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Musician, J.D., Blogger, Lover of Technology, and Obsessed with the evolution of the music business in the digital age. There's always a better way.

Saturday, January 8, 2011

NEW HOME

Winding Forward has a new home at www.windingforward.com  visit us there!

Monday, January 3, 2011

Cloud, I'd Like to Listen to......

Happy New Year!

After blogging break the site is back up and running strong into the new year.  To get up to date with the year 2011 the first article is all about bringing your music collection wherever you are.

Behold, "M-Spot" the must have android application of the moment.  Forget chords, forget upload times and slowing down your phone or tablet by saving too much data on the hard-drive.  Mspot is a free service that allows you to store up to 2gigabytes of music that can be accessed from any device.  To listen, all you need is an internet connection.

M-Spot means the freedom to have only those songs on your phone that are essentials, the desert island tracks you cannot live without.  For those rare situations when you have no wireless network or 3G/4G connection, having tunes on the hard-drive is still important. However, for the 90% of the time when you have some way of connecting to the internet all those other tunes can be at your finger tips.

I can't tell you how many times I've wanted to listen to Parliament Funkadelic's "Handcuffs" or an obscure Frank Zappa tune that can't be found on youtube and definitely hasn't earned space on my phone's tiny hard-drive.  Alas, there are 2 free gigs of cloud space at my fingertips where the music can be saved.

This program is far superior than "G-Tunes," a solid application that allows one to stream music to their phone when on the same wireless network as a computer.  This is good when you are home, or at the office.  But with the M-Spot cloud, you are covered with access everywhere the internet roams.

To install the program go to www.mspot.com install the program on your computer to go through a very easy process to select what files will be uploaded to the cloud.  Step 2, install the program on your phone as an app.  Step 3, grove to the tunes wherever they lead you.