Pay forever music, ugh. Spotify vs iTunes is a comparison I never tired of making. When you pay $10 a month for Spotify et al, you get convenience with the big assumptions being you’re a.) always connected and b.) not …

If you are planning a night of cathinone fueled insanity, this is the wrong music. It probably isn’t the stuff of tantric ecstasy either. However, if you prefer pleasure with a classical accompaniment — Berlioz, Strauss, Ravel, Bach, Verdi et …

Everyone knows you can save big by chord cutting. Double down on savings by paying less for the set top box you need to make the transition to a post cable, post satellite life — get a refurbished Roku XD …

People love streaming radio service Pandora. For a subset of fans, folks that may recorded a song or two off terrestrial radio to cassette tape back in the day, PandoraJam is the perfect complement, a stand-alone player that also records, …

Everybody knows that kids today, young and old, get their music from YouTube. Here is a new way to enjoy the embarrassment of riches that is YouTube music, while stripping away all of the things that get in the way …

Browser plugins are dead? Though WMV isn’t nearly as common as it once was, there is still a need for QuickTime playback component to view that content. Flip4Mac scratches that itch and there’s a new OS X Mountain Lion compatible …

iTunes visualizers are closest most folks will ever come to experiencing synesthesia (with or) without pharmacological assistance. And, whether you are putting on a party or just want to kick back and enjoy some eye candy, iTunes and SoundSpectrum’s excellent …

Pop quiz! What song was playing when Steve Jobs took the stage at 2005 Macworld San Francisco? Or, how about the track backing the 2012 crop of new iPods? Many if not most of the songs used by Apple in …

OS X Mountain Lion shipped with Safari 6, a whole number update that is mostly better. However, one important feature — the Activity Window — is gone, which some used to download HTML5 and Flash video found on YouTube, Vimeo …

Free, cheap, unique feature sets — there is no single let alone best way to listen to Pandora, the world’s best-loved music streaming service. Stuff running in a browser window sucks and here are a half dozen Pandora desktop apps …