Like a lot of people, I was hardly bowled over by Apple’s first stab at its Podcasts app. It didn’t support playlists, didn’t sync podcasts between devices, and its Now Playing screen was split into two pieces—one of which featured a reel-to-reel tape recorder interface that, while cute for those who had some notion of what such a device was, took up a lot of space and provided very little useful feedback.

With each update, Podcasts has improved slightly, but version 1.2, released on Thursday, is the reboot that we’ve been waiting for. Playlists (called Stations) have been added, iCloud syncing has been implemented to ensure synchronization between devices (and with iTunes on your computer), and the Now Playing screen is a single unit that blessedly lacks the tape-deck interface. Let’s look at these highlights.

Station to station

Fire up Podcasts and you’ll now discover a My Stations button at the bottom of the screen. Tap it and you’re taken to the Stations screen. Here you find three entries—On the Go, Most Recent, and All Unplayed. A number bubble to the right of each entry reflects the number of episodes that either haven’t been played at all or have been only partially played. To create a new station just tap the New Station button. You’re prompted to name and save your station. A sheet (iPad) or screen (iPhone and iPod) pops up, displaying all the podcast series that are on your device.

You can choose to include all your podcasts in the station or just those you’ve selected. By default, they’re all selected, so just tap those that you don’t want to include. When you’re finished, tap Done.

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The Public Radio Player app for iPhone has been around long enough that it could almost be called “venerable”—the offering from PRX was one of the first iOS audio player apps to stream live radio, effectively turning the then-new iPhone into a broadcast tuner that could receive live, dynamic audio content from anywhere in the world. In fact, we reviewed an early version of the appin 2009.

Version 3.0 of the app, released in February, builds on all of Public Radio Player’s many demonstrated strengths from throughout the years: It remains one of the best aggregators of public radio content in the land—with more than 500 stations available for live streaming and more than 1,000 listen-on-demand programs—and the app keeps adding features to make it ever more useful. But two things plague the radio player: One old shortcoming, and that it mostly falls short when compared to similar rival apps.

Not that there’s nothing to love about the revamped app. The visual design has been updated—for greater contrast, the developers at PRX say, but the green-and-orange color palette gives off a funky vibe. And the listen-on-demand features of the app have become more podcast-like, letting users download episodes of shows to listen to later offline.

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When the Remote app first launched in 2008, it could control your Mac and Apple TV’s music from afar—but that was about it. The program has come a long way in four years: Version 3.0, which launched alongside iTunes 11, gives the whole app a good polish along with a new iPad interface and a few new features that tie in nicely with Apple’s latest desktop media manager.

Feature-rific

The Remote app retains most of the features you might know and love from version 2.4: You can connect to your iTunes or Apple TV libraries via Home Sharing, control content playback, create and edit playlists, tap into other shared music libraries, trigger the visualizer remotely, and create Genius playlists.

Version 3.0 takes all of those features, adds a few tricks, and incorporates iTunes 11 improvements. From the start, the icons in the Remote library have been updated to reflect iTunes' new silver icon; you’ll also spot colored icons in the iPad version of the app.

The Remote app’s biggest new feature is support for Up Next, iTunes 11’s live playlist/jukebox. Once you start playing a song from the app (or connect the app to a library already playing music), iTunes generates an Up Next list of songs. You can add to the list or edit it at any time by tapping the Up Next icon and choosing the Add or Edit button, respectively. The Up Next icon also holds a button for viewing your listening history, in case you want to hear a certain song again.

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With an abundance of radio and podcast apps swarming the App Store, any new radio app has to bring something different (or better) to the table in order to grab your attention. TuneIn Radio Pro—a $1 app for iPhone and iPad—does just that: it creates a sort of audio DVR for your iOS device.

Apps like iHeartRadio already provide access to thousands of radio station streams for users to listen to on their iPhone or iPad. Stitcher Radio combines that live stream access with a podcast library that lets users create an audio-on-demand experience. But TuneIn Radio Pro, on the other hand, has radio feeds from 70,000 stations and reportedly more than 2 million podcast selections, while also offering users the option to record live radio feeds.

