to the previous track and use the Volume Up button to play the next track. Pause or play the music by holding the power button down.
With the app (more…)

. Lala has a catalog of over 8 million songs and the service lets its users stream any song for free the first time. Thereafter users need to purchase the song for 10 cents to be able to stream them multiple times. Lala's unique selling proposition is that the entire music library is in the cloud, making hardware memory redundant.
The acquisition has the potential to change the way iTunes works. We could be moving towards a scenario where the (more…)

If you listen to music on your iPhone or iPod Touch while you’re driving, you probably don’t exercise much control over your playlist–skipping and pausing songs without looking down at the screen is almost impossible. Fortunately, there are apps for that.

One of many background and font choices that come with SongVoo.

SongVoo, which released version 1.1 last week, is my latest discovery in this realm. (more…)