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Best Websites For Listening to Music at Work
Music can help you fight through a case of the Mondays and amp you up for tedious tasks, but not every workplace is designed for letting the beat build over speakers. If you don't have iTunes set up on your work computer, but your work allows streaming, join the 84 percent of geeksugar readers who use Internet radio. These discreet work-friendly sites will let you get your jam on for free (or a minimal fee if you want access to certain songs).
Are Music Subscriptions a Good Idea?
I had a good guffaw this morning with my co-workers over the old Columbia House deal from back in the day when you'd get 10 CDs for a penny, and agreed to buy a certain amount of CDs for a certain amount of time. At 14, the deal seemed like I was getting away with something crazy, but I realized later that I was in my first music subscription. It was also my last music subscription.
Geek Tip: 3 Ways to Make Your Friends the Party DJ
Every good host knows you can't throw a party without good music, starting with crafting a great playlist. Once you have that, though, people still might have song requests, so let them be the DJ without having to keep getting on your playlist to change the song. Here are some fun ways to create a jukebox using the gadgets you may already have:
- Download the free Fluid Tunes (pictured above) for the easiest and most fun iTunes DJ — it uses your computer's camera so that all your guests need to do is gesture — literally, wave their hands — to change the song.
What's Your Online Resource For Paid, Digital Music?
That fallout was quick: Billboard reports that due to last week's raise in iTunes prices for popular songs to $1.29, many of those popular songs have dropped in download ranking (that's one way to get them back down to 99 cents!).
Personally, the only time I download single songs from iTunes is for popular songs (you know, the ones you can't get out of your head and need to have now), but I'm annoyed by the price jump, so I may go somewhere else. Considering the majority of you said you bought music online the last time I asked, tell me, where do you go for your paid music downloads?
Geek Tip: Use TuneUp to Clean Up Your iTunes
If you have an iTunes library that's missing a few beats (you know, like artist info, track names, and album cover art), then you must head over to TuneUp. 'Cause not only is it a drag to spend hours loading up your iTunes library with all your vintage (read: oh-so-early millennium) CDs that you just can't let go of (or albums that you've had burned to discs), but it's even worse to have to go back and enter all the track names and artist info. Now, TuneUp does all that work for you.
Download of the Day: TuneLyrics
It's pretty embarrassing to find out you've been singing the wrong lyrics to a song (marmoset instead of 'mama says', for example), but the download TuneLyrics can save you.
As a companion to iTunes, TuneLyrics populates the words to each song you listen to as the songs change in a separate window.
If it happens to not know the lyrics to a particular track, it lets you know and suggests a Google Search, with a button just for that presented to you.
Do You Still Own CDs, or Have You Digitized?
Times, they are a changin'. I used to shop for the most stylish CD shelves, now the only storage I look for for music is on a hard drive. I don't miss having to find a creative way to keep all my plastic boxes, but I do miss shopping in a record store for new music.Are You Impressed by iTunes Genius?
At last week's Let's Rock event, a little thing Steve announced was overshadowed by stuff like new iPods and a fix-all iPhone update: Genius! Part of the iTunes 8 update, Genius is a fun new feature for iTunes and iPods, which, I admit, didn't impress me at all when I was first hearing about it.
How silly I was!
Music Site Gives You Money Back for Buying Songs? Whaa?
I'm a little ashamed to tell you how much I spend on music every month — iTunes and my credit card are now BFFs. So if there were a way for me to get some money back just for buying songs, you know I'd be totally down with that. Enter Popcuts – a new music site that rewards you every time another customer buys the same song you did.
Do You Download Media From Questionable Sources?
The debate about downloading movies and music from certain file-sharing sites becomes hairier every year. Making files available is not always illegal, but we all know the music industry has sued people who download pirated songs and that the film industry does not take stealing movies lightly.
I have friends who are die-hard iTunes fanatics and have never even looked at other download sites, and I have friends who are all about file sharing instead of file shopping.
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