While it doesn't have any of the blogging features, Pandora is where I do all my online listening. The blogs can give you a little context on why someone else thinks I should like it. I've found a ton of new music from pandora.
whitneymcn
· 1 year ago
TheMusic is getting close to this now. If you check any of the "theme" pages (like http://themusic.tumblr.com/tagged/openers/chrono) you'll see a player at the top of the page that Daryn put together. It pulls all of the audio tracks that have been tagged with the theme and converts them into an XPSF playlist that a bunch of different players can read.
I'm finding at least three great tunes a week on The Hype machine, but the system can be a bit clunky when it comes to contacts. I had not though of using Tumblr before. Great tip.
ErikSchwartz
· 1 year ago
Why does tumblr not do a standard rss feed for mp3's
I can't subscribe to tumblr mp3s with iTunes (or Foneshow for that matter).
neekolas
· 1 year ago
Is the Tumblr Radar hand-picked or algorithmic? It seems to do a very good job of finding the most interesting content on the site. If it is algorithmic, it would be great to have a music only radar that would work as a mini-hype-machine.
fredwilson
· 1 year ago
I love that idea
Frank
· 1 year ago
Hi,
where can one get this java script you have in the upper right corner of your blog? I love this feature, but havn't been able to find it on tumblr.
Thanks. But that's Pearl code that doesn't work with my Wordpress blog. Think there are some bloggers out there that would like to share some music with their readers. Maybe a plugin can contribute to make the service more popular.
kortina
· 1 year ago
Frank, I've been working on a pure javascript version of this on and off in evenings. I'll try to finish it up and post a link when it's ready.
Frank
· 1 year ago
Cool, will check back to this article during the next days. Would be great if you could post the link here. Thanks a lot.
daryn
· 1 year ago
Hi Frank! The player on AVC isn't perl code, that is for something else. Fred's widget is just a flash embed, loaded with some javascript. I'll create a page with some instructions on embedding, but in the meantime, feel free to email me and i can help you out. daryn at daryn.net
Joe Lazarus
· 1 year ago
For me, the Tumblr playlist option isn't a 'nice to have' feature, it's a 'must have'. Without it, I find myself rarely using Tumblr for music discovery. Playing one song at a time requires too much effort and interrupts my regular work flow on the computer. In order to listen to a song on my Tumblr Dashboard, I usually have to flip into iTunes or some other music I have playing in the background (HypeM, etc) and pause that in order to play the Tumblr track. It's usually not worth the effort for just one song, so I usually scan over the track information unless it's something I'm dying to hear. I hardly ever press 'play' anymore in Tumblr and it's entirely because the interface doesn't support playlists.
If I were David and Marco, I would generalize the playlist concept and apply it to all Tumblr media types (audio, video, photos, etc). There should be a 'playlist' option for all those formats. The audio playlist would work like the Hype Machine. Photo playlists would be full-screen slideshows like the ones on Flickr. Video playlists would work like http://chime.tv.
daryn
· 1 year ago
There is also the hidden sound box player that works pretty nicely. Just type 'listen' when you're on your tumblr dashboard and a link to it will appear at the top of the page.
fredwilson
· 1 year ago
I use soundbox all the time
But you have to hit next and play each time
What we really need is a playlist style player
Joe Lazarus
· 1 year ago
Yeah, but I don't use that for the same reason... no playlist. I like to listen to music in the background as I do other work on my computer. Maybe I'm lazy, but I can't be bothered to switch back and forth between screens every few minutes to play the next song.
daryn
· 1 year ago
good point; i missed that it didn't auto-play the next track.
I'd be happy to build a player/playlist (m3u or podcast feed), but there are a couple barriers right now. 1. the tumblr api doesn't let you access people's following list, so you'd have to maintain the subscription list separately, and 2. tumblr asks that you don't download the mp3s from their servers. The latter really is just semantics, but I'd prefer to keep the tumblr folk happy with me :)
Plus, it'd definitely be ideal if this was all accessible from your dashboard...
Scott Lockhart
· 1 year ago
Regator.com is another alternative although it is currently in private beta. Regator is a blog aggregator designed to make quality blog content accessible to the masses. The site can help you find some great music (and video) from the best blogs on the internet. There is a player within the site that allows you to search for individual keywords, browse categories, create playlists, preview tracks AND keep navigating the site without a pop-up window. Full Disclosure: I am one of the co-founders. Cheers!
tmarman
· 1 year ago
Songbird does this on some sites - it finds media on a given page and presents it like a playlist at the bottom of the page (load Hypem.com or Last.fm in Songbird). It doesn't seem to do this on Tumblr (or at least on the two links you gave) yet but I'm sure it wouldn't be too hard to support natively or through a simple extension.
tumblr discourages direct access to the mp3 files hosted on their servers. If they officially sanctioned accessing the files, it would be pretty trivial to add support to songbird, or even better (IMO) just as a podcast or m3u playlist to import into your favorite player.
Todd Wickersty
· 1 year ago
One thing I haven't seen mentioned in the comments is that Tumblr now supports the ability to link to an externally hosted file, which enables one to post more than one file per day. In addition, since the user is providing the host, the 10mb limitation is removed. This was a key issue with me. As a long time collector of live music, I was never able to share my collection with others on Tumblr because of this limitation. With that being lifted, I not only can share it on my own site, but started a group tumblelog with other tumblrs so they could share their collections (http://orangesunshine.org).
