Anenome
01-30-2011, 08:50 PM
I've written previously about where the music industry may go as it continually integrates with technology, focusing specifically on automatic Guitar Hero integration, among other things.
It's happening.
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/01/every-song-can-be-an-app/
How and Why Every Song Can Be an App
Music should be heard and not seen, a friend once said.
But what happens when music players have large color screens, sophisticated controls, processors, and connections to the internet? Music becomes an app — or at least it can, where such an approach makes sense.
The app’s potential for music distribution became apparent, to this reporter anyway, in August ’08 (http://www.wired.com/listening_post/2008/08/guitar-hero-for/) – about a month after Tapulous launched its “Guitar Hero for iPhone” game, Tap Tap Revenge. That game delivers music to smartphones that is playable in two senses of the word: as a song, and as a game.
But turning a song into a videogame is just one of the myriad ways in which apps can deliver music (http://evolver.fm/about/).
From Moto Boy (http://motoboy.se/) manager Martin Thörnqvist (http://www.songsiwish.com/) comes word about a new tool for artists and labels that can turn any song into a smartphone app called Songpier (http://songpier.com/) (still in private beta).
Songpier (no affiliation with Thornqvist other than that it recently started following him on Twitter) targets musicians, labels, music promoters, and even music reviewers — anyone who would have cause to wrap a song in an app and distribute it to any smartphone that supports HTML5 (http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/03/html5-for-ipad-wont-kill-flash-but-could-change-apps/).
“No coding,” promises (http://songpier.com/site/tour) Songpier. But despite the lack of sophistication required to create one of these mobile web apps, “every song instantly becomes an app on all new mobile devices”...
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It's happening.
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/01/every-song-can-be-an-app/
How and Why Every Song Can Be an App
Music should be heard and not seen, a friend once said.
But what happens when music players have large color screens, sophisticated controls, processors, and connections to the internet? Music becomes an app — or at least it can, where such an approach makes sense.
The app’s potential for music distribution became apparent, to this reporter anyway, in August ’08 (http://www.wired.com/listening_post/2008/08/guitar-hero-for/) – about a month after Tapulous launched its “Guitar Hero for iPhone” game, Tap Tap Revenge. That game delivers music to smartphones that is playable in two senses of the word: as a song, and as a game.
But turning a song into a videogame is just one of the myriad ways in which apps can deliver music (http://evolver.fm/about/).
From Moto Boy (http://motoboy.se/) manager Martin Thörnqvist (http://www.songsiwish.com/) comes word about a new tool for artists and labels that can turn any song into a smartphone app called Songpier (http://songpier.com/) (still in private beta).
Songpier (no affiliation with Thornqvist other than that it recently started following him on Twitter) targets musicians, labels, music promoters, and even music reviewers — anyone who would have cause to wrap a song in an app and distribute it to any smartphone that supports HTML5 (http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/03/html5-for-ipad-wont-kill-flash-but-could-change-apps/).
“No coding,” promises (http://songpier.com/site/tour) Songpier. But despite the lack of sophistication required to create one of these mobile web apps, “every song instantly becomes an app on all new mobile devices”...
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