- Hype Machine
- iTunes
- 3.99 USD
- iPhone, iPod touch
- The Hype Machine, Inc
Description
Discover the most talked-about music from blogs around the world. This is the Hype Machine in your pocket.
Every day, thousands of people around the world write about music they love — and it all ends up on Hype Machine. We watch for new posts on over 800 of the most interesting blogs and make it easy to follow this chaotic world.
You can listen to the newest tracks posted just minutes ago, the most popular tracks of the day, and check out what your friends have discovered on the service. Each week, we also hand-pick an album that you can stream in its entirety before you can buy it. All this, without ads or monthly fees.
See what people are saying about the app:
http://hypem.com/iphone_feedback
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Hype Machine lets you navigate the vibrant world of blogs in a few ways:
• LATEST: Music being discussed right now, constantly updated
• POPULAR: Tracks that are getting the most love
on the Hype Machine
• FAVORITES: Your favorite tracks on the Hype Machine. A simple offline view lets you see your
recently played favorites when you are in air or underground.
• FEED: Customized new posts from your favorite
blogs, and friends
• FRIENDS: Music your friends are loving right now
• GENRES: Newest tracks posted on blogs
organized by genre
• BLOG DIRECTORY: Every blog we track at http://hypem.com/blogs
• RADIO SHOW: Highlighting the month’s best new music
• ALBUM PREMIERE: Preview a new album, in full, every week
Oh yeah, and the app scrobbles to Last.fm. Just enable it in your Hype Machine settings at http://hypem.com
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We’ve been introducing people to breaking new artists and influential music blogs since 2005 (before there were iPhones :Þ), and have been featured in Wired, The Guardian, Washington Post, Billboard, Popular Science, Rolling Stone, Esquire, Business 2.0, G4TV, and more.
"No other app I’ve tested recently introduced me to as much new music that I’ve liked yet never heard before as Hype
Radio — and I’ve been looking."
-Eliot Van Buskirk (Wired, Evolver.fm)
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Any questions? Write iphone@hypem.com and we will write back!
What's New
Version 2.2 (May 23, 2013)
NEW IN 2.2
• Now in French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Italian, Russian and Japanese!
• Previous track
control now works like the Music app
• Pull to refresh in all views, for the obsessive among you :)
• You can
signup via Facebook/Twitter, like at http://hypem.com
• Native Facebook sharing
& SMS sharing
• Support for opening specific http://hypem.com pages in the
app
• More shuffle improvements
FIXED IN 2.2
• Fixes for the airplay mode
• Fixes for several rare crashes affecting an unlucky 1%
STILL AWESOME IN 2.1
• Seek within tracks while playing (just tap the artwork)
• Elegant offline mode lets
you play recently heard favorites
Version 2.1 (Mar 4, 2013)
NEW IN 2.1 - MANY THINGS!
• Seek within tracks while playing (just tap the artwork)
• Elegant offline
mode lets you play recently heard favorites
• Now load 100 favorites at a time, for better shuffling
• See
what blog posted or what friend favorited a track in your feed
• See how many favorites tracks have
FIXED IN 2.1
• Fixed more cases where two tracks could play at once
• Unclear sign in / sign up flow
•
More performance and reliability fixes
Version 2.0.1 (Dec 8, 2012)
★ NEW: Zeitgeist 2012 Mixes in the app (Tap Radio Show)
★ Friends feed, followed blogs feed
★ Fix bug
where two songs could occasionally play at once
★ Fix sorting bugs in blog directory and friends list
★ Fix
issues with resuming playback when other audio apps were used
★ Minor crash fixes
Version 2.0 (Nov 28, 2012)
Literally everything!
We are super-excited to share this new version with you. We've rewritten and redesigned the app from scratch.
And so, you get:
★ Clean, simple design: quick access to the most important features in the service
★ Awesome artwork, coming
directly from blogs
★ Great audio playback, network performance
★ Greatly improved stability
★ Remix
filters for Popular and Latest feeds, as much requested
But really, just update it and see!
Version 1.6.1 (Jun 25, 2012)
* Added ability to search for songs
Version 1.6 (May 23, 2012)
* Streaming improvements
* Added shuffle functionality
* Fixed sharing
* Changed font sizes in
track lists
* Renamed to Hype Machine
* Crash fixes
Version 1.5.1 (Apr 25, 2012)
* Bug fixes
Version 1.5 (Apr 17, 2012)
* See track listings for all channels in the app
* Streaming improvements
* Crash fixes
Version 1.4 (Mar 24, 2012)
Your songs are now available.
Version 1.3.1 (Jan 5, 2012)
Fixed a bug that could crash the app on startup.
Fixed a bug that caused the client to keep playing after
headphones are unplugged.
Version 1.3 (Dec 9, 2011)
* Much better app navigation
* Weekly album premieres in your pocket
* Tons of smaller fixes
Version 1.2.2 (Oct 7, 2011)
* Fixes crashes on iPhone 3G and on first and second generation iPod Touch.
Version 1.2.1 (Sep 27, 2011)
* Minor bug fixes
Version 1.2 (Sep 13, 2011)
* Elegant blog icons in the blog directory
* You can listen to individual friends' radio stations
Version 1.1 (Jul 21, 2011)
* My Mix, a combination of your favorites + tracks from blogs you are subscribed to
* Improved the way to
view relevant blog post
* Offline Channel support for users in the UK
* Share what you are playing on Twitter,
Facebook or via Emal
* More genres!
* Lots of small crashes fixed
Version 1.0.1 (May 10, 2011)
This version contains all the needed fixes for the first public beta release.






