UberHype for Hype Machine for Android
** PRESS **
Lifehacker
http://lifehacker.com/5984978/uberhype-for-android-puts-great-new-music-on-your-phone-anywhere-you-are
Exclusive Review by PCMAG (Rated 4/5): http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2410919,00.asp
Featured in PCMAG's TOP Android Apps for 2012. Check the "Music and Video" section:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2395053,00.asp
Exclusive Review by TheAppTimes: http://theapptimes.com/uberhype-android-app-review/
Features:
- Music Discovery and On-Demand streaming
- Popular Tracks - The most popular artists, searches and blogs on the internet right now.
- Latest Tracks - What's going on right now in the blogosphere
- Twitter Tracks - Interactive music chart of songs posted on Twitter.
- Browse tracks published by Blogs
- Browse tracks by Artist e.g. Kings of Leon
- Media Player functionality
- Last.fm Integration to Scrobble Hype Machine tracks
- Browse Popular Tags or Genres of the Week
- Continuous Playback mode
- Read original Blog Post
- Keyword Search - By Artist / Song / Blog
- Create user account on Hype Machine
- Browse tracks Favorited by friends on Hype Machine
- Ability to Favorite tracks and listen to them anytime.
- Share full tracks on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Email etc.
- Subscribe or Follow an "Artist". New tracks by this artist will be automatically be added to "My Subscriptions"
- Subscribe or Follow a "Blog". New tracks released on this blog will be automatically be added to "My Subscriptions"
- Ability to move application to SDCard
** Optional: Create FREE user account on The Hype Machine (http://hypem.com). With a free user account you can favorite searches, tracks, music blogs and other Hype Machine users by clicking on the heart icons.
App Website: http://app.net/uberhype
Like us on Facebook http://facebook.com/uberhypeapp or follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/uberhypeapp to stay up to date with the latest UberHype news.
In case you see issues or want to request new features please email us at uberhype@dirtywaterlabs.com
Developed by: Dirty Water Labs (http://twitter.com/dirtywaterlabs)
Press Quotes:
"In short, Uberhype is a beautifully executed app, and existing Hype Machine users or not, it should get Android-using music-obsessives more than a little excited. It’s a free download" - The Next Web
"Por otro lado tenemos pestañas también para populares, donde aparecerán temas que mucha gente tiene marcados como favoritos. Si pasamos a la pestaña de recientes, encontraremos por un lado las publica .." - El Androide Libre
"UberHype retains all of the social infrastructure that helped propel HypeM’s ascent to Webby Award stardom circa 2008. This includes the ability to share your “loved” songs across all your social" - Beantown Boogiedown
Tags: hype machine, blogs, zeitgeist, hype, scrape, music, streaming, on-demand, tunes
Previous version:
v1.2
- Shuffle your favorite songs by shaking your phone
- Correctly saving listening history to hypem.com
- Fixed keyboard issue on Login screen
- Bug fixes
v.1.0.9
- Handle headphones
- Handle incoming phone-call
v1.0.7
- Last.fm Integration to Scrobble Hype Machine tracks
- Browse Popular Tags or Genres of the Week
v1.0.5
- Setting to Filter out Remixes
v1.0.4
- Correctly updating listening history on hypem.com
- All subscribed music will be added to "My Subscriptions" tab
v1.0.3
- Fixes for ICS or Android 4.0
- Browse & listen to weekly "ALBUM PREMIERE"
- Automatically publish to Facebook and Twitter
I think this is the best music app out there. If they could incorporate more into a car that would be even sweeter. Like another app that plays music, it allows me to skip and display contact on my cars information screen. I can live without the song information but the ability to change to the next would without looking at my phone would be great. Please incorporate that feature into the next update.
I can no longer view or shuffle my favorites on my LG G2. I have tried signing out and signing in, and even re-installing the app, but when i click the favorites button, my favorites are not loading. This makes this app useless for me now... PLEASE WORK ON A PATCH!!!
Good appearance, but works a bit approximately, there are some bug. Some categorises are missing too (compare to the website.) And! mainly, a player with PLAYBACK BAR would be so much appreciable in order to go further or go back in the song !
