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Big updates to Hype Machine’s Sonos app

We use our wireless Sonos speakers every day. This is why we’re excited to finally bring a much more complete Hype Machine experience to these devices.

Today’s update includes:

• Favorites: now with your three playlists (Up, Down, Weird)
Album premieres: hear our exclusive album streams
Stack
: our weekly mix of interesting new music
• Friends: favorites from the people you follow
Zeitgeist
: the most-blogged artists each year since 2008
• Special Features: the place for various artist spotlights like Ones to Watch
• Elegant icons for easy naviation

To add Hype Machine to your Sonos, open your Controller, go to Add Music Services > Hype Machine.

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If there are more features you’d like to see, do let us know!

CMJ: Recommended Music Blog Showcases

Hype Machine Recommended

It’s almost CMJ week in NYC. There’s a lot to navigate, officially and unofficially, on both sides of the bridge. And like anything with music, it’s generally a good idea to see what the blogs are up to. So we built a thing that highlights shows in the music blog community. Have a listen/look at the lineups here.

Playlists! On Hype Machine!

Playlists on Hype Machine

As you’ve discovered more and more music on Hype Machine, you’ve probably wished there was a way to categorize your finds. A way to revisit the dancey things while planning a party mix,  just hear the slower tracks, or find that spoken-word piece again. Now you finally can!

When favoriting a track, you can add it to one of three playlists—Up, Down, and Weird. These are the categories we use, but you can rename them (long-press the title, Emoji welcome!). You can also put your existing favorites into these categories. Just swipe across each track and pick the list that fits best. The tracks in each list show up in the same order as in your favorites.

This is among the most requested Hype Machine features, so we’ve put a ton of thought into making it fit the experience. Our goal since 2005 has been helping you find new music to fall in love with. You can stumble into all kinds of different stuff here, and these playlists will help you remember everything great you’ve found, in any category.

But really, I just can’t wait for you to try this out. Let us know what you think!

Introducing: Blog Recommender

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Blogs have always been vital to what we do—they are the reason the Hype Machine exists and helps you discover new music. Folks asked for a better way to discover blogs in our directory (and keep their feeds fresh). We tested a number of approaches and landed on the Blog Recommender. The feature is rather simple: it generates a list of recommended blogs based on tracks you’ve loved.

There’s an amazing and ever-evolving community of bloggers out there. We hope the Recommender will help you find more of them!

Let us know how it works for you.

Hype Machine on Sonos

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We’re big fans of  Sonos, which allows us to wirelessly stream music throughout our apartments. Sonos support has long been a requested feature, and now it’s here!  Here’s how to set it up:

In your Controller, go to Preferences > Services > Sonos Labs > The Hype Machine. Currently, you can play the Latest, Popular, and your Favorites page. More will be added in later versions, but we just wanted you to be able to play around with this sooner.

And if you’re lucky enough to have multiple Sonos systems in your life (we use one in our office as well), Arkadiy wrote a script to easily switch between them. Let us know what you think!

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