Hype Machine Review

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Review of Hype Machine powered by the Slant community.

Hype Machine is a music aggregator which scrapes a number of blogs for the newest and coolest songs.

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Pros

Pro
Scrapes almost 800 blogs

Hype Machine looks at content of hundreds of blogs and ranks songs by how often they are mentioned on these blogs.

Pro
In-depth tags system

The music's tagged based on genres, location, blogs, novelty and other miscellaneous information.

Pro
Cross-platform

In addition to being available on the web, Hype Machine can be accessed via mobile applications for iOS, Android, Windows Phone & BlackBerry, through Spotify, using OS X & Windows clients and on Sonos.

Pro
Personalized

Contrary to what is said in the Cons, one can personalize Hype Machine to the prefered music style. This can be done by following specific blogs writing on this style, then one will have newly discovered artists in one's feed. And it works pretty well, you can discover dozens of bands like this and buy their albums afterwards.

Cons

Con
Not personalized

Music recommendations don't take your tastes into account, meaning this feed just shows what's trending on blogs in your country / in the genre you filtered by. This means you get a lot of false positives if your tastes aren't mainstream.