Audioscrobbler

[Professor]

Can someone break down audioscrobbler for me? I don't seem to understand it. Is it purely statistical? What is it's function? How is the data collected?

It's sunday. And it's beautiful here in Brooklyn.

[Dave]

You download a plugin fo winamp or whatever player you use and when you play a song it sends the artist and title to the audioscrobbler database. It has no other function than to document your listening habits. Then it can remommend new music based on what similar listeners like or whatever.

my page (http://www.audioscrobbler.com/user/dirtydave/)

dirty group (http://www.audioscrobbler.com/group/dirty)

Join. Its harmless and interesting.

[Eikman]

i thought it contained some sort of spyware?

[Dave]

I hope not :eek:

faq (http://www.audioscrobbler.com/help/faq.php), privacy stuff at the bottom

[Tom]

Been meaning to join for a while, so I just did.

How often does the plugin update your profile?

[sanakan]

generally, it submits every song you play in the middle of the track or so... ("Recent Tracks")

updates on the weekly charts are done weekly, but this may differ a bit

the "Top Artists" and "Top Tracks" are updated "periodically", depending on the size of your musical profile (as a very large profile only changes, if you played another big bunch of music).

also, read the FAQ (http://www.audioscrobbler.com/help/faq.php#Submissions-caching)

[Tom]

Cheers mate.

[votingfloater]

I finally got to try this out after getting broadband... very cool. I've heard some interesting stuff through this.

[ceramic'cow]

me = http://www.last.fm/user/fevr_givr/

[dubnobasswithme]

here's mine as well:

http://www.last.fm/user/dubnobasswithme/

[votingfloater]

And this is me:

http://www.last.fm/user/votingfloater/

I had no idea there was a dirty group on it.

[sanakan]

http://www.last.fm/user/sanakan

you can't get far in this world without the dirts, votingfloater ;)

[mkb]

i thought it contained some sort of spyware?
it IS spyware by definiton, no? willful but still spyware

[Yannick]

http://www.last.fm/user/dirtyyannick/

:)

[sanakan]

http://www.last.fm/user/dirtyyannick/

:)


ok, so WHAT IS THIS?!!??? ;)
5 Underworld - Pants 19:28, 24 October 2005

[votingfloater]

I saw that too, but he's saying nothing. Nothing beyond the usual enigmatic oddness, anyway.

:D

[Dirty0900]

ok, so WHAT IS THIS?!!??? ;)

Old UWlive backing music when the site first went live.Goes well with Kippers.

[patrick]

i saw these in his 'weekly' charts

Underworld - Mastic 7
Underworld - Biro The Leggy 5
Underworld - Lonely Bollock 3
Mr and Mrs Christmas - Bang the Poll 27
Underworld - 04 - Five Points 1


exciting!!!

[patrick]

the number to the right is the number of times he played it in the week that i found it...

[Jafs]

Mine: http://www.last.fm/user/Jafs

[borline]

the site's pretty neat. i've been listening to it for a while now and it's been giving me a bunch of good bands.

[lukeyd]

all added. its a pretty neat idea. a definate alternative to the "song of the day" list-style threads.

edit: i wonder if any of you can guess my username???!?!

[spacefish]

http://last.fm/user/spacefish/

[absolute zero]

http://www.last.fm/user/abs_zero/

is there a "dirty" group? I'd be interesting to see/hear what others are listening to (I think each group eventually has its own radio station).

[absolute zero]

oops, went past it :p. http://www.last.fm/group/dirty

[verbal]

Does this only update for stuff you've played on your PC/Mac?

What I'm getting at is I rarely play music on my computer while I'm home but I use my iPod a TON. Everytime you plug in the iPod, play history gets updated in iTunes. Anyone know if it sends that data or just realtime play stats?