The main difference is that the Hype Machine's Popular chart has long been used as an industry barometer of what music bloggers are excited about, so Fast Forward offers a speedy way to keep up with the very hottest music online. Hype Machine openly admits to being inspired by the wonderful Shuffler.fm, which works on a similar premise. If you like it, click the heart to remember what it was. If you're not keen on a song, click to move on.
The site has just launched its Fast Forward feature ( /fast-forward), which allows you to skip through recently blogged music by popularity or genre, seeing a screenshot of the blog post and hearing a sample of the track. As the site says, "It's like iTunes Genius, but less smug."Īnother site using clever coding to help you discover new music is music blog aggregator the Hype Machine. Ablewhite has also created the ingenious Lastify ( /lastify) which conjures a Spotify playlist of music recommendations based on your last.fm listening habits. Biblify isn't as slick as the similar, but gets bonus marks for its Mercury awards minisite, which offers links, reviews and playlists for all the artists ever nominated. Use it, abuse it, no need to give any attribution.
Ablewhite has also created, which trawls the web for album reviews from various publications (including the Guardian), then gives an aggregate review score alongside a Spotify link. StreamBeats is made for you to use as background music in any kind of content. The man behind the site, Richard Ablewhite, has actually now changed its name to, and that's not all he's been busy with. I n May, we wrote about the excellent BBCify website, which creates Spotify playlists based on the output of BBC radio shows.
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