February 11, 2005
This Week I Have Been Mostly Listening To
Just recently, I've started using iTunes to listen to music, mainly so that I can try out audioscrobbler. iTunes seems okay as a music player, although it chews up a lot of processor when it's running.
Audioscrobbler keeps track of what you've been listening to, in order to match you to people with similar tastes and generate recommendations of other music you might like. It also builds a personalised "radio station" for each user, so you can browse round and listen to new music.
I'm not sure I'm going to use the personalised radio station stuff, but if nothing else my weekly listening charts are of interest. So if you go to my user page you can see what I've been listening to.
Posted by Adrian at February 11, 2005 11:04 AM | TrackBackThis blog post is on the personal blog of Adrian McEwen. If you want to explore the site a bit further, it might be worth having a look at the most recent entries or look through the archives or categories over on the left.
If you want to hire my company to help you with the Internet of Things then get in touch. If you want to learn more about the Internet of Things, then buy my book Designing the Internet of Things (amazon.co.uk amazon.com).
I've been using Audioscrobbler for a while now and have always been impressed by the talent of these young guys. Unfortunately, as seems to happen on the Internet, a free service is being taken for granted by people who expect the world.
Posted by: Damien Ryan at February 12, 2005 03:52 PMTrue, I was pretty impressed with the way the personalised radio station window kept sync with what is playing in iTunes. Clever stuff.
Posted by: Adrian at February 14, 2005 11:12 AMOnce again, thanks for the pointer to AudioScrobbler. I installed the plugin for WinAmp last week and have been fascinated by the statistics it's been collecting on my listening habits. looking forward to using the last.fm thing once it's got a bit more information to play with.
^ Inline link-tastic eh?
Posted by: Andrew at February 25, 2005 10:43 AMCareful, you'll be starting your own blog next ;-)
Posted by: Adrian at February 25, 2005 01:26 PM