How often have you been listening to the music on your iPhone when you think, "Hey! I really want to listen to *insert title of song you haven't listened to in forever*!", but to your disappointment, when you go to look for that song, you realize you don't have it synced to your phone currently and will have to wait until you can get back to your computer? For me, at least, it happens all the time. Well, Simplify Music seeks to solve this dilemma that has been tearing away at techies since the dawn of the mp3 player. And I've got to say, Simplify Music does a really impressive job. What the app does is uploads all of your music to a "cloud" (very similar to Apple's Me account), and from there, your iPhone can connect to this cloud to access all of your music, from ANYWHERE! That's right, it does not just do it over wifi, but also through the cellular network of your phone. That is a really powerful ability.
The only extra step you need to take other than just download the app on your phone is to download the free software available on their website. The only real problems I foresee is that for your phone to connect with the cloud, the computer the music is coming from needs to be on and have the software running. This would be no problem for a desktop computer, but for a laptop, that is almost impossible. It's $3.99 in the AppStore, which is a little steep, but might be worth it to some users.
awesome website. You can fine-tune your stations so that they only play music that you want to hear (what a concept!). It also syncs with your online Pandora account so that you don't have to worry having two different Pandora accounts with two different stations. Really awesome app that runs really smoothly. Go get it! It's free in the AppStore.
YouTube.com for videos of whatever song you're listening to. Those are the good things, now for the not so good things. The lyrics, while they are very useful to have there, they do not scroll up with the music, you have to continuously tap the icon to make it move up to see the next line. While not a huge problem (since timing the lyrics for every single song would be impossible), it is a bit of a pain. Another problem is that the radio, while it 
works, offers no way of really searching for specific stations. You are given the option to look at genres and the top played stations. It also does not appear that the radio stations offer lyrics. And the final downfall would be the speed of the app. It could be because of my massive music library, but the app has a lag like no other. You really must be patient with this fickle app. A future update could possibly solve this issue, provided there is one. But hey! It's a free app that shows you the lyrics of all the songs already in your music library. Not half bad! :)
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