While Hype Machine is all about breaking you out of the genres you are comfortable with, we do know that the desire for the guilty pleasures of familiarity exist.
That’s why we’ve made the genre view available on the site some time ago. It uses Last.fm tags for each of the blogged tracks, and organizes them accordingly.
Recently we’ve been testing a new enhancement to this page. It lets you filter the tracks that show up in a given genre by the number of favorites they’ve received. So you can adjust your level of adventurousness here: early listener (between 0 and 25 favorites) or comfortably popular (500+ favorites).
Let us know what you think!
I love this option, I want to be able to select multiple options at the same time though.
February 4, 2013 2:13 am
great addition! already used it a few times and looking forward to exploring new music on it. good call.
February 11, 2013 3:25 pm
Yeah, super sweet feature. The more filtering options the better!!! (and multiple at same time like ali said!)
February 11, 2013 11:13 pm
It’s a great option, but, wouldn’t be fine if you guys put a middle category filter, like +100 favs? Sometimes +500 favs is too mainstream and 0-25 favs is too weird.
Not trying to troll or bother, just improve!
Cheers!
February 13, 2013 1:32 am
@YahirAlejandro
you acutally can do this yourself, just change the fav_from variable in the url to any desired number.
ex:
http://hypem.com/tags/dubstep?fav_from=100&fav_to=100000
February 18, 2013 11:50 am
@Elias
Works wonderfully!
Thanks dude!
March 4, 2013 9:37 pm
Multiple options please! 🙂
March 6, 2013 1:50 pm
I noticed this earlier and began to play around with it. Definitely a great addition. Multiple genre selections would also be a great addition!
March 7, 2013 11:21 am
Hype keeps getting better. Love it.
If you’d let us select a few different last.FM tags at once so we could get a mix of different select genres, that would be the ultimate.
March 19, 2013 2:09 pm
Tags no worky! Getting
Error 502: Bad Gateway nginx/1.2.7
on Windows Chrome.
I look forward to it though…
May 14, 2013 10:32 am