So I've been using this app for pretty much a year or so. Now I can't use it on my Samsung phone or my Samsung Pad. ? So What gives.???. this was my favorite app!!! Are you having issues or ?? I have about 150 favorites and now this issue is gonna make me go to another app. Which I don't want to do at all. Its been a couple weeks now.. Ive uninstalled reinstalled signed out signed in.. are you not supporting Samsung or something. Please if you could look into this for me that would be awesome.. DexterBrent.
Music randomly starts playing, continues in calls, crashes if you go out of WiFi range, barely any caching. Some of these issues had been fixed and have came back since I upgraded to 4.4. Now can't wait for the official app to come out.
Apps gone crazy. Worked perfectly without a few niggles untill this update... It now starts playing music mid call to someone, doesn't work at all over my Mobile 4G plan, confuses favourites with latest play lists. Don't know what's happened but Id love for it to be fixed this was my go to app!!
The interface is nice, but the app barely works anymore. I'm on 4.4.2 with my N5 and it crashes all the time and doesn't play tracks reliably. It's free, so I can't complain too much, but it's scope of functionality is pretty narrow and it simply doesn't work. I have had these issues across multiple devices and android versions since 4.2
I wish it would automatically skip songs that aren't playable. I think it currently just hangs.. Also, when I switch tasks, and then click on the app icon on the homescreen again, it launches the splash screen (even though hitting back takes me back to where I actually was before)
The app is awesome, but recently ive noticed that I cannot listen to music no matter where I am. It looks as if its loading, but then doesn't work. Please fix it. Thank you!
Favoriting songs from the client doesn't work. Starts songs randomly without any user intervention. Crashes and have to go to device manager to recover. Songs stutter when first playing.
I recently installed the app and still discovering it and I find it a but frustrating that it's not able to skip to next track when the current track is not available anymore on hypem. Should be very easy to add, thanks.
I emailed to say you can't turn off they said fix coming but year later, no. No fix. Must task manager to kill. Secondly.... It now added that you must register to save favorite songs but when I try to register it said my email is invalid. Sure? The email address I have used for 25 years is invalid? I think not. Great music poor customer service & bad interface to turn off.
blogging since 1999 & discovered .. low-key underground phenomena ..mp3blogs around 2005 even failed my own..my google reader spit daily posts from over 100s mp3s daily..suddenly came hypem. I AM using this more than my own DJ media lately...kudos love uberHype !!
On my phone running 4.4.4 this app will show the songs but all of them have a zero second run time. It won't play any of them over my LTE network. After closing the app it will randomly decide to play them all in my pocket several hours after I'm connected to my home's wifi network. I'm guessing it has to do with the fact that this piece of garbage hasn't been updated in a year.
This app used to be great as it was the only good solution to listening to hypem on your mobile device. But as more apps were released, this app stayed glitchy and buggy, continued to have playing issues, did not update their design (it's hard to understand how to navigate), and you have to force close from your running apps list or app info options. Imagine if you had a light at home that could only turn on but to turn it off you had to shut off the electricity to that room. Was a 4 star, now a 2 star.
But a lot of the times it just flat out stops and won't play music. I have trouble shutting the app down and also it randomly turns on by itself from being paused to playing music. I dunno what's up. Also sometimes it doesn't show what it's playing. Another problem is that it doesn't save recent searches or do auto completes so it makes it difficult when I'm multitasking and try to look for a specific artist.
Does what it says : shows new music from blogs. But there could be major usability improvements. One of the biggest problems is that you can often not see which song is playing. That sucks when you love the song that is playing.
Good, but doesn't behave with other audio applications, mostly navigation. Also the stock music player. If I hit the mic button. On my headphones stock player gets the signal and starts playing over hypem.
Like your loved songs. Well you can't have all of them. Popular list too big? Don't worry this app seems to only have 12 at the most or maybe its just my phone.
Music is good aaaaaand that's it. Always starts playing randomly out loud for no reason even when your not in the app. I would keep it if every 5 minutes it didn't start playing on its own.
Alright so this app use to be a great app but now it sucks. Won't let me play songs from my favorites. Also it crashes. You just need to update. The IPhone version is amazing. Make it like that please.
Mobile web based hype has more features. Annoying bugs when doing anything else with your device: randomly starts playing music, won't stop playing sometimes unless you click to play another song and then pause it. No lockscreen or pulldown menu functions. More basic than using the website. I wish Hype! By brimpa was supported on my phone.
