We’re really excited to launch some new features we’ve been working on. If you check out your Dashboard page you will see our new+improved layout.
Here’s a full run-down:
- Loved Tracks: We now show your loved tracks by default when you come to your Dashboard page
Watchlist:
- Everything: This is what the old “Love Feed” was, a mixture of tracks from your favorite Blogs, Friends and Searches
- via Blogs: Only tracks from your favorite blogs
- via Friends: Only tracks from your favorite people
- via Searches: Only tracks from your favorite searches (which can be an artist name, a song name, anything really)
Listening History:
- Your History: Just like Last.FM, we now keep track of what you play on the Hype Machine
- Your Obsessions: Similar to Your History but shows you the tracks you just can’t get enough of. Good for people like Anthony, who play a track so much they wear the MP3 out.
- Friends’ History: Check out what your friends are listening to right now. Live social recommendations sans effort!
- Friends’ Obsessions My favorite new feature, this shows you what all your friends have been playing over and over and over. If a “loved” track from a friend is a good recommendation, this filters that list to the very best.
We’ve also updated the Spy page to include filters by country and popular states/provinces. So you can spy on what people in Quebec, Canada or even Japan are listening to right now!
More paths of discovery to come! Let us know what you think.
Comments
36 responses to “New Dashboard Features!”
Dashboard loved.
Joe loved. 🙂
Oh yeah. Now what we need is a social-networking-style friend finder that scans your contacts in e-mail, facebook, myspace or whatever, and tells you which ones have an account!
a europe spy would be fine
The new features are really COOOOOOOOOL!!! Love it!!!
God.
Great new features! Thanks!
These updates are awesome. But can you make the radio not play Jamie Lidell, please? Thanks.
awesome!
my roomie and i were discussing if you guys planned to display the listening history data before or after the integration with last.fm. which was it?
about the hype spy: where is mexico?! how can i spy my own country’s listened tracks?
a kiss to you!
Приветствую всех!
У меня такой вопрос,кто что интересное подскажет буду признателен.
Мы с друзьями собираемся поехать в круиз по просторам России и ближнего зарубежья месяца на два на своих машинах,но не как не можем согласовать маршрут,если у кого уже был опыт такого путешествия,может,что посоветуете.Девчонок с собой не берем,думаем,что во все городах России с этим не будет проблем,если у кого будут рекомендации и в вопросе отдыха с девушками тоже буду признателен.
С уважением Сеньчик
The world-aware spy page is, to me, the most valuable addition! It’s going to be fascinating watching local phenomena grow and spread around the world.
Great new features, but there’s a bug with FireFox Beta 4.
It makes something like that: http://tinyurl.com/28r56f
🙂
Issa, you can spy on mexico using http://hypem.com/spy/MX , but we didn’t include it as not all the countries always have enough activity to make it fun.
Rad, guys!
Steph – make sure you refresh / clear your cache. Looks like you may still have an old style sheet or two in your firefox
Anthony > it works well now 😉 Thanks.
Loved
I like this feature a lot, except all the songs I had
thanx anthony for the spy answer.
hey guys, did you notice there’s a bug for the heart icons?
the heart appears in one track and disappears in the next.
the bug appears in both FF and IE.
here here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/issa/2368551017/
btw, the heart bug is everywhere. in the dashboard, in the lovefeed, in the popular list, etc.
Hey Issa, We issued a fix for this a few hours ago, if you are still having this issue try clearing your cache/restarting your browser. Definitely let us know if it’s still an issue!
Thanks 🙂
hey taylor, you sure you corrected the issue? i cleaned the cache of both FF and IE and the hearts still disappear. i also checked the website in two different PCs and it’s still there.
apparently it only happens when i’m logged to the hype.
kisses,
my one and only music spot!!!!
Hype machine ya teba lubly!!
@Anthony:
Hi, you mentioned the “secret” spy link for Mexico: http://hypem.com/spy/MX.
So, are there other spy links not listed on the spy page and could you make these links visible somewhere on the page?
Thanks and Great place for new music here!!!
By the way: In the newsletter you mentioned that one can spy on the HypeMachine-Team too. But how?
Andreas
Hey Andreas,
You can see the full list of country codes we support at:
http://www.maxmind.com/app/iso3166
Like Anthony said, most of these don’t recieve enough traffic (or any traffic) to make it interesting, so we just highlight the popular city/countries.
For example the following are all blank:
http://hypem.com/spy/KH (Cambodia)
http://hypem.com/spy/IQ (Iraq)
http://hypem.com/spy/MN (Mongolia)
You can “spy” on what the Hype Machine Team is doing by checking out our individual profiles (and adding us as friends):
Anthony: http://hypem.com/anthony
Taylor: http://hypem.com/gtmcknight
Zoya: http://hypem.com/zoya
Scott: http://hypem.com/scott
before this, i really liked you. now i truly love you.
you guys are so good. thanks for all the wonderful toys.
Note to self: Increase marketing efforts in Iraq, Cambodia and Mongolia
@Hype Machine Team: Do you have Last.fm accounts too and if yes, which ones?
Taylor: http://www.last.fm/user/gtmcknight/
Scott: http://www.last.fm/user/skidder314/
Anthony: http://www.last.fm/user/sickdm/
I don’t think Zoya has one?
What is “Mystery Island” showing on the spy page? (http://hypem.com/spy/XX/XX)
There is a large amount of IP’s that can’t be traced to a country/city so they are grouped into this large “unknown” pile. We thought it’s still interesting to look at this activity and we had fun with the name 🙂
I like the new dashboard, but it seems to be caching itself. So I don’t see the updates as they happen on the blogs. I end up going through each blog link to catch updates. Is this intended?
Anyways, keep up the kickass work
Same as above, but my dashboard (blogs) takes over 24 hours or more to update, sometimes up to two days or more. Some blogs in my list haven’t updated for months. It would be nice if there was a button to force an update or something.
One odd thing I found is that if I’m fishing around in someone else’s bloglist or tracks for a an hour or two, things seem to update, begrudgingly.
It gets really frustrating as well, timely aggregation is what makes hype machine useful.
After all, yousendit links are often down by the time my dashboard updates.
Very frustrating!!!
Is it possible this is an issue on my end? I’m using Safari on mac by the way.
Guys, tweaking a few things that should help the dashboard work and update faster. Thanks for your comments on this.
Another happy and devoted visitor here. Keep up the fantastic work, we love you all! Полный рулез!
I just wanted to say that updating on my Dashboard is much faster now. Posts seem to come in more timely on the main feed anyway. Odd thing is that the Blog List doesn’t reflect the updates. That is, in the feed I have a number of posts that are 2 hours, 3 hours, 6 hours-old, whatever, but on the blog list all of the blogs say they haven’t been updated in a day. Not a big deal except I can’t really track whats updating and what isn’t now which is a minor frustration but a pretty big bug.
the country codes situation is fuggin awesome