Thanks again everyone for all your feedback. Angry, happy or both, we love it.
We’ve just updated the site with a new popup player on every page of the site that plays the whole page through.
Here are the links that open it up:
Also in this update, you can now see how many people are watching any blog we track, like this: http://hypem.com/list/1/
Would love to hear what you think!
Anthony Volodkin
Taylor McKnight
Zoya Feldman
Scott Kidder
John Schimmel
first!!1
October 22, 2007 @ 6:36 pm
Sorry. I already switched over to the Elbo.ws+Zune flashbased player.
October 22, 2007 @ 7:08 pm
thanks so much for bringing the flashplayer back. its so nice that you listen to what ppl want, but wheres the function that lets you move to a particular part of the becuz its seems you have to listen to the whole thing all the way thru. also how come all the tracks arent listed in the player you only find out which track is playing when u press the fwd button. so u can only skip one at a tym - what if i wanted to cut to a certain song????
but thanks for bringing it back, its nice you guys listen
October 22, 2007 @ 7:18 pm
There seems to be some issues with the formatting but still rock on!
This is exactly what I wanted. I like that it has no list either. I will say again, it has made this site, for me, really about actively searching through the blogs, which I like. Instead of passively sucking the blood from blogs.
I’m not saying that people here don’t actually buy the music…but seriously how hard is it to get an idea of whether or not you like an artist in this new format? Are you handicapped….
The old player was cool but it was making me lazy.
October 22, 2007 @ 7:44 pm
Many thanks! It’s very nice!
October 22, 2007 @ 8:30 pm
volume control?
October 22, 2007 @ 8:47 pm
thanks, but… this is really not what i was looking for.
it’s a pretty bold miscalculation, i’d say.
the list is really the most important part.
October 22, 2007 @ 9:39 pm
i mean, in its current format, the blog by itself is more convenient.
October 22, 2007 @ 9:40 pm
firstly i would like to give much appreciation to al the hypem crew. But really the old flash player was the best, as much as i like reading the blog posts and getting into the whole community seeing where and why the music is being posted. But without this feature, I will have to agree with charles, i am going elsewhere for my needs. I can work and listen to music = great, i can’t work and read blog posts = not so great. I have stopped recommending hypem to friends, it is sad.
hypem was amazing, now it is still a very worthy site, but it is something very different
cheers
October 22, 2007 @ 11:40 pm
the alignment of the popop player icon for each track / post is kind of ugly. just kind of though.
October 22, 2007 @ 11:41 pm
also it doesn’t count if you’re the first to post if you work for hype machine. first post goes to carles.
October 22, 2007 @ 11:44 pm
Haven’t been to The Hype Machine in a couple of weeks, so I was kind of surprised by the new look. I can get past the bulky track listings, but taking away the pop up player with the full list is almost too much. I miss the volume control, being able to scroll back and forth through a song, being able to put one I liked on repeat, and definitely being about to skip down the list past songs I knew I didn’t want to hear. Some joker last night posted 23 live tracks from 1982. TWENTY THREE! I knew after the first two I didn’t want to hear anymore from this blogger, but the pop up player only advances one at a time. Aggravating.
I love The Hype Machine. I’ve discovered (and purchased music from) so many new artists in the last couple of years because of this site. I respect your desire to try out new things and showcase the blogs more. But in the end what I come here for is to browse through and listen to as much new music as I can, and the new player formate doesn’t easily support that. Hopefully when I come back around to visit your site in a few more weeks you’ll put the emphasis back where it belongs, on the music, not the bloggers.
October 23, 2007 @ 2:09 am
This flash player is much more of what i was looking for. Bring up what is going on with the blogs. Skip over songs that sucks, find the ones you like, dive into them…
Thanks. Keep making improvements. Stay a functional tool. Marketing is not for your audience.
October 23, 2007 @ 2:49 am
thankyou so much !!
this new player is great, and works perfectly.
great great work guys, you are making such a good thing
this is truly my favourite website on the internet right now.
October 23, 2007 @ 6:33 am
oh one thing, might be nice in the player to have a minimized track listing? that when expanded show the blog information.. is nice to have the player self contained, and less reliant on browsing the website.
hype machine is the future !
October 23, 2007 @ 6:34 am
at first glance, it looks like it’s the most we can ask for while satisfying your goals with the new site. thanks for listening in to all of us and hope that you continue to keep your ears open to feedback. i’ll have to use this for a while to make a REAL assessment.
but, one thing… still needs a volume control.
October 23, 2007 @ 8:04 am
Hype Machine reinstates flash player (sort of)…
Well, The Hype Machine appears to be listening to what their users want, although I think they still have their fingers partially in their ears. They have recently reinstated a pop up flash player so that users can play music from a seperate window. …
October 23, 2007 @ 9:26 am
ok, this is a start, but i think when people said bring back the flash player they meant they wanted one that is like the old one. We want to see lots of posts compressed into a small space and have the ability to jump from different points within the songs.
October 23, 2007 @ 9:42 am
Am I the only idiot that can’t find the volume? It’s like one or the other. I can take not having a flash player and having to go back and forth to find what I’m looking for…Or even just to listen. But how do we adjust the volume? You don’t want people to steal music, I get it…but do you also want us people at work to do deaf?
October 23, 2007 @ 9:47 am
still having problems with songs that are slow to buffer. if they are too slow, it seems to skip to the next song automatically without finishing the song.
October 23, 2007 @ 9:48 am
Hi Guys, thanks for the flash player, change hurts and people whinge. Stick with your vision.
I like the flash player and the source blog synopsis. I would ask for a tad more synopsis, maybe one more line….
“Seeing the list in the flash player”, well, thats what the main list is for, no need to duplicate that in the player, I like the focus on THIS track from THIS blog.
