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I Love Audioscrobbler

April 22, 2005

It's official, my love for Audioscrobbler is off the heezy. Being a music nerd, I am in love with its ability to proccess all the music I take in over the course of the day. My user page shows that I've listened to 3,741 songs since February 9th, when I created my account, and my top played songs and artists of all-time and have the previous week.

It's a great way to see what you've been listening to lately. Looking at mine, you can see that I listen to my music primarily in album form (I'm a purist) and that I really like the new Spoon, Hot Hot Heat and Iron & Wine records.

My other favorite feature is the Network page. It shows my friends and the last five songs they've listened to as well as my "musical neighbours". The latter feature shows other users who have similar tastes as me (I was very happy to find out my friend Robbie was one of my neighbors).

This is the type of service that Apple should build into iTunes and their .Mac service. Apple users love each other and are typically at the front of cool technology, so why not let them connect online. Also, Audioscrobbler could benefit from Apple's design team and some additional servers.

In conclusion, I would make out with Audioscrobbler if that were possible.

Comments (1 comments so far)

Comment #1:

I really wanted to like Audio Scrobbler, but I must have been doing something wrong. I could never get it to work for me; it didn't seem to be uploading my data properly, and I never got to the point where it was making meaningful recommendations. But I still like the idea a lot. Maybe in a future revision, I'll give it another try.

Posted by Khoi Vinh on April 26, 2005 at 8:27PM

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