Comments on: The Hype Machine Releases 2007 Music Blog Zeitgeist

By: David

David — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:21:23 +0000

Los que quieran saber la verdad sobre zeitgeist, visiten este blog:

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By: musiclover

musiclover — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:21:05 +0000

yeah, HypeM – rules!!!)))

By: nobody

nobody — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 19:34:22 +0000

I don’t understand anon’s point, Hypem does not let you download anything, so what infringement is possible?

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:36:02 +0000

Sounds like a great resource, I run an aggregator for languages stuff

By: Brian Stairs

Brian Stairs — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:37:38 +0000

Yeah great site. I noticed HypeM sometime last year.
Another music discover site I’ve heard thats upcoming is http://www.chartvote.com

By: nb

nb — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 05:32:42 +0000

I’m a big fan of HypeM as well. It’s a site definitely worth checking out.

By: sandeep

sandeep — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 03:28:46 +0000

nice one

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 02:42:41 +0000

I liked this site when i tried it out sometime ago – Nice!

By: Tim-TechFruit

Tim-TechFruit — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:41:37 +0000

Although it is possible to scrape all tracks from HypeM and then download them, that is certainly not the aim of the HypeM team. It scrapes content from a massive list of music blogs who post mp3s (some legally and some less so), and only includes music blogs that at least try to promote new artists, bands and the like. It doesn’t aggregate content from album blogs or other websites which are not making any attempt to promote the bands and simply offering up their content for free.

As far as downloading the mp3s from HypeM, yes you could do this through a script or whatever, but the mp3s are available on the blogs that HypeM aggregates anyway, so you don’t need to.

It also is pretty popular amongst the music blogger community (along with elbo.ws) unlike the numerous other mp3 search sites which simply index music from music blogs and then direct link to the files, therefore removing the descriptive and often promotional writing that accompanies the mp3. Without the text, the music blog is just a source of mp3s for free download, but with it they at least try to be good for artists – something which the indie labels tend to understand – but the majors don’t.

By: anon

anon — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:00:05 +0000

@Ryan – that sounds like a personal problem to me – though they may have done something – no matter – the tracks still sit in my disk cache.

What I’m trying to prove is that this site may infringe upon copyright law; something that is not only illegal, but also very uncool. While I think it is important for TC to cover all companies in the tech realm, I think they have an obligation to highlight any potential illegal services that may be provided by the companies they cover.

By: ivan s.

ivan s. — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:31:34 +0000

anon: There already is a script running that scrapes the Hype Machine and posts direct mp3 links to del.icio.us, adding last.fm tags while at it: http://del.icio.us/taggedhype

It used to be a decent alternative to browse the site but I’m not sure if streaming still works

By: ryan

ryan — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:19:23 +0000

what are you trying to accomplish, anon? and does it bother you that the URL you just posted in order to prove your point redirects to the site rather than letting you download said track?

By: anon

anon — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:15:37 +0000

FYI, I found this funny copy on their website:

“Can I download songs from the Hype Machine?

No, the Hype Machine does not offer any tracks for download. We provide a list of tracks that are currently being discussed on blogs, not the files themselves. If you discover a song or artist you like, we encourage you to support them by purchasing their music.”

Maybe they are just oblivious – I’m sure Downtown wouldn’t be to happy:

http://s09a.non...yFaces_2847.mp3

By: anon

anon — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:05:46 +0000

Ummm… does Hype Machine have direct deals with the labels/artists? They serve their songs as MP3 and do very little to obfuscate their location on the server. It would probably take me an hour to write a script that would scrape this site and download all of the tracks to my comp. Also, as far as I can tell, all of the files are stored on servers owned by http://www.layeredtech.com/ which makes me believe Hype Machine serves this (illegal?) content directly.