About.com announced the following Readers’ Choice Awards
MyTunes
Developer: SRS Labs Inc.
Price: Free
Make the music already on your iPhone sound better than ever by applying the audio enhancement technologies in MyTunes. The app lets you preset tunings that you can apply to songs as you want, control EQ, listen to music through a new player app, equalize volume across all of your songs, apply DJ transitions to make moving from one song to the next smooth, and much more. True audiophiles, or people who want to hear a better MP3, will love this app.
Slacker Radio
Developer: Slacker Inc.
Price: Free
This leading radio app offers a combination of over 150 pre-programmed radio stations and the ability to create custom stations of your own. While Slacker is built around streaming audio over the Internet, it also allows you to play songs or your favorite stations even when you’re not connected to the web (assuming you’ve got a paid subscription). Unlike some competitors, Slacker doesn’t have apply monthly listening limits to its basic, free accounts.
SoundHound
Developer: SoundHound Inc.
Price: $6.99
SoundHound is one of those seemingly magic apps that you can hold up to a speaker to have it identify whatever song is playing. Beyond just identifying music that’s playing, it can also identify the songs you hum or sing (perfect for those catchy tracks that you can’t quite complete). Once SoundHound has figured out what the song is, it can help you find the songs in iTunes or Pandora.
SoundTracking
Developer: Schematic Labs
Price: Free
SoundTracking combines GPS location awareness, social networking, and audio to, as the makers of the app say, create the soundtrack of your life. It includes a music-identification feature like the one offered by SoundHound that helps you add songs–along with photos and geographic locations–to your posts. Once you’ve created memories, you can share them with friends and followers who also use SoundTracking–and check out their posts as well.
Spotify
Developer: Spotify Ltd.
Price: Free
Spotify is like the ultimate jukebox-in-the-sky. With it, you can find and hear practically any song–for free. The $10/month subscription–which is required for use on the iPhone–offers unlimited listening, no ads, and the ability to store songs for offline playback, even when you’re not connected to the web. Spotify also offers great social features that allow you to share songs and playlists with your friends.
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