I have to forcestop the app so it will stop playing music randomly from my pocket. Also, you can't search for friends or see your current friend's profile/their likes like you can on the payable app and online. I've had the app for over two years and it these problems haven't changed for me. Galaxy S4 user.
There is no way to quit the app. Even a force close won't do it--it simply starts playing again. I have to go into the app info and force close it that way, which is a pain. it is so very glitchy, I'm just going to fork over the 4 dollars for the official app. Don't waste you time!
I love this app and its by far the best app for browsing hype machine. I just wish it had better tablet compatibility (my main issue is that it forces portrait view, while most Android tablets are designed for landscape viewing.
I love hype machine but the app is terribly glitchy. The shuffle option never works, switching songs barely functions, my favorite songs are sometimes lost, and the worst part is that when I am making a phone call it will start playing during my phonecall. It's hard to be dissapointed when the website itself and the music you get from it makes you so happy.
Every time I try to open it , it just doesn't load although I try to refresh. It's not the first phone it happens with. Can't even remember the last time I was able to shuffle my favorites at all.
The app is still full of bugs, for example on my s6 I'll pause the music, go to another app and the music will start playing again on its own. When i go back i back into uber to pause the music, it doesnt even act like its playing music; i have to choose a random song, play it, pause it and then exit out again. -This brings me to the next bug, it has a terrible time keeping track of the song its playing. Lastly the shuffle doesnt work properly in my favorites, it always does the exact same order...
kept opening in my background by itself and was a pain to close resulting in this app using 5gb of data in one month while running in the background please fix these issues. Update:This app has a mind of its own, let's just put it at that . it'll start up when I receive calls or notifications from other apps. The service is great but the app is just absolute garbage.I will be deleting this in favor for the offical app. No headache and a working app is worth $5.
Who makes such a beautiful app and then doesn't program a frickin exit button... I have to go into my running applications and shut this down because there is no exit button
Innovative and damned useful. one of those rare breakthrough ideas. Dig it, man! Now if only the Android app wasn't such a buggy POS ... say if you could easily see and control the playback UI on android like u can on iOS.
I don't get any of my favourited songs from Hype machine. If it's run by hype machine, I should be able to access everything from my account. Absolutely brutal
There is no way to quit the app. Even a force close won't do it--it simply starts playing again. I have to go into the app info and force close it that way, which is a pain. it is so very glitchy, I'm just going to fork over the 4 dollars for the official app. Don't waste you time!
The music starts by it self when I call people it plays in the background and even after existing the app and actually going into setting and killing it it keeps on playing. I had rated it 4 stars before but now it's a nightmare. While I love the music selection the app is really really bad. Sack your app manager and hire a guy who knows what he is doing.
Love the app, but it still crashes randomly and doesn't skip songs if they don't load. Most annoying thing is the Shuffle button doesn't work! This is driving me crazy!
This app works ok. It turns on randomly for some reason, it is very annoying. It is slow to respond when switching menus, and to load current content. Menu selection for filters is cumbersome. It does not automatically load a new page of songs when done. Songs that fail to load stop all playback, it should skip them for the next track.Overall I hate this app. But I love hypemachine, and Hype! Isn't supported on my m8.
The shuffle button stopped working and the app randomly starts playing tracks, at times like when I'm at work, playing out loud inside my pocket. EDIT: shuffle still doesn't and it still plays randomly on my S5
I've always had minor problems with this app, but recently NONE of the songs will even load. I'll press play, it'll start to load, then the loading abruptly stops and nothing will happen. Very annoying. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling it multiple times with no success. Uninstalling until this is fixed. The real Hype Machine creators better come out with their app real soon.
Love everything about this app. My only critique is its lack of integration with the phone. Google play can be controlled through blue tooth devices and stops and pauses with phone calls. This app does not. It would be awesome if this functionality was added.
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This app is a great complement the web site! But, there are a couple questions/issues I have. One, the favorites > shuffle disables the menu, meaning I can only access my recent favorites. Two, I know the iPhone app has offline mode. Devs, if you're reading this, this is a great service and a great app. If the offline feature were included I would be willing to pay for a different app. And, if one were able to do a partial song-skip it would be icing on the cake. Honestly if you made an Android carbon-copy of the iPhone app I would buy it immediately. Thanks so much for this service!