That recording can take place in real time—just push the red “record” button if you like what you’re listening to, just like teenagers of the 1980s did with their boom boxes and cassette tapes. Or you can set the app to record a specific time. If, for example, you know that Terry Gross will be conducting a particularly interesting interview while you’re away from the radio, or if there’s a “morning zoo” crew you love to listen to without the kids, TuneIn Pro lets you schedule the recording and listen later.

TuneIn Radio, the free version of the same app, doesn’t include the recording option and features banner advertising. Otherwise, both the pro and free versions offer the same features. TuneIn Radio Pro also offers a live buffering stream, so you can pause a song in the middle to take a call, or rewind and re-listen to a song you just heard two minutes ago—similar to how you can rewind live video on a DVR-equipped television.

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iTunes gives you the ability to access thousands of free streaming Internet radio stations from around the world. But what about if you want to spin the virtual radio dial on an iOS device as well? You may have found some great Internet radio stations that play just the right type of music for work or play and want to access them on the go. Or you may have a favorite radio station for news, talk, or music that’s streamed over the Internet. Luckily, you can replicate some of what iTunes offers on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch with some third-party apps.

For starters, there are iOS apps for services like Last.fm ( ), Pandora Radio ( ), Sirius XM, and Slacker Radio ( ), offering each of those services’ content, either paid or free. (You may or may not have mobile access in your subscription with some of the above.)

1. Shoutcast offers 54,000-plus radio stations, and you can access them with the free Shoutcast Radio iOS app. This app is easy to navigate, but has minimal features. You can view what you’re listening to, if the station provides this information, but there’s no album art or lyrics.

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Back when I had a morning commute, I would often pop in some earbuds before hopping on the bus and rock out to one of the many tunes on my iPhone as we rode through Chinatown. The problem, of course, came when I reached my desk mid-song: Did I pause and try and find the song on my Mac’s iTunes library? Or did I continue to listen through my iPhone, only to look up hours later and realize I’d drained my phone’s battery when I should have switched to my desktop?

Luckily, there was Seamless (Mac App Store link), a little app—actually, a pair of apps, a free one for the Mac and a $2 app for the iPhone—to rescue me from this daunting first-world problem.

Seamless allows you to easily transition a song, podcast, or audiobook mid-play from your Mac to an iOS device, and vice versa. The Mac and iOS apps even coordinate fades on each device, bringing the volume of “Don’t Stop Believin’” down on your Mac as it cranks up the volume on your iPhone. Both devices need to be on the same Wi-Fi network at the time of the transition, and, of course, each must have access to the same audio file to pull this off, but fulfill those two criteria and you’ve got yourself a magic trick.

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The Guitar Collection: George Harrison highlights seven guitars from the former Beatle’s personal collection, with more to be added in future releases of this iPad app. A must-have for hard-core Beatles fans and guitar aficionados, this $10 download also deserves the attention of developers of content-rich iPad apps. It’s fun, informative, and a pleasure to use.

The Guitar Collection: George Harrison was produced by Harrison’s son Dhani, who is a musician, and released through Bandwidth. The care taken with the app is evident throughout, with a few exceptions. Guitar Collection provides in-depth information, via text, photos, rotating images, and audio formats about each guitar. This information is both historical (how Harrison came to purchase the guitar, how and when he used it most, custom alterations that were made, and information about each instrument’s manufacturer).

In addition, a full-screen view of each guitar in portrait mode enables you to tap different parts of the guitar for more detail on that part. For example, you can discover that Harrison’s Zemaitis Lotus 12-String has a rosewood bridge, solid spruce top, and mahogany neck.

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You’d be hard pressed to find anyone more devoted than I am to GarageBand in both its Mac OS and iOS forms. For musicians (and those who want to play at being musicians for a few minutes or hours), they’re remarkable applications. But the iOS version has always lacked something its Mac-based sibling has had from the get-go—the ability to edit your work.

With GarageBand 1.2, that sour note has been corrected. Additionally, the latest version of GarageBand adds a new Smart Strings instrument, track merging, a broader variety of sharing options, iCloud song sync, and, most intriguing of all, Jam Session, a feature that allows up to four players using four separate compatible iOS devices to record a song together. With GarageBand 1.2, awesome gets kicked up to 11.

