The GRAMMY Awards are slated for February 13th, 2010, and one site,MusicIsLifeIsMusicis very excited. The website has just released a new, free app, called MusicMapper, which allows fans worldwide to blend their love of music with the ongoing geolocation craze. The mobile app let users tag a location, attach a song and share a story. Forget the GRAMMY hype, this app is pretty cool, as long as enough users around you sign up too....
Professional music analytics serviceMusicmetricannounced on Friday that it is to open its API to developers, allowing third-parties to utilise musical sentiment data that it has harvested over the past two years. The API will offer access to artist trend data, the company’s text sentiment analyser, artist fan demographics, fan geo-location and also how their brand is being discussed on the web using Web Buzz data. For example, developers will be able to pull artist-based data for the top 1000 artists using simple calls with the API....
There’s a lot of great options for listening to music on your iPad, includingHunterandAweditorium. They are now joined by one of the relatively new additions to the iTunes App store,MusicTandem. Available for a limited time at the discounted price of $0.99, MusicTandem is certainly worth that and more. The iPad app allows you to create personalized music channels based on an artist, tag or genre, much like popular streaming services Pandora and Last....
Have you ever wanted to learn chords but you’ve never got around to it? We may have found you an interesting way to learn how to play chords through the use of the iPad and iPhone. Canadian startupShiverwareis developing applications that assist both aspiring and seasoned musicians to learn and experiment with the major andminor chords, and it aims to fast-track the learning process through its use of customizable layouts....
Here’s an interesting fact for you – people search for ‘lyrics’ online in the US more often than they do for ‘sex’.musiXmatchbrought thisfactto our attention, and upon closer inspection it certainly seems to betrue– indeed, ‘lyrics’ is the most common search term on Google in the US after ‘Facebook’. With that in mind, musiXmatch must be onto a winner as the so-called ‘world’s largest official lyrics database’, and today it has announced dedicated mobile apps foriOSandAndroiddevices....
