Last week I blogged about music blogs in general. This weeks topic is about Hype Machine. If blogs are the source for musics, Hype Machine is the tool to find them.
Actually, this is one of the best music tools I have seen for a long time. Three years ago, I asked my DJ friend how he is getting his music updated and more important: from where. At that time the usual way of getting music involved the kinds of softwares such as: Emule or BitTorrent. But we all know that it was the illegal way of sourcing music and I have heared from some of my friends that they have been receiving fines from the crown prosecuter (up to 5000 €). Therefore it was the "dark path" which we all walked along.
My DJ friend then recommended me to try Hype Machine. Actually it is the Google of music blogs.
According to Wikipedia: "Hype Machine's structure has been described as an "amalgamation of Pandora Radio and Pitchfork Media. It aggregates the most recently posted songs from a selection of music blogs (about 1,500) and lists them on the website's main page".
You have the opportunity to search an artist or song, then listen to the song on Hypem or you can go to the blog directly and download it.
I think to receive and access all functions on the site, you have to sign a membership (which is free).
Apparently the blogs and artists are working well together. The mixture of available free and fee required tracks are still acceptable. Nevertheless I have discovered a decrease of free available music towards - only listen but no download !
I recommend you to have try. Just search any artist you are interested in and have a look if you can find it.
http://hypem.com/
Next weeks topic will be Soundcloud, which is in fact the channel.
Actually, this is one of the best music tools I have seen for a long time. Three years ago, I asked my DJ friend how he is getting his music updated and more important: from where. At that time the usual way of getting music involved the kinds of softwares such as: Emule or BitTorrent. But we all know that it was the illegal way of sourcing music and I have heared from some of my friends that they have been receiving fines from the crown prosecuter (up to 5000 €). Therefore it was the "dark path" which we all walked along.
My DJ friend then recommended me to try Hype Machine. Actually it is the Google of music blogs.
According to Wikipedia: "Hype Machine's structure has been described as an "amalgamation of Pandora Radio and Pitchfork Media. It aggregates the most recently posted songs from a selection of music blogs (about 1,500) and lists them on the website's main page".
You have the opportunity to search an artist or song, then listen to the song on Hypem or you can go to the blog directly and download it.
I think to receive and access all functions on the site, you have to sign a membership (which is free).
Apparently the blogs and artists are working well together. The mixture of available free and fee required tracks are still acceptable. Nevertheless I have discovered a decrease of free available music towards - only listen but no download !
I recommend you to have try. Just search any artist you are interested in and have a look if you can find it.
http://hypem.com/
Next weeks topic will be Soundcloud, which is in fact the channel.
Wow. Sounds interesting. I will have to check it out! I have actually been using beatport.com lately, which one of my friends told me about. It allows you to listen to samples of the songs, but you would then have to buy it to listen to the full song. If I find a sample that I enjoy, I usually end up youtubing it for the full version.
ReplyDeletebeatport.com is a very good source to purchase products !
ReplyDeleteI m still not sure about the legal issue youtubing music.
But as for me, it is more comfortable to download the music from those blogs. As download speed is faster and quality is often better (128 kbs or 256 kbs)than sourcing it from youtube.
Actually I am really lazy. When sourcing from youtube you always have to open the specific program, copy the links etc. I know its only a task of seconds.
That's great, I think unfortunately for a lot of artists this peer to peer sharing leaves them with little choice but to at least offer something for free in hope that they can convert that into a future sale.
ReplyDeleteRoss
Thanks for letting me know about this service - one I wasn't familiar with.
ReplyDeleteSo what is the "product" that musicians are selling? Is it recorded music, or something else? If it's recorded music, why do most bands give it away for free via YouTube, etc?