Fixing your flubs

By way of background, digital audio workstation (DAW) applications that record input from music keyboard controllers are like word processor applications in that they allow you to correct mistakes. If you’ve hit the wrong note, played a note at the wrong time, or banged on a note with too much force, you have the ability to edit what you’ve done—delete or move notes, shift notes forward or back in time, as well as increase notes’ velocity (which translates to louder or software volume along with a change in the sound’s character or timbre). Additionally, if you’ve missed a note altogether (or would like to cheat by adding a string of them that you couldn't possibly play by hand), you can simply add the notes you want. All this could be done in the OS X version of GarageBand but not the iOS version—until now.

To edit a note in GarageBand 1.2, simply double tap on the note in a software instrument track (meaning a track that uses GarageBand’s internal sounds rather than a track recorded using a microphone or external instrument such as a guitar) and a series of commands appears, as it did in the past. New to this series is the Edit command. Tap it and you see a “piano roll” view (rectangles on a grid that represent notes) of the track’s pitches. To move a pitch elsewhere, just drag it. As you do, GarageBand will play the pitch associated with its current position—so, drag it up from C to E and you’ll hear C, C#, D, and E as you move the note over these pitches. To increase or decrease a note’s duration, tap to select the note and drag on its right side to lengthen or shorten it. To change its velocity, tap on it and tap Velocity in the series of buttons that appears. When you do, a slider appears, which you use to alter its velocity. As you drag the slider, the note plays at the velocity shown on the slider—getting softer as you drag the slider to the left and louder as you drag to the right.

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There’s little that’s more jarring than listening to one member of a musical ensemble whose instrument is out of tune—be it band, orchestra, or small ensemble. At one time, we relied on our ears to help adjust our instruments to the proper pitch. Thanks to technology in the form of electronic tuners, that’s no longer necessary. Using one of these tuners you can play a note and see exactly where its pitch falls.

These tuners were once the exclusive purview of hardware devices that you’d purchase at the local music shop. These doodads generally carry both a microphone and audio input, for acoustic and electric instruments, respectively. Thanks to microphone-bearing iOS devices, it’s mostly no longer necessary to purchase a separate tuner unless you absolutely require an audio input jack and you haven’t purchased an iOS accessory that provides one. While not exactly a dime-a-dozen, many tuner apps can now be found at the App Store. One such app is Bitcount’s $4 Cleartune — Chromatic Tuner.

Cleartune operates in two basic modes. The first is the pitch identification mode that you’re accustomed to seeing in other tuners. Play a note on your instrument, your iOS device’s microphone picks it up, and a wheel and graph indicate where that pitch falls—above or below the pitch you’re trying to hit. Unlike other tuner apps I’ve used, Cleartune displays results as fine as 1/100 of a cent. So, use the big wheel to get close and then fine tune with the graph that shows these much smaller increments. As the volume of the note you’re playing decreases, the red indicator line in the fine-tuning graph fades, indicating your reading may not be reliable.

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National Public Radio recently optimized its free NPR Music to run natively on the iPad; previously, the app had been limited to the iPhone and iPod touch. This revamped version, which lets you access both live music-centric NPR streams and archived content, has plenty to offer music lovers.

NPR Music’s home screen serves up links to featured stories, radio stations, headlines (such as upcoming concerts), and archived audio and video performances and interviews. You can further navigate around the app using a variety of buttons, which are laid out differently depending on whether you’re using the roomier iPad version or the more compact iPhone version. The iPad version features Articles, Videos, Programs, Genres, Favorites, Search, and Settings buttons on the app’s Home screen. On the iPhone, you find Home, Radio, Artists, and Playlist buttons arrayed along the bottom of the screen. It’s on the app’s Home screen that you see links to radio, programs, concerts, blogs, and new additions. You can find much of the same content with each version of the app, it’s the navigation that differs.

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Rolling Stone has taken a newsstand publication, The Beatles: The Ultimate Album-by-Album Guide, and converted it into an iPad app. The result, for the most part, is excellent. The publication, which costs $10 on newsstands, also costs $10 as an iPad app. And you do get your money’s worth.

The app includes all of the text that is in the print publication, which means that every Beatles album gets a thoughtful review, some get “short appreciations” by such notables as James Taylor, Liam Gallagher, and Liz Phair, and every song gets a capsule review. In addition there are many photos of the band in a variety of settings: in the studio, on stage, backstage, goofing around, and so on. Along with each song’s description, you can tap an arrow button, and hear a 30-second sample of the song.

