Music

It's a special treat this week and we actually had Paul IN the studio, just like old times. He was in Seattle anyway- it's not like he came to Seattle just to visit Ping. He likes us, but let's not go overboard. Build has been built  [04:10] Xbox music streams  [11:59] XP going…

At the South by Southwest Interactive Conferece in Austin, Texas this past week, Mashery hosted a contest, Circus Mashimus to encourage people to create mashup applications using their customers' web services.  I learned about it a week before and decided to create an…

Last week I visited JamBase.com, a San Francisco-based website that is all about finding and going to live music performances.  I met Andy and his colleauges at the Bandwidth Conference this summer and after hearing about their new API, I just had to try doing a mashup with it using Popfly…

SurfaceDJ from Vectorform was one of my favorite applications shown at PDC.  Not only does it involve Multi-touch, Surface and music; but it is an example of a new form of collaborative application.  Joe Engalan and Markus Sheldon build up the music, keep it…

The mp3 search engine SeeqPod have just announced their plans to release a Windows Mobile application due to arrive on Wednesday, December 17th. The new application will lets Windows Mobile users search and stream music over the web on their mobile phones and devices. According to the company,…

Sometimes, it can be depressing to look through your music collection. Sure, you’ve built up a decent library of your favourites, but there’s so much music out there, you can never hope to listen to it all. Or indeed, afford to buy it all.  But what if I told you that you could boost your…

This is one of those things you just have to hear to believe: a YouTube user going by username of  "SomethingUnreal" put together a mix of Windows sounds to actually make some pretty decent music. The sounds used were taken from Windows 98 and Windows XP and are mostly what I would…

Writing music used to take years of experience, but not anymore. With MySong, a Microsoft Research Project, you can sing into a microphone and the software will automatically generates instrumental accompaniment for your song. As you sing, MySong chooses chords to match your melody, so you can write…

The subscription service model is one that appeals to a niche crowd of music aficionados as it allows for all-you-can eat access to huge catalogs of music for one low monthly fee. The only problem with this model is that when it comes to favorite songs, people will often want to “keep” them - that…

On December 1st, MSN will host the launch of a new digital music service, (RED)Wire, which will help raise money for HIV/AIDS in Africa. The site, hosted at http://red.msn.com will include world premieres from Coldplay, Death Cab for Cutie, Dixie Chicks, Jay-Z, John Legend, U2, and others.…