When comparing Hype Machine vs Amazon Digital Music Store, 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 Amazon Digital Music Store is ranked 30th. 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 Amazon recommends other bands purchased by customers who purchased the current music listed
Amazon has a feature called "Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought" that will show artists that customers purchased who also purchased the current artist shown.
Pro All songs can be previewed
Amazon has a play button next to each song that allows for all songs to be previewed, enabling the listener to tell if the music is any good.
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.