Tropical EDM August List

Tropical house or Tropical EDM is a laid back genre that is great to listen to when you're relaxing especially on the beach or by the pool.

Checkout my Top 5 recommended Tropical EDM for August.

1. Saltwater - 2015 Radio Rework by Nora En Pure

2. I Took A Pill In Ibiza - SeeB Remix by Mike Posner

3. Sunset Lover by Petit Biscuit

4. Tropic Love by Diviners, Contacreast

5. Paradise - Boehm Remix by Josef Salvat, Boehm

Stay tuned on this blog for more Tropical EDM monthly. Comment your favorite tropical house music below for your suggestions.

Bluedio Hurricane H Turbine: Practical Price, Great Performance

Bluetooth headsets are great gadgets for audiophiles. The Bluedio Hurricane H Turbine in particular is the cheapest Bluetooth headset you can buy that can really deliver. I bought mine from Lazada at Php 1895 ($41) but amazon has a cheaper price at $29.

What are it's features:

• It uses Bluetooth 4.1 technology which is much more efficient that the previous versions.
• Equalizer app. This is a must download for Bluedio users which allows you to maximize the device. Download the app here: http://wap.bluedio.com/t2.html .Click the Andriod Icon to download the APP.
• 3.5 mm jack: If you run out of battery simply connect the 3.5 mm jack cable or if you want to share music to another headphone/headset or even a speaker simply connect it to the port.
• 40 hrs of music playtime. This device packs serious juice. It even came charged with 70% battery and it took almost a week of playtime to drain it. This puts you at ease when you travel.
• Audio sharing: be it another Bluetooth headset or another wired headset.
• Comfortable fit. 

The package comes with a neat box with the Bluedio serial to verify its authenticity on their website. 

Package Box

Package contents: Micro USB Cable, 3.5 mm Jack cable

and Bluedio Hurricane H Turbine Headphone

Dislikes:

• Long time use can strain your ears. 
• Really loud sound that leaks if you put it on max volume. Don't use it when someone is seating near you as it might inconvenience him/her
• Fragile plastic design: Do not seat on it or drop it. It's connection at the adjustment portion is made of plastic unlike the T2 model which is metal, this makes it brittle.

 Likes:

• All the feature mentioned above
• Excellent music quality. Use the equalizer app to fully maximize the device.
• 3.5 mm jack: It means I get to use it even without power.
• 57 mm driver: packs a powerful base

 Overall this is a great product worthy of recognition at it's price point. A good mid range headphone that can really deliver.

To rate it from 1-5 stars:

Design: 4
Ease of use: 5
Durability: 3.5
Features: 5

Spotify: Switching from downloading to streaming

With the advent of streaming media and faster internet connections paired with unlimited access to the streaming library not limited to your phones storage capacity, it seems like music streaming us the way to go.

Spotify is the clear leader in the Philippine market (only Php 129) today, offering cheaper prices on some markets, even comparing it to the price of buying 1 box of pizza for a month.

I had tried spotify free for a couples of months and found the service to good, so i subscribed to premium. The pronise of adfree streaming and creating your own playlist and saving it offline so you could listen to it anytime was the deal maker. It means I could enjoy high quality music wherever I go and I have full control.

Here are some features that makes spotify great:
1. The weekly discover weekly playlist just for you. This is the best feature of spotify which gives you a playlist of suggested songs based  on your listening habits. This feature keeps expanding my library weekly. I enjoy listening to new songs that are in sync with my personal preferrence. This absolutely makes monday more lively and awesome.

2. Offline Save (Premium). As described earlier, this allows you to save your playlist and bring it with you anywhere you go without the hassle of connecting online. This is a perfect feature if you are traveling to save data and battery at the same time.
3. Duplicate songs prompt. If you saved the same songs on the same playlist, it will automatically warn you. This is a neat feature compared to using windows media player which used to allow duplicate songs in my playlist and library which is a constant pain to me.
4. Share songs. A clip of the song you like  can be shared on social media like twitter and facebook. This allows your friends to listen to that clip since player is integrated in the social media unlike just posting links.
5. Share your playlist, see what your friends are listening to realtime. This is a social integration feature in the app that allows you to see what your friends are listening to and even see their playlist if you have the same taste in music.

6. Radio. Allows you to play a playlist or broadcast in to your friends. It even adds suggested music on the playlist.
7. Recommended songs based on playlist ( PC ). This suggests more songs for the particular playlist you are on.
8. Tons of playlist. Although the browse category displays only the popular ones, there is a massive library of playlist to choose from.
9. May song categories. If you want to listen to retro music, simply select decades category and listen to the songs of the past. My personal favorite is the edm category. There is also blues, jazz, classical, rock, rnb, christian songs, comedy etc. Whatever drives your fancy, spotify has it, except for taylor swift songs :-(

10. Local files integration(PC), yes you can listen to your saved songs on your local drive via the spotify player.
11. Play music on 1 device and controll it either with your pc, tablet or phone. This is a great feature for me. I usually connect my tablet to the amplifier, then control spotify via my phone or pc wherever I am at home.

There are more features to spotify that you should discover. I'll be posting more of this next time. Feel free to leave a comment about your experience using spotify. If you haven't tried spotify yet, download it via the app store/play store.

To rate it from 1-5 stars:

Design: 4.5
Ease of use: 5
Visualizations/Album Art: 4.8
Video Playback: NA
Features: 5

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Windows Media Player Review

Windows Media Player

Growing up with windows platform, WMP had been an indispensable utility for me. I usually set it as my default .mp3 player.

It's simple and easy to use and I could easily rate songs and make playlists. One important plugin for a much richer audio experience is the DFX audio enhancer. It gives you better audio performance for your speaker and headphone and also higher volumes. Skins and visualizations are also available for download via the Microsoft website.

One thing that I'm disappointed though is that in video playback it tends to play darker pictures or high contrast videos as compared to a more vivid play by VLC.

In general it's a decent media player summarized with simplicity. If your an audiophile that wants more, you should probably consider more complex and advanced media players.

VLC vs. WMP Video Playback Comparison:

VLC

WMP

 To rate it from 1-5 stars:

Design: 4
Ease of use: 5
Visualizations: 4
Video Playback: 3.5

Download Media Player Add-on: WMP Download
Download DFX Audio Enhancer: DFX Download