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Identify any song that's playing, anytime.
Automagically!

TuneUp Mobile quickly and accurately identifies any song that it “listens to” with the click of a button! TuneUp Mobile also lets you get lyrics, buy songs from iTunes, share your songs on Facebook and Twitter, and so much more!

Get unlimited, ad-free song identifications on your iPhone or iPad by downloading TuneUp Mobile from the App Store!

Download TuneUp Mobile

System Requirements: TuneUp Mobile is compatible with iPhone and iPad, which must be connected to at least a 3G network or WiFi.

Just read about this (free) app for music, got it. Is it better than SoundHound or Shazam? That's the question. :-) (One Thursday night a few months ago on campus, I liked the music that was on a video being shown at the UofN-Kona campus Gathering. SoundHound almost immediate (on my iPod touch) showed what this pretty obscure music was. :-)

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Sat, 12 Nov 2011 21:45:00 -0800 Apple Email Suggests iTunes Match Launch Nearing http://fotofah.posterous.com/apple-email-suggests-itunes-match-launch-near http://fotofah.posterous.com/apple-email-suggests-itunes-match-launch-near

Apple Email Suggests iTunes Match Launch Nearing

| November 12, 2011 | 1 Comment

 

 

While most Apple enthusiasts expected iTunes Match to launch nearly one month ago, the service has remained in developer beta exclusively. That could change in the near future. Apple sent an important email to developers yesterday, a message that appears to suggest the beta is coming to a close soon.

First announced in June, iTunes Match was supposed to arrive late last month. So far, however, the song matching service has been limited to a select number of app developers.

Today, however, Apple sent the following message to developers.

As we prepare for the launch of iTunes Match, we will be deleting all current iCloud libraries on Saturday, November 12th at 10 AM PST.

Please turn off iTunes Match on all of your computers and iOS devices. On your computer, choose Store > Turn off iTunes Match. On your iOS device, tap Settings > Music, then turn off iTunes Match. On your Apple TV, please choose Music > Turn off iTunes Match.

The songs on your computer should not be affected. As always, please backup regularly and do not delete the music you add to iCloud from your computer.

Best regards,

Apple Developer Program Support

This hopefully means iTunes Match is arriving very soon in the United States, with a worldwide release to follow.

 

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Sat, 13 Aug 2011 17:14:00 -0700 How To Get Your Mobile iTunes Purchases Back on Your Mac (very useful tips) http://fotofah.posterous.com/how-to-get-your-mobile-itunes-purchases-back http://fotofah.posterous.com/how-to-get-your-mobile-itunes-purchases-back
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Mon, 18 Jul 2011 21:59:00 -0700 Valuable add-ons for Spotify http://fotofah.posterous.com/valuable-add-ons-for-spotify http://fotofah.posterous.com/valuable-add-ons-for-spotify
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Sat, 16 Jul 2011 16:39:00 -0700 Spotify Launches in the U.S at Last (very good article) http://fotofah.posterous.com/spotify-launches-in-the-us-at-last-very-good http://fotofah.posterous.com/spotify-launches-in-the-us-at-last-very-good
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Fri, 15 Jul 2011 16:32:00 -0700 I’m amazed! I got a Spotify invitation in about a 1/2 hr. via a link to Coca-Cola. So far, very impressed w/app. http://fotofah.posterous.com/im-amazed-i-got-a-spotify-invitation-in-about http://fotofah.posterous.com/im-amazed-i-got-a-spotify-invitation-in-about

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https://www.spotify.com/us/coca-cola/#

to sign up for an invitation. I found that link via this article: 

http://techland.time.com/2011/07/15/ask-techland-how-do-i-get-a-spotify-invite/#

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Fri, 15 Jul 2011 16:16:00 -0700 Excellent article: How to Get Started with Spotify http://fotofah.posterous.com/excellent-article-how-to-get-started-with-spo http://fotofah.posterous.com/excellent-article-how-to-get-started-with-spo
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Fri, 15 Jul 2011 15:40:00 -0700 How to get a Spotify invitation sooner rather than later http://fotofah.posterous.com/how-to-get-a-spotify-invitation-sooner-rather http://fotofah.posterous.com/how-to-get-a-spotify-invitation-sooner-rather

Have a question for Techland? Send an e-mail to tips at techland dot com and we'll do our best to answer it.

Question: So, this Spotify thing... How do I land myself an invite?

Answer: Music in the cloud — it's a lovely thing.

The newest and shiniest of the services is U.K.-based Spotify, which on Thursday made its debut on U.S. shores. People have understandably been hyped on the service and what it's capable of: You can play your favorite music from any computer selecting from a really large and impressive database of songs. The interface itself is blazingly fast, and it even syncs with Facebook so that you can trade playlists with your friends. Best of all, it's all in the cloud, saving you valuable hard drive space.

(MORE: Five Cool Websites for New Spotify Users)

Now, there are a couple of ways to begin using the service right away if you didn't receive an invite (so don't feel slighted!).

