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The Hype Machine re-launch website with HTML5 technology
Popular music discovery service The Hype Machine has rolled out a major upgrade to its website interface. The Hype Machine is a service with a social media element which aggregates posts from music blogs across the internet and allows users to listen to them and ‘like’ them. The most ‘liked’ songs posted in the last three days show up in the Hype Machine chart, allowing users to get a great overview of what’s popular online at that very moment.
The website previously relied on Flash technology to play music to users, but has now switched to the up and coming standard ‘HTML5′. This allows the website to be used on many of the latest smartphones and tablets, including the iPhone, iPod touch [update: iPhone/iPod touch support is not confirmed by Hype Machine and users are reporting issues with it] iPad, and Android phones and tablets. The website certainly seems to be running much more efficiently after the re-design.
Other improvements include the consolidation of songs posted on multiple blogs into one entry. Instead of seeing the same song from three different blogs as three rows in the playlist, you now see only one, allowing the user to better judge the popularity of the song.
The Hype Machine is the latest in a string of websites to experiment with HTML5. YouTube, run by search engine giant Google, has recently started testing HTML5 videos in place of Flash videos, and Apple have declared that they will not be supporting Adobe Flash on their mobile devices, only HTML5, due to battery life and performance concerns.
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Hey there,
I think a small mistake has slided into your interresting article. Seems like they (hypem) have just hidden the “Flash” part behind a curtain of html Javascript.
I just tried it on my IPhone (4) and even if I can like and browse music, I can’t listen to any because of the flash player.
I think that the main reason for this is the integration of HTML5 in the most used browser in the world : MS Internet (*%$!§) Explorer.
Good article though
about 13 years ago
http://blog.hypem.com/2010/12/what%e2%80%99s-new-on-the-hype-machine-this-time/
This is Hype Machine’s own blog post about it. I think I may be mistaken in claiming that it functions on the iPhone – however they themselves have said that it should work on the iPad, so I would say that the music player itself is now based on HTML5, as iPad has no Flash support.
Perhaps iPhone + Hype Machine is still a distant dream! I’ll update the post