When comparing Hype Machine vs /r/listentothis, the Slant community recommends /r/listentothis for most people. In the question“What are the best ways of finding new music?” /r/listentothis is ranked 6th while Hype Machine is ranked 7th. The most important reason people chose /r/listentothis is:
The comments usually point out music similar in taste to the original track as well as point out spotify links to the artist etc.
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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 Comments on the songs help you find similar tracks
The comments usually point out music similar in taste to the original track as well as point out spotify links to the artist etc.
Pro Great range of tastes covered
Pro The Reddit algorithm and format is great for discovery
New and great songs rise to the top daily.
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.