David Noël

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Massive kudos to @freenerd and @roelven for some top notch organization of #MusicHackDay Berlin (Taken with instagram)

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Holy shit, this is so cool.

ThingLink is a service that lets you add links and annotations to images you post to your blog. During Music Hack Day Berlin, team ThingLink improved the integration and added in-image playback for SoundCloud tracks & recordings.

What’s even cooler is that you can go to the image, click to edit tags and record audio right in the image to add contextual audio to the photos you take.

This is Ulla in the background, ThingLink’s founder and CEO, telling the story how we met using the SoundCloud Record feature for iPhone.

Check out more pictures with recordings on:

http://berlinmusichackday.tumblr.com

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Hardware hacks are always amongst the coolest hacks at Music Hack Day.

Ian Hooper playing the self-built guitar inspired by Jack White from The White Stripes in It Might Get Loud.

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Team @SoundCloud taking over NYC #musichackday (Taken with Instagram at Paramount Hotel)

Interviewing @JohnDBritton from Twilio/NYHacker about Music Hack Day

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Loving everything about this photo taken by Thomas Bonte at the Music Hack Day in London this past weekend. 

You can clearly see that people are passionate about spending time together on a weekend, hacking music and API’s. 

From left to right: ex-SoundCloud intern Tom (standing), Sean (SoundCloud’s Software Architect), Sebastian and Alex (both SoundCloud backend developers). 

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Hackingz

A Weekend in Stockholm, Hacking Music

Now eat that, corporate web project managers and social media jumbos!

Gather 90 hackers, developers and representatives from music/tech companies from across the world (USA, Austria, Sweden, UK, Germany) in an amazingly cozy venue in winter wonderland Stockholm and let them use available data around music based on open API’s from companies like RjDj, Songkick, Echo Nest, SoundCloud, last.fm and many more to create new things.

The result: 30 new projects/hacks/apps/whatever after only a 24-hour coding sprint. That’s an average of one project per three attendees! Top that with Batman checking in and your weekend is a hell of an epic win of geekiness:

I posted my favorite hacks yesterday during the demos so here’s the short version. Make sure to check them out, some great stuff inside:

HacKey: look for patterns in the keys of your favorite songs (API: last.fm)

At last.fm I can spotify the similar artists (API: Spotify, last.fm)

Radio Free Hackday: a FM radio streaming music from Citysounds.fm (API: SoundCloud)

Holodeck: create an artist website in no time, pulling data from your last.fm, Songkick, Tumblr and SoundCloud accounts (API: last.fm, Songkick, Tumblr, SoundCloud)

Songkick On Tour: connect your Songkick and Dopplr accounts to find shows happening in your city of destination (API: Songkick, Dopplr)

It’s truly amazing to see what people can do in such a short time when they’re talented, smart and share a common passion for music and technology. It’s as un-conferency as it can get. Just a few hands-on workshops and API presentations, no panels and no business cards. Hack Day organizer Henrik once said to an interviewer:

“We don’t watch TV, we code.”

The photo below pretty much sums up the weekend:

Massive kudos go out to Henrik and Mattias for organizing the best Music Hack Day to date. Fantastic lakeside location, non-stop working and fast internet, great food and drinks, free attendance and awesome people all around.

Plus, Stockholm is a great city everyone should visit at one time or another. I’ll definitely be back in the summer.

Make sure to check out all the photos to get an idea about the atmosphere all also have a look at the full list of hacks.

Photos: Paula Marttila, Gernot, David Kjelkerud and Dave Haynes

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Here’s the hack from last.fm’s own web head Matt Ogle, called HacKey. Enter your last.fm username and it will look for patterns in the keys of your favorite songs.

Apparently, I’m an A major.

Click the pie to listen to the songs.

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Now here’s a great app that I personally find very useful and on top of that, what a great tag line:

At last.fm I can spotify similar artists!

Type in an artist name and it will pull last.fm data to recommend similar artists available in Spotify. Check it out.

Connected to a computer, this radio streams music via Citysounds.fm and the SoundCloud API. Switching frequencies and you’ll get tuned in to a different city. Total win!

The only hardware hack from Music Hack Day in Stockholm was built by Simon and Robert. They took apart a Panasonic radio, replaced a couple of parts and added an Ardunio Mini to have the radio tuned in to the same frequency.

More photos.

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Holodeck lets you create an artist web presence in no time, pulling your data from the services you already use, like Tumblr, SoundCloud, Last.fm and Songkick.

This looks so cool. Created by the awesome Winston Design folks.

Note: the app still has a few glitches so be sure to keep checking back.

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Songkick On Tour is a hack developed by Matt Biddulph of Dopplr fame during the Stockholm Music Hack Day. The app connects your Dopplr trips with Songkick’s concert database and lets you know about the concerts happening when you’re in town. Check out the video below to see how it it works:

Songkick On Tour from Matt Biddulph on Vimeo.

Sweet.