lastfm is a really nice service. listen to music in any media player and, via a plugin, get it “scrobbled” into lastfm. thence be able to slice and dice the data that emerges. most played artist, song, etc etc. also you get to listen to your very own radio station, derived from the music you play. you also get to see your own musical neighbours, people that listen to to the kind of music you do. also when you play a track you can see how many other times other lastfm users have played that track. results i’ve seen range from up in the 35 millions down to the very few thousands.
but there are problems.
for example i played maybe 30 tracks today that do not show up in my list. maybe it takes time? if so why?
but the worst is, well, worse. i have the last fm plugin installed on my machine here, upstairs and private, and on the mac in the kitchen. which is where the kids are. yep.
check out my musical neighbours. i get a load of hannah montana and james blunt fans.
I think my parents broke into my apartment… someone has been playing Simon & Garfunkel on my machine. Yep.
Comment by John Cave — May 7, 2007 @ 12:09 am