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Add to SafariWhen comparing Hype Machine vs Digitally Imported [DI.fm], 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 Digitally Imported [DI.fm] is ranked 14th. 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.
Specs
Question Ranking
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 Dozens of genre-specific channels
DI.fm currently lists 89 distinct channels, each representing a different sub-genre of electronic music.
Pro Cross-platform
DI.fm has apps for iOS, Android, Blackberry and Windows phone.
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.
Con You have to sign up
You can listen to DI.fm for half an hour before you're asked to sign up for a free account.
Con Advertizements with the free account
If you have a free account, the music stream is interrupted fairly often (every few songs) suggesting you upgrade to a pro account.
Con Occasionally the channels won't connect
Every once in a while, the channels won't connect and you have to wait some time and try again.
Con Electronic only
DI.fm is electronic-music only, so you'll be limited to exploring within that genre.
