What we are listening to: Sincerely CEO Matt Brezina

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This is second edition of our weekly What we are listening to series.

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Amplify Your Phone’s Speakers with a Glass Vase or Pitcher [Macgyver Tips]

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Smartphone speakers are bad enough in a quiet room, and basically worthless with any ambient noise. An empty pitcher or vase though can amplify and direct the noise surprisingly well. More

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Clean Up and Organize Your Music Library This Weekend [Weekendhacker]

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So you've spent a lot of time discovering and downloading new music, but your library's a mess. You're still using the same player you used 5 years ago, the files are in 10 different places on your hard drive, and your metadata looks like a tornado hit it. Take some time this weekend to clean up your library once and for all.

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Ringtone Maker Creates Custom Tones for Nearly Any Phone in Just a Few Clicks [Friday Fun]

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Windows: We've shown you a few ways to create a ringtone for your iPhone or Android device , but free app Ringtone Maker makes the process just about as quick and painless as possible—and it works for just about any phone you can think of. More

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E-Onkyo music service becomes first to offer Dolby TrueHD 5.1 audio

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Looking for something a little more than your average online music store has to offer? Then you may soon want to give Onkyo's somewhat niche e-onkyo service some consideration

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It’s Possible That You Actually Need These Shitty Earbuds [Earbuds]

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Great headphones are great. No argument there. But it is possible that you also need a pair of janky earbuds like your life depends on it.

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Pandora Competitor Senzari Raises $1 Million From 500 Startups & Angels To Fund Global Expansion

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Miami-based streaming music startup  Senzari , which aims to take on Pandora by targeting the markets Pandora misses (i.e., the rest of the world), has just closed an additional round of funding totaling $1 million. The round includes investors in both Miami and Silicon Valley, including, notably Dave McClure’s 500 Startups

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This Audio Recorder Thinks It’s a Music App [Video]

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We write about music apps because they enable all sorts of amazing things that manufacturers could never do with hardware - or if they could, it would be prohibitively expensive.

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Samsung Acquires Mobile Entertainment And Music Streaming Startup mSpot

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Samsung Electronics has acquired mobile entertainment startup mSpot , according to a release issued today. Financial terms were not disclosed, but previous reports point to an acquisition price of $8.8 million. mSpot let users stream and watch full-length movies on their mobile phones and on the web .

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The Era Of The Porn Superstar Might Be Coming (Hah!) To A End

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The Internet is a lot like the American Dream. It’s this huge opportunity for anyone who wants to make something of themselves — a nearly ubiquitous platform to showcase skills and talents. Yet, it is so incredibly saturated with people trying to do exactly the same thing that the opportunity gets smaller and smaller, shrinking to the size of a pin point as more people hop online

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