The Vision Pro Metallica concert video is the best Apple Immersive video yet
The Vision Pro Metallica concert video is the best Apple Immersive video yet Metallica puts on a great show in the Vision Pro. There’s a moment in Metallica, the new three-song concert video Apple released for the Vision Pro yesterday, where Metallica lead singer James Hetfield is kneeling on the edge of the stage, engaged […]
Our favorite apps for listening to music
Our favorite apps for listening to music Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 72, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If youâre new here, welcome, hope you like gadgets, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, Iâve been reading about Hasan Piker […]
Spotify’s HiFi streaming could finally arrive this year
Spotify's HiFi streaming could finally arrive this year Spotify’s HiFi streaming could finally arrive this year It’s been nearly four years since Spotify announced a HiFi tier for its music streaming service that would support lossless audio. That wait could end this year, Bloomberg reports, as the company works to finalize details, including streaming rights. […]
Shopify pulls Kanye’s website offline over swastika merch
Shopify pulls Kanye's website offline over swastika merch Shopify pulls Kanye’s website offline over swastika merch On Tuesday, Shopify shut down the Yeezy store run by Ye (formerly known as Kanye West) after it listed shirts with swastikas for sale as reported earlier by Bloomberg and NBC News. Ye advertised the site in a commercial […]
Teenage Engineering OP-XY review: extremely fun, extremely powerful, extremely expensive
Teenage Engineering OP-XY review: extremely fun, extremely powerful, extremely expensive The OP-XY is a surprisingly powerful — and unsurprisingly expensive — sequencer, synthesizer, sampler, and live performance instrument. Teenage Engineering is a design firm as much as it is a musical instrument company. Its devices rarely look or behave anything like what youâd buy from […]
Microsoft is bringing major MIDI improvements to Windows 11
Microsoft is bringing major MIDI improvements to Windows 11 MIDI 2.0 is now available for musicians to test on Windows. Windows 11 is rolling out the biggest update to MIDI since the musical communication format was first released in 1983. Microsoft announced that its latest Windows 11 Canary test build includes a public preview of Windows […]
That AI-restored Beatles song won Grammy for Best Rock Performance
That AI-restored Beatles song won Grammy for Best Rock Performance Sean Lennon (pictured) accepted the Best Rock Performance Grammy award on behalf of The Beatles. The Beatles have won their eighth competitive Grammy award thanks to a little help from artificial intelligence. The 2023 track “Now and Then” — which Billboard reports is the first […]
Amazon Music Unlimited is getting a price hike
Amazon Music Unlimited is getting a price hike Amazon has raised the price of its Music Unlimited service in the US, Canada, and the UK, as reported by The Hollywood Reporter. In an update on its website, Amazon says it’s raising the price for Prime members from $9.99 to $10.99 per month (or $99 to […]