So you’re Android phone’s built-in speaker to listen to music while you eat your breakfast, and as you head out the door you pop in some headphones so you can keep the music going during your commute to work. There’s just one problem: You forgot that the volume was cranked all the way up while you were using the speaker, and now that you’re using… Read more »

Google Music launched today, and while the service is obviously aimed square at the company’s own products, it happens to play nice with other devices as well. Since the Google Music Web app is intended to work nicely in Google Chrome you can bet it’ll work in other Webkit-based browsers as well — including Mobile Safari on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. There’s not… Read more »

NPR has released an update for the NPR Music app which lets you stream audio to an Apple TV if you’re using an iPhone oriPod touch running iOS 4.3 with AirPlay support. But the bigger news this week is that NPR Music 2.7 supports live event coverage, with live video streams of concerts from the SXSW music festival in Austin, Texas starting today. You’ll need… Read more »

Say you’re walking down a city street with an iPhone in hand. You can fire up dozens of apps that will let you find a sandwich shop, historic marker, coupon, or other item. And now you can also listen to people tell stories tied to the place where you’re standing, thanks to a new app called Broadcastr. The app lets anyone create an audio recording… Read more »

You know what probably would have been a no-brainer for Microsoft? Building a Windows Media Center remote control app into Windows Phone 7, allowing you to use your phone to control audio and video playback on your PC. But Microsoft doesn’t really seem to be paying much attention to Windows Media Center these days, so I’m not really surprised the company didn’t bother baking it… Read more »

Virtual Recorder is a voice recorder with a rather ugly user interface, but a very attractive set of features. Basically, hit the red button to start a recording and the blue stop button to finish. You can play the most recent recording by hitting the green play/pause button, and find earlier recordings using the yellow “open” button. But once you get through the basic functions,… Read more »

SoundCloud is an audio sharing service that works sort of like YouTube for audio. You can upload and share audio clips and discovery sounds shared by other users, including music performances, speeches, bird calls… whatever. A few weeks ago the company launched an iOS app that lets you record, share, and discover audio on a mobile device. Now SoundCloud is also available for Android. Unfortunately,… Read more »

SoundCloud is sort of a YouTube for audio, making it easy for anyone to record, upload, and share music, spoken word, or other audio with the world. Once your file is online, you can share the link with anyone or embed an audio widget on a web site. SoundCloud also offers a mobile app for the iPhone which lets you search for audio from other… Read more »

I’ve been using BeyondPod to manage my audio podcasts since shortly after picking up my Google Nexus One earlier this year. While the app can also download and play video podcasts, I didn’t really pay much attention to that feature because the video features were kind of clunky and because I don’t really make time to watch video podcasts all that often. That may change… Read more »

AudioPress is a new iOS app that lets you create audio playlists with podcasts and internet radio stations. There’s also a category for “AudioArticles,” with the latest news stories from The Associated Press and other news sources — but there’s currently no content available in the AudioArticles directory. As a streaming podcast client, AudioPress works pretty well and couldn’t be much easier to set up…. Read more »