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We’ve covered all kinds of tools recently, from no-code tools to AI tools. Depending on where you are, you might've entered the last month of summer. We’re taking this chance to do something a little more laid back and fun, like a round-up of recently launched music apps.

The celebration of International Friendship Day last weekend reminded us of Spotify's latest launch, Friends Mix. The new personalized playlist allows you to discover new tracks based on Blends you’ve created with your friends. According to TechCrunch, “Spotify says there are more than 11 million user-generated playlists with the word “friend” in the title. The company also notes that there has been a 35% increase in streams of these playlists in 2022 in the United States, compared to last year.”

MD Vinyl has skyrocketed on the App Store charts, becoming #1 in the US, overtaking TikTok and BeReal. The iOS widget connects to your Spotify or Apple Music app to sync the song you're playing and display it as a vinyl in the widget. Pretty retro, huh?

sona’s music-based digital therapeutic app is aimed at helping relieve anxiety symptoms. The music is created by Grammy-winning producers and artists, using a composition process backed by leading neuroscientists.

If you’re feeling brave and want to create the music yourself, Chord Genius helps you learn songs on the guitar, using chords and lyrics that move along. You can stream music from Spotify, Apple Music, or YouTube and change the playback speed so you can learn at your own pace. You can’t rush art, after all.

Inspired by Mother Nature, earth.fm is like Spotify for natural soundscapes. Its interactive map takes you from listening to birds in the Congo basin rainforest to albatrosses in the Indian Ocean. Bonus points for partnering with charities focused on creating jobs, protecting ecosystems, and helping mitigate climate change.

Finally, ICYMI, check out Limewire’s comeback.

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• Golden Kitty Award winner Workspaces has a new look. You can now visualize at-a-glance the work setups of creatives, designers, developers, and entrepreneurs on a dedicated website.

• Tara Reed, founder of Apps Without Code, a no-code online school, is doing an AMA on Discussions. Ask her anything about building with no code here.

• Charged is a collection of handpicked electric products, ranging from boats and cars to bikes and drones.

• Kill some time with Flappy Musk, a reincarnation of Flappy Bird, except it’s Elon saying “that was like stupidity squared” from time to time.

Meta launched BlenderBot 3, a conversational AI that can chat about nearly any topic and is designed to learn and improve by conversing with people in the real world.

If this makes you uneasy, Meta shared that “a focal point of our research is to ensure appropriate safety measures for the chatbot during this process. We developed new techniques that enable learning from helpful teachers while avoiding learning from people who are trying to trick the model into unhelpful or toxic responses.”