This is a special notice for the developers who are participating in the Music Hack Day part of Music & Bits.

If you’ve already build something, started prototyping or have an amazing concept and you need help, we’re pretty sure this will increase your chances on all the prices that can be won. It’s worth it,  because Sonos, The Echo Nest and Vodafone are all giving away some really nice prices for the best hacks built. If you want to get a head start, here is some extra information.

We expect more than 80 people attending this part of the day, most of the people who have registered are coders or designers, but we also have some hardware Arduino hackers coming to rapidly hack things together. If you want to do some serious hardware hacking or circuit bending – don’t forget to bring your own tools!

While the day is open for anyone to have a talk, we have an RjDj workshop and a STEIM workshop planned. Also, Vodafone (one of our sponsors), will give a short talk on their new ’360′ service they will launch. You’re welcome to join us here, but feel free to do whatever you want.

We have a lot of start-ups who will be able to support the hack track with API support and other help if you need anything. Check out the links below to find more information on the some of API’s you can use;

- Eric from Soundcloud will be there, more info on their API can be found here
- Brian from The Echo Nest will also attend, check out their documentation, here
- Marcel from Twones is also there to support the Twones API, check it out here
- Jonty from Last.fm can help you out with their API, more info here
- Charlie from Cloudspeakers will be their to support the Clouspeakers API, documentation here
- Andie and Martin will be there if you have any questions about RjDj, check out the developers’ wiki here
- The famous RoomWare people will also be there so you can start thinking of thing you can do with WiFi, RFID, QR codes and what not… more info here
- and some others, keep an eye open on musicandbits.com for more info

update: SellABand will also be presentig their API, check it out here

You might also want to check out this Music Feed, The Guardian’s API, Playdar, Boxee and BandsInTown – If you want your API to be in this list, drop us a line and we’ll add you to this blogpost on musicandbits.com, I’ll try to update it as much as possible.

See you on Wednesday! Doors open at 09:30 for the Music Hack Day attendees. The people who only want to attend the conference are welcome at 13:00 sharp (make sure you had lunch prior to that).