Each day I drive by a very historic building in our neighborhood. The building at 4 W. Franklin Street in Centerville, Ohio has housed a variety of businesses dating clear back to 1872.



According the Centerville-Washington Township Historical Society

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Source: http://www.mvcc.net/Centerville/histsoc/clark.htm

My only recollections of the structure have been recent. I moved to Centerville in 1988. I can remember a variety of shops in the building, including the Coffee Affair (my favorite), the Ashley and Hillary Boutique, a (very high priced) denim clothing store, and another clothing boutique. None of these lasted for long. One of the primary culprits appears to be a lack of available parking for a retail store. (I feel that some of the failure was the very eclectic nature of the retail goods and the extremely high prices.)

Recently, however, I've noticed a new logo on the windows of the building. As I am an active musician and fan of most things of the techno-geek variety, the logo caught my eye.



As it turns out, this is the new home for operations of TuneWiki.com. It is hard for me to fully describe the service, but I can tell you that it offers a cool system that streams lyrics to the songs that you are actively listening. It does this on the web and via a number of apps for the iPhone/iPod, Android phones, Blackberry/Storm devices, and Nokia phones (Symbian). There is a Windows Media Player plugin, a console for MSIE and Firefox and more. Of course, there doesn't seem to be an app for Windows Mobile. There never seems to be an app for Windows Mobile. I carry a WinMo phone. Go figure.

The site -- and the apps it seems -- also offers:

• Music News
  
• Streaming music
  
• Forums for music fans to discuss the songs they like/dislike
  
• Social connections to Facebook and Twitter
  
• Map charting to show what people are listening to -- with geolocation
  
• Music downloads

and a ton of other stuff. It looks like they are constantly developing more content and technology to cater to music fans.

The service appears to be free. The iPod app that I downloaded was free, as well. There are advertisements served both on the web site and within the app that I have been using. This integrates well and has not distracted me from enjoying the service.

So far I have been impressed with some of the features of this app. It catalogs the music that I already have on my iPod. When I start listening to this music within the app, it downloads lyrics to the song I'm listening to and shows them line-by-line in real time with the tune. Impressive! There have only been a few songs where lyrics were unavailable, but this doesn't surprise me as they are from independent artists or more eclectic offerings. There is also a limited number of artists where the service will not be able to provide lyric content. They state on the TuneWiki site:

From 18 April 2010 - 04:12 PM:

I'm quite impressed with the extensive offering of the site. It caters well to listeners of popular music. As a listener of more independent music -- or less mainstream artists -- I may not always find what I'm looking for here. I certainly could care less about what L@dy G*G* is doing, but there is a lot of content on the site about that one. [Artist name submitted differently by this author, as I don't want the flame wars and comment spam that results from this high profile search term.]

I guess the thing that impresses me the most, though, is that the operation is in place in a very historic building in the center of my little town. The computers, desks, and high tech logo on the windows and walls is a stark contrast to the very rustic and historic appearance that we often see in this building. It is nice to know that a business in the tech industry has found its way to my neighborhood. (I wonder if they need a media relations/promotions guy? I could walk to work!) And, of course, this doesn't appear to be a retail operation. It is an office environment for an online operation.

Give them a try on your iPod/iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Symbian device. Or just click on over to TuneWiki.com to see what they're all about.

Hey guys!

I'm surprised that this hasn't appeared in the forum yet! This has gotta be one of the best free app that Ovi Store has ever given the users.

It's called TuneWiki. I believed that they once had a similar version prior called 'TuneWiki Music Lyrics Search' but that was a Paid app and is only a 1/4 of what this new version offers.

In this new version that was recently beta- tested, it comes with tons of features that I myself cannot even believe that is even FREE!!!

I know, we're all thinking if this is some hoax or something but it is clear that it IS a FREE app and not some Trial thingy. I find this kinda strange still though but really, why am I complaining???

So, TuneWiki basically redefines your way of listening to music by incorporating your OWN music library into the app and combining it with thousands (or shall i take a risk, millions,maybe?) of lyrics from the www, plus the ability to search for Music videos related and has even Twitter and Facebook status update options.

This is friggin' amazing!

So i will list down the great features that comes with the app to ease your eyes:

-Sync own music library with the app
-options to read lyrics in karaoke style as song plays (must enable 3G Internet to sync lyrics from www to the app)
-downloads album art immediately to the app
-SHOUTcast radio (listen to various radio stations worldwide or choose by genre)
-Inbuilt YouTube Music Video search
-Save your YouTube MV into your library for future viewing
-View YouTube MV from the app itself
-Song Lyrics search
-Music Maps (see where in the world the song you're listening to is playing via Google Maps)
-TuneWiki Top 50 (Artist OR Song Around the World OR by Country)
-Sync Twitter & Facebook account with the app to post updates about the song you're listening to.
- Read what other people are saying about the song
-Use TuneWiki's music player offline

And really, the list goes on and on.

This has to be the greatest Christmas present Ovi Store has given us and I'm thankful for that.

You can download it from the Ovi Store here: http://store.ovi.com/content/22436

TuneWiki, one of our favorite mobile apps, is finally in the App Store in a non-gimped way with full access to your iTunes library (if you close it, it keeps playing through iPod even, like a fake background app).

You get subtitled lyrics (with translations), music maps showing where people are listening to what, internet radio, video search and you can "blip" what you're listening to Twitter, Facebook or wherever kids hang out these days. It's free, and definitely worth checking out. You can also grab it on Android or BlackBerry, if you're so inclined.