We want to make it easier for everyone to explore the wealth of blogs we track here on The Hype Machine. You can use last.fm’s music tags to browse by genres, but our set of meta-tags is here to distinguish blogs through some other meaningful criteria:
Featured: about once a week we spotlight one of the hundreds of blog in our directory .This view shows you the recently featured blogs, they are great!
Something different: music that’s not on the Popular page. If you want to discover music you probably haven’t heard before, try one of these blogs.
Female blogger: there just aren’t enough of them.
Original blogger: bloggers who’ve been with us since 2005. That’s a lifetime in internet years, respect your elders!
Awesome! Having problems loading the site though!
December 17, 2010 2:56 am
I all sounds amazing, but the site won’t load for me either!
December 17, 2010 3:32 am
It didn’t load for me on Firefox or Opera at first (but Google Chrome worked). I restarted my computer and then it worked.
December 17, 2010 3:48 am
Update is on the whole a huge step in the right direction. The site is faster and it does more..
I am curious how duplicate grouping affects mp3 plays – is the song always played from the server belonging to the person who blogged it first?
December 17, 2010 12:42 pm
“Female blogger: bloggers who write from a different perspective.”
Really?
No, really?
December 17, 2010 12:53 pm
@DJ Cal: all blogged songs are reuploaded to The Hype Machine’s own servers, so bloggers have nothing to worry about!
December 17, 2010 3:50 pm
50% of the population is “different.” I see now.
December 17, 2010 4:30 pm
Awesome. Very good changes !!!!
December 17, 2010 11:58 pm
@Josh hmm.. how do you know? My understanding is that the songs are (were?) played directly from the blogs, except in the case where it is getting a lot of plays at which point the hypem load-balancing kicks in.
December 18, 2010 12:44 am
I like the new changes. Especially the new blog directory. Thanks for all the work.
One slight criticism. On the blog directory, each blog has a square and at the bottom of the square is a banner which shows typical artists.
When this banner is pale, the font is almost impossible to read.
display 1280*1040 Firefox 1.3.13
December 18, 2010 11:15 am
Is there a way to find out, when viewing the page of a particular blog, what tags apply to them?
My site is listed under “original blogger” (thanks!), but I can’t seem to find it in the “ad-free” index (where it should also be). Any way for me to add that myself?
Great work, totally dig the tag action, and the other new features.
December 19, 2010 7:30 pm
The new directory has some amazing features, and it feels much more personal and user-friendly. But I’m curious why the same blogs are coming up on the first page of multiple tags. For example, I saw the same blog come up on page one when I clicked five different tags. This doesn’t seem fair to blogs, like mine, that are always buried on pages 10 or 15. May I suggest rotating the blogs so different ones come up on page one each time you select a tag? It would feel fresher and give every blog a fair chance. Great job on the whole redesign!
December 21, 2010 7:05 pm
How do i get into the block directory?
January 19, 2011 11:36 am
are you guys on loudie?
April 30, 2011 1:28 pm
Not all the genre loaded how can I get the rest?
March 12, 2012 2:54 am
I need to know how to upload a song to hypem.
Thanks
April 26, 2012 1:37 am
When I go to play a song it has the loading sign and wont stop. I restarted my computer and it is still doing it. Any advice?
August 8, 2012 6:42 pm
I’m loving Hypemachine and using it daily –
Would be very thrilled to have my website in your directory, is that possible to achieve in any way?
October 16, 2012 5:29 pm
Hey! Is there any way to get my blog up on your site? The URL is http://mozartwouldnotenjoythis.blogspot.co.uk
Cheers 🙂
March 1, 2013 9:56 am
the last time I was on this site this section had 16 hand picked music blogs 🙁 Boy i feel old now… backing away awkwardly…
May 6, 2013 7:23 am
Any chance my blog could be added? 😉 I’ve had it going on for over a couple years now and religiously blog daily (weekdays, anyway). Obsessed with music!
May 15, 2013 1:14 pm
Hello! Please tell me how to make a blog on your site? I hope for your help!
August 4, 2013 7:49 am
Hello,
I own http://www.rnb.mu and would like to know how I can create a blog here.
The website publishes all latest rnb news..
thank you!
April 30, 2014 4:15 am
Hi,
I’m from Japanese.
I’m loving Hypemachine. I’ve been to Hypehotel in SXSW2014 too.
BTW,
I’d like to be posted to your blog.
My music service is “Spincoaster”.
Please check out!
Thanks
June 15, 2014 4:44 am
Hopefully we will see our new site http://www.popify.net on here soon, check it out
June 20, 2015 8:04 am