You may remember my recent post about all of the streaming music services, especially the part when I whined about no proper iPhone apps for the Amazon and Google streaming music services. Today I discovered that two apps have been released by Interactive Innovative Solutions LLC (that's quite a trio of business buzzwords) that are native music players for each of those services.

aMusic is a native Amazon Cloud music player, and gMusic is a native Google Music player. Both cost $1.99, which seems reasonable. I personally bought the aMusic app today and it seems to work fine, although it definitely doesn't show all of my music - only about 25% of it seems to appear. Hopefully this is something that will smooth itself out as it stays connected.

Unfortunately, neither solution addresses my last.fm scrobbling issue, but I emailed the developer and they said that it's on their to-do list. With iTunes Match's imminent release (some are predicting the next day or so), things should get interesting really soon!

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If I was a gambling man, I would say that the era of physical media is coming to a close, and that includes physical hard drives. One of the biggest benefits of having online storage of everything would be the ability to forgo managing my physical music library - specifically, not having to lug around an iPod classic, or picking and choosing what songs to put on my iPhone's hard drive (which really should be devoted to apps/games anyway). I would like to be able to have a streaming music library.

For my own personal streaming needs, I only ask two things - 1) to be able to access and stream my music library on my iPhone as cheaply as possible and 2) to have my listens scrobble to last.fm (an essential for OCD music nerds like me). Here's a roundup of all the music services I've used or researched to meet these needs.

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This is episode of better than an episode of The Glee Project, Sarah Palin's Alaska and Gigolos combined!

Somehow we managed to talk about Shadows of the Damned, Mortal Kombat, Red Faction Guerrilla, Duke Nukem Forever, Castle Crashers, Crysis 2, Final Fantasy XIII and Trenched.

Music: Chucklefucks by Graham Wright

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I'm thinking of setting up a little 'suggestion box' for the podcast but instead of suggestions, you give us cash.

We have a lot of catch up on as we dive straight into our yearly post-E3 discussion. We also dole out some good ol' knowledge when answering your listener questions.

Music: Lemonade by Braids

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To cut costs, we've thrown away with radars this week and talk only L.A. Noire. The other option would've been to fire our backup dancers, but we really need them.

Music: When You Cry by Girls Names

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If you do not listen to this episode of The Easy Mode Podcast, we will steal your credit card information, full name, billing address, birthdate and PlayStation Home avatar.

This episode is brought to you by Crysis 2, Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, Daytripper, Entourage, Insidious and Portal 2.

Music: Rider by Okkervril River

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Aha! You thought we disappeared. Turns out we just got a little busy.

Join Tyler, Steven and Russ as they discuss Portal 2, Homefront, Crackdown 2, Test Drive Unlimited 2, Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP, and answer some fine, fine listener questions. The Portal 2 segment has spoilers, so skip it if you haven't played it yet!

Music: High on a Hill by The Little Ones

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Rearrange the letters in "The Easy Mode Podcast" and you get "A Doped Homy Cassette". Coincidence? I think not.

This week we catch up on Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP, Just Cause 2, Perfect Cell, Vanquish, Islands of Wakfu and answer your listener questions.

Music: Don't Try And Hide It by The Dodos

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We have so much knowledge and wisdom in our bodies that it's practically spilling out of our mouths and into your face-ear-holes. Yeah, you heard me. Face-ear-holes.

The usual crew returns this week to talk about Hydrophobia, Demon's Souls, Entourage, Dead Space, Castlevania: Lords of the Shadow, Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit and Infinity Blade. We've also got your sweet sweet listener questions to end the show.

Music: She Wants by Metronomy

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Look out, internet! The Easy Mode Podcast Audio Talking Show (full name) is back, now new and improved! Did you hear that? That's right, it's our new opening jingle. It's also the sound of #winning.

With Mark schmoozing it up at GDC and Tyler out with a back injury, Giang, Steven and Russ get together for some good ol' fashioned podcasting, complete with talk of Dragon Age 2, Enslaved, Beyond Good & Evil HD, Infinity Blade, PixelJunk Shooter 2, Tiny Wings on the iPhone, the iPad 2, and your listener questions.

Music: Greenleaf by Generationals

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