1. You can pony up for one of their listening plans and bypass having to wait for an invite. The Unlimited plan starts at a reasonable $4.99 per month, and a Premium version is available for $9.99 per month, which lets you use the service on your mobile device. When you pay for the service you won't be subjected to any advertisements. Plus, when you consider the fact that a typical album costs around $10 on iTunes or Amazon, then paying $9.99 for access to nearly any song, anywhere sounds like a pretty good deal.

2. Business Insider found a loophole for U.S. visitors that tricks the system into thinking you're a U.K. user (where Spotify is already available to everyone). You'll need a U.K.-based proxy (such as: www.daveproxy.co.uk), then you'll need to enter in this URL to request an invite: (https://www.spotify.com/int/invitation/). Go to Business Insider for a comprehensive walkthrough.

3. Spotify also has a number of partners you can go through to snag an invite. Here's one from Coca-Cola. Social metric service Klout also has their own you can use. You'll be ushered through some extra online paperwork, but it's pretty quick and you should be able to hop aboard. Once you're there, Spotify's a slam dunk.

MORE: Spotify Free Music Service Launches in U.S.

Have a question you'd like answered? Send it to tips at Techland dot com.

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Fri, 15 Jul 2011 10:02:00 -0700 Now I'm waiting for my invitation to *this*: Spotify gets ready to eat your iTunes for lunch http://fotofah.posterous.com/now-im-waiting-for-my-invitation-to-this-spot http://fotofah.posterous.com/now-im-waiting-for-my-invitation-to-this-spot
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The free app for it just showed up on the iTunes Store yesterday. :-) The service has been a big hit in Europe, just now becoming available in the U.S.

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Thu, 07 Jul 2011 17:21:00 -0700 Amazon Goes Unlimited With Cloud Player, Now iPad Friendly http://fotofah.posterous.com/amazon-goes-unlimited-with-cloud-player-now-i http://fotofah.posterous.com/amazon-goes-unlimited-with-cloud-player-now-i
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Fri, 01 Jul 2011 14:56:00 -0700 Sounds like an amazing value for $25 with iTunes Match (replacing with higher quality recordings) http://fotofah.posterous.com/sounds-like-an-amazing-value-for-25-with-itun http://fotofah.posterous.com/sounds-like-an-amazing-value-for-25-with-itun

Apple has a way with ambiguity and false starts lately, such as announcing the end of MobileMe nearly two weeks before it had a document ready to explain the nuance (see “Apple Details Transition from MobileMe to iCloud,” 24 June 2011), and shipping Final Cut Pro X days before it had the answers published to obvious questions from professional customers.

The same is true with iTunes Match, a new subscription service that’s part of iTunes in the Cloud (see “iCloud Rolls In, Extended Forecast Calls for Disruption,” 6 June 2011). With iTunes Match, Apple said, you’ll be able to pay $25 a year to sync all the music you didn’t purchase from the iTunes Store through iCloud to your various computers and iOS devices. Instead of uploading 100 percent of your own music, however, Apple would use a variety of metadata and audio-matching algorithms to check whether a song you owned was the same as one in its 18-million item catalog.

What will happen after the match occurs has been rather confusing, and Apple provided mixed guidance. On its marketing Web site for iCloud, Apple continues to state:

All you have to upload is what iTunes can’t match. Which is much faster than starting from scratch. And all the music iTunes matches plays back at 256-Kbps iTunes Plus quality — even if your original copy was of lower quality

We wondered if Apple was applying digital rights management (DRM) encryption to matched files, since what would otherwise stop someone from paying $25 for one year, matching all their songs, and walking away with higher quality files forever? This information has been available, though, in a place I should have looked: a press release that came out on 6 June 2011 but which I just found out about after Apple changed links to existing releases on the press relations portion of its Web site.

In the press release, Apple makes crystal clear what’s going to happen, something that was missed by many, thanks to the vast amount of news that came out that day. The relevant sentence:

In addition, music not purchased from iTunes can gain the same benefits by using iTunes Match, a service that replaces your music with a 256 kbps AAC DRM-free version if we can match it to the over 18 million songs in the iTunes Store, it makes the matched music available in minutes (instead of weeks to upload your entire music library), and uploads only the small percentage of unmatched music.

There you have it. You’ll be able to upgrade all your ripped files that aren’t up to snuff — avoiding replacing, say, your lossless FLAC versions — with the best Apple and the labels have to offer, for what is essentially a one-time $25 fee. This is the right way to do, but it seems like an awfully nice gift for those of us, like yours truly, who ripped their CDs at lower quality many years ago.

[Note: The first version of this story was written under the assumption that the press release wasn’t posted until 30 June 2011. It has been updated to reflect that the press release was moved to a new URL, which made it appear newly posted. -Glenn]

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Fri, 24 Jun 2011 15:20:00 -0700 The ultimate Disney music mash-up [video] http://fotofah.posterous.com/the-ultimate-disney-music-mash-up-video http://fotofah.posterous.com/the-ultimate-disney-music-mash-up-video

What’s your favorite Disney tune? Hakuna Matata? Part of Your World? Whatever tune from the house of mouse makes you smile most, you will likely get your head grooving on with a mash-up of all the top songs.

