Spotify Hi-Fi, as far as we know, has all of the features of Spotify Premium, but takes up streaming quality to lossless and give incentives to get vinyl.
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No CeeLo we didn’t know, ya know?
When a video starts circulating, showing a pop star supposedly maimed in his studio while talking on the phone, what might the knee jerk reaction be in the current world of tech? Has there been a certain phone causing problems for people? You know, like exploding problems?
The media market faces some high hurdles in how to get an audience motivated to check out new material. Showing something salacious, like a well known pop star getting hurt on a security camera, is sure to catch a viral thread. You have to get folks reacting and sharing right? What about a whole bunch of free press as people speculate about the nature of the incident? We’re all suddenly forensics experts once we capture something like this on camera.
Free of any context, though this didn’t look like any security video I’d ever seen before (down to the artfully edited static), it’s not surprising so many people jumped to conclusions. Something apparently had happened to CeeLo, but no one could be sure what exactly. There appeared to be some kind of a jolt, shock, small explosion, and then the artist slumped to the floor.
It would take almost nine hours before CeeLo addressed the situation in this reply via Facebook video (linked below).
And there we have it. A “leaked” piece of media designed to gin up some controversy. Twas merely a ruse! CeeLo is so sorry that anyone might have been upset by the video they released to kick off some new media venture which was designed to get people upset. The bandwagon effect of jumping on Samsung was just collateral damage. The main victim here was good taste.
This was tacky Mr. Green, and maybe in the future do us a little better when you shoot some selfie video.
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Apple removed the 3.5mm headphone jack from the iPhone 7. Why remove this standard port for connecting audio gear?Courage.Many people have made comments regarding the age of the phono jack. This is a connector which was originally developed in the late 1870’s. This design is well over a century old, so certainly by now we should have a better way to send audio from a source to speakers right? Apple thinks they have the solution and it basically involved using the same data port the iPhone uses to sync and charge. Certainly this 21st century connection has to provide a higher quality ...
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With the PlayStation VR arriving in time to meet up with a couple of new PlayStation 4 variants, Sony would have done well and good to start planning 360° TV and movie content a long time ago. Alas, we’re hearing today that the Japanese company will likely be licensing content from other multimedia outfits at first.The PlayStation VR will be released on October 13, which gives the company less than a month to ...
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Asus set a high standard for android tablets, and alongside new Transformers, they also revealed the new ZenPad 3S 10. Not the most graceful name, but a sleek slate built around high quality media consumption. This 9.7” screen is housed in an aluminum frame with some tiny bezels bordering that screen, and a 78% screen to body ratio. That 2k display clocks in at a resolution of 2048 x 1536.It’s sleek, it’s shiny, and Asus thinks it’s the right recipe for you music and movie junkies. The ZenPad 3S 10 aims to do battle with Apple and Samsung with a high quality screen ...
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If video killed the radio star a few decades back, virtual reality may soon radically transform if not eradicate the traditional music video experience. Instead of watching a series of images selected by musicians and often adept directors to represent a song’s beat and message on your screen of choice, why not take part in the action from the comfort of your couch?Several years still need to pass before you can just put on a pair of glasses and start grooving with Adam Levine whenever you feel like it, but the first step towards an exciting future where the recording and tech industry ...
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Let’s talk about audio.How our phones handle music and media is often overlooked for more impressive visuals. Playing games or streaming films looks better on camera. Video game performance can be used to rank phone performance, as most apps really don’t tax our gadgets that severely. “Benchmarking” often means looking at artificial test designed to grade CPU and GPU power with scores relative only to how other devices complete the same artificial test scenario.Audio is a bit different though.From listening to music, playing games, or watching films, audio is a ...
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We’re finally seeing a resolution to whatever the problem is affecting some Apple Music subscribers who have had entire music libraries wiped off of their Macs.The story started out last week when blogger James Pinkstone said that he had to get all of his music back through a lower-quality iCloud file or poorly-matched Apple Music equivalents was after he had subscribed to Apple Music on his Mac. The issue has persisted with other users. iMore had later
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Last week, we saw a blogger express his rage against the Apple because he had all of his music stored on his computer deleted after he had subscribed to Apple Music. Being told that “the software is functioning as it’s intended” did not help the matter. iMore‘s Serenity Caldwell went into how Apple Music, by design, could not delete a user’s local music library without user input. Still, the problems kept coming up.The result was that every track had to be ...
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Revenues from streaming music have overtaken revenues from download purchases. And it took so little time for that to happen.In 2012, Apple made $3.9 billion in revenue from iTunes music downloads, the most it’s ever made from them. Since then, download numbers have fallen off: a 16 percent drop-off last year, maybe 25 to 30 percent this year. The tumble could end up with Apple reaping only $600 million from downloads in 2019.The numbers are part of the conversation Apple executives are ...
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On Wednesday, James Pinkstone of Vellum Atlanta penned a blog post about how “Apple Stole My Music. No, Seriously.” In it, Pinkstone details how his subscription to Apple Music had caused 122GB of music — from downloads to his own compositions — to disappear.Signing up for Apple Music, he said, triggered iTunes song matching software and it scanned his entire local library of music files before deleting the whole thing.Where iTunes was able match songs, it gave him an equivalent ...
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I’ll be honest, the song tries too hard to imitate K-pop by using tropes that would better fit different voices. I mean, give me either EXID or Perfume any given day, but don’t fault the six-member act lyrical school for trying.Especially don’t hate on the A Million Miles video production: it’s a fantastic concept that doesn’t necessarily “hack” or ...
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The music industry has had mixed opinions about streaming services. Where there’s blame to be laid for poor artist returns, it’s often been the label that came out looking worse off. And yet, the likes of Spotify continue to proliferate to the point where reactionary services like TIDAL and Apple Music are ...
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You don’t need to be a The Decemberists fan to appreciate the musical necessity of gapless playback. Concept artists (who might or might not get paid well depending on how you buy your music) will usually take great pains painting a story out through multiple, intertwined songs that blend into each other. If you don’t have gapless playback on, there’s a blaring quarter second of awkward silence waiting between those songs instead of a smooth transition.As much as I’m pumping ...
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There’s some speculation going on about the possible evolution of the Google Play Store in time for another Google event — namely, it’s the name of the Google Play Store. It was originally introduced back in 2008 as the Android Market, the name of which was basically a way of conveying a store without saying “store.”
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