iPhone Guru

One of the coolest ways to make music is with Cosmovox for the iPhone. Cosmovox actually turns the movement of your iPhone into electronic music. It is a very good example of another theramin emulator for the iPhone as this time around the tones are created by the movement of the entire device. You can choose from many different frequencies and my favorite thus far is Mystic. You simply can’t ever go wrong with music apps, they hit the spot every time. All that I ask as your trusty iPhone Guru is that you be careful swinging your iPhone around being a 21st century Mozart! Your cat will flip out and scratch you if you take this app too far so keep it mellow, eh! Cosmovox is available now from the App Store for only $1.99.

iKoto for iPhone emulates a traditional Japanese harp and it sounds suprisingly true to it’s real life counterpart, the Koto. The Koto was introduced to Japan in the 7th century from China. iKoto brings 13 pitch-adjusted strings to your fingertips and is played by plucking the strings. It reminds me of an oriental style autoharp. iKoto for iPhone is available now for only 99 cents on the app store and delivers a great musical instrument in your pocket.

Are you looking to discover new music without listening to commercials or having to pay money? Pandora app for iPhone is a good choice to meet your needs. Everyone loves music and Pandora breaks music down for you scientifically by analyzing the elements of music via the Music Genome Project. The Music Genome project is a database containing descriptions of practically every aspect of musical compositions; harmonic tones and dry recording sounds and beats made for dancing, etc. Pandora requests a search query and will ask you what song or artist you enjoy listening to and you simply type in your response and Pandora does the rest. Within seconds great new music will be streaming to your iPhone even over the Edge cellular data network. Pandora creates a “station” you may share with others or keep private that plays only music similar to the song or artist you’ve searched for. You can extend your musical discovery experience onto your desktop or portable computer by surfing to www.pandora.com and from there you can play previously created stations from your iPhone or make new stations. The experience is incredible and every track links to the iTunes music store should you wish to support the artist by purchasing their music online. Pandora for iPhone will help you find fresh new music you will love without commercial interruptions.

The Theramin was invented in 1919 by Leon Theramin and was the first musical instrument which could be played without being touched. The Theramin is played by waving ones hand over it and the end result sounds like a martian invasion. Theraminator for iPhone recreates the spooky sounds that helped to set the mood for classic soundtracks in sci-fi horror films such as The Day the Earth Stood Still. Features include adjusting pitch and delay and double and triple finger gestures also adjust the frequency. Theraminator is available now from the App Store for $2.99.

The ability to rate songs is a great feature for rediscovering hidden gems buried in your iPhone playlists. The procedure to rank songs in the iPod is rather simple really. On your iPhone tap iPod and then start playing any song. Tap on the cover art of the song or on the default cover art musical note icon while the song is playing and the cover art will flip over, exposing the album playlist. Above the playlist you will see a white star. Just tap the star and drag it to the right and you have just ranked your music using your iPhone. Happy stars!

SeeqPod Playable Search crawls the web indexing MP3 files hidden on web servers around the world and delivers tappable search engine result pages that stream your sought-after melody to your iPhone for free over the web. No sign ups. No hidden fees. No copyright infringement. Just the music you want streaming to your iPhone wirelessly over the internet. Toss in a few friends to impress and you’ve got yourself an instant dance party!

HOW TO STREAM AUDIO OVER THE INTERNET TO THE iPHONE WITH SEEQPOD:
1.) Tap the Safari Web Browser from the home screen on your iPhone.
2.) Navigate to http://www.seeqpod.com
3.) Tap the Search button under the SeeqPod logo and a search entry field will appear at the top of the screen.
4.) Tap into the search entry field and the keyboard appears.
5.) Type in the name of a song or artist you would like to hear and tap the blue Search button in the top right corner.
6.)The Results page appears and if your requested song or artist is available you may begin streaming it to the iPhone by tapping the track listing.
7.) The track begins streaming to Quicktime Player in Safari and begins playing once it has attained an audio buffer.
8.) Tap the Pause icon in the audio control box to pause the track or tap the blue Done button in the top left corner to exit Quicktime Player and go back to Safari.
9.) You are now viewing the URL of our recently played audio file in Safari and if you look in the bottom right hand corner of the screen you should see a blue Play button which will play your song again if you tap it.
10.) Click the white plus symbol in the top left corner of the screen next to the address bar to bookmark the location of that song we just played. Now all you have to do is tap the newly added bookmark entry within your bookmarks menu anytime we want to hear that particular song in the future. By using bookmarks to stream your favorite songs to your iPhone over the internet rather than syncing the physical audio file onto the iPhone through iTunes you can conserve precious free memory capacity for your favorite episodes of The Office.

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