New Beatles fans, and those taking a first dip into the story behind the music, will find this app chock full of great background information. Much of this is well-trodden territory, covered in scores of books (Steve Turner’s A Hard Day’s Write is just one notable example), magazines, and documentaries, but even true Beatles aficionados are likely to uncover some previously unknown details.

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Make Santa sing and dance with Singing Santa HD, a new holiday app from Khush. Available in both iPhone and iPad versions, this app showcases the Khush (now part of Smule) voice recording and auto-tuning technology already on display in apps like Songify and LaDiDa. In Singing Santa’s case, you can create holiday videos and postcards to send to your friends and family. Although the app has crisp animation (Santa’s belly actually jiggles like a bowl full of jelly), and solid voice playback, it’s a little on the kitschy side and will mostly appeal to kids.

Singing Santa HD stars—you guessed it—an animated tricked-out Santa Claus, outfitted in shutter-shades and a Khush ball cap. Tap the Record button, and Santa holds out his microphone to capture a voice recording. Say or sing whatever you want, presumably a holiday greeting or song lyric, and the app will auto-tune your voice and set it to music. Santa then sings the recording back to you, complete with disco-ball effects and dance moves.

The app has ten classic Christmas songs to choose from as your recording track, like Deck the Halls, 12 Days of Christmas, and Jingle Bells (not to be confused with Jingle Bellz—a Singing Santa exclusive hip hop remix). The auto-tune plays back loud and clear, and is pretty comical: Your words are kept intact and the messages are easy to understand through the robotic voice. The auto-tune feature also attempts to match your voice to the tune of the selected song, but this feature works better with some songs than others. And unless you time your recordings perfectly, the rhythm of the auto-tuned message won’t align well with the instrumental track.

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When reviewing the 1.0 release of GarageBand for iPad, I wrote: “This amazing tool—complete with eight-track recording, easy-does-it interface, customizable and easily played virtual instruments, on-board loops, sampler, guitar amps and effects, drum machine, and tuner—may be the most inspiring musical iOS app I’ve ever used. And at a meager $5, it’s an astonishing bargain. Musician or not, it’s a must-have app.” To underscore the point, I slapped a 5-mouse rating on it.

So how does Apple improve on what was already a remarkable music app? By making it a universal app compatible with the iPhone 3GS and third-generation iPod touch and later; adding support for 3/4 and 6/8 time signatures; allowing you to configure custom chords for autoplay instruments; providing new swing and triplet quantization settings; adding an arpeggiator feature to Smart Keyboard instruments; and tweaking GarageBand’s velocity sensitivity settings for more predictable results.

I understand that, after running your eyes over these improvements, non-musicians may be thinking, “Ohh-kay, not for me.” I implore you to stick around. GarageBand was developed, in large part, with you in mind. Sure, “real” musicians will find it an invaluable tool for sketching out their more harmonious thoughts, but it also exists to allow those without a dominant music gene to experience the thrill of creating a tuneful composition.

My colleague, Serenity Caldwell, has taken an admirable first look at GarageBand 1.1 and many of its new features, so I needn’t repeat her efforts. What I can do is provide a bit more perspective on how these features can help musical newbies as well as those with more sonic seasoning.

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The Smule team is at it again—and this time, they’re getting somewhat jiggy with it. AutoRap is the latest music-making app from the company behind titles like I Am T-Pain, Magic Piano, and Ocarina. AutoRap aims to turn your speech from plain vanilla to, say, Vanilla Ice.

Like so many of Smule’s vocal manipulation apps, AutoRap auto-tunes your voice to fit in with its pre-programmed rap beats. It also tweaks your syncopation, adjusting your spoken word rhythms so that the final product both hips and hops.

AutoRap can mash-up your recordings with songs from Snoop Dogg, Nicki Minaj, the Beastie Boys and others. Though the app itself is free, it uses an approach wherein you must spend in-game currency on backing tracks. That currency is divided into two tiers—you need to earn premium currency for more premium tracks. You can get the in-game currency by paying for it, or by taking advantage of offers built into the app: Watch a commercial, sign up for a service, or fill out a survey, for example, and you can earn more of the virtual lucre.

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In a world dominated by Apple’s media efforts, other means of purchasing and consuming media are sometimes overlooked. One such means is Amazon MP3 and its accompanying Cloud Player.

