The best music apps and services of 2017 according to Lifehacker

ListenOnRepeat

A service with which it is convenient to listen to music from YouTube and create new playlists based on the impressive database of video hosting songs. Particular attention is paid to listening to tracks on repeat: here you can even select a specific segment of the song that will be played again.

Also ListenOnRepeat can create radio stations based on your favorite artists and shows song reviews. There is an application for Android, but without radio and collections.

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Mubert

An online electronic music generator that creates unique combinations of beats and samples. The original player offers a choice of one of six styles: ambient, trap, psytrance, chillstep, liquid funk and deep house.

This year, the browser version has been supplemented with an iOS application. In it, however, there are only three options for generating music: for study, for work and for creativity.

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eMusic

If your favorite songs are not in the music library of streaming services, or you simply don't want to pay for a subscription, eMusic will provide the solution. All you need is to copy the tracks to the service database. Then they will become available for offline listening on your mobile devices.

EMusic also displays music recommendations, novelties of different genres and hits selected by editors.

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HQRadio

Internet radio with three hundred channels and music at bit rates up to 320 kbps. Stations come from five sources: Digitally Imported, Radio Tunes, Jazz Radio, Rock Radio, and Classical Radio. There is a browser version and an Android application.

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Listen To The Clouds

The idea of combining ambient with recordings of conversations is not new and has already been implemented by Rusty Hodge, the author of Soma FM radio. Launched in 2017, Listen To The Clouds offers a selection of ambient music and recordings of air traffic controllers' conversations. Unlike the Khoja canals, here the user is given the opportunity to intervene in the process: choose a track and an airport. The results of this mixing are captivating, hypnotizing and pacifying.

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Radio garden

Radio Garden is a service that allows you to listen to radio stations from anywhere in the world. We already wrote about the service at the end of 2016, but within a year it managed to expand the station base and acquire applications for iOS and Android.

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Boom

Boom is a streaming service for those who are ready to pay for music, but do not want to part with the VKontakte music library that has been developed over the years. Pros: subscription price - 149 rubles per month, rich music base. Cons: nuances of design and navigation.

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SoundCloud

This summer there was a lot of talk about the imminent closure of SoundCloud: there were rumors of millions in losses and the layoff of almost half of the employees. The Archive.org project has begun to preserve the archives of the service with unique music. It is still unknown whether the circumstances have changed or the rumors were originally an exaggeration, but the service continues to live on and delight users with a unique music library.

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Yandex. Music

Yandex. Music has one important advantage - the ability to listen to music from the browser even without authorization, even if not in the best bitrate. This year, the service continued to acquire new functions, for example, it acquired a Telegram bot for music recognition and gave users the opportunity to upload their tracks to the music library.

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Yandex. Music and Podcasts Yandex Apps

Telegram continued to gain popularity this year, replacing other messengers, news sites and full-format media for many users. As a service for listening to music, Telegram began to gain popularity not so long ago: this is due to the increase in the number of channels and the emergence of a convenient player for listening to audio offline.

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