Subscription-based music service Rhapsody has dropped its price from $15 per month to $10 per month. That means you can listen to any of the 9 million songs available in the Rhapsody library on any supported device for $10 per month, which is a heck of a lot cheaper than buying and downloading each song … Read more
When I reviewed the Zune HD portable media player a few months ago, I was impressed with the user interface and overall audio and video playback performance. But I was a bit disappointed with the limited video codec support. Now Microsoft is doing that. Engadget and Gizmodo are both reporting that Microsoft will offer updated … Read more
The online music site Spotify is huge in Europe and offers users the ability to listen to millions of songs on their computers or smartphones. They’ve been working on bringing the service to the US, and now Bloomberg reports that Spotify could be available in the States by the third quarter of this year. In … Read more
Apple’s iTunes does a great job of synchronizing your music, video, and photo collections with a smartphone — provided that smartphone is an Apple iPhone. But what if you have an Android phone but still use iTunes to organize your media on your computer? It turns out it’s still pretty easy to synchronize your iTunes … Read more
It’s no secret that Mari and I are both huge Slacker fans. In fact, we’ll go ahead and proclaim Slacker as the official music service of Zatz Not Funny. I subscribe to their Internet Radio Plus service ($48/yr), which enables unlimited skips and kills all advertising. AND caching of stations for offline iPhone playback… to … Read more
Last week, we reported on Canonical’s moves to incorporate a music store into Ubuntu. Ahead of Ubuntu’s April release of “Lucid Lynx”, Canonical have officially announced the public beta of their desktop music store. The key to the music store’s infrastructure is Canonical’s cloud storage solution, “Ubuntu One”. Purchased MP3’s are initially sent from 7digital to … Read more
MortPlayer is one my favorite applications for Windows Mobile. This audio player offers a ton of features including excellent playlist and bookmark managers, an equalizer, multiple shuffle modes, and more customization settings than virtually any other mobile application I’ve ever used. Now the developer is turning his attention to Android, with beta versions of three … Read more
The Sonos S5 ($399) was one of my 2009 boxes of the year. With good reason. Sonos is a sophisticated but easy to implement and easy to operate whole-home audio solution. Featuring content from both our local music collections and various online sources. The S5 broke new ground in the Sonos lineup by integrating rich, … Read more