Editing MP3 blog (section)

==Aggregators==
Aggregators such as [[The Hype Machine]] and [[Music Blogtrotter]] track MP3 blog posts and display the most recently updated posts on its front page.  The services are meant to provide a snapshot of what's going on in music blogging and make it easier to search through recently posted MP3s.  The Hype Machine features a list of the most popular tracks of the last three days, as well as the most blogged bands and most popular searches. In June 2009, the popular songs list was altered so that it is only affected by user accounts that are several days old, after it was discovered that the "hearts scores" for dozens of songs were being artificially inflated by dummy accounts, often created in batches numbering in the hundreds.<ref name="hypemblogpost">{{ cite web|url=http://blog.hypem.com/2009/06/on-chart-integrity/|title= Hype Machine On Chart Integrity|date= 30 June 2009}}</ref>  Elbo.ws had a similar feature listing which Bands, Tracks, and Videos are currently "hot." However Elbo which had been around since 2005 shut down in late 2013.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20131010002636/http://blog.elbo.ws/2013/10/the-end/ Elbo.ws sign-off] archived, retrieved May 18, 2015</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=YouTube to MP3 |url=https://www.wikihow.com/Convert-YouTube-to-MP3 |access-date=16 May 2023}}</ref> Music Blog Aggregators have caused a boom in MP3 blog readership and accessibility.  Aggregators use RSS technology to collect data from MP3 blogs and link to the individual blog posts instead of directly to the MP3s.

The Hype Machine does not list blogs whose writers or editors are involved in the music [[public relations]] industry.