Two more streaming music services are joining the ever-growing list of apps that support Chromecast. Now you can plug Google’s cheap media streamer into your TV’s HDMI port, fire up Rhapsody or Napster on your Android phone or tablet, and stream music to your TV. Like most big music streaming services these days, Rhapsody […]
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Buy a Chromebook, get 60 days of Google Play Music All Access
Google’s offering two months of free, on-demand music to customers who pick up select Chromebooks. From now through September 30th, 2014 if you pick up most Chromebook models, you get 60 days to try out Google Play Music All Access, Google’s online music streaming service. All Access subscriptions normally run about $10 per month and […]
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Neil Young’s PonoPlayer media device launching soon for $399
The rise of the MP3 in the 90s may have brought digital music into the internet age, and the launch of the iPod line of media players made it cool to carry around thousands of songs in your pocket (I know it was hardly the first portable MP3 player, but it was certainly the most […]
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$10 adapter turns Chromecast into cheap Sonos competitor
Want to stream internet radio to your home stereo system? You could invest in a Sonos system for $250 or more. Or as GigaOm’s Janko Roettgers discovered, you could spend about $45 and stream online audio to your existing stereo system. All you need is a $35 Google Chromecast and a $10 HDMI to VGA […]
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Spotify sets the music free (on mobile) with ad-supported music on demand
Music-on-demand service Spotify offers a simple promise: Listen to almost any song you want any time you want. But up until now if you’ve wanted to do that on a mobile device you’ve needed to pony up $10 per month for a Premium subscription. Only desktop users could access a free, ad-supported version of Spotify. […]
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Lilbits (12-04-2013): Reversible USB plugs
Since the dawn of time (or at least of USB ports), folks have been struggling to insert plugs the right way up. Odds are you’ve poked the wrong end of a plug into a phone or PC at one point or another while trying to charge your device, connect a flash drive, hook up a […]
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Google Glass adds music features, stereo earbuds
Google Glass is a wearable computer that doesn’t actually do all that much… yet. Thousands of prototypes are in the hands of Glass Explorers (beta testers) who paid $1500 for the privilege, but at this point Google Glass devices are basically high-priced wearable cameras and tools for getting directions, looking up info on the internet, […]
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Xbox Music streams songs on-demand for free on the web (for a fee on mobile devices)
Microsoft is expanding its Xbox Music service in a big way. The company is launching new Android and iOS apps which you can use to stream millions of songs and albums for $10 per month or $100 a year. Or you can listen for free using the Xbox Music website. That’s in addition to the […]
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Qualcomm introduces AllPlay, because we need another wireless media streaming standard
Want to stream music from your smartphone to a set of high quality speakers, but don’t want to use Bluetooth and don’t have an iPhone with AirPlay support? Qualcomm is launching its own wireless audio streaming protocol called AllPlay. You can use it to stream music or other content from supported apps and devices to […]
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Apple introduces iTunes Radio, a Pandora-like internet radio service
Apple is getting into the streaming music service business with the launch of iTunes Radio. It’s a free service that lets you stream music from more than 200 stations. It’s sort Apple’s answer to Pandora. You can access iTunes Radio on a Mac, PC, Apple TV device, or iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad. While the […]