Spotify And Its Rivals: Subscription Music Services In Australia Compared 
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Why Spotify Won't Replace My CD Collection Smartphone speakers aren’t very useful in a quiet room, and they’re basically pointless with any ambient noise. Use an empty vase or jug instead to amplify and direct the noise.
So you’ve spent a lot of time discovering and downloading new music, but your library’s a mess. You’re still using the same player you used five years ago, the files are in 10 different places on your hard drive and your metadata looks like a cyclone hit it. Take some time this weekend to clean up your library once and for all.
Cassette tapes aren’t exactly the highest quality audio, but if you have a few rare tracks that you can’t buy on CD (or a few homemade cassettes you want to back up for posterity), CNET shows how to easily record them to an MP3 file with Audacity.
iOS: The stock music player in iOS is functional, but it definitely has room for improvement, especially in the looks department. Track 8 is an alternative player that takes a few design cues from the Windows 8 Metro UI, and manages to be elegant, attractive and fun to use.
Mac OS X has always lacked in iTunes alternatives, but lately the competition has started to heat up with apps like Enqueue and Clementine. Sonora is a new music player for OS X that focuses on a gorgeous view of your album art, instantaneous search of your library, and queue-based playback.
On countless occasions, you’ve likely said to yourself “I wish I knew how to do ______.” Then, of course, life got in the way and you put it off until you could find the time. Maybe you wanted to become fluent in a language, learn a new instrument, start performing your house repairs, or master a myriad of other skills. With the vast amount of knowledge online, you’re now your only excuse. Here are the top 10 most highly desired skills that you can teach yourself — and should.
They were promised at launch, and at long last, the mobile companion apps for JB Hi-Fi’s NOW music service are available for iOS and Android.
Think you can tell the difference between CD quality music and compressed MP3s? This simple test can prove once and for all whether storing your music in lossless is worth your time (and hard drive space).
So you’ve picked out the perfect pair of headphones, but they sound a little flat and quiet coming from your computer’s crappy built-in audio. Here’s a little gadget that will make those headphones sound much better.
There’s no shortage of subscription music services in Australia already: JB Hi-Fi Now, RaRa.com, Rdio are all active, and Spotify is due to land officially real soon now. Telstra is going to join the party, partnering with streaming service MOG to offer an “unlimited streaming service” drawing on a database of more than 15 million tracks.
