Counting iphone Music Apps

The powerful features and stylish appearance of Apple's iphone have long been the focus of attention, and its most distinctive built-in ipod music player is one reason many people choose to buy it.

When it comes to ipod music players that you all know well, the iphone's default music player is also a good fit to meet the basic needs of the general public. However, for many music enthusiasts, the built-in ipod function is too simple, and can not meet the needs of music applications.

Apple's App Store is full of apps, some of which are good music apps, and I'm going to pick up some of the most popular, easy-to-use free music apps that make your iphone more powerful for music and entertainment.

Music playback

The iphone music application, the main built-in ipod and QQ music, QQ Music advantage is cross-platform (IOS, Android, S60, Java, etc.), support QQ online music, you can listen to a large number of online songs and download, you can also see the QQ music account in the collection of songs ( QQ sign is required, the disadvantage is that only support Chinese stores, can not record the number of songs to listen to. The advantage of the ipod is that it can record listening times, sync with the itunes Desktop version, and have a good interface, with no online songs.

Both apps have a desktop version, one is itunes, the other is QQ Music Desktop Edition, the desktop version, itunes's advantage is easy to use, but if the music is less, users may feel itunes cumbersome, but if your music up to hundreds of hands, You'll find that itunes is very handy for managing a lot of music. Even without the use of iOS devices, itunes is a good management software for people with a lot of music. QQ Music Desktop version of the most prominent feature is free to download a large number of MP3 music, you can also watch a lot of music MV Video, and itunes most of the music and video are charged. QQ Music collection function can be synchronized to the iphone and other platforms. QQ music is not as big as itunes, but it is not enough to manage a lot of music. The ease of use of itunes is that it's easy to manage music with a fool, and itunes makes your data concise, orderly, and easy to manage.

It may be because of copyright issues, the iOS platform has not been listening to Google music applications, and the Yahoo Audio application of the software Yahoo on the iOS platform also makes a few.

IPod

The ipod is the iphone's built-in music playback application, the ipod's music playback interface is simple and gorgeous, the biggest feature is the classification is clear, it can be based on songs, performers, albums, style, etc. to classify, support sync music to the itunes desktop client, the iphone is the most widely used music applications.

QQ Music

Mobile phone version of the QQ music is Tencent for mobile phone users to develop a music playback software. Support local and online music playback, with playback, download, album pictures and lyrics and other functions, login QQ can sync computer QQ music collection songs.

The main functions of mobile phone QQ music include: High quality music playback, album picture and full screen lyrics display, massive online music resources audition and downloading, and provide skin changing function. This may be due to intellectual property protection, which is only open to Chinese users.

Music recognition

Many people may often come across situations where a good song is heard on the radio or on TV, but no one knows what the song is called or who sings it. Music recognition software can tell you the name of the song, the name of the album, and the author. The iphone's music recognition application is mainly Shazam and soundhound two applications, in the music recognition experience, personally feel soundhound than Shazam have more accurate matching rate, if the use of Shazam can not accurately find a song, Then may as well use SoundHound to try.

Shazam

Shazam is a music recognition software, the iphone on the playing music, Shazam can be sampled through the phone's microphone, probably just take more than 10 seconds of audio source (song samples), and then through the network to the sound source of the band data sent to the Shazam company's server, through rapid analysis and recognition , will get the relevant information about this music, such as song name, lead singer, album name, publisher and other data, returned to Shazam software display.

SoundHound

SoundHound is a popular music recognition software for both iOS and Android. It can know the name of the song by identifying the sound. Unlike Shazam, the free version of the soundhound can be searched indefinitely, but the free version will have ads, and the paid version has no advertising.

Music Radio

The network music radio station has moved the traditional broadcasting station to the Internet, the network radio station does not need to occupy the satellite frequency band and the frequency resources, its broadcast effect is affected by the network bandwidth.

English Songs of the network radio mainly: Pandora,last.fm,yahoo Music, which contrasts as follows:

1 Pandora, need the United States agent, English songs are very good, but the repetition rate is high, the songs between the ads, every skip a song almost all have ads, one months can be free to listen to 40 hours.

2 last.fm, need the United States agent, no agent can visit, but after listening to a few will charge. According to the record recommended songs are also more accurate, both Chinese and English songs are many, but the radio stability is poor, often collapse.

3 Yahoo Music, do not need the U.S. agent, more similar to the traditional musical radio, no music recommendation function.

Therefore, for listening to English songs, individuals feel the preferred Pandora.

Pandora

Pandora is the most popular software for online music services in the United States, where users can listen to quality music on Pandora, even on slow-running networks.

