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Add to SafariWhen comparing Hype Machine vs Songza, the Slant community recommends Hype Machine for most people. In the question“What are the best ways of finding new music?” Hype Machine is ranked 7th while Songza is ranked 11th. The most important reason people chose Hype Machine is:
Hype Machine looks at content of hundreds of blogs and ranks songs by how often they are mentioned on these blogs.
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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.
Pro Music based on mood or event
Songza will ask a series of questions to deduce what kind of playlist you should listen to.
Pro Playlists by music experts
What Songza calls “Concierge” is a service that will offer pre-made playlists created by music experts.
Pro Easy to use
The interface is super-simple and easy to understand.
Pro Free
Songza is free to use.
Pro No audio ads
There are no audio advertisements, only website banners.
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.
