Detroit—car capital of America—has had difficulty recovering from a decade-long economic downturn. Many companies have left the Motor City, outsourcing their manufacturing, assembly, and materials production overseas. Shinola is bucking that trend, manufacturing headphones, luxury watches and watch straps, hand-built bicycles, and high-end leather goods here. (You can read the larger story behind Shinola’s drive to bring manufacturing back to the…
Bowers & Wilkins tends to be fashionably late when it comes to rolling out new wireless products. In the time it took for the company to design the $399 PX Wireless Headphones, companies like Sony, Bose, AKG, and Sennheiser have dropped multiple models of active noise-cancelling models.. This is par for the course for the British manufacturer. Its iconic Zeppelin speakers see infrequent…
Pretty soon Apple Music will receive a major redesign most noticeable difference from the current version will be in appearance. The change will be presented at WWDC 2016 in June. Apple Music will abandon its colorful user interface which currently exists. Instead, Apple will add light and dark design (black and white), but with a “huge” album cover. Covers are…
From Spotify sent a letter to Apple’s lawyer of “causing grave harm to Spotify and its customers.” The letter says that Apple rejected the new version of the app for Spotify’s iOS, citing “rules of business model” and demanded that Spotify use Apple’s billing system if “Spotify wants to use the app to acquire new customers and sell subscriptions.” The…
Similar to how the service curates music, Google Play will recommend podcasts based on what you feel like hearing. After first teasing the feature over five months ago, podcasts are now ready for your ears inside of Google Play Music. Google unveiled the feature Monday by highlighting several groups of related podcasts, similar to how the service handles music curation.…
When Ivor Williams and Alex Rothera were teenagers, they both suffered the loss of friends, through suicide and a car accident. Through their experiences, they understood the need for young people to express themselves in a meaningful way. And they also understood that sometimes words just aren’t enough. Using their background as designers and technologists, Williams and Rothera founded Humane…
Subscription streaming music services are everywhere now, so what can Apple’s potential offering bring to the table? Combining many previous rumors and adding on a few twists, a New York Times report puts Trent Reznor in a “major role” redesigning the Beats Music app into a stronger Spotify rival, with a focus on obtaining content that would be exclusive to…
Subscription streaming music services are everywhere now, so what can Apple’s potential offering bring to the table? Combining many previous rumors and adding on a few twists, a New York Times report puts Trent Reznor in a “major role” redesigning the Beats Music app into a stronger Spotify rival, with a focus on obtaining content that would be exclusive to…
DoubleTwist Music Player Updated With AirPlay And AllPlay Streaming Support … AirPlay DoubleTwist's unique Android music app has been able to stream audio to Apple's AirPlay standard for some time, and to Qualcomm's competing AllPlay WiFi speakers since May. But for some reason, the company's Pandora-style streaming music service …
Online Ear Training Is Transforming The Lives Of Musicians All Over The World Digital Music Basics For more information on how ear training will change the way you think about and play music, take a look at Ear Training HQ's free introductory lesson series on the basics of ear training. EarTrainingHQ.com was founded by Scott Edwards in 2010. Since ……