As soon as a user enters one of his favorite songs or a singer, Pandora creates a radio station for the user, playing music of similar style. Listening to the process, users can also choose to "like", "do not like" or "I am tired of hearing" to make this station more in line with their own taste.

Pandora has only English songs and has blocked access to users outside the United States.

Last.fm

Last.fm is the world's largest social music platform, through the user's music listening to provide personalized recommendations, provide customized radio and other services. As long as users install a client software Scrobbler on their computers, the music that users listen to on players like itunes will be faithfully recorded. Last.fm will analyze which songs play the most number of times, and then automatically add data to the user's personal music homepage, recommending new music that users might like.

The iphone version of Last.fm is a music radio player that allows users to play their own historical music or LASTFM recommended music stations on the Internet.

Yahoo! Music

Yahoo! Music is a free musical radio application based on the IPhone and Android, made by Yahoo and CBS, which allows users to listen to hundreds of radio stations in dozens of genres that allow users to hear their favorite music anytime, anywhere.

For Chinese songs, the main music stations have watercress FM and shrimp music, I personally think that Watercress FM very simple and easy to use, and the shrimp music is very professional, shrimp than watercress FM Professional place lies in:

1 music recording software, supporting the recording of itunes, foobar2000, Windows MediaPlayer, Winamp, chin listening music players in the music playing;

2 MP3 songs can be downloaded;

3) Much like Last.fm, more professional;

4 User-sorted collection can be directly tested;

5 mobile phone side shrimp support off-line mode.

Watercress FM

Watercress FM is Douban launched a similar last.fm social online music service, users can use the browser in the Watercress FM listening to personalized music, mobile clients support the iphone and Android mobile phones.

Watercress FM interface is very concise, very consistent with the aesthetic of literary and artistic youth, the main interface only "Discard, love, jump song" Three functions, but also will display the album and song name, the system by judging the user in the playback of the action, to recommend the user he may be interested in the track.

Watercress Radio does not have client software Scrobbler, so the songs that users listen to on the client cannot be automatically recorded.

Shrimp Music

Shrimp is another social online music service similar to Last.fm, unlike watercress, the Shrimp bowl itself is a professional music website, so it can provide higher quality music, support music client recording software, mobile version support iphone and Android handset, support users to download music songs. Can manage the songs that have been offline, so that users can listen to music when there is no network.

Shrimp Station Interface is more professional, in addition to song control, but also has a share, collection, grading, off-line download and other functions, more suitable for professional users.

Radio

Whether Last.fm, Pandora radio or watercress are not really broadcasting radio broadcasts, but the iphone doesn't support the built-in radios as Nokia does, so it is still necessary to use the Internet radio to listen to real radio programs on the iphone and ipad.

The iphone does not have an FM radio module, but there are already a number of internet radio applications that can simulate FM radios and listen to hundreds of of radio stations.

TuneIn Radio

TuneIn Radio is a network of radio applications, including more than 40,000 radio stations at home and abroad to listen to support all the mainstream mobile phone systems.

TuneIn Radio can confirm the location of the user by GPS, list the local radio stations, and users can also search for radio stations around the world by geographical, language, program type or by keyword.

TuneIn Radio has a free version and a fee version, free version in addition to advertising, but also the function of recording, the fee version can be the user's favorite program recorded.

TuneIn Radio Support WiFi, 3G and GPRS network, if the user is using 3G or GPRS network to listen, should pay attention to flow control, due to the application of more consumption of traffic, it is best to use WiFi to listen.

iHeartRadio

iHeartRadio collected more than 750 radio stations from 150 cities in the United States, which were divided into music, news and conversation, sports three categories, the sound quality is generally better than the standard FM radio, and the standard FM radio compared to less advertising.

iHeartRadio when you listen to the radio, the songs you hear will be automatically recorded, the album cover below the album name and the name of the song, click on the album cover you can view the lyrics or buy this song in itunes.

Music video

Vevo

Vevo is a music video site that is jointly launched by Universal Music and Sony, offering a large number of genuine music videos, Vevo claiming to be the most popular music video program site.

Vevo website music video is rich and high quality, but Vevo currently only for the United States and Canadian users to provide services, Chinese users can not access the site, and the iphone version of the Vevo is only in the United States and Canada's application store launched, seems to forget to restrict User IP, the current Chinese users installed, You can watch high quality music videos via the iphone version of Vevo, which is probably just a temporary loophole, of course.

In addition to taking photos, chatting, and lbs, listening to music has become one of the most popular features of the iphone, and these common music apps can make your iphone truly a music phone, making the iphone's hardware the ultimate.