Comments on: Last.fm http://www.broobles.com/blog/posts/48 Fri, 16 May 2008 04:45:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1.3 by: /dev/urandom -- Pseudorandomness » The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of Last.fm http://www.broobles.com/blog/posts/48#comment-812 Sun, 22 Jan 2006 09:18:17 +0000 http://www.broobles.com/blog/posts/48#comment-812 [...] Broobles recently posted about Last.fm, a site that tracks your music listening habits, and recommends artists based on what you listen to. Here’s some of what he had to say. Anyway, I discovered Last.fm a few days ago and it left me speechless, it’s what I was waiting for for a long time. Although the main idea is similar to Pandora’s (find out the music that you might like based on what you already like), Last.fm wraps this into a cool social aspect. It is based on a little cool app, the “Audioscrobblerâ€? which sends information about the songs you’re listening in your player to Last.fm. This enables them to provide excellent statistics, like “The most popular Offspring’s song is Self Esteemâ€? or “People who listen to Molotov also listen to Control Machete or Cafe Tacubaâ€?. Now, this is really useful info since it is based on real user stats and it is just plain cool and it also really works - I discovered a few new excellent bands and found some fantastic songs of artists I already know, all in just couple of hours. [...] […] Broobles recently posted about Last.fm, a site that tracks your music listening habits, and recommends artists based on what you listen to. Here’s some of what he had to say. Anyway, I discovered Last.fm a few days ago and it left me speechless, it’s what I was waiting for for a long time. Although the main idea is similar to Pandora’s (find out the music that you might like based on what you already like), Last.fm wraps this into a cool social aspect. It is based on a little cool app, the “Audioscrobblerâ€? which sends information about the songs you’re listening in your player to Last.fm. This enables them to provide excellent statistics, like “The most popular Offspring’s song is Self Esteemâ€? or “People who listen to Molotov also listen to Control Machete or Cafe Tacubaâ€?. Now, this is really useful info since it is based on real user stats and it is just plain cool and it also really works - I discovered a few new excellent bands and found some fantastic songs of artists I already know, all in just couple of hours. […]

]]> by: Brian http://www.broobles.com/blog/posts/48#comment-810 Thu, 19 Jan 2006 16:05:40 +0000 http://www.broobles.com/blog/posts/48#comment-810 I absolutely love last.fm, formerly known as audioscrobbler, etc. I'm the same as you in that it can't parse internet streams (including those from my own PC across the internet) and I rarely connect my iPod to my main computers anymore to get recently played data, but it's still a good way to keep up with friends and what they're listening to. I added a plug in to my sidebar to grab my recent tracks and I have been listening to more music at home, but it's still not very accurate for me either. (came here looking for wordpress tag plugins) I absolutely love last.fm, formerly known as audioscrobbler, etc. I’m the same as you in that it can’t parse internet streams (including those from my own PC across the internet) and I rarely connect my iPod to my main computers anymore to get recently played data, but it’s still a good way to keep up with friends and what they’re listening to. I added a plug in to my sidebar to grab my recent tracks and I have been listening to more music at home, but it’s still not very accurate for me either.

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