My name is this is my jam and this is my blog.

After a period of quiet in jamland, we’re back with a couple nifty changes. When you look at...

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:05:45 -0400

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

This guy is onto us

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:50:24 -0400

This guy is onto us

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

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:20:07 -0400

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

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

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:44:23 -0400

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

Does It Say "A Problem. Try Again?"

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:58:04 -0400

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.

Welcome internet to This is My Jam! We’re still in heavy...

Sun, 23 Mar 2008 14:39:00 -0400

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

SOME THINGS TO CALL THIS IS MY JAM

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 09:18:00 -0400

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

TIMJ Changelog

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 08:53:00 -0400

(4/30)

Favorites!

(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.

nest: My name is C and this is my jam.

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 08:49:49 -0400

nest:

My name is C and this is my jam.

Röyksopp (or is it Royksöpp?) fans celebrate, Team Jam thinks it...

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:03:00 -0400

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

WELCOME TO THE SOCIAL - Team Jam made all sorts of wacky changes...

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:20:10 -0400

WELCOME TO THE SOCIAL - Team Jam made all sorts of wacky changes while you were sleeping. To the five people that somehow found our website without us announcing it— what do you think of them. I can add you as a friend now if you’d like. Would you like that?

Transport button PITYB test. How does it feel?

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:27:00 -0400

Transport button PITYB test. How does it feel?

TEAM JAM MAKES BROWSE PAGE

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:35:36 -0400

dateline TODAY — breaking news — Adam made a BROWSE PAGE for This Is My Jam — you can reach it here you can also SEARCH on this BROWSE page

DEAR CHRISTIAN

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:15:54 -0400

We love your jams.

Everybody, please don’t miss Christian’s jams

Christian, who are you, you are a Jam master

Love, Team Jam

Mouse on Mars Remix...

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:26:51 -0400

Mouse on Mars Remix...:

this is awesome and team jam should be paying attention

(via nest)

HOW THIS IS MY JAM ALMOST BECAME A SOCIAL NETWORK

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:28:06 -0400

(Paraphrased)

Brian: Yeah, I'd like to be able to tag my friend's jams so I can see them all on my own jam page
Adam: Well, then we'd need a user login page, sessions
Brian: No we don't. We can keep using S3 for that.
Adam: You're crazy
Brian: No, you are
Adam: You want anyone to be able to add anyone as your friend?
Brian: Yes.
Adam: OK, I have real work to do.

WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT FIXING THIS IS MY JAM

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 09:59:00 -0400

Here are the things we know about. Tell us if there are others — teamjam @ echonest . com

~~Why doesn’t the RSS feed work as a podcast in itunes. WHY~~
~~That flash player could sure use some transport controls~~
~~UTF8 in XML is not parsed by the flash parser~~
Auto-chosen transitions don’t line up
~~feature request: Delete This Jam. I am against this but maybe it is OK. I guess if we’re going to have jam history we need this.~~
~~Re; Jam history, more than 10?~~
~~Make that “let us order” checkbox in advanced mode tell the queue that~~
~~(That means we’ll have to parse the XML from ENCLCapsule)~~
~~Lock down CGI~~
Script to add new machines, view length of queue if possible
Solr autocommit not fast enough to update jam detail when a short jam has no wait time (make it 15s?)
From user frogbath: not clear you can’t drag songs from itunes etc
From user frogbath: not clear “how to update a jam”
~~“username” tracks: … box — but how do we let users update only their page? password I guess.~~

Dear members of the This Is My Jam team, it’s been a long...

Sat, 08 Mar 2008 18:26:00 -0500

Dear members of the This Is My Jam team, it’s been a long struggle. Why, it only felt like last week that This Is My Jam was created. As we enter a semi private gamma period (I am going to post it to my del.icio.us account I think) we should all sit back and remember who we had to step on to get here. This includes:

Apache Solr
jQuery
The Cocotron
Amazon LLC, in all of their guises

I hope your jams are terribly great.

My name is brian, and this is my jam.

Everybody, make a jam with this track.

Sat, 01 Mar 2008 17:23:42 -0500

Everybody, make a jam with this track.

Welcome

Sat, 01 Mar 2008 15:27:40 -0500

The founding This Is My Jam team will be posting updates and news here.