To save ourselves from listening to our mom's record collection on repeat during this weekend's family gathering, we're taking on DJ duties. Forget flipping discs on a boombox; hook some powerful speakers up to a laptop and sign into these online music services to keep the party moving with new and unexpected tunes. Pandora — A classic, Pandora keeps us going through the work day with our Read more

I miss all the quirky tricks of creating a perfect mixtape: timing the perfect pause between songs, watching the tape spin in the player, and deciding which songs are more of an "A Side" fit. Granted, this can still be re-created if I try, but with the new iPhone AirCassette app ($2) I get the look of a cassette with all the re-imagined fun of the digital age. Choose your favorite familiar blank Read more

While YouTube may be your go-to destination for funny cat videos, it's also a top spot to hear music. And since music is so popular on the video-streaming site, it's now launched YouTube Music, an online destination for trending music and videos with recommended and artist-curated playlists and lists of upcoming live shows in your area. You can also find the current YouTube 100 list, which shows Read more

The latest addition to the online music, Spotify, launched in the US last week and it's had the Internet buzzing. We've been using the service once the invites came through and are, admittedly, hooked on the sleek desktop application. The cloud-based music streaming service offers free limited access to users on the desktop app. While, $5 per month gains desktop users full access to the Spotify Read more

Generally, Valentine's Day can go one of two ways: good, or bad. For those who aren't counting the minutes until the most romantic day of the year, Pandora has created its own "Love Stinks" station featuring popular breakup tracks and songs that are anything but lovey-dovey. The station is part of the timely Valentine's Day genre, which also includes V-Day-friendly stations like "80s Love Read more

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The MPMan was short-lived, but the first MP3 player mass-marketed in the US paved the way for the portable media player revolution. Now that we've gotten to know Kane Kramer, who developed the first MP3 player, and Nathan Schulhof, who created a precursor to iPod and iTunes, it's time to take a look at the history surrounding the MPMan. Korean electronics company Saehan created and distributed Read more

Although Kane Kramer developed the first MP3 player in the 1970s, it wasn't until 20 years later that MP3 players hit the consumer market. For that we have Nathan Schulhof to thank. In the early 1990s, he envisioned a "portable device [that] would allow the selection, retrieval, storage, and playback of audio content delivered to the device via the Internet." The founder and CEO of Audio Read more