Something funny happened to me Sunday night. I tried to set-up Play Music on a Toshiba Excite but was told that I had reached the limit of devices and would have to de-authorize one before I could continue. The only problem is that when I went to remove one item to free up space, I was greeted by a message saying that I’ve de-authorized too many devices and would not be permitted to continue. Mad Men was coming on, so I put it out of my mind until this morning, when I read
Google Play Music caps device de-authorization, ROM flashers and gadget-happy users be damned
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Ever wanted to unleash your inner T-Pain? Now you can with Songify , a new app for Android 2.2 and higher that automatically converts speech into music. You may be familiar with Songify as a popular iOS app endorsed by the Gregory Brothers, the musically-inclined group behind YouTube channel AutoTune the News. The app has finally crossed over to Android and is available now as a freemium app. Songify lets users select a song as the background music and then has them record vocals. The vocals are then run through audio processing the over-corrects the pitch to give it that distinct sound
Turntable.fm is a popular hangout spot for the “in” crowd to go and listen to music. While those folks were previously relying on their desktop to get a daily soundtrack, the official Turntable.fm Android app is now available for U.S. devices running Android 2.2 or higher. On the off chance that you’re unfamiliar with Turntable.fm , here’s a quick rundown: members login via Facebook or Twitter and enter rooms where other members act as DJ’s. Members create rooms and select who has DJ privileges, then those users create playlists that stream instantly to everyone in the room. Listeners can vote up good songs and vote down poor ones to send clues about what kind of songs to play and avoid
Android has plenty of music players, but few have a quick and convenient way to change songs or pause the one currently playing. Even fewer have a way of doing either of those things as quickly as Wave Control. Wave Control is an Android 2.2+ app that uses close-range gestures to control music playback. Using the proximity sensor typically located near a phone’s earpiece, Wave Control responds to pre-configured motions. So if someone hovers over the sensor, it will pause or play music
Frostwire is known for enabling music and file sharing through torrents , which naturally leads to questions about its legality and tool as a way to spread piracy. I’ll leave those murky issues to the lawyers and regulators and operate under the assumption that any of you using the service are doing so honestly. Another thing you might want to try doing honestly is driving; thanks to newest version of Frostwire, you can do that without having to constantly look at your phone to control music. Frostwire now supports gesture recognition for performing common functions. 
Spotify hasn’t updated its Android app since November, despite frequent reports from users about the app crashing, performing poorly, or having a frustrating interface. A new update to one of the world’s most popular streaming service is right around the corner, and it’s a significant one that should address all of those concerns. Diego Planas Rego, writing on the Spotify blog, reveals that Spotify has opted to embrace the Holo design in its latest update. Before pushing the new version to Google Play, the company has posted a preview APK that users can download now and test for themselves. Spotify Premium members will find that the app has “Full support for Android 4.0″ and looks much cleaner than the previous version. 
The last time we talked about an HTC streaming music service, the rumor was that HTC would launch a Spotify competitor and leverage Beats CEO, Jimmy Iovine (who also serves as Chairman of Interscope Geffen A&M) to secure contracts with various music labels to get the streaming music service off the ground. Today things have changed with rumors circulating that HTC has, or will soon, acquire MOG, which was one of the pioneering music streaming services when it was founded in 2005. For those who don’t know, MOG is a subscription based streaming music service similar to Spotify with 14 million songs in its database. Subscribers can stream MOG through a browser, or dedicated Android or iOS application, with the ability to create customized artist playlists (similar to Pandora channels) with a control bar which balances the music selection between “Artist Only” and “Similar Artist.” Since MOG has never been a huge player in the streaming music segment (the current Android install base ranges from 500,000 to 1,000,000), we assume that HTC has some pretty drastic plans to transform the service. HTC will most likely integrate MOG into the Beats brand and create a modified streaming music service which would deliver a basic free MOG subscription to HTC customers – similar to the value-added deal HTC made with Dropbox which gives HTC One customers 25GB of online storage. We’ll have to wait for official confirmation of the acquisition from HTC before we know what will become of MOG
A Monterey County woman who came face to face with a mountain lion and watched as the animal killed her dog is hoping that her tragedy will help others avoid a similar fate.
A mountain lion cub was seen in the coastal community of Montara on Sunday evening, San Mateo County emergency officials said.