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April 30

4:05pm

After a period of quiet in jamland, we’re back with a couple nifty changes. When you look at jams, you can see how many others have checked them out. This tally doesn’t currently include views from embedded jams, but those will be factored in later on.

Also, comments! Leave little love notes on fav jams, tell people about their aesthetic failings, etc.

Write us if you have any thoughts on these new features, or if there’s something else you think we need.

xo.
Team Jam

April 18

9:50am

This guy is onto us
This guy is onto us

March 31

6:20pm

jam by scottsitt. This is what making a jam is about folks

March 27

6:44pm

Our 1000th jam, by ethomaz. That was quick. We’ll be back with the 10,000th.

4:58pm

Does It Say "A Problem. Try Again?"

We know. We hate that too. There are apparently some songs in our catalog that do not want to be processed. If you get this, rest assured we’re on it. Pick some different songs. Apologies.

March 23

2:39pm

Welcome internet to This is My Jam! We’re still in heavy development mode on this very site. You may notice a lot of weird things as you use it. We’d really appreciate your feedback! What is this is my jam? This site lets you make mini mixes to share with people. We initially envisioned it as a place where you update your jam whenever you get a new one. Your jam is the tracks that move you at any particular time for whatever reason. If you start liking other peoples jams, you can add them as friends or subscribe to their jams as podcasts or RSS. You can post your jam to your blog or social networking site or whatever you want. We work at a company that makes some really cool stuff with audio processing, so we thought we could quickly use some of that to always make your jams sound good. Under the hood, the tracks you choose in your jam are ordered and aligned and mixed automatically. You may not even notice, which is good. We hope you like it. For those that like to hear how magic tricks work: This is My Jam makes extensive uses of the wonderful Apache Solr, Amazon’s SimpleDB, SQS, S3, E-Commerce Services, and runs on their EC2 servers. The audio manipulation and analysis courtesy The Echo Nest’s Analyze, which you can now try yourself. — Team Jam

Welcome internet to This is My Jam!

We’re still in heavy development mode on this very site. You may notice a lot of weird things as you use it. We’d really appreciate your feedback!

What is this is my jam?

This site lets you make mini mixes to share with people. We initially envisioned it as a place where you update your jam whenever you get a new one. Your jam is the tracks that move you at any particular time for whatever reason. If you start liking other peoples jams, you can add them as friends or subscribe to their jams as podcasts or RSS. You can post your jam to your blog or social networking site or whatever you want.

We work at a company that makes some really cool stuff with audio processing, so we thought we could quickly use some of that to always make your jams sound good. Under the hood, the tracks you choose in your jam are ordered and aligned and mixed automatically. You may not even notice, which is good. We hope you like it.

For those that like to hear how magic tricks work: This is My Jam makes extensive uses of the wonderful Apache Solr, Amazon’s SimpleDB, SQS, S3, E-Commerce Services, and runs on their EC2 servers. The audio manipulation and analysis courtesy The Echo Nest’s Analyze, which you can now try yourself.

— Team Jam

March 22

9:18am

SOME THINGS TO CALL THIS IS MY JAM

  • TIMJ
  • A place for your jam.
  • The only place on the internet where you can beat match Dream Weaver and a “sounds like” version of “Life on Mars”
  • “Twitter” for “Music”
  • YSI-era I love music / ilX, before they started auto logging you out after 10 minutes (but with no text)
  • A .plan file that moves around and plays audio, just like that one you wrote in csh in college your spring semester of your sophomore year at 3a.m. in the graphics lab basement

8:53am

TIMJ Changelog

(4/30)

  • View counts (only on page views, not embeds).
  • Comments!

(4/4)

  • Login link added to footer.
  • “Friended” -> “Friended By” in user profiles.
  • Better outlining on jam images that are links.

(4/3)

  • Prettier player for your jams.
  • Editable jams! If you’re logged in and viewing one of your own jams, there’ll be an “edit this jam” link. Click it and you’ll be brought to the creation page. Rearrange the playlist, tweak settings, etc. Your new jam will replace the old one.

(4/1)

  • “PITYB” link fixed to work with Blogger.
  • Copy jam now grabs the full playlist, not just the first 5.
  • Password reset now available.

(3/28)

  • Better blog stylings.
  • “Start a new jam with these songs”: follow this link on jam pages if you want to play with a jam you made or take inspiration from someone else’s.

(3/25)

  • Improved resource caching: page load times should be much faster. Site updates will also now appear without forced refreshes.
  • About me/URL on profile: a couple freeform text spaces to tell people a little about yourself. While logged in, go to your profile page and click the fields to edit.

(3/24)

  • User browse page: follow link from profile or go straight to username.thisismyjam.com/browse to see every jam that a person’s done.
  • Delete a jam: if you’re logged in on your own browse page, you can delete jams you don’t want anymore.
  • RSS feed for your friends (or anyone else’s): now you can keep on top of new jams from your friends in any RSS reader or iTunes.
  • Friended list: user profiles show who’s marked you as a friend.
  • Easier to read timestamps: UTC -> x minutes/hours/days ago.

(3/20)

  • We “recommend” you jams now.

8:49am

nest:

My name is C and this is my jam.

March 20

8:03pm

Röyksopp (or is it Royksöpp?) fans celebrate, Team Jam thinks it has figured out why those nasty non ascii characters were not rendering. An official This is My Ham to the first jam to use entirely kanji so we can see if it works (does amazon even list these?) PS only new jams will be wordly like this
Röyksopp (or is it Royksöpp?) fans celebrate, Team Jam thinks it has figured out why those nasty non ascii characters were not rendering. An official This is My Ham to the first jam to use entirely kanji so we can see if it works (does amazon even list these?) PS only new jams will be wordly like this
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