If you haven’t used Cloud Player, here’s the gist: Amazon provides 5GB of storage for free through its Cloud Drive service. Tracks you purchase from Amazon MP3 are also available via the Cloud Drive, but don’t count against the storage limit. If you’ve purchased a storage plan (starting at $20 for 20GB of storage) you can upload and access an unlimited number of tracks.

Accessing that music is now much easier thanks to the free Amazon Cloud Player app. Currently available in the smaller format suitable for iPhone and iPod touches (though it can be used on an iPad as well), the app allows you to not only play and download the music stored on your Cloud Drive, but play any music stored on your iOS device—music you’ve transferred to your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad for use in Apple’s Music app, for instance.

The app’s design is quite straightforward—making good use of limited space by offering Playlists, Artists, Albums, Songs, and Genres tabs along the top of the screen. Just tap one of these tabs and you’ll find the appropriate entries listed below. You can additionally browse your music stored on Amazon’s servers or stored locally by tapping the Cloud and Device buttons respectively.

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As of Wednesday, Spotify customers have yet another device they can stream their songs to: The music subscription service is now available as a native app for the iPad.

Spotify launched Version 0.5.0 of its iOS app on Wednesday morning, expanding from an iPhone-only offering to a universal app optimized for all iOS devices running iOS 5 or later. The app continues to give listeners access to millions of tracks of music, even when they’re offline, and can be played wirelessly on stereo systems using your iOS device’s AirPlay capabilities. The upgrade also includes Retina graphics for both interface and album art.

Other upgrades to the app include gapless playback and crossfading; bugs that caused the app to crash while updating playlists or starring song tracks have also been fixed.

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iPhoto for iOS received its first update since its release in March. Version 1.0.1 (113 MB) includes a Copy Link button for your journal’s URL to use when publishing a journal to iCloud. The update also fixes an issue that could cause duplicate photos to appear in Photos view.

The Cards update comes just in time for Mother’s Day—version 1.1.2 (33.8 MB) includes letterpress cards made with Mom in mind. Other updates include new Get Well card designs; plus new designs for birthdays, thank you cards, and more. Addressing envelopes will also be easier, as the app improves address verification accuracy and fixes an issue with editing addresses.

Apple fixed a few small issues with GarageBand, including an issue that sometimes caused songs to crash or go missing when being pushed to iCloud. GarageBand version 1.2.1 (801 MB) also fixes a SoundCloud error that occurs when logging in through Facebook.

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On Wednesday, SRS Labs, maker of audio enhancement hardware and applications, released an updated version of its MyTunes music browser and player, and added an iPad-compatible version for the first time. MyTunes Pro (iPhone and iPod touch) and MyTunes Pro HD (iPad) are akin to Apple’s Music app, but include options for tweaking the sound of your music. (I’ve been testing the MyTunes Pro HD iPad app for several weeks, and my observations that follow relate to that version, although the features are almost entirely the same on the non-HD app—the non-HD version has a Driving feature for easier app navigation.)

The free app allows you to use its advanced features for 10 minutes a day is available for free (think of it as a demo of the real app). The Premium Package costs $10, via in-app purchase. For that $10 (or $7 for the iPhone/iPod touch version) you gain full access to the Wow HD sound enhancement, EQ, TruSpeed speed control, TruVolume volume leveling, and Party and Workout mixer features. The app additionally contains some limited support for iTunes Match tracks. These are my first impressions.

Why another music browser?

Not everyone who owns an iPad is satisfied with Apple’s Music app. While its album-cover view is attractive, it becomes clumsy to navigate when you have a large music collection. And it becomes less attractive when you have unmatched album artwork—leading to scores of generic icons—which can easily happen with iTunes Match content.

Although MyTunes Pro HD displays artwork in the Album and Playlists views, every other view—Song, Artists, Genres, Composers, Audiobooks, Podcasts, and Compilations—is a list. These lists aren’t nearly as sexy as album covers, but I’ve found they get you to where you want to go more quickly than scrolling through screen after screen of album artwork. Unlike the Music App, MyTunes Pro HD offers a variety of attractive generic album art, which is assigns randomly to those albums that lack artwork.

