Top 10 iPhone apps for music lovers

By Partho, Gaea News Network
Tuesday, March 24, 2009

iphone-musiciPhone combined with its wondrous apps has opened up new vista’s for music. The music buffs simply love to play music on their iPhones. Well, that’s all because you need no real instruments, no real amplifier, all what you need to do is tap the screen and play the tunes. In this little thing you can have drums, bass guitar, piano, blues piano, DJ tools and what not. There’s a deluge of cool iPhone apps for music lovers meant to stimulate their addiction. Excuse me, I can’t list them all, but I love them all.  Adding to the party, iTunes stores a colossal heap of songs ready to be streamed to the iPhone. Things look even better, as now the artists can use the iPhone for promoting their own music along with videos. What I could do to help you people, who love to play music in the sun was to sort out a coolest music app for your iPhone.  Here’s my list of Top 10 iPhone app for music lovers.

1. FingerPiano

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Those of you aspiring to be Mozart in disguise with your iPhone can take a try with FingerPiano. This is far better than the MiniPiano app with just over 3 octaves that gives you the feeling of a toy. The FingerPiano app has a scrolling notation system with the piano roll found in both Logic Pro and GarageBand. With highly rated scores by wizards like Bach, Mozart and Chopin, apart from other popular classics like The Entertainer and Joy to The World, the FingerPiano is a fantastic app for music lovers.

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Price: $2.99

2. Sonos Controller iPhone app

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There’s a sea of music to be enjoyed from the Pandora, internet radio, local radio stations etc. What if you could manage the music services without a remote. Well, Sonos can do that for you, with it you can control the music from my phone. Sonos sound system takes a multi-room approach to music. Sonos not only broadcasts the music throughout the house,  but allows you complete control over how and where you play the music.

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3. SimplifyMedia

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With SimplifyMedia you can access the iTunes from almost anywhere, given that your system is connected to the Internet.  This free iPhone app doesn’t restrict you to the 8 or 16 gigs of music. Even if you are not online it allows you to access playlists from up to 30 of your friends.
Further, it also provides artist info and song lyrics. But the music is switched off when you start doing something else.

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4. Beatmaker

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If you were aspiring to be the modern Giovanni da Palestrina with your iPhone may be this app was just designed for you. This sophisticated app can turns your iPhone into a Digital Audio Workstation.  Load the audio clips into the iPhone and mix them to create your compositions. there’s a drum machine and lot of other samples pre-loaded.

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5. Shazam

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I’m sure this happens to you often. You listen to a song and speculate what it could be? Before it gets on your nerves hold your phone up to the song you are seeking. Shazam would listen to the song and inform you about the song. It will provide you with a link to buy it from iTunes, Further, it will also allow the links of YouTube videos of the track. Hardly would you get a song that’s not available. What’s more, this is a free app for all you music lovers with iPhone.

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6. Pandora Internet Radio

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This is one of the most popular free app for music lovers. It’s better known as a new kind of radio that has gotta tuner, a chord finder ( allows over 260 chord diagrams) and a metronome. Still what makes this app special is the tuning tones. It is a set of harmonic tones to tune guitar if you can play with your ears.

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7. Tap Tap Revenge

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This free iPhone app is a typical mobile version of the Rock Band or Guitar Hero. The simplest game that you can play on it is to pick a song, there are a lot to be downloaded free, and tap the bubbles as they fly away. To make it more exciting let your friend join. For more go online and challenge the rock stars.

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8. Top 100

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Are you still waiting to listen to the Get Back (LOVE version) - The Beatles, this iPhone app is meant for you. This app streams the top 100 songs on iTunes to your iPhone. What you need is a 3G, Edge, or Wi-Fi connection.

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Price: $2.99

9. Cosmovox

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That an app of great interest for who love electronic music. This is basically a motion-controlled synthesizer with over 45 different musical scales. It uses the accelerometer to track the user’s motions and maps them to musical pitches of a selected scale.

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Price: $1.99

10. DigiDummer

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So you said if you could do a bit of Ringo Starr on your iPhone. For the most unbelievable thing I would ever expect to play on an iPhone would be a drum. This DigiDrummer just blows of my mind. It’s a classic drum machine with 10 drum kits packed with eight high-quality, 16-bit samples.

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Price: $0.99

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