Remix master Pogo took a single chord from classics like “The Little Mermaid,” “Aladdin,” and “Sleeping Beauty” and strung them together to create an oddly hypnotic ditty.

This is the video for my track ‘Bloom’, a patchwork of vocals and musical chords from various Disney films. I recorded the harp sample from ‘Sleeping Beauty’, and a series of chords from ‘A.I: Artificial Intelligence’ to form the base of the chorus. The vocals are sampled from Disney films, each of which are illustrated in this video.

 

Via HuffPo.

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Wed, 22 Jun 2011 22:08:55 -0700 Very clever use of animated tape spilling out of cassette in mashup of song "Kiss" http://fotofah.posterous.com/very-clever-use-of-animated-tape-spilling-out http://fotofah.posterous.com/very-clever-use-of-animated-tape-spilling-out http://holykaw.alltop.com/kiss-mashup?tu2=1

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Sun, 19 Jun 2011 16:47:04 -0700 Valuable tip about iTunes (even before iCloud becomes available this Fall) http://fotofah.posterous.com/valuable-tip-about-itunes-even-before-icloud http://fotofah.posterous.com/valuable-tip-about-itunes-even-before-icloud from: http://www.apple.com/icloud/features/

Beta. Available now.
Your past purchases. Available on all your devices.
Now you can download music you’ve previously purchased to all your
devices. When you buy music from iTunes, iCloud stores your purchase
history. So you can see the music you’ve bought — no matter which
device you bought it on. You can access your purchase history from the
iTunes Store on your Mac, PC, iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. And since
you already own that music, you can tap to download your songs or
albums to any of your devices.

Coming This Fall
iTunes Match

If you want all the benefits of iTunes in the Cloud for music you
haven’t purchased from iTunes, iTunes Match is the perfect solution.
It lets you store your entire collection, including music you’ve
ripped from CDs or purchased somewhere other than iTunes. For just
$24.99 a year.2

Here’s how it works: iTunes determines which songs in your collection
are available in the iTunes Store. Any music with a match is
automatically added to your iCloud library for you to listen to
anytime, on any device. Since there are more than 18 million songs in
the iTunes Store, most of your music is probably already in iCloud.
All you have to upload is what iTunes can’t match. Which is much
faster than starting from scratch. And all the music iTunes matches
plays back at 256-Kbps iTunes Plus quality — even if your original
copy was of lower quality.

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Sat, 11 Jun 2011 23:15:00 -0700 Hound, a music app for Apple mobiles, listed in top free apps of 2011, brings up info on musicians by your speaking their name http://fotofah.posterous.com/hound-a-music-app-for-apple-mobiles-listed-in http://fotofah.posterous.com/hound-a-music-app-for-apple-mobiles-listed-in

http://www.pcworld.com/article/228928/best_free_iphone_and_ipad_apps_of_2011_....mod_rel

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Hound allows you to speak the name of an artist, band, or a song tile and bring up a wealth of related information and photos, including tour dates, lyrics, and song previews. It's #7 of 22 apps in this "slideshow."

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Sat, 11 Jun 2011 23:06:00 -0700 in the top 15 Apple mobile apps, Top 100 for the top albums and singles from around the world (just got it free) http://fotofah.posterous.com/in-the-top-15-apple-mobile-apps-top-100-for-t http://fotofah.posterous.com/in-the-top-15-apple-mobile-apps-top-100-for-t

http://www.pcworld.com/article/230129/top_15_iphone_and_ipad_apps_that_cost_9...

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Top 100 lists the top album and single charts from around the world. You can listen to any full songs from the listings, as well as watch the music videos. (It was listed on this site as $.99, but I just found it free in the iTunes Store. :-)

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Sat, 11 Jun 2011 22:36:23 -0700 TuneIn Radio Pro, a universal app for iPad/iPhone, listed as one of 15 best apps for $.99 http://fotofah.posterous.com/tunein-radio-pro-a-universal-app-for-ipadipho http://fotofah.posterous.com/tunein-radio-pro-a-universal-app-for-ipadipho

It's slide #4. 
In addition to the free version, TuneIn Radio Pro allows you to not only listen, but also record from around 40,000 radio stations, along with traditional AM/FM stations. 

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Fri, 10 Jun 2011 13:29:27 -0700 How will iTunes work with iCloud (a very good article from MacWorld) http://fotofah.posterous.com/how-will-itunes-work-with-icloud-a-very-good http://fotofah.posterous.com/how-will-itunes-work-with-icloud-a-very-good http://www.macworld.com/article/160339/2011/06/itunesncloud.html

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Fri, 27 May 2011 11:34:00 -0700 more about Apple's coming cloud music service http://fotofah.posterous.com/more-about-apples-coming-cloud-music-service http://fotofah.posterous.com/more-about-apples-coming-cloud-music-service

http://www.pcworld.com/article/228829/apple_to_mirror_music_libraries_in_clou...

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