Core Music & Podcasts
Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. You can use Audacity to record live audio, convert tapes and records, edit sound files, change the speed or pitch of a recording and much more.
Spotify is a freemium music streaming service providing digital rights management-restricted content from record labels including Sony, EMI, Warner Music Group and Universal.
Music can be browsed by artist, album, genre, playlist, or record label, as well as by direct searches. On computers, a link allows the listener to purchase selected material via partner retailers.
Spotify music streaming is available on all mobile devices and on desktop computers for unlimited durations. Features like offline listening and ad-free playback are only available for Premium subscribers of the service.
Deezer is an Internet-based music streaming service. It allows users to listen to music content from record labels including EMI, Sony, Universal Music Group, and Warner Music Group on various devices online or offline. Created in Paris, France, Deezer currently has 40 million licensed tracks[4] in its library, with over 30,000 radio channels, 16 million monthly active users, and 6 million paid subscribers as of 29 Jan 2017. The service is available for Web, Android, FireOS, macOS, BlackBerry, iOS, Windows Phone and Symbian.
SoundCloud lets you share music fast & easily. The platform takes the daily hassle out of receiving, sending & distributing music for artists, record labels & other music professionals.
We are profoundly passionate about music. It’s a force that’s driven and inspired us from day one. So we’ve set out to make it better. To bring you more music than ever with access to millions of songs. To give you personal recommendations from people who know and love music. To deepen the connection between artists and fans. To reimagine radio with a 24/7, global station.
This is Apple Music. And it’s just the beginning.
Individual plans are $9.99 a month. And family plans are just $14.99 a month. Even without a membership, you can listen to Beats 1 radio, see what artists are posting on Connect, and hear our ad-supported stations.
Edit, mix, record, and restore audio. Audition is a comprehensive toolset that includes multitrack, waveform, and spectral display for creating, mixing, editing, and restoring audio content. This powerful audio workstation is designed to accelerate video production workflows and audio finishing — and deliver a polished mix with pristine sound.
FL Studio (originally known as FruityLoops) is a full-featured Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) offering a complete range of professional tools for everything from audio editing and beat creation to advanced arrangement, composition, mixing and mastering. Sporting a fast, high-tech UI that runs at native speed, the DAW defaults to a relatively simple drum pattern sequencing interface while more advanced features are just a click or keypress away.
One of its most notable and distinguishing features, FL Studio is available through a lifetime license where a one-time purchase grants users continued updates forever after. The license is available across several editions providing access to an increasing number of bundled plugins with the mid-range tiers covering everything needed for pro quality music. The top tier includes the complete line of high-end synthesizers and effects developed by Image-line.
FL Studio is also highly recognized for several other features like its intuitive and responsive piano roll sequencer, fully vector-based UI with multi-touch support that extends the already adept mixer with full screen scaling and the ability to easily adjust multiple track levels simultaneously when mixing and mastering. The DAW also includes a unique visualizer plugin to create ultra-high resolution, 60fps music videos using an easy template-based approach powered by a highly configurable, modular visual system capable of producing practically any visualization imaginable.
Live is software for creating musical ideas, turning them into finished songs, and even taking them onto the stage.
With two views - the classic Arrangement View, where musical ideas are laid out along a timeline, and the unique Session View, where you can improvise and quickly experiment with musical ideas - Live is a fast, fun, intuitive way to make music.
What's new: The latest version of Live comes with everything from workflow enhancements to audio improvements. Simpler has been completely rebuilt with a new interface, warping, slicing, and new analog-modeled filters, which have also been added to Sampler, Operator, and Auto Filter. Improved waveforms and meters give you a better look at the details of your music. And a new technology called Link works under the hood, allowing you to instantly play in perfect sync with multiple instances of Live as well as a growing number of iOS apps.
Create: No matter how you start your music, Live offers a workflow that will help you get going. Record audio or MIDI from any source. Mix and match loops and samples from any tempo. Work with a huge range of included sounds, instruments, and effects.
