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Monday, May 16, 2016

Another must have music lovers app - SHAZAM

Shazam(established in 2008) for iPhone 2.0 appeared on 10 July 2008, with the dispatch of Apple's App Store. The free application streamlined the administration by empowering the client to dispatch iTunes and purchase the tune straightforwardly if the client was on a Wi-Fi association (at the time, iTunes did not permit music downloads more than 3G). It was likewise conceivable to dispatch the iPhone YouTube application, if a video was accessible.


Shazam dispatched on the Android stage in October 2008. The Android application associated with Amazon's MP3 store rather than iTunes.

Close by the iOS 3 upgrade in July 2009, Shazam redesigned its application to incorporate various new components: denoting the tag with GPS arranges; sending labels to others as 'postcards', empowering them to purchase the melody; and Twitter mix.

The application dispatched on the Windows Mobile Marketplace in October 2009 as a freemium offering, with the principal arrival of Shazam Encore. The free form was presently constrained to five labels for each month: clients ordinarily labeled ten melodies for every month. Reprise, evaluated at USD4.69, included a few components, for example, tune notoriety diagrams and suggestions. Reprise initially showed up for iPhone in November 2009.

By December 2009, Shazam was downloaded 10 million times in 150 nations crosswise over 350 portable administrators. Around eight percent of clients obtained a track after it was distinguished by the administration. Its prosperity prompted a financing round from Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers in October 2009. In January 2011, Apple declared that Shazam was the fourth most downloaded free application ever on the App Store, while rival SoundHound had the top paid iPad application.

Early adopters of the free application are still permitted boundless labeling.

GetJar, an application store for Android, Blackberry and Symbian, included Shazam in November 2010.

In January 2011, Shazam and Spotify declared an organization for iOS and Android to help clients recognize music with Shazam and listen to tracks through Spotify.

While Shazam as of now had Facebook and Twitter offer catches, more profound Facebook incorporation was discharged in March 2011. With Shazam Friends clients can see what their Facebook companions have labeled, listen to the tracks and purchase them.

With Shazam 5.0, discharged in April 2012, the application starts "tuning in" when it is dispatched and can take as meager as one second to recognize media. Notwithstanding music, the application can recognize TV projects and advertisements, in the event that they are Shazam-empowered.

In August 2012, Shazam reported the administration had been utilized to label five billion tunes, TV appears and promotions. Likewise, Shazam asserted to have more than 225 million clients crosswise over 200 countries.A month later, the administration guaranteed to have more than 250 million clients with 2 million dynamic clients for every week. The Shazam application as of now has more than 100 million month to month dynamic clients and has been utilized on more than 500 million cell phones. In October 2014, Shazam reported its innovation has been utilized to recognize 15 billion tunes.

The Shazam application was recorded among Techland's 50 Best Android Applications for 2013.

In August 2014, Shazam reported there would be no more overhauls for Shazam(RED) after 7 August. Current clients are encouraged to change to the free form with labels exchanged and promotions evacuated (for nothing).

Apple's dispatch of iOS 8 in September 2014 accompanied the consistent incorporation of Shazam into Apple's canny individual right hand Siri capacity.

In October 2014, Shazam presented form 8.0 of the application, which highlights an as good as ever News sustain, and also an area including Shazam diagrams and an "investigate" alternative which gives client a chance to investigate Shazamed tracks close them and around the globe.

Monday, April 18, 2016

The Hungarian Suicide Song - Gloomy Sunday



Gloomy Sunday", otherwise called the "Hungarian Suicide Song", is a song made by Hungarian piano player and writer Rezső Seress and distributed in 1933. 



The first verses were titled Vége a világnak (The world is completion) and were about gloom created by war, finishing in a tranquil petition to God about individuals' wrongdoings. Artist László Jávor composed his own particular verses to the melody, titled Szomorú vasárnap (Sad Sunday), in which the hero needs to submit suicide taking after his beau's demise. The last verses wound up turning out to be more prominent while the previous were basically overlooked. The melody was initially recorded in Hungarian by Pál Kalmár in 1935. 

"Gloomy Sunday" was initially recorded in English by Hal Kemp in 1936, with verses by Sam M. Lewis, and was recorded that year by Paul Robeson, with verses by Desmond Carter. It turned out to be surely understood all through a significant part of the English-talking world after the arrival of an adaptation by Billie Holiday in 1941. Lewis' verses alluded to suicide, and the record mark portrayed it as the "Hungarian Suicide Song". There is a repeating urban legend which asserts that numerous individuals have submitted suicide while listening to this melody. 

