Comments on: The Hype Machine - audio blog aggregator

The Hype Machine - audio blog aggregator

goodnewsfortheinsane — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 16:15:01 -0800

The Hype Machine tracks MP3 blogs so you don't have to.

By: muddgirl

muddgirl — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 16:19:10 -0800

The first song right now is Spirit of the West - Home for a Rest. Shouldn't you all have that by now?

By: Elim

Elim — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 16:19:22 -0800

There goes the bandwidth, "grrrrr Grumble grumble"

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 16:20:41 -0800

"Popular tracks" is a good place to be, generally.

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 16:22:19 -0800

On a tangent: from Buddy to Sufjan in sixteen easy steps.

By: JekPorkins

JekPorkins — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 16:56:36 -0800

Total derail, but: It took him 12 steps just to get from Buddy Holly to the Rolling Stones? One of the staples of the Stones' cover repertoire is Buddy Holly's "Not Fade Away." So that reduces it to Buddy to Sufjan in 4 steps. R.E.M. covered the Stones' "Paint it Black," so that's 3 steps from Buddy to Sufjan.

By: nebulawindphone

nebulawindphone — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 17:02:01 -0800

I think the point was to do it enough jumps to make a satisfying album. Three is good if you're playing that damn Kevin Bacon game, but not so good if you want an hour of music to listen to.

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 17:04:02 -0800

Good point, JekPorkins, but maybe it's more about the journey.

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 17:04:38 -0800

Umm, what nebulawindphone said. D'oh.

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 18:39:08 -0800

YES! Great FPP, goodnewsfortheinsane, thanks!

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 18:43:50 -0800

YES! Way cool FPP, goodnewsfortheinsane, thanks!

By: celerystick

celerystick — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 18:56:35 -0800

thanks for the Hype Machine! A completely unpredictable mix of cool rock and roll and other genres! Exactly what commerical radio and worse, Satellite radio cant be. Kids these are the golden days of free cool shit on the internets. Dont take it for granted cuz it wont last forever.

By: BlackLeotardFront

BlackLeotardFront — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 19:38:07 -0800

Rats. Mine isn't going to be on there 'cause it doesn't meet their "standards." Ah well. A useful resource anyway. Thanks!

By: If I Had An Anus

If I Had An Anus — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 20:21:06 -0800

I don't quite understand what this is, but what celerystick said. =(

By: fenriq

fenriq — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 20:43:52 -0800

celerystick, its already changed and changing as we speak. Hype Machine used to have direct download links to almost all of their music. Now you've gotta go to the sites to get them but I still agree that this is one of the best things about the internet. And I've come across some truly fantastic new music this way.

By: HTuttle

HTuttle — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 21:27:48 -0800

Ooh, pop crap extravaganza. Lucky me.

By: delmoi

delmoi — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 21:30:31 -0800

Back when I was a kid you could get any music off the web, even stuff copyrighted by the RIAA. Kids these days have to sift through free stuff or risk spyware or lawsuits using p2p stuff. They actually have it worse At least they can get whole albums as RAR files, rather then mp3s one by one.

By: BlackLeotardFront

BlackLeotardFront — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 23:24:54 -0800

HTuttle, what are you talking about? And delmoi, did you use Audiogalaxy? do you remember just how freaking cool that program was?

By: delmoi

delmoi — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 01:00:10 -0800

And delmoi, did you use Audiogalaxy? do you remember just how freaking cool that program was? I never used anything besides the campus network. :P Actually, before I even got into collage me and a friend would sneek into one of the few computer labs that didn't require a university log on and stuff Zip disks full of Mp3s from machines in the dorms. Then it was basically a constant smorgasbord for a couple years. Someone even wrote a web-based intranet search engine for people to use. Finally the RIAA swooped down and busted up our little party, and a few kids ended up getting their dorm rooms raided, they just went after the #1 and #2 sharers, basically. The crazy thing was, I had just downloaded a ton of Japanese and Indian pop music just to share it and get back into the top 10. The first p2p program I ever used was WinMX, by that time, there was tons of Spyware infested crap already out there and napster was dead. Mostly I'd just ask a friend of mine for the CD, since he knows how to get group releases right from the source. In a few more years, there's going to be a ton of creative-commons or otherwise free to download music out there. The hard part is figuring out what you'll like. There needs to be some sort of moderation/recommendation system.

By: srboisvert

srboisvert — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 04:17:51 -0800

Also this: elbo.ws

By: A189Nut

A189Nut — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 04:46:59 -0800

Both versions of Radio Star get the lyric wrong. It is VTR - video tape replay - not VCR.

By: A189Nut

A189Nut — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 04:47:48 -0800

Urgh - wrong thread!

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 06:36:20 -0800

Strangely appropriate though.

By: youarenothere

youarenothere — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 11:59:08 -0800

Audiogalaxy was the shit. I miss it. :(

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 12:55:07 -0800

Thanks for the nice elbo.ws link srboisvert. :)