Quelle Musique?
Thursday, November 23rