Items tagged with music
Ever looked at your smartphone charging port and thought: "Hey, that'd make a great mouthpiece for a digital flute of some kind?" Well, an Italian company has done one better by creating a USB-C-powered MIDI controller with a mouthpiece users can blow into. When paired with a companion app, your mobile device turns...
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Nintendo fans hoping for a new console will need to continue waiting patiently, as the company’s latest announcement still has nothing to do with its next generation Switch. Although the wait should be a little more bearable with the company's latest project, Nintendo Music, which is an app available now for iOS and...
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Cities are often a symphony of sounds. From the clanging of construction sites, the blaring of horns on the streets, or the music people listen to in public spaces. It’s that last aspect that became the focus for Bop Spotter, created by developer Riley Walz. It uses a phone with Shazam running, alongside a microphone...
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It feels like we've been talking about Spotify's lossless streaming option for years, because we have. The leader in streaming music has gotten by with the same compressed tunes since its inception, even as some competitors have started offering lossless music. A new report claims Spotify's higher-quality subscription...
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Bang & Olufsen is bringing back the beats and vibes of the 90s with its fully restored and reimagined Beosystem 9000c 6-disc CD changer music system. The limited edition retro CD player is paired up with Bang & Olufsen’s modern Beolab 28 speakers, giving the system a powerful punch at the price of just one kidney on...
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Alphabeats is aiming to leverage the power of music-driven neurofeedback to elevate mental performance, focus, and recovery of athletes. The company’s newest flagship neurotech wearable for athletes is currently available for preorder.
Sports fans have all seen their favorite athletes entering the arena before a...
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Amazon isn’t going to let Spotify have all the glory in the AI playlist generating space, as the company officially launches its own AI playlist effort dubbed Maestro. The new feature is now available to Amazon Music customers across all tiers and plans in the United States participating in the beta program on iOS and...
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Adobe Research is about to provide creators with a new way to create music with its Project Music GenAI Control. The new AI-infused software is an early-stage generative AI music generator and editing tool that allows creators the ability to generate music from text prompts, and then fine tune the audio to their...
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Several Android users who installed the latest Spotify beta (version 8.9.2.169) report that the app keeps crashing on their devices. One only need look on X (formerly Twitter) to see a rash of complaints related to the issue, the timing of which coincides with the calendar flipping over to 2024. Hopefully the crashes...
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At the height of the pandemic in February 2021, Spotify shared a scrap of good news when it announced Spotify HiFi. The new subscription was supposed to feature lossless music, something that many of Spotify's competitors have added with great fanfare. However, Spotify HiFi never materialized. A new report now claims...
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Artificial intelligence mostly isn't, at least not yet. Still, the artificial neural networks that humans have created are capable of some very impressive things, and you've probably seen plenty of examples of text and images created by computers that are extremely cool. What about music, though? There have been...
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Sure, your phone plays music, but does it play music well? Those with audiophile leanings might want to take note of Sony's latest portable music players, the Walkman NW-ZX707 (above) and NW-A306. The product naming is pretty nebulous, and the feature sets are maybe a bit esoteric. They have FTCAP3 high-polymer...
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How do you like to listen to music? Is it through streaming service apps such as Spotify, YouTube Music, or even Pandora? When thinking about your streaming service, does the interface efficiency and intuitiveness of use come to mind frequently? Would you pay extra for a slightly better UI experience on specific...
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If you have existed on the internet in the past 11 years and are as much of a geek as our two and a half hosts, then you likely have heard of Floppotron. If you haven't heard of Floppotron then you are in for a real treat, for its creator, Paweł Zadrożniak, has posted up the latest upgrade to date: Floppotron...
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Do you remember your first portable MP3 player? We're not talking about disc-reading MP3 players either. We're talking about on-the-device storage MP3-file music players. Here at Hot Hardware, most of us are old enough to remember having at least one SD-card-only MP3 players at one point.
For most people in the...
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These days, video game audio is so complex that it's actually simple. Computer processors and audio hardware are advanced to the point that everything can simply be multi-channel digital audio. Game sound effects and music tracks are just digital samples; digitized recordings of real-world sounds. Digitized audio has...
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Hardware marketed at audiophiles is nothing new. Digital-to-analog converters, high-fidelity sound cards, excellent headphones or speakers, and powerful amplifiers all contribute to an enjoyable listening experience. Unfortunately, some hardware manufacturers will try to sell you on the need for something that has no...
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When it comes to music, delivering high-quality sound to your ears can make listening experience much more immersive. If you decide to stream music from Spotify, that quality can vary from song to song depending on several factors. To combat this, Spotify will begin offering Premium subscribers the option to upgrade...
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Depending on where you live in the world, you may find yourself in the midst of a stay-at-home order. Even if one does not exist in your area, health professionals are strongly urging the public at large to practice social distancing in order to stop the spread of the Coronavirus. If you find yourself going stir crazy...
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Good news, music lovers—Spotify is testing a streaming music subscription plan for couples, roommates, best friends, and any other package of two that you can think of (so long as they share the same address). The discounted plan essentially means that a couple does not have to choose between sharing a single plan or...
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Video may have killed the radio star, as The Buggles so famously put it nearly four decades ago, but what the band couldn't have predicted at the time is that digital streaming would murder physical media. Best Buy is now an accomplice—the retail electronics chain recently told music suppliers that it was pulling CDs from its stores this month.
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About a week ago we talked a bit about the rumors floating around that Spotify was working on a refreshed version of its mobile app and free tier service. New details on the revamped service have turned up and according to the rumors some users are already seeing a new UI and features. Among the new features in the...
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