Hypetape Blends Muxtape-Style Streaming With Hype Machine Tracks
Do you fondly recall the month or two we enjoyed the (original) MP3 mixtape maker Muxtape? Do you dig the Hype Machine blog or newer music in general? If so, you’d better head over to hypetape.
We say that because this type of mashup, which references MP3s and tracks linked to from Hype Machine and puts them in a Muxtape-style, click-to-play streaming site, is bound to draw some kind of attention from the musical copyright powers that be, so it might not last. While it does, it’s a pretty neat service that rides on the quasi-legality of Hype Machine’s promotional powers. You can search out individual artists or songs and create playlists saved to your username from them. The song selection is hit and miss on the track actually being available, but once you click a track and it doesn’t play, the service automatically updates and removes it from the search results, so you won’t, at least, run into the same aggravation twice.
Hypetape is free to use (for the time being!), requires a sign-up to save playlists. While you’re enjoying the click-to-stream convenience, try rolling your own Muxtape with opentape, or visit the reborn original Muxtape, which now promotes independent and stream-savvy bands that want to share music.
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I miss Muxtape :(
kaubuchon
The artist search function doesn't seem to be working for me. After searching, it stays at "Found them! Creating Profile." and my profile doesn't change.
Anyone else?
If the Hype Machine has survived this long, I don't see why this would be any worse. The functionality is the same -- click to play MP3s and search are both already in the hype machine. Either way, awesome find! :) I was just listening to the Hype Machine and will try this out.
" You got an organ going there; no wonder the sound has so much body"
I prefer grooveshark in general for streaming music. You can also create playlists and share them by going to the saved playlist, hitting the info icon, and grabbing the playlist url. Their widget for playlists/sharing doesn't work yet so do that.
Only true flaws: no download w/o capture software and you cannot fast forward through tracks, hate that. Skip all day, but no FWD. The autoplay is not as good as pandora's but pandora is only really good for music discovery.
[listen.grooveshark.com]
Also, HypeM is good for finding rare stuff not found elsewhere--a definite asset. Beemp3.com is pretty solid for a quick grab too; i find it more powerful than hypem, just wish they'd kick out the juno links aka 30 second mp3 samples.
May I suggest http://www.blip.fm?
ZafinaEriphyle
Another great site that is sort of like this where you can create your own radio station but rate the songs that you want and add the artists that you want is Jango.com. I use it every day at work and I have a different station for different genres.
BigCanada
From his Tumblr: Just so we're clear... Tracks aren’t sourced from The Hype Machine (although I would love to). I simply use the word ‘hype’ because (to my knowledge) they were the first to do that sort of thing (finding mp3s on blogs etc). A hat tip, if you will. I don't think HypeMachine is involved at all.
SwagataServius
@ZafinaEriphyle: You may ;-)
subtle
I'm working on this now, thanks for letting me know. jarred@hypetape
PhilomenaHaruhite
I'm quite curious about how other lifehackers manage their music searches. I have several mp3blogs that I subscribe to but it doesn't always work when I'm looking for that one rare track... Can we get a poll going maybe? best music search engine?
GeraldineReindeer
@PhilomenaHaruhite: Jarred, if you implement downloading tracks, you will have my love forever.