Sleeve Music is out for music lovers: Exclusive to Windows Phone, it’s a beautiful way to discover music

Sleeve Music for Windows Phone

Back in early May we told you guys to join a beta for an app called Sleeve Music. A sleeve annotation (as well known every bit a linear note or album note) are those pieces of paper you institute with your vinyl records and CD cases back in the day. On them you'd detect things like biographies, info almost the anthology in your manus, and much more. These days nosotros don't really accept an equivalent. Sure iTunes offers a "digital booklet" with some albums, but yous're probably non on iTunes and Sleeve Music for Windows Phone is so much more than that. Let'southward bank check it out.

Then by having an idea of what the term "sleeve note" means you can somewhat guess the functionality of Sleeve Music for Windows Phone. It'due south an app that allows yous to follow your favorite artists. You tin can take hold of biographies, bank check out their latest social media broadcasts, view bout dates, and more all in a cute designed app for Windows Phone.

When you starting time launch the app you'll be able to chop-chop import your favorite music artists through either Facebook or Last.fm. It'southward a pretty quick manner to grab artists yous've liked or followed in the past on those social networks. And as expected, y'all can but every bit easily unfollow an artist when it's done importing. Useful for that random band you lot briefly liked for well-nigh two minutes a few years ago. And you can manually add together artists to Sleeve.

So you've added all these artists. Now what? At that place's a number of things to do with Sleeve Music and it really rocks.

You'll see what's new from your favorite artists. Hither y'all get their latest updates from places like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Soundcloud, and more than. Find similar artists to follow based off your preferences around artists yous already follow. And dig into a specific artist.

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What I really dig about the app is the playlist section. The playlist volition bring in new tracks from the artists you follow and put them together into one giant playlist that acts as a discovery machinery. It really clicked when I found some tracks from that Deadmau5 had only pushed to his Soundcloud business relationship that I had missed, simply actually enjoy at present. I also found a new Macklemore and Ryan Lewis rails that had gone unnoticed by me. It's the 21st century, I shouldn't accept to become out of my mode to find make new music from the artists I like. Sleeve makes it pretty easy to get that music.

Another cool feature is to check out upcoming shows around the artists you follow and your location. Our very own Daniel Rubino was impressed by Sleeve when information technology helped him discover that tickets were going on auction the adjacent day to check out Deltron 3030 right in NYC. Exercise we need some other Pandora or Spotify type service? Not at all, which is why it's refreshing to see an app like Sleeve come along that helps to supplement the music discovery process for artists you really care about.

Sleeve Music

Sleeve has been out of beta for a piffling over 2 weeks and recently picked upwards a fresh update that ironed out a few issues from the initial version. Overall though, it's an incredibly solid foundation for an app that has made it onto my Start screen.

Sleeve Music is gratuitous for Windows Phone 8 users. It's a dandy app if y'all love music and yous should download it right now. It's likewise a graduate of App Campus!

Grab it in the Store, utilise the QR code below, or swipe to the right in our app.

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