 RAIN 12/16: RAIN App Review: Groove for the iPhone ·Dec 16, 12:13 PM GROOVE iPHONE APP MAKES A RADIO STREAM FROM YOUR MUSIC COLLECTIONIf you’re like me, you have dozens of gigabytes of music on your iPod or mp3 player. And if you’re like me, it feels like you spend more time choosing what to listen to than actually listening to music. Groove is a free iPhone app that makes this decision for you and essentially turns your local music collection into the equivalent of a personal radio stream (beyond simply “shuffle”) through some interesting playlist-creating offerings.
There’s “Feelin’ Groovy,” an option that — like the iTunes Genius feature — plays a random assortment of songs that all go well together. Or there’s the “Three of a Kind” playlist feature that plays 3 tracks from a single artist, then moves on to another. Then there’s “Favorites,” which plays you the artists you listen to the most but may have forgotten about. It’s like a DJ that knows more about what music you like than you do. Though it suffers from lags sometimes and its built-in music player isn’t quite as intuitive as the one native on the iPhone and iPod Touch, it’s a great way to rediscover the music you already own. — MS MORGAN STANLEY SAYS MOBILE INTERNET WILL GROW TO 2 TIMES SIZE OF “DESKTOP INTERNET”Morgan Stanley, in two new reports, predicts the mobile Internet market to grow to at least twice the size of “Desktop Internet,” reports ReadWriteWeb. Mobile growth is being driven by 3G and smartphones, naturally. Leading the pack, of course, is Apple’s iPhone, and the report calls iPhone/iTouch/iTunes perhaps “the fastest ramping and most disruptive technology product / service launch the world has ever seen.” Morgan Stanley envisions smartphones outpacing notebook and netbook sales worldwide next year, and surpassing the global PC market by 2012. You can read Morgan Stanley’s reports at ReadWriteWeb here.
NEW GOTRADIO CHANNEL DRAMATICALLY WIDENS BOUNDARIES OF “TOP 40”Independent Internet-only webcaster GotRadio has launched a Pop radio channel with a global perspective that culls music from the last 50 years. Programmer Michael J calls the new channel, Audio Voyeur, “a reinvention of Top 40” radio. GotRadio promises a mix of artists like Roger Miller, Lady Gaga, Aerosmith, the Swiss pop star Stephan Eicher, and rapper Tone Loc. “The only constant being great music,” says Michael J, who’s also half of L.A.-based punk cabaret duo Tyrants in Therapy.
Launched in 2003, Gotradio.com features more than 50 channels and streams to over half a million listeners per month worldwide. share: del.icio.us.  Reddit  Digg  Yahoo  Wink  Windows  Google  Newsvine 
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