The tune was created by Rezső Seress while living in Paris, trying to wind up built up as a musician in late 1932. The first musical arrangement was a piano song in C-minor, with the verses being sung over it. Seress composed the melody at the season of the Great Depression and expanding rightist impact in the author's local Hungary, in spite of the fact that sources contrast with regards to the degree to whether his tune was persuaded by individual despairing as opposed to worries about the eventual fate of the world. The premise of Seress' verses is a censure to the shameful acts of man, with a petition to God to God to show benevolence toward the advanced world and the general population who execute insidious. There are a few proposals that the expressions of "Vége a világnak" were truth be told not composed until World War II itself and not copyrighted until 1946. 

Seress at first experienced issues finding a distributer, basically because of the abnormally despairing nature of the tune. One potential distributer expressed: 

" It is not that the tune is dismal, there is a kind of appalling convincing misery about it. I don't think it would benefit anybody in any way to hear a tune like that.


The melody was distributed as sheet music in late 1933, with verses by artist László Jávor, who was enlivened by a late separation with his life partner. As per most sources, Jávor revised the verses after the melody's first production, in spite of the fact that he is at times portrayed as the first author of its words. His verses contained no political suppositions, yet rather were a mourn for the demise of a cherished and a promise to meet with the darling again in life following death. This adaptation of the tune turned into the best known, and most later rewritings are based around lost affection.

The English translation of the song can be read as:


"On a sad Sunday with a hundred white flowers,
I was waiting for you, my dear, with a church prayer,
That dream-chasing Sunday morning,
The chariot of my sadness returned without you.

Ever since then, Sundays are always sad,
tears are my drink, and sorrow is my bread...
Sad Sunday.


Last Sunday, my dear, please come along,
There will even be priest, coffin, catafalque, hearse-cloth.
Even then flowers will be awaiting you, flowers and coffin.
Under blossoming (flowering in Hungarian) trees my journey shall be the last.

My eyes will be open, so that I can see you one more time,
Do not be afraid of my eyes as I am blessing you even in my death...
Last Sunday.""On a sad Sunday with a hundred white flowers,
I was waiting for you, my dear, with a church prayer,
That dream-chasing Sunday morning,
The chariot of my sadness returned without you.

Ever since then, Sundays are always sad,
tears are my drink, and sorrow is my bread...
Sad Sunday.

Last Sunday, my dear, please come along,
There will even be priest, coffin, catafalque, hearse-cloth.
Even then flowers will be awaiting you, flowers and coffin.
Under blossoming (flowering in Hungarian) trees my journey shall be the last.

My eyes will be open, so that I can see you one more time,
Do not be afraid of my eyes as I am blessing you even in my death...
Last Sunday."

Ever wondered how many Awards/Honors does Taylor Swift hold currently?!


American Singer-lyricist and performing artist Taylor Swift has gotten 258 awards from 551 nominations. She is the beneficiary of 10 Grammy Awards, 19 American Music Awards, 22 Billboard Music Awards, 11 Country Music Association Awards, 8 Academy of Country Music Awards, 10 People's Choice Awards, and 25 Teen Choice Awards. She is likewise a seven-time champ of the Nashville Songwriters Association International Award for Songwriter/Artist of the Year. As a musician, she has been regarded by the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Quick holds five records in the Guinness World Records book. 


Quick marked a record manage Big Machine Records in 2005 and discharged her eponymous presentation collection in 2006, which was selected for an Academy of Country Music Award. At the 50th Annual Grammy Awards, she earned a Best New Artist selection. Her second collection Fearless (2008) delivered five singles, including "Love Story", "White Horse", and the MTV Video Music Award for Best Female Video-winning tune "You Belong with Me". Quick was therefore designated for eight classes at the 52nd Grammy Awards, and won four of them, including Album of the Year. Likewise winning awards, for example, the American Music Country Award, Country Music Association, and Academy of Country Music Award for Album of the Year, Fearless turned into the most honored blue grass collection.

Quick was granted the American Music Award for Artist of the Year in 2009. The next year, she was recorded in Time 100, a yearly rundown of the 100 most powerful individuals. Her third collection Speak Now (2010) won Favorite Country Album at the American Music Awards of 2011, and holds the record for Fastest Selling Digital Album by a Female Artist in Guinness World Records. Its single "Signify" won two Grammy Awards. In late 2011, Swift contributed two unique melodies to The Hunger Games soundtrack collection, including "Safe and Sound", which was honored the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media. Her fourth collection Red (2012) was designated for the Juno Award and Grammy Award for Album of the Year.

