Music

What is HDMI? (home theater 101)

by ben patterson March 27, 2012 home video

Mention Apple TV, Roku, the Xbox 360, or any garden-variety HDTV set, and the term “HDMI” will inevitably pop up—especially once the subject turns to plugging one home-video gizmo into another.

Tagged as: glossary, HDMI

CES 2012: 9 nifty new products to watch

by ben patterson January 11, 2012 accessories

From a razor-thin 55-inch HDTV to a wireless, Twitter-savvy baby scale (no, really), check out nine new gadgets that are making waves this year at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

Tagged as: CES

Bad iPhone battery life while shuffling music with iTunes Match? (reader mail)

by ben patterson January 10, 2012 how-tos

Karen writes: iTunes Match on the iPhone works great for me when I’m near my home Wi-Fi network, but I’m having big trouble the moment I go out into the world. My iPhone’s battery just goes kaput whem I’m on 3G, especially when I’m shuffling songs. Is iTunes Match putting a strain on my battery life? [...]

Tagged as: iCloud, iPhone, iTunes Match, Reader mail

Downcast: a must-have iPhone app for podcast listeners

by ben patterson November 30, 2011 applications

Here’s my question about the iPhone’s built-in podcast manager: why, oh why, won’t it check your podcast subscriptions for new episodes and download them automatically, just like Google’s stellar Podcasts app for Android phones can? Sure, you can tap the “Get More Episodes” link, but that yanks you out of the iPhone’s music app and [...]

Tagged as: Downcast, iPhone, podcasts

How to upload and stream your tunes with Google Music

by ben patterson November 17, 2011 how-tos

Now open to anyone in the U.S., Google Music will let you upload up to 20,000 songs to your own digital music “locker” and stream your tunes on your Android phone or tablet, or even over the web. Unlike Apple’s new iTunes Match service, Google Music can’t scan the songs on your hard drive and [...]

Tagged as: Android, Google, Google Music

Google launches music store, offers free online storage for 20,000 songs

by ben patterson November 16, 2011 music

Well, Google is finally in the business of selling music, with the search giant unveiling its new music store Wednesday as well as promising free storage of up to 20,000 tracks in your own, online music “locker.” Very nice, but some of your favorite artists might be missing from Google’s just-launched music store, and you’ll [...]

Tagged as: android market, Google, Google Music

How to stream all your music from iCloud with iTunes Match

by ben patterson November 14, 2011 how-tos

What if you could listen to your entire music library—you know, all those hundreds, or even thousands, of MP3 music files on your PC or Mac—whenever and wherever you wanted to? Sure, you could transfer your songs to your iPhone or iPad, but not everyone has enough room on their handsets for all those tunes—especially [...]

Tagged as: iCloud, iPad, iPhone, itunes

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