ChatGPT now lets you identify songs on your phone without launching Shazam app

ChatGPT now lets you identify songs directly using Shazam without opening the Shazam app on your phone. Once connected, the feature can recognize music playing nearby and show song details inside the ...

This simple problem has plagued iPad owners for too long

More so than something that will make Apple's tablet more like a laptop, the biggest missing feature from the iPad is a better way to organize apps. When the iPod ruled the world, one of the most ...
Hoodline

Demi Weitz Launches On Octave To Help Artists

Speaking with ABC7 Los Angeles, Weitz described On Octave as a platform where artists can offer fan experiences tied to causes and build more sustainable income streams in the process. She told the ...
Racket

The First New New Music Playlists of 2026—and Not a Moment Too Soon

OK, I know these are the first playlists of 2026, but I think I have a pretty good excuse for procrastinating this time, huh? Huh? The good news is, great music has continued to emerge from Minnesota ...

New Music Friday: The best albums out March 6

Flying Lotus. waterbaby. The groovy affirmations of Joshua Idehen. NPR Music's Stephen Thompson chats with Nate Chinen from WRTI in Philadelphia about their favorite albums out Friday, March 6. Plus, ...

Your Pixel’s Now Playing tool is now a standalone app with a history you can actually use

Your Pixel's Now Playing tool is now a standalone app with a history tab that logs every song your phone has identified and lets you play tracks in Spotify or Apple Music.
PC Magazine

A Beloved Music Streaming App Is Back, Thanks to Claude Code

When Tomahawk shut down in 2016, it was powered by a team of six. A decade later, developer J Herskowitz has vibe-coded it back to life as Parachord with an assist from Anthropic's AI. I’ve ...
MacStories

Organizing Your Web Apps, Scripts, and Scheduled Tests with a Dashboard

As AppStories+ subscribers will hear on next week’s post-show, Federico and I recently had similarly frustrating experiences moving tools we’d built from one Mac to another. What we moved and why ...
TechCrunch

Google adds music-generation capabilities to the Gemini app

Google announced on Wednesday that it’s adding a music-generation feature to the Gemini app. The company is using DeepMind’s Lyria 3 music-generation model to power the feature, which is still in beta ...
Tom's Guide

I wear an Apple Watch every day, and this simple trick to organize apps made my life a lot easier

iPhones Apple buried these 3 genuinely useful iPhone features — here's how to find them TVs I found 5 hidden shortcuts for my Apple TV 4K that make it so much easier to use — here's how to use them ...
Macworld

iOS 26.4 beta introduces AI playlists for Apple Music

Macworld reports that iOS 26.4 beta introduces “Playlist Playground,” an AI-powered feature allowing Apple Music subscribers to create custom playlists using text prompts or song selections. The ...