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We heard rumblings a few weeks ago that Apple’s streaming service was due to launch this month and now it seems those reports were true. The folks in Cupertino just announced that iTunes Radio will launch on September 18th in tandem with a redesigned iOS 7. The ability to create custom stations based on individual music tastes and personal iTunes libraries will hit Apple devices in a week’s time. Of course, you’ll need a $25-per-year iTunes Match subscription to keep listening to sessions ad-free, otherwise you’ll be prone to regular interruptions of that Yacht Rock station every few minutes.

Check out all the coverage at our iPhone ‘Special Event‘ 2013 event hub!

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Zivix promised wireless freedom to iOS-loving guitarists when it unveiled the JamStik; today, it’s extending that liberty to a much wider range of musicians. Its just-announced PUC peripheral connects most any MIDI instrument to iOS devices, Macs and Windows PCs through a direct WiFi link. The device works with many CoreMIDI-capable apps, and it takes power through either a micro-USB source or a pair of AA batteries. Zivix plans to sell the PUC for $129 in December, although you’ll get a price break if you reserve early — the company is running a crowdfunding campaign that lets early adopters pay between $69 to $99 for a regular model.

Filed under: Cellphones, Peripherals, Tablets

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It wasn’t that long ago that the radio was kind of a big deal. Even a young’un like me is old enough to remember inexpertly dodging commercials for local car dealerships while recording embarrassing mix-tapes. But the times have changed. A lot. Do you ever listen to the radio anymore? Is there any reason to, at all?

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This article was written on June 09, 2007 by CyberNet.

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Search Engines these days make it super simple to find more than just web pages for a given search-term. You can easily find images, videos, shopping results, and more.  One thing that I haven’t seen with any of them is the ability to search for sounds. FindSounds.com is a website I recently came across that’s the perfect place to go on the web when you need to find a sound clip. It’s like the card catalog for sounds with just about any sound imaginable.

FindSounds processes millions of sounds clips, so there’s lots to choose from. This is where their examples come in handy. Where to start?  They offer a whole list full of different examples of sounds that they have broken down into categories like animals, holidays, household, insects, instruments, people, TV and movies, and vehicles. And those are just examples to get you started! If you already have a search term in mind, you can just enter it in.

Where else can you get sounds of a baboon, Barney’s belch (The Simpsons), Elmer Fudd’s laugh, The Three Stooges, Woody the Woodpecker, a submarine, and fireworks all in one location?

Refine Your Search

Just like a typical search engine, you can refine your search. At FindSounds, you’re given the following options:

• File formats– AIFF, AU, or WAVE
• Number of channels – Mono or stereo
• Minimum resolution (8–bit or 16–bit)
• Minimum Sample Rate (8000 Hz up to 44100Hz)
• Maximum File Size (16K up to 2MB)

Performing a search is easy.  All you have to do is enter your search term in the search box, and it will pull up a list of options. I did a search for “waterfall,” and it returned 17 different sounds.

Download and Play the File

Within the results you’ll see two different icons. The first icon looks like this: You’ll click on this icon if you want to download and play the audio file. The next logo looks like this: This icon will bring you to a page with files that sound-like the sound you just searched for. The sounds-like options for my waterfall search returned explosions, drum loop, turbine loop and a creaky swing.

There’s also an option to email the sounds. All you have to do is click on “email this sound” and the recipients will receive a message with the URL of the audio file so that they can listen to it.

Not only do they offer the free search engine for sounds, they also have a program called FindSounds Palette which will search the FindSounds index and help you organize your sounds clips. It costs, but if it sounds interesting, you can get more info on their latest version here.

So, if you’re needing a sound for whatever reason, whether it be a PowerPoint presentation or something different, checkout FindSounds. It’s the best resource for sounds that I’ve come across.

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Gone are the days when you needed a niche media player just to handle hi-res music. Phones and tablets are already starting to support higher bit-rate standards and Sony has just announced that its latest Walkman does too. The Walkman F886 handles WAV, AIFF, FLAC and ALAC playback up to 192KHz/24-bit and sports an “S-Master” digital amplifier that Sony claims has been customized for precisely these sorts of files. The F886 also houses a 4-inch Triluminos (854 x 480) display, which should do slightly more justice to Android 4.1 (with full Google Play access) than last year’s smaller F800. Sony conveniently glosses over the impact that playing 192KHz tracks will have on battery life, and how few of those files will actually fit on the 32GB of onboard storage (with no microSD expansion), but the company does promise 26 hours of playback of more reasonable 96KHz files on a single charge. Just bear in mind that, at around 1GB per hour of 96KHz/24-bitcontent, your playlist may well expire before your battery does. Expect the F886 to arrive in Europe in October for 319 euros or £249.

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