Music Ally

This weekend saw Music Hack Day in London, where a bunch of programmers met up to meddle with the innards of some popular music sites. A full list of the results can be found via this link, but some of our faves are below:

The event, which was organised by SoundCloud UK’s Dave Haynes, sounds like it went swimmingly. Hopefully some of the good ideas dreamed up this weekend will be developed further.

UK newspaper The Guardian is to host the first ever Music Hack Day this weekend, with 200 participants monkeying about with APIs provided by several online music firms.

It’s being organised by SoundCloud’s UK manager Dave Haynes, and his company will join 7Digital, BBC Music, Echo Nest, Gigulate, Last.fm, People’s Music Store and Songkick in opening their full APIs up to the attending developers. Attendees will work through the night to prototype and build new projects based on the APIs from these sites, with prizes awarded to the best examples.

“It’s time for the music industry to start working with web technologies and innovation, not against it,” says Haynes. “Instead of suing the people coming up with the most popular new music apps, we should be embracing them.”