Two Iona College Students release iTrax
Published February 28, 2012 | 
iTrax is an iPad app that allows you to create a song library of your favorite songs and only plays your favorite parts of those songs. If you like a particular song, but don’t like a particular verse, you can use iTrax to skip past it.
Notable features include: Shuffle Capable Music Player, Alphabetized Play-listing, Lock Screen Controller capabilities, and Song Fading (in/out). You also have the ability to listen to your edited song before adding it to your iTrax library. This ensures that you edits are accurate and smooth. iTrax 2.0 (the newest version) even allows you to export your new songs to your computer.
There isn’t a lot to this app, but there doesn’t need to be. For $1, you can create a library comprised of your favorite song parts.
Kudos to the young men (Nicholas Krzemineski and Sean O’Shea) who created this app while still in school. It’s nice to see our Youth pushing boundaries and attempting big things.
Conversely, it’s also a bit worrying that we live in an age where attention spans are so low that people can only bear to listen to certain ‘parts’ of songs and not the song in it’s entirety. Gone are the days of people listening to an entire album, now we can’t even make it through an entire song without getting bored?
If you only have time to listen to parts of your favourite songs be sure to check out iTrax!
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This is just what we need for sports competitions where we want background music and rapidly need parts of songs for prize giving ceremonies, national anthems etc, And similar to ice skating, where each competitor provides their own music track.
Robert