Playing background music on your phone

As you know I like to use music in my games. Sometimes though I’m without my laptop and a full Softrope setup. It’s then that I turn to my phone.

I used both the iPod functionality and the premium version of Spotify on my iPhone to play background music. The iPhone though, just like most phones, has a quite poor speaker.

So I bought one of these.

X Mini II portable speaker

These little things are great. Light, small and very powerful. With an 11 hour battery life and chargable via USB they are fantastically handy to slip quickly in a bag. The dynamic range is amazing for the size of the speaker, you’re players won’t even know you’ve got one behind your screen until you make them jump with an impressive sound effect or rousing musical score!

And to top it all they only cost £13.99!

More info at http://bit.ly/xmini2.

Since the dark days of the late '70s, Iain has been playing and running RPGs of one type or another. When not with his wife and children or working as a software engineer/Photoshop monkey he spends spare time either shooting pointy sticks at pointless paper targets or spending time enjoying the varied worlds of role playing.