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NPR recently released its first version of the NPR Music app for the iPad. Like its iPhone and iPod touch predecessor, NPR Music for iPad is free (but ad supported) and offers access to both live music-centric NPR streams as well as archived content. Here’s a first look at the new app and what it has to offer music lovers—spoiler alert: it’s a great app.

The layout

This very slick app opens to a home screen that provides links to featured stories, radio stations, headlines (in my case the announcement of an upcoming free concert by The Shins), and archived audio and video performances and interviews. Along the top of the display are Articles, Videos, Programs, Genres, Favorites, Search, and Settings buttons.

Tap the Articles button and you’ll see a list of featured archived content. This includes audio tracks, videos, and text articles. The Videos button takes you to a screen that offers links to featured videos taken from a variety of NPR programs. Tap the Programs button to display such featured programs as All Songs Considered, First Listen, Song of the Day, Alt Latino, World Cafe, NPR Music Live, Tiny Desk Concerts, Favorite Sessions, The Thistle & Shamrock, Mountain Stage, Piano Jazz, and 50 Great Voices. Although not specifically listed, you’ll also find audio clips taken from the popular Fresh Air program. Tap Genres to see entries for Rock, Jazz, Classical, Hip-Hop/R&B, Folk, World, and Electronic/Dance.

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Tappr.tv lets iPhone and iPad users create customized music visualizations—think lights and effects that appear in time with the music. Users can then share their creations with the rest of the Tappr.tv community.

Version 5.0 of the app hit the iOS App Store this week, and Tappr.tv creator Deeje Cooley was on hand at Macworld | iWorld's Mobile Apps Showcase to demo the latest release.

Tappr.tv lets allows users to create their own unique visualizations to go with songs already in their music library. You can watch and rate visualizations made by other users who have the same songs in their music library

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Shazam, best known for the music recognition app—the one that tells you whether you’re hearing Michael Bublé or Michael Bolton—released a new iPhone app on Wednesday: Shazam Player. The app plays back music from your iPhone’s library, adding in support for live lyric display, social network integration, YouTube artist videos, and concert information.

The feature that Shazam seems most excited about is LyricPlay, which scrolls the lyrics for the song you’re listening to, so that you can sing along, or correct your “Hold Me Closer, Tony Danza”-esque mis-hearings. In practice, the feature is a mixed bag: While the lyrics lined up perfectly in my test with The Beatles’ “Hard Day’s Night,” with numerous other artists, sometimes LyricPlay seemed to run several measures ahead of the singer. LyricPlay can match more than 30,000 songs already, and Shazam says it’s adding more every day. The company previously showcased LyricPlay in its paid Encore app.

The app can browse your iTunes playlists, and also offers the option to create Shazam-only playlists—including a default Good List and Bad List, which contain songs you do and don’t want to hear, respectively.

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While the Music app on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch might be sufficient for you, there are plenty of other apps you can use to listen to music on your iOS device. Some offer unique ways of organizing and listening to music, and others focus on providing better sound. Here’s a look at three apps that you can use to listen differently to music on iOS.

While these three apps approach playing music differently, you may find that one of them offers something you are missing in the default Music app. Try them out and see if you get more out of your music. (And note that there are many music apps for your iOS device, and this is just a small taste of what you’ll find on the App Store.)

1. Enhance your music’s sound with SonicMax Pro

When you listen to music on an iOS device, it may not be in optimal situations. If you’re on the move, you may listen on mediocre headphones in loud environments (the morning commute, say). If you’re in your office, you may have a small iPod speaker dock. Or you might be listening on some excellent noise-canceling headphones or using audiophile-grade cans.

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It used to cost a fortune to set up a centralized sound system in your home. All you need now are a few simple items, many of which you already have: a Mac; an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad; Apple’s free Remote app; a wireless network; an AirPort Express; and, of course, some music.

Using the Remote app to control iTunes on a Mac and stream content to speakers or to an Apple TV opens the door to a more logical way to listen to music. No more finding a CD and bringing it to the stereo in the room where you want to listen; just store everything on a Mac, and stream.

We’ve written about how to set up such a sound system already, but here are a few tips to make this system even better.

1. Start the DJ from scratch

iTunes DJ is a feature in iTunes that lets you queue up music for listening. Formerly called Party Shuffle, it’s designed to take a random selection of music from your library, or from a selected playlist, and play the songs in order. You can add songs to it as you go, or rearrange them to suit your mood.

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