In 2014, Swift won the Billboard Woman of the Year for the second time in the wake of being respected in 2011. Her 2014 collection—the pop-engaged 1989—won her three Grammy Awards, including her second Album of the Year honor. In 2015, the IFPI Global Recording Artist Award introduced her the Global Recording Artist grant, and the Billboard Music Awards proclaimed her the beneficiary of eight honors. At the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards, Swift won four awards, including Video of the Year for "Animosity". As a major aspect of the 64th yearly BMI Pop Awards, Swift will be regarded with the Taylor Swift Award. This is the second time BMI has given a recompense in somebody's name; the main time before was in 1990 for Michael Jackson.

Spotify - A desirable app for Music-Lovers

Spotify is a Swedish business music gushing, podcast and video benefit that gives advanced rights management–protected content from record marks and media organizations. It is accessible in the majority of the Americas, Western Europe, and Oceania. Music can be skimmed or looked by craftsman, collection, kind, playlist, or record name.

Spotify works under a freemium plan of action, with two music gushing levels: Spotify Free (160kbit/s) and Spotify Premium (up to 320kbit/s). Paid Premium memberships expel promotions, enhance sound quality and permit clients to download music for logged off tuning in.

Spotify was propelled in September 2008 by Swedish startup Spotify AB. As of June 2015 Spotify had more than 75 million dynamic clients, including around 20 million paid clients. The measure of paid supporters achieved 30 million in March 2016. Spotify Ltd. works as the guardian organization, headquartered in London, while Spotify AB handles innovative work in Stockholm.

Spotify, together with the music spilling industry as a rule, confronts some feedback from specialists asserting they are as a rule unjustifiably made up for their work as downloaded music deals decrease and music gushing expansions. Not at all like physical or download deals, which pay a settled cost for each melody or collection, Spotify pays specialists taking into account their "piece of the pie" (the quantity of streams for their tunes as an extent of aggregate tunes gushed on the administration). They appropriate roughly 70% to rights-holders, who will then pay specialists in light of their individual understandings. The flighty, and some say deficient, nature of this pay, which has been computed to be as low as US$0.0011 per stream, has prompted craftsman feedback. Most strikingly, Thom Yorke and Taylor Swift's discography have been pulled from Spotify, with Swift asserting "I'm not willing to contribute my labor of love to an analysis that I don't feel decently remunerates the authors, makers, craftsmen, and makers of this music." accordingly, Spotify claims that they are profiting the music business by moving "them far from robbery and less monetised stages and permitting them to create far more prominent eminences than before" by urging clients to utilize their paid administration.

Apple Music Review


Apple Music is a music spilling administration created by Apple Inc. Clients select music to stream to their gadget on interest. The administration incorporates the curated Internet radio station Beats 1, the online journal stage Connect that permits specialists to share their posts, photographs, recordings and tracks with fans, and Radio which fuses a few parts of iTunes Radio. Apple Music gives music suggestions taking into account client's taste and is coordinated with Siri voice summons.

Apple expressed at the WWDC 2015 that the administration would dispatch toward the end of June 2015 and would be free for the initial three months of use. After that, Apple Music membership would cost US$9.99 every month, near the financial balance point for the recording business evaluated by the Open Music Model.

Clients select music on a gadget, which then plays on the gadget by means of Internet gushing and might be spared to the gadget for disconnected from the net access. The administration additionally gives music suggestions in light of client taste. While Apple Music's expense and music library are like other music gushing administrations, the administration expects to separate itself with included components and substance exclusives.

Apple Music incorporates Internet radio stations curated by renowned craftsmen. Beats 1, the principal station, plays persistently in 100 nations and is staffed by previous BBC Radio 1 DJ Zane Lowe, hip bounce DJ Ebro Darden, and Julie Adenuga.

A third component, Connect, is a site stage where specialists offer media with fans. A portion of the transferred media will be select to Connect's stage. Apple Music additionally acknowledges Siri voice charges, including demands for particular melodies and more summed up choices, for example, for the top graphed tracks from a particular timeframe or "the tune from Selma".

The Apple Music application has a few tabs. The "For You" area prescribes music for the client. Human master choices supplement the algorithmic curation. Each client has a "My Music" segment that shows both bought melodies and tracks accessible for spilling. "Radio" consolidates a few parts of iTunes Radio, for example, promotion bolstered "stations" which play class particular or craftsman related music, contingent upon the client's inclinations

Thursday, April 14, 2016

New band of the week: Virgin Suicide



Meet the Danish band who sound like late-80s Brit guitar janglers given a LA pop makeover.

