We’ve been Spotify fans since 2008. There was just one office in a busy part of Stockholm filled with crafty developers and dreamers, probably the longest private beta we’ve ever seen, and much-coveted beta invites. It has been fun watching the product turn from daring (“Why would you have an app stream all your music, instead of a website, in 2006?”) to world-changing (“Oh, how can you not?”)
We’ve also been carefully watching the awesome apps that have been popping up in the Spotify App Finder in the past few months. Pretty much all of our favorite web projects and magazines now have an app! We noticed, too, that there hasn’t been a way for music blogs to be visible in this new world of subscription music.
That’s why we are really excited to release the first version of Hype Machine in the Spotify App Store. It’s a fresh way to be introduced to music blogs, all within Spotify, and drawing upon the impressive catalog they have assembled over the years. You can find blogs by genre or by name, and every few days we feature a blog out of the 800+ we monitor to give them additional spotlight.
We figured to start with the first two music blogs that were ever indexed by the Hype Machine back in 2005: Music for Robots (blog id: 1) and Fluxblog (blog id: 2). Thanks, Matthew, Mark & David!
Stay tuned for more featured blogs every few days, and more updates to the app. Give it a try and let us know what you think!
Love seeing the classic players featured. Huge congrats to the Hype Machine team. My listening is nearly exclusively on Spotify these days so it’s so-very-awesome to have the freshness that HM can deliver on my listening platform.
September 6, 2012 12:06 pm
Is there a way for us to log in with our Hypem accounts so we can see the list of music we’ve already starred through Hypem?
September 6, 2012 12:54 pm
I’ve been wondering when/if this would happen! So, so awesome!
Congratulations!
September 6, 2012 1:27 pm
As far as I can see, we can not view the smoking fresh music that is released on hypem, and we can not log in to view our previous favorites. As soon as that functionality is added, you (hypem) would give Spotify a bleeding edge on new releases that I have come to love. Please keep up the good work, and add this functionality. Spotify must see the value in this, even though they dont receive royalties on music not in their library.
September 7, 2012 5:22 am
Also, please add support for macbook retina display, the app looks like crap on my screen 🙂 Keep it up!
September 7, 2012 5:23 am
The popular and personal playlists MUST be added to the Spotify App! There is a reason I use Hypem and not Spotify for searching and organizing new Music. The functionality of the APP should represent the Uniqueness that is HypeM!
September 11, 2012 4:29 pm
looks great! can you build an option where we link our hypem accounts with spotify accounts?
September 12, 2012 8:30 pm
i’ve been waiting for this! once there’s a way to log into our hypem accounts and a main feed page, i’ll be even more satisfied. while looking up a specific blog under the spotify app, not all their recently added songs from their hypem.com page are shown. is that because those songs are not uploaded on spotify?
September 13, 2012 9:04 am
This is just perfect!
Congratulations and thank you, I will stay tune 😉
September 15, 2012 8:52 am
Amazing. I have been waiting for this for so long. Thrilled. Thank you and Congrats!
September 17, 2012 3:29 am
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September 17, 2012 9:37 pm
Thats Great !
Very good thing
November 4, 2012 11:02 am
Thanks for the work in bridging the two services! It would be nice if we could make linked playlists to our feed, or at least the individual blogs. Best we have is a point-in-time snapshot that gets created when you drag a blog to the playlist section.
November 26, 2012 10:50 pm
Spotify is awesome even in 2013!
May 5, 2013 10:44 am
Please make the Popular and Latest playlists features in the Spotify app. It’s the main reason I use Hype Machine in the first place!!!
July 9, 2013 12:00 pm
Just echoing some of the comments above: please add the ability to log into our Hype Machine accounts, to view our personal favorites, and view the much-used Popular list.
Spotify + My Hypem = music nirvana. Make it happen!
April 11, 2014 1:13 pm
Please, add popular-list to Spotify
November 26, 2014 5:07 pm
I second this “Please, add popular-list to Spotify”
January 8, 2015 6:25 pm