As the Grammy Awards pops in, I’ve counted it a duty to help everyone in here enjoy the experience right from the corner of their bedrooms with this App.
So,take these steps and sail through the Grammy for the entertainment.
The 56th
Annual Grammy awards that aired this Sunday at 8 p.m. Eastern, and, unless you’re
a 13-year-old girl, you probably haven’t heard half the people who are
nominated.
That’s where
The
Recording Academy’s official app comes in handy. It displays all of
this year’s nominees for each category and also allows you to swipe to see who
the winners and nominees for the past four years were.
(The full list of Grammy nominees on the Web is here.)
(The full list of Grammy nominees on the Web is here.)
So, for
instance, if you wanted to get scholarly about it, you could swipe through to
see that Esperanza Spalding, the Best New Artist at the awards show three
years ago, is nowhere to be found on this year’s list of nominees. (So much for
that vote of confidence.)
The best
part of this app, however, is the ability to listen to all the music that’s
been honored this year. Here’s how you do it:
2. Open the app, and you’ll arrive at this
home screen.
Then...
3.
Tap the menu, which is the three horizontal lines at the top left of the screen
4. Tap the section titled Winners & Nominees
5. You’ll be redirected to a page where you
can scroll through this year’s nominees, arranged by category. If you’d like to
see the nominees and the winners from the past four years, just tap the awards
show number at the top of the screen. When you’re ready to listen to music, tap
the headphones in the upper-right corner.
6. Snippets of each song you select will
begin playing, but if you’d like to hear full songs, you’ll have to log in. To
do that, click the Log In button in the upper-left corner of the screen.
7. You’ll then be asked to log into the
streaming music service Rdio via Facebook or your own email account. If you
don’t have an account with Rdio, then Facebook is the fastest way to log in.
8. If you chose the first option, you’ll then
be asked to log into your Facebook account.
9.
After you’ve entered your information, you’ll be asked to allow the Grammy app
access to your Rdio account (which you just logged into via Facebook). I know,
so many apps.
10.
With that, you’ll be brought back to the screen of this year’s nominated
artists. Press the Play button to listen and the Skip button to move along to
the next song.
Now you can listen to all the nominated
artists and decide who you’re rooting for on Sunday. (Spotify users: Here’s
your playlist.)
Cheers