Finish: Live helps you get from a collection of musical ideas to a finished song. With extensive editing workflows, great sounding EQs and compressors, great looking meters and waveforms, and fast, flexible exporting options, Live gives you everything you need to get music done.
Perform: Take your music out of the studio and onto the stage, with Live’s powerful performance workflows. Since Live handles keeping everything in time, you can play hardware or software instruments, trigger loops, process audio from other musicians, and focus on making music.
Bandcamp helps artists sell their music and merch directly to their fans, and helps fans discover new music and directly support those who make it.
Stay up to date with all the latest podcasts (or netcasts if you're Leo) with one easy to use app. Simply add your favourite podcasts, and you'll be able to stream or download new episodes as they become available.
Play without subscribing Committing to things is so 2015. Browse podcasts and hit play on episodes that look interesting, no strings attached.
Episode search Trying to find your favorite guest on that one amazing episode? Looking for your pet topic but confronted with hundreds of shows to sift through? Episode search to the rescue!
Up Next syncing Have you built the perfect list of shows to play on your phone? Wouldn't it be nice if they were all there, ready to go, on your PC at work? How about the tablet sitting on your coffee table? Pocket Casts 7 has you covered.
Improved discovery With so many new podcasts launching daily, how do you find your next obsession? We've invested heavily in curation to make discovery easy. Our best algorithms teamed up with our best people to bring you the best podcasts.
Streamlined experience Everything is easier in Pocket Casts 7. We've spent months fine-tuning the app so that it gets out of the way and lets you seamlessly enjoy your favorite podcasts.
So much more… New archiving features. Playback effects while streaming. Enhanced Apple Watch support. Siri Shortcuts. Listening history. Syncing improvements. Season and episode numbering support. Almost everything that could be improved has been to take Pocket Casts 7 to the next level.
YouTube Music allows you to easily find what you’re looking for and discover new music. Get playlists and recommendations served to you based on your context, tastes, and what’s trending around you.
A new music streaming service from YouTube ? This is a completely reimagined music service with official releases from your favorite artists.
Find the music you want ? Easily find the albums, singles, live performances, covers and remixes you’re looking for. ? Don’t know a song’s name? Just search the lyrics or describe it.
Discover new music ? Get music recommendations based on taste, location, and time of day. ? Use “The Hotlist” to keep up with what’s trending.
Uninterrupted listening with Music Premium ? Listen ad-free ? Don’t worry about your music stopping when you lock your screen or use other apps. ? Download your favorites or let us do it for you by enabling Offline Mixtape.
The New iHeartRadio brings you a best-in-class customizable digital listening experience that combines the best of both worlds to deliver everything you want in one free, fully-integrated service: More than 850 of the nation's most popular live broadcast and digital-only radio stations from 150 U.S. cities, plus user-created Custom Stations.
The Best of Live Radio iHeartRadio features commercial-free digital only stations; specialized artist stations; non-music radio and national programming including 24/7 Comedy Radio, Rock Nation, Fox Sports Radio, AT40 with Ryan Seacrest, Elvis Duran and Z100 and celebrity-hosted channels from Christina Aguilera, Eagles, Maroon 5 and more.
With TuneIn Radio Mobile, your mobile device becomes the radio. Take your stations and programs with you wherever you go. Listen to Pearl Jam on KROQ while working out; listen to This American Life on NPR while on a road trip. Whether you're at the gym or driving across the country, you'll never lose reception.
With a TuneIn Radio Mobile application in all of the major mobile application stores, great radio is only a click away.
Radio has never sounded better with TuneIn Radio Home. Let classic Country stream through your TV's surround sound system with WSM650. Let ESPN call the game, play by play, from your kitchen's countertop stereo. Your home listening is no longer limited to the location of your house. From Detroit to Dubai, bring the world into your living room.
