Music
Cubed Music Player [App]
Posted By Jeff On April 7, 2010 @ 9:03 am
Myself, like 99.9% of all Android users, are disappointed and honestly hate the lack of originality and horrible sorting in the default stock music player in Android 2.0. Well maybe not hate, but I wouldn’t say that I’d vote for it any any contests anytime soon. I want it to be not only functional, but pretty as well. Cubed ( “3″ ) does that and not only makes it look easy but actually makes using it easy. 
What Cubed (formerly known as Rock On) does is takes your entire library, downloads the Album covers for it and turns it into a giant…well cube. You can then spin in horizontally to pick the artist by letter, or flick it vertically to just let it spin through them all the albums. Tapping on the facing cube will list you the songs from that artist, on that album. It’s pretty sweet, has no lag while flicking and is fun to just spin the cube around.
This app features all the required functions: Next, back, random, repeat. It also throws in themes (effects to the cover art) and three different sized widgets that all show cover art. They also have a ‘concert’ app attached, though it doesn’t seem to work too well in my location.
- Pros:
- Better interface than stock app
- Album covers easily downloaded
- Fun to play around with
- Supports search
- Good Widgets
- Cons:
- Can’t spin cube from widget
- Did mess up on some of the album covers
- Auto-flip back to current song if you pause too long while browsing albums
I’ve yet to find something that can compare in quality, and I think that it holds a lot of promise as it progresses through it’s beta. For anybody who uses their music player on a regular basis, Cubed is my suggestion for your music app.
Games: Battle of the Bands
Posted By Jeff On January 15, 2009 @ 9:21 am
As promised last week, today we’re going to take a look at
Battle of the Bands
At first glance, this game looks like it can be a lot of fun. Well, it can once you get past the lack of content in the game itself. Lets have a look at some of what the game has to offer:
- A decent variety of songs (of course, no where near some of the more costlier games on the market)
- The joy of rhythm based games without the need to have any extras hanging around
- A quirky variation to the plain old ‘hit the notes and you win’ formula
Battle of the Bands offers some classic favorite songs such as Black Betty and Jungle Boogie; mixed in with some fun songs like Feel Good Inc. by the Gorillaz and Blitzkrieg Bop by the Ramones. Though the songs are few, they’re good to play.
Unlike some of the other rhythm games, Battle of the Bands uses only the wiimote to hit notes (left/right/down/stab/shake). It’s a fun concept, though a little tiring on the wrist at first on some of the higher difficulty levels. Also, if the wiimote is tilted it often doesn’t hit the note. Once you get used to this though, it’s a fantastic workout for your wrist.
Above all else what makes this game worth playing is the presentation itself. The game is one big battle, so you’re always in a versus mode against either an AI or a Player. Each band gets to choose a style of music, for example country and hip-hop. While playing, if the country team is in the lead the song which they’re playing will be done in a ‘country version’ (IE redneck accent and banjos). As the teams battle, the song jumps between the two bands’ type. It’s a riot when the types are conflicting as they switch seamlessly.
Another cooky part of this game is that you can attack the opposing player. Teams get the option of 3 weapons to use, all with different steak counts. Once a team has a streak to the length of the weapon, it will fire causing the other player to miss a beat if not blocked (hitting B). It’s quite off tilt to have a battle of the bands where you can shoot lightning at the drummer on the other team, but a blast none the less.
Overall, I can understand why this game is so cheap (I got it for $15) because though the concept of it is amazing, the final execution of it is lacking. If they had access to a larger library, or even if they had more modes or unlockable content it may have made it a little more interesting. For what the game is though, it was worth the cash and I’d suggest it to any music lover out there if not only for the music player feature that allows you to switch between styles without having to actually play the game.
Mix Turtle
Posted By Jeff On August 4, 2008 @ 5:48 pm
Mix Turtle is everything I want in a music site: Music. You can search for a song, artist or album and it will bring up a list and let you listen to them without any need to download. It also supports playlists. Oh, and it has a big turtle smoking an undefined substance with green smoke coming off it. Need I say more?
I <3 Mix Turtle
Bands that suck
Posted By Jeff On January 6, 2004 @ 12:06 am
Today was the first day back to school after the break, it sucked; not because something bad happened, but because it’s school in general. I have to write a test tomarrow at noon, which means no lunch, that does suck, but oh well.
I have nothing else interesting to talk about today, so I’m going to talk about, as the title says, bands that suck.
First off is Metallica. I hate Metallica because: A) They are uptight pricks who are only in the music industry for money, as was demonstrated with the first run of Napster. B) They don’t have an lyrics that appeal to me. Though I really am pissed about the Napster thing, I was an origional Napster junkie.
Second on my list: Insane Clown Posse. If these guys were simply a band doing what they do, that would be fine, but they keep talking about how ‘Independant’ they are. I’m sorry but going into WCW wrestling for 6 months doesn’t make you independant, it makes you a tool looking for publicity. Not only that, but they have been signed with multiple big named record lables, if they were truely independant they would have signed with smaller lables.
Finally, Nirvana will end this post. Everybody seems to think they’re “the greatest band ever”, but why? The tunes to their songs are the same power cords repeating, the lyrics are foolish and they can’t sing; they just scream.
So yeah, that’s all I have to say at this moment about bands who suck and my boring life. That is all.
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