However, I also agree with Joe that a "must have" is a play list feature. I do find a lot of great music on Tumblr and enjoy those who post an interesting story or quote a lyric with their audio post, however I find myself clicking the play button less and less because it does interrupt my work flow. A play list feature is necessary.
I also agree that Pandora is fantastic for finding great music, and when used with http://pandorafm.real-ity.com, you can scrobble to last.fm. I have heard that the Pandora iphone app is one of the best. I need to get 2.0 installed. I am one of the late adopters. Too busy over the weekend!
andreaitis
· 1 year ago
totally agree with you about reblogging. right now i still do so much of it the old fashioned way -- find something, email it to my core group, and then we have a few rounds of commenting, analyzing, mocking, etc. especially the mocking. ;-j but there's too much information and not enough time -- now more than ever -- and reblogging helps weed out and raise up what is really of interest to me. i just need to find the magic digital weedwhacker that prunes away the extraneous stuff. gotta work on that... and i wish hype machine would add recommendations.
Dan Kantor
· 1 year ago
Had a look at the Tumblr API. I didn't see any method to reblog. Anyone know if that's supported?
whitneymcn
· 1 year ago
Nope - at present there's no way to reblog via the API.
danvers
· 1 year ago
You might be interested in Sound Index from the BBC - http://www.bbc.co.uk/soundindex - which was built by Novarising, a small London based company.
AllenLouison
· 1 year ago
fred -- i started experimenting with tumblr as a music blog but ended up shying away from using its media features because of the uploading and playback+download issue. uploading one per day wasn't great and i really wanted to give in-page playing AND the ability to download the posted mp3.
yahoo and lucas gonze has been putting a lot time into their webpage media player which is what i ended up going with for my tumblr blog: http://rabidears.com.
even though i have to find a separate place to host the mp3, all i had to do is place 2 lines of javascript into the tumblog template and you get a great in-page player with playlisting capabilities.
music blog aurgasm (http://aurgasm.us/) has a killer implementation of the player plus in-page retrieval of addt'l posts-- when you get to the bottom of the blog homepage, it loads the next series of posts/mp3's so that you can have continuous playback of music instead of forcing the player to re-load with a page refresh.
fredwilson
· 1 year ago
I use the yahoo media player on my avc blog but I don't like the whole music experience there nearly as much as on tumblr
I guess that was the point of my post but I didn't make it very well
fakedjs
· 1 year ago
I still think individual niche sites are better sources of music discovery than these aggregators.
fredwilson
· 1 year ago
I am sure that's true but its hard to read 100 music blogs a day
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In the grand tradition of @lotd, Daryn also published the script that does the conversion:
http://blog.daryn.net/post/42073816/tumblr-audi...
I can't subscribe to tumblr mp3s with iTunes (or Foneshow for that matter).
where can one get this java script you have in the upper right corner of your blog? I love this feature, but havn't been able to find it on tumblr.
Thank you so much.
Best,
Frank
http://blog.daryn.net/
If I were David and Marco, I would generalize the playlist concept and apply it to all Tumblr media types (audio, video, photos, etc). There should be a 'playlist' option for all those formats. The audio playlist would work like the Hype Machine. Photo playlists would be full-screen slideshows like the ones on Flickr. Video playlists would work like http://chime.tv.
But you have to hit next and play each time
What we really need is a playlist style player
I'd be happy to build a player/playlist (m3u or podcast feed), but there are a couple barriers right now. 1. the tumblr api doesn't let you access people's following list, so you'd have to maintain the subscription list separately, and 2. tumblr asks that you don't download the mp3s from their servers. The latter really is just semantics, but I'd prefer to keep the tumblr folk happy with me :)
Plus, it'd definitely be ideal if this was all accessible from your dashboard...
Full Disclosure: I am one of the co-founders.
Cheers!
http://getsongbird.com
However, I also agree with Joe that a "must have" is a play list feature. I do find a lot of great music on Tumblr and enjoy those who post an interesting story or quote a lyric with their audio post, however I find myself clicking the play button less and less because it does interrupt my work flow. A play list feature is necessary.
I also agree that Pandora is fantastic for finding great music, and when used with http://pandorafm.real-ity.com, you can scrobble to last.fm. I have heard that the Pandora iphone app is one of the best. I need to get 2.0 installed. I am one of the late adopters. Too busy over the weekend!
and i wish hype machine would add recommendations.
yahoo and lucas gonze has been putting a lot time into their webpage media player which is what i ended up going with for my tumblr blog: http://rabidears.com.
even though i have to find a separate place to host the mp3, all i had to do is place 2 lines of javascript into the tumblog template and you get a great in-page player with playlisting capabilities.
you can get the full yahoo media player documentation here: http://developer.yahoo.com/mediaplayer/
music blog aurgasm (http://aurgasm.us/) has a killer implementation of the player plus in-page retrieval of addt'l posts-- when you get to the bottom of the blog homepage, it loads the next series of posts/mp3's so that you can have continuous playback of music instead of forcing the player to re-load with a page refresh.
I guess that was the point of my post but I didn't make it very well
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