TuneIn Radio Home capability comes built into a wide range of TV's and stereo systems. If you have a modern TV, chances are you're TuneIn ready.
Last.fm is a music community website that offers personalized internet radio, using a recommendation system called "Audioscrobbler" to build a detailed profile of users based on their music tastes and interests. The service installs plugins into the user's media player and automatically profiles the songs he/she listens to. The service will offer recommendations and a 'personal' radio station based on the user's listening patterns.
As of early 2009 last.fm charges 3 EUR/month subscription fee to allow listening to music on their website. Paid features include:
- Unlimited radio streaming
- Ad-free browsing and streaming
- Recent visitors to your profile
- A prestigious black icon
- Access to the VIP zone with more charts, graphs and the latest from the Last.fm Labs
Pandora Radio is a free (ad-supported) internet radio founded in 2000. Using the Music Genome Project, over 400 attributes of songs are analyzed in order to personalize radio stations from music you like.
For $4.99/month you can upgrade to Pandora One and enhance your experience with these new features:
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High Quality Streaming: When listening on the web, experience 192K bits per second audio.
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Pandora One Desktop: Listen to Pandora from a dedicated desktop application; no need to keep a browser window open. Control playback from the Windows taskbar or the Macintosh dock. Get popup alerts when a new song starts to play.
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No Ads: Pandora One is completely free of any sort of advertising: no audio ads, no visual ads. Its just you and your music.
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Personalize Your Look: Surround the Pandora player with one of 8 custom "skins" that will make the look of Pandora as personalized as the music.
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Mini Player: Minimize Pandora One into the smallest possible browser window. This makes it easy for the web version of Pandora to live side by side with other web sites and applications.
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Skip All Day Long: With the standard ad supported version of Pandora youre limited to 12 total skips per day. With Pandora One youll be able to skip as many times per day as youd like (note you will still be limited, thanks to licensing constraints, to six skips per hour).
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Extended Interaction Timeout: Listen for up to 5 hours in a row without interacting with Pandora at all. Just turn it on and let it go. Every time you interact the timer is reset so just one click around lunchtime can get you through an entire workday.
[Pandora is only available in the U.S., Australia and New Zealand.]
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With Podcast Addict, manage all your audio & video Podcasts, Radio on Demand as well as your YouTube channels and RSS News feeds from your Android device. Subscribe to your favorite podcasts using the embedded networks (5by5, ABC, AfterBuzz TV, BBC, CNN, Carolla Digital, ESPN, FrogPants, LibriVox, Nerdist, NPR, Revision3, Smodcast, Ted Talks, Twit, NPO, ...). You can also import your podcasts subscriptions from an iTunes or Google Reader OPML file, or use the embedded search engine to browse Podcasts Addict (200K podcasts) or iTunes databases (250K podcasts).
Finally you can also copy and paste your podcasts RSS feeds in order to subscribe.
Features:
• Android Wear notifications & controls (Android 4.3+ only) • chromecast support • minimal permission requirement • manage Audio & Video podcasts, iTunes podcasts, Soundcloud url, Youtube Channels & RSS News feeds • standalone player (MP3, local files, streaming) • support both download & streaming • automatic update • automatic download • advanced automatic deletion features (trash, ...) • advanced Custom Settings per Podcast • automatic podcasts Flattr • podcast & episode search engine (use both Podcast Addict database & iTunes database) • audio & video player with resume, shuffle, loop, ... • variable playback speed, volume boost and skip silence (available for Android 4.1+) • audio & video playlist • customizable widgets • full app backup / restore • themes • lock screen widgets (Android 4.0+ only) • sleep timer • both list & grid mode display (podcasts & episodes) • authenticated feeds • virtual podcasts (handle a folder content as a podcast) • trending, new, TOP 250 most successful podcasts • Browse podcasts by category • OPML import (iTunes, Google Reader, ...) • OPML export • Full screen reading mode for RSS news feed • Podcasts suggestions • comments download feature • episode & podcast sharing • episode search engine • pebble support (player notifications) • support for Nova Launcher TeslaUnread plugin
Discogs is a crowdsourced music database and marketplace. Discover music, buy and sell music with collectors in the Marketplace in all physical formats.
