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Aug

6

2010

Pandora having spat with Froyo, problems processing audio

by Dustin Karnes
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We’ve gotten a ton of notices from our readers out there that Froyo and Pandora aren’t exactly playing nice, and this writer can confirm the issue. I’ve got an HTC Hero running CyanogenMod 6 (Froyo based custom ROM), and the Pandora quality has been awful. Others on different handsets and carriers, with official and unofficial [...]

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Aug

4

2010

Rock out with your phone out: Official Lollapalooza app for Android

by Dustin Karnes
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What do this weekend and Chicago have in common? Lollapalooza, baby. With artists like Soundgarden (Heck yea!), Green Day, The Strokes and Social Distortion in the line up, it’s sure to be a good time. But now, it looks like your little green man (not that one) will be able to help you out in [...]

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Aug

4

2010

Rdio music app available to general public

by Dustin Karnes
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Rdio (pronounced “arh-dee-oh”), a music subscription service made to compete with the likes of Rhapsody and MOG, has been available by invite only for Android users… until now, that is. As of yesterday, Rdio made it’s Android app available to the general public. The app focuses heavily on integrating your media choices into social networking, [...]

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Aug

2

2010

Carphone Warehouse Bringing “Music Anywhere” to the Samsung Galaxy Europa

by Chris Moor
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A continuation of the current move to cloud based solutions, “Music Anywhere” is introduced as a cloud-based locker system for your music. This application differs from the likes of Winamp Remote, or Grooveshark in that this app does not stream music from your desktop, upload your collection to an online database, or simply stream from [...]

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Jul

29

2010

The Top Media Players Apps for Android – A TalkAndroid Search

by Chris Moor
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TalkAndroid.com is on a quest. With such a vast and varied catalog of apps, it would be neigh impossible to use every single app out there. So, when the mission comes to find the very best Top 5 media players out there the very first thing I do is head on over to the Market [...]

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Jul

28

2010

How to get AllShare working on Galaxy S phones

by Chris Moor
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. . . Have you had problems getting AllShare to work on your Galaxy S phone? Unfortunately it’s not just a matter of right clicking and clicking “share” and there aren’t any good sources available on the web for this either, hence this guide was necessary. So let’s get started shall we? Oh, this guide [...]

Jul

26

2010

Thumbplay now offering offline music caching

by Dustin Karnes
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We all love our music. It needs to be everywhere we are, all the time. We also love services that playback music from the cloud. But, what if your travels take you somewhere without adequate coverage? Should your life’s soundtrack be put on hold, simply because your carrier wasn’t thoughtful enough to put a cell phone tower [...]

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Jul

22

2010

doubleTwist Gets an Update

by Chris Moor
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If you haven’t heard of doubleTwist before, it is a iTunes-eske program for your computer that is said to cure iTunes envy. The program features an Android Market extension, Podcast searches, a Music Store hosted by Amazon MP3, and pretty much everything else you can find in iTunes. The main difference is that this application [...]

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