Mobile Music

In a recent article on the status of the could music battle between Amazon, Google and Apple, I tendered my opinion that victory wouldn’t be based on chronological order, but on a litany of factors. I also touched on the fact that Apple has a storied history of entering the market later than competitors with [...]

SoundTracking is becoming more and more popular and, of course, that means that it’s becoming more and more attractive to investors — to the point that it has just received some $4.75 million in venture capital.

Join Baratunde Thurston (left), The Onion’s Director of Digital and author of How to Be Black, for an entertaining look at creative social media campaigns in our Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting February 16. Other speakers include Morin Oluwole (Facebook), Tim Devane (bitly), and SocialTimes' writer Devon Glenn.   Register now.

According to a recent SEC filing, music app developer Smule has raised $12M in another round of funding after having previously raised $13.5. Best known for its popular mobile apps such as the I am T-Pain autotune app and Ocarina, Smule will aggressively pursue the mobile social music market by continuing to innovate on its existing free-to-play apps. More after the jump.

Have you ever seen a DJ playing a set while walking down the street? I haven’t. But the wonders of modern technology continue to astound us by taking impossible (and maybe even unnecessary) scenarios and translating them to reality. Hence the adaptation of Turntable.fm, the social music service that digitizes DJing, to an iPhone app [...]

Continued efforts toward translating community-based music fandom to the digital age are always welcome — even though the process can be made tricky by the fact that this type of work only succeeds when many users are on board with the same software. Frenzapp Music, like so many others, hopes to solve this common problem [...]

The latest version (v1.1) of Winamp for Android is out with even more free music, additional language support and SHOUTcast (internet radio stream) support for Android (2.1 OS and above). AOL introduced Winamp 1.0 for Android a few months ago and it has turned out to be a huge success with over 4 million users. [...]

In a recent article on the status of the could music battle between Amazon, Google and Apple, I tendered my opinion that victory wouldn’t be based on chronological order, but on a litany of factors. I also touched on the fact that Apple has a storied history of entering the market later than competitors with [...]

TuneWiki understands that to survive in the highly competitive world of social media it’s essential to evolve. That’s why the free music app — already doing quite well for itself on Android-based devices — is looking to expand even further through its new update. The initial gimmick behind TuneWiki was its ability to supply kareoke-style [...]

I don’t care if you’re a war buff or what sport you’re into, you’re going to be hard pressed to find a more back and forth battle than that for supremacy of the cloud music market right now. Increasing definitive headlines all proved to be premature: “Amazon wins cloud war”, “Google and Apple will acquire [...]

The mixtape is a dying art but 8tracks, initially contributing to the compilation revival through their website, is continuing to bear the brightest torch for the practice. The launch of 8tracks Radio, a mobile version of the website’s (fantastic) concept, furthers the company’s efforts by bringing the joy and discovery inherent in the form to [...]

It’s always a welcome surprise to see marketing schemes that provide equal benefits to both corporations and audiences. That’s why we’re happy to report the latest news from social music darling Grooveshark — a rewards program that lets users upgrade their listening experience without having to spend as much as a penny.