Shop for Music & Add to Your Collection • Browse available music from sellers across the world. • Complete purchases directly through the app using Discogs Payments or PayPal. • Music app purchases are routed through secure servers to encrypt and safeguard personal information.
Sell Music From Your Collection • List items for sale on the Discogs Marketplace. • Track inventory of for sale items. • Respond to inquiries from other Discogs users.
Catalog & Organize Your Collection • Add and remove items from your Discogs Collection on the go. • Check to see if you already own a record before you purchase it. • Use your phone's camera to search for a release by the barcode. • See how many items are in your Wantlist and Collection. • Monitor the low, median, and high estimated values of your Collection.
View Marketplace Pricing • Utilize Discogs Marketplace price-range and sales history for vinyl, CD and cassette at your fingertips. • Know when you're striking gold with an unbeatable find by referencing marketplace data while crate digging. • Never pay more than a record is worth by comparing prices with historical sales data. • View your Collection's estimated value.
Add to your Wantlist • Track your grail by adding it to your Wantlist. • Get notifications on price changes and new listings on items you are tracking. • Remove items from your Wantlist and add them to your Collection after purchasing.
Manage your Account • Edit profile information for your personal Discogs account. • Monitor your buyer and seller ratings. • Reference your items for sale. • Keep track of incoming messages, send new messages, and organize your inbox.
Discover New Music • Search the database and discover new music from anywhere. • Search VinylHub for record stores all over the world.
Rate Your Music is a community-built music and film database where you can rate, review, catalog and discover new music and films as well as participate in contributing to the database itself.
- Research music and film, cross-referenced by artist, label, location, and genre.
- Charts: browse the charts to find the best (or worst) releases by any criteria, such as genre, location, release type, and more.
If you create a RYM account (which is free), you can also do the following:
- Rate, review, catalog and tag your music and film collection.
- Create your own user profile, including the ability to upload pictures, build a friends list and socialize via private messages and your shoutbox.
- Receive automatic recommendations for new music and films based on your personal ratings.
- Be notified of upcoming releases by your favorite artists.
- Create your own lists about music, films or anything else that comes to mind.
- Participate in the RYM community on the RYM forums.
- Maintain your concert attendance.
- Contribute to an always-growing public database by adding new information and improving existing data.
Rate Your Music is in the process of being rewritten and renamed, also planning to split its film section and adding video games, the three being named Sonemic (music), Cinemos (film), and Glitchwave (video games).
AllMusic is a comprehensive and in-depth resource for finding out more about the albums, bands, musicians and songs you love.
On AllMusic you'll find:
- In-Depth Information about your favorite albums, musicians and songs
- Reviews of upcoming and classic albums including new releases
- Ratings and picks of the recommended albums and songs within an artist's discography or tracks on an album
- Staff picks of the albums our editors are into right now
- Sound samples and streaming links to listen to the music
- Personalized recommendations of albums that match your tastes
MusicBrainz is a community music metadatabase that attempts to create a comprehensive music information site. You can use the MusicBrainz data either by browsing this web site, or you can access the data from a client program — for example, a CD player program can use MusicBrainz to identify CDs and provide information about the CD, about the artist or about related information. You can also use the MusicBrainz Tagger to automatically identify and clean up the metadata tags in your digital music collections.
MusicBrainz is a user-maintained open community that collects, and makes available to the public, music metadata in the form of a relational database. MusicBrainz was initially created by Robert Kaye in response to Gracenote taking over the free CDDB project and charging people for access to the (what up till that point had been free) data. The MusicBrainz community has grown considerably since then, and the project has expanded its scope from being a CDDB replacement to a true "Wikipedia for music".