Main residence: Silkeborg, Denmark.

The lineup: Martin Gronne (vocals, guitar), Terker Rojle (guitar), Kristan Bonlokke (consoles), Kristan Kyvsgaard (bass), Simon thoft Jensen (drums).

The foundation: We're at the by:Larm music meeting and celebration in Oslo, Norway this week, where a great deal of the new follows up on offer are cool, advanced sorts in the seething vein of Lana Del Rey or FKA twigs, or electronic solo craftsmen, or teams in thrall to Haim and Hot Chip. So we thought we'd pick as another band of the week a five-piece from Copenhagen who look like Danish scallies, with their normcore dish cuts and the kind of anorkas football fellows wore at the tallness of Manchester. In the event that you'd have seen them staying nearby the Arndale Center in 1989, you'd have thought: "Ah, there go Factory's most recent marking."

The band - who met at school in the town of Silkeborg, in western Denmark, before they migrated to Copenhagen and framed Virgin Suid=cide in 2012 - sound very "loose". That is clearly an extremely Manchester thing, however you can likewise distinguish the splendid Scouse clatter pf Liverpudlian guitar pop everywhere on their self-titled presentation collection, which as co-delivered and blended in Los Angeles by Sune Rose Wagner of kindred Danes the Ravonettes. There is, thus, a west drift cloudiness or gauzy shine that edges these melodies around a young fellow's "inescapable mission to lose his blamelessness", as the band clarify. "The collection intends to think about our desire for adoration, sex, party, family, demise and all the passionate differences you experience while discovering your personality"- you can't envision Northside concocting that.

They've bolstered Glasvegas and the Charlatans live, and refer to as impacts everybody from David Bowie and Duran (which you can't hear by any means), to the Smiths and Dusty Springfield (which you can). This is keening 1960s pop with a percentage of the kick of the 80s independent - Martin Gronne sounds as though he composes his melodies wearing shades and a turtleneck - in spite of the fact that the generation is gleaming. The surface astonish is tricky: be careful the terrible portens in the midst of the daylight. Those plummeting basslines offer hints of something mischievous along these lines coming.

Keep in mind the band's name. Self-can-cellation is something of a theme - they sing about it on There is a Glace Over My Eyes - yet so is passing all in all: their 2012 introduction single was called Killing Everyone You Know. Gronne's Creamy tones, regardless of the somewhat anduished ring - envision a boyband Brett Anderson - mean you can value the music for its windy agreeableness, or you can burrow around to find what lies underneath. What did they say before in regards to their "desire for affection, sex, gathering, family and demise"? Their desire for it? That is dull. Also, this is dreampop that may give you bad dreams.

[Source: The Guardian]

Drake wouldn't like to be Rihanna's beau'



Rihanna and Drake aren't dating, a source has demanded.

In the wake of crushing against each other amid an execution of their new tune Work at the Brit Awards in February(16), it's been asserted that the previous blazes, who have been on-off for a considerable length of time, are giving their sentiment another go.

Notwithstanding, a companion of the pair has uncovered that Drake is not set up to focus on the 28-year-old brunette magnificence as of now.

"Drake and Ri-Ri do have fantastic science," a source told Britain's Heat magazine.

"He is exceptionally pulled in to her, yet he knows with Rihanna it's win big or bust, and he can't focus on her like that. Despite everything he needs to be companions and gathering with her, however he wouldn't like to be her beau."

The Hotline bling star was likewise spotted moving and kissing at London's libertine club in front of their execution. Be that as it may, the source included of their execution. Be that as it may, the source included that the rapper, 29, is just hoping to play around with the vocalist.

"He wouldn't like to give her the wrong thought. He realizes that one connect with Ri implies 25 telephone calls and messages, and sufficiently had of that.

"He wouldn't like to hurt her, however she is so not over him," the source said.

The Canadian star has long had a weakness for Rihanna and in 2014 told Rolling Stone magazine he conceded she was his definitive lady.

"She's a definitive dream. That is to say, I consider it. Like, 'Man, that would be great." We have a fabulous time together, she's cool and sh*t" he said.

Rihanna has had a few connections throughout the years incorporating a genuine sentiment with rapper Chris Brown, which finished unexpectedly after he struck her in 2009.

She has additionally been connected most as of late to Leonardo DiCario, Travis Scott and hustling driver champion Lewis Hamilton.