Posts Tagged ‘pandora’

Is Midomi Better Than Pandora?

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

I have to admit that I am completely addicted to Pandora, which is why I was intrigued with the newer Midomi iPhone app I recently downloaded. This is a similar music app, but it has different features than Pandora. For instance, you may be wanting to enter an artist into Pandora, like a song that you heard on Grey’s Anatomy the night before. What are you going to do if you can’t think of who sang it, or what the song was called?

Midomi allows you to sing part of the song into your iPhone, and it will try to tell you what it is. You can also speak the name of the song title or artist to find out more about the artist to pinpoint what song you are looking for. You can also type in a song title or artist for a more accurate selection than speaking your search phrase. And the best part of all is that you can hold your iPhone directly at the TV when you’re watching Grey’s Anatomy so that this app can tell you exactly what song it is, and add it to your playlist. Technology at its best, and even better, it is free!

Ringtone Sales Are Dropping!

Monday, September 28th, 2009

iphone-girl-praga-2If you enjoy any type of music for your iPhone ringtone, then you may find it interesting to know that the success of ringtone sales is not as good as it was expected to be. Sources have reported that ringback and ringtone sales have dropped 23% this year, which is odd and disappointing for the mobile phone industry. Many of these changes are because of all of the downloadable applications for the iPhone and other devices. This specifically allows customers to create their own customizations for their device so that they don’t need to purchase their own ringtones.

There are still music apps available for the iPhone, like Slacker and Pandora, which are giving a rise to mobile music. There are even more music mobile applications on the way, some of those being the version of Rhapsody for the iPhone. This is going to be the first on-demand streaming music application available for any mobile phone, and there also will be a similar application available for Europe. Both of these music apps do require monthly subscriptions, which may be a concern to customers, but it is suspected that many mobile phone carriers will decide to include these monthly music subscriptions within their monthly charges.