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Concert Vault for iPad: Awesome Collection of Live Concert Audio and Video

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Concert Vault for iPad

Concert Vault for iPad is a new app that offers up a treasure trove of live concert audio and video from a huge range of artists and bands. The App Store description for the app is far from reticent in describing its virtues:

Concert Vault for iPad brings you something that you truly cannot find anywhere else: the world’s greatest collection of exclusive live concert audio and video from the ’50s to the present day, all available for high quality streaming to your iPad.

The good news is that the app mostly lives up to that lofty introduction.

Notes

Concert Vault is a free app that offers a 7 day free trial. After that you need to take out a subscription to continue using it. Subscriptions are reasonably priced at $3.99 per month or $39.99 for a year. Current Concert Vault subscribers can just login to use the app. A subscription gives you access to all of Concert Vault’s content on the iPad, iPhone and on the web.

The app includes thousands of concert recordings in audio (320Kps) and video. There’s daily featured content spanning across genres. It supports AirPlay for streaming content to an HDTV via Apple TV.

The App Store description also mentions that the app is ‘built on the Groovebug platform’. I’m not sure what that means, but I’m hoping it’s something to do with the excellent Groovebug app that is one of the selections in our list of the Best iPad Apps of 2012.

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Review: Album Art – Home Screen Wallpaper iPad App

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Album Art Home Screen Wallpaper for iPad

Album Art Home Screen Wallpaperis a brand new iPad (and iPhone) app released today in the App Store. The app has a simple and great concept – combine your music library’s album art with some good-looking background themes to create some unique and striking wallpapers for your iPad.

As any of you who read this site regularly know, I’m a big fan of keeping my iPad wallpaper fresh, so this app sounded promising to me right away. I bought it early this morning and the short story is I’m very happy I did and I think it’s a great app. Hit the break for the reasons why I’m so fond of it …

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Madonna Releases an iPad App

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Madonna iPad app

Madonna has released a new iPad app this week, to go along with her new album and tour. The app is simply called Madonna and has a short, sweet (for Madonna fans) App Store description as well:

The official Madonna app. Now everything you want to know about Madonna is available on your mobile device.

The app has sections covering Career (albums, tours), Fan Wall, 2012 Tour (dates, and fan comments area), Photos, Videos, News and more.

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Great New Album Released as a Free iPad App – Tracey Browne, Everyone Is Ordinary

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Tracey Browne Everyone Is Ordinary iPad album

I’m always on the lookout (or should that be listenout?) for great new music. This morning I’ve found some courtesy of a new album released as a free iPad app. It’s called Tracey Browne Everyone Is Ordinary, and it’s one of those very rare albums where there’s not a single track you want to skip past, just all good songs.

Here’s a little slice of the App Store intro for the app / album:

Well a cursory first listen to Tracey Browne’s debut album could easily invoke comparison to a host of singer-songwriters…

A British Joan Osborne perhaps, a 21st century Kirsty MacColl, a folkier Sarah McLachlan, a poppier Karine Polwart…they’ve all been mentioned, but who knows…and who cares; before that first listen is over you’ll more than likely have reached the conclusion that Tracey Browne transcends comparisons, and with those oft neglected virtues of a fine voice and a great melody, she’s already taking you some place else, some place all her own.

I’ve listened to the whole album twice over now and I agree. I’m no music critic but I think Browne has a great voice, and her songs are really nicely written.

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BeatBlaster – Turn Your iPad into an Old-school Hi-Fi

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BeatBlaster for iPad

BeatBlaster is a fun new iPad app released today that offers to turn your iPad into an old-school HiFi sound system. I’m always keen to check out promising looking music apps for the iPad, and this one caught my eye when I received a pre-launch promo email about it.

The app’s old-school appearance is what initially caught my eye, and it seemed to have quite a solid set of features – so I installed it first thing this morning and it’s been providing the soundtrack to my workday ever since.

Notes

BeatBlaster plays music from your iTunes library on the iPad and from a selection of internet radio stations sourced from Radionomy. It’s intended to be used in portrait mode only and does not adjust its UI when you swap the iPad to landscape mode.

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Quick Look: Tune Frame for iPad

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Tune Frame for iPad is an app that’s intended to help you show off your album art on the gorgeous iPad screen, as well as create playlists on the fly. I’ve spent some time with the app this week and I like the concept of it – but I wish there was a little more [...]

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