“Feature”(?), however, when a main page post contains multiple tracks, I’m not always getting updated in the flash player, leaving me a little lost on what I’m actually listening to. Firefox 2.0.0.7
Well done on the Bold revamp.
Dr.Duvel
October 23, 2007 @ 10:44 am
Zoya you are disqualified from the first post title. Ebro is correct.
Thanks for all your feedback.
October 23, 2007 @ 11:23 am
fuck this. you guys don’t fucking listen. i give up. GOD DAMMMMNNNIT.
A) Where’s the progress bar so i can scrub to a different point in a song? How often are there songs that have like 2 min long intros, or say I want to see how long a song actually is? Give us a bar.
B) I want a list option, goddamnit. Power users need to see more on one page, rather than have a single song and ffw through 25 different pages. Right?
C) The three line icon is of centre and looks like crap.
D) If you want me to stop bitching, give my 15 dollars back. i’m undonating.
October 23, 2007 @ 12:24 pm
PWNED!!!!!!!
October 23, 2007 @ 12:29 pm
I tried playing my “love feed” on the popup and got a “404 File Not Found” page. So that doesn’t seem to be right…
October 23, 2007 @ 1:46 pm
Fixed, thanks for letting us know Greg
October 23, 2007 @ 4:03 pm
First, I’d like to say thanks for being open to feedback and for bringing back the flash player.
Second, I wanted to point out some features of the original flash player that I hope will end up on the new flash player. Something I really liked about the old player was how I could see the whole track load and skip forward if I didn’t like the start of a song and was curious to see how it would go. The current player does not allow for this, and I have to listen to the entire start of a song before I can get to the middle and decide whether I like it or not.
Another feature that I sorely miss is the ‘loop’ feature. Sometimes I can’t download that song because it’s already been taken down, and this is the only place where I can listen to it because iTunes doesn’t make it available to me.
Finally, as others have mentioned, I miss the list and the volume control. But the first two features I mentioned are most important to me.
Thanks again and for always striving to make HypeM with your visitors in mind.
October 23, 2007 @ 10:28 pm
Awesome! I still have a thing for the old flashplayer, but the new one is very nice to play with as well! Thanks!
October 24, 2007 @ 2:32 pm
The new player’s not a patch on the old one. Almost all functionality is gone. The old at a glance playlist was so useful for listening to search results. You were streamlined, uncluttered, and respectful of busy music lovers’ time and attention span. Now you must manually click through in order to wade past multiple postings of the same tune. Your elegant original format made you the one-stop go-to place for musical exploration. Now you want to be just another social network. Get back to basics, or at the least offer your heretofore avid users the choice of opting for the classic Hype Machine view and/or the classic player.
October 24, 2007 @ 10:26 pm
Every useful feature has been stripped away in the new player.
The only similarity this pop-up has to the old one is that it pops up.
Did you think nobody would notice?
Imagine the swell of gratitude you’ll receive if you just bring back the original player.
October 25, 2007 @ 12:11 pm
i do likw rhe new dlash player, bt in neva works on my comp so can u please PLEASE bring bak the ability to listen to tracks on ur own media player??????????
PLEASE
with a cherry on top?
October 25, 2007 @ 1:23 pm
I’m sorry guys but…
I CAN’T SEE THE DIFFERENCE!
You certainly ARE under commercial pressure.
October 26, 2007 @ 12:57 am
I heard the next generation iPod is only going to have a play button.
No fast forward or rewind and no way to see the songs in the playlist.
Naaah I’m just kidding. That would be suicide.
October 26, 2007 @ 9:38 am
that already exists; it’s called the iPod shuffle
October 26, 2007 @ 10:21 am
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October 26, 2007 @ 11:20 am
Bring back the list!!!!
October 26, 2007 @ 5:21 pm
I used to love to search for a new band and just leave the player on in the backround and get a grasp for the artist…
my vote is for the list- i care far more about the music, then the blogs… i can formulate my own opinions thanks.
October 27, 2007 @ 3:29 pm
Thanks for bringing the popup player back!!!! It’s even better than the old one. My faith in the Hype Machine is stored.
October 27, 2007 @ 5:48 pm
Thanks for bringing the flash player back… but I just wanted to echo what many others have mentioned..
it’d be SO much better if you could reinstate two of your former features which were unique and very user-friendly…
1. the functionality that allows you to scroll back and forth through the listed songs and jump around within the list
2. the feature that lets you fast forward and rewind within one track
p.s. and also some indicator of the track’s length would be a huge plus!
here’s hoping you are still planning to make some further improvements to the player… let us know
October 31, 2007 @ 3:51 am
the player just gives me ~10 seconds of each song and then skips to the next. :/
October 31, 2007 @ 11:40 am
your site has gone bad.
I’m not sure what you are trying to do here, but it is at odds with what I want to do.
I want to listen to a list of tracks from a search and flip through them real quick if it turns ugly sounding. When I like a track that I don;t know I will follow a link to the blog.
Well, that’s what I used to do … now I leave your site and look for something simple.
Frankly your site is a weird and confusing mess which I can’t even begin to figure out how to get the functions out which I need. Congratulations on becoming making the transition from “easy to use essential music website” to “bloated confusion of yahoo 1998 proportions”
What the hell did you do
November 3, 2007 @ 9:59 pm
Love the new design, but really, you gotta bring back AT LEAST the possibility to scan through a song. This is the whole point, to be able to make an idea fast. Now I’ll just come here if I’m looking for something specific recommended by someone.
November 9, 2007 @ 11:52 pm
Regardless if I play a track directly from the webpage or pop-up player, tunes are cut short and commence playing the next song listed. This is annoying. Please fix.
Love site and concept, but I think you are better off going back to the old version.
November 10, 2007 @ 10:12 am