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Hypegram Is a Simple, Beautiful Desktop Player for The Hype Machine, Great for Effortless Music Discovery

In Streaming Music, Music Discovery, The Hype Machine, Downloads, Windows, Windows Downloads, Music, Mp3s, Blogs, / 06 April 2012 / 0 comments

Windows: The Hype Machine has long been one of the best music discovery services out there, featuring the most talked about tracks from popular music blogs around the net. Hypegram is a compact desktop player that grabs tracks from the Hype Machine.

Those of you that use the Hype Machine have probably noticed that the site now nags you to register after listening to a few tracks, which is annoying. If you'd rather not register, Hypegram is the perfect way to get around those nags. Just fire it up and start listening to the popular feed, the latest music featured on the Hype Machine, or even search for a specific genre or tag. If you do have a Hype Machine account, you can also listen to your loved tracks and subscribed blogs, plus you can love tracks right from the interface. It's great for discovering new music without having to cultivate a radio station or do any other kind of work—just listen through the infinite stream and click the heart button if you like a track.

Hypegram is a free download for Windows only.

Hypegram | via Ghacks
Wahwah.fm Turns Your iPhone Into a Broadcasting Radio Station

In Iphone Downloads, Ios Downloads, Streaming Music, Music, Downloads, Music Discovery, Playlists, Mp3s, Blogs, / 16 March 2012 / 0 comments

iOS: Ever wanted to start your own radio station, but didn't want to go through all the trouble of actually licensing music or really working for it? Wahwah.fm is a an iPhone app that pulls your pre-existing music library from your phone and allows you to broadcast it to the world.

Wahwah.fm is a bit similar to the previously mentioned Turntable.fm with the exception that the station you create is all yours. Once you set up a few initial things you can start following other users to listen to their stations or start broadcasting yourself. If you have a large music library, the app takes a really long time to pull everything in, but once it does, it works like a charm.

You can add songs to a playlist with a swipe or a tap. Hit play and it starts broadcasting your music. You can set it up with permissions to use your location if you like. That way you can give all your neighbors a taste of your music without cranking up the stereo in your house. Alternately, you can skip the location part and just broadcast from nowhere. Wahwah.fm is a free download in the iTunes App store. Hit the link to check it out and start broadcasting your own station.

Wahwah.fm | iTunes App Store via Evolver.fm
This Is My Jam Encourages You to Share and Discover Music, One Song at a Time

In Music Discovery, Webapps, Music, Songs, Sharing, Social, Web Services, News, Beta, / 10 February 2012 / 0 comments

Music sharing service This Is My Jam has been in private beta for a while, but today the service opened its doors to all users. The idea is simple—when you sign up, you pick a song that you're in love with or that's just been in your head, and set it as your jam. Share it with friends, meet other people based on their jams, play them, leave a comment, follow them, and discover new tunes in a simple, fun to use webapp.

You can change your jams as often as you like, but you have to select a new one at least every seven days, which is when your jam will expire. Follow other users based on their music tastes, and the site will suggest some people you might like to follow based on your previous jams. If you sign up with your Twitter or Facebook account, the service will look to see if your friends are already signed up, and you can invite them if they're not. Before you select a new jam, you can choose to post the song to Twitter or Facebook, along with a link to your This Is My Jam profile where they can see and play the song.

I've been using This Is My Jam for a few months now, since it began its private beta. It's been a fun way to follow a lot of people and listen to a lot of music I wouldn't otherwise have discovered, and to share my favorite songs with the people who follow me. The service uses YouTube, SoundCloud, The Hype Machine, and others to pull audio tracks and music videos, so it's rare you'll search for a song and come up with no results, but picking the best result can be tricky. The real fun is that it's a non-cluttered, simple way to find and share music you like, with no worries about whether you own the song or have to upload anything, and for the moment, it's ad-free.

This Is My Jam
Build Spotify Playlists from any Wikipedia Song List

In Spotify, Spotify Tools, Playlists, Music Discovery, Sharing, Social, Web Services, News, Beta, / 13 January 2012 / 0 comments

Reader Casey wanted to make a Spotify playlist based on Billboard's Top 100 Singles of 1993, but didn't want to go through the legwork of finding and adding 100 different songs to a playlist. After a bit of searching Casey's solution was to work a little spreadsheet magic.

Copy the desired Wikipedia table (for instance: Billboard's Hot 100 Singles of 1993).

Paste into an Excel worksheet.

Remove the Track Number Column, if it copied over.

Move the Artist Column to the left of the Song Column.

Do a "Find and Replace" on the Song Column and remove the quotation marks.

Insert a Row and title the columns "Artist" and "Title" (sans quote marks, of course), respectively.

Select the cells and remove the hyperlinks.

Save as a Tab Delimited Text file.

In the text file, do a hard return on each line, then re-save it.

Browse to SpotMySongs and upload the TXT file.

It's a bit of a workaround, but it doesn't take nearly as long as it would to individually add every song to a new playlist. This should work with any columned list you find on Wikipedia. Do you have another way to generate playlists from lists you find online? Share it in the comments.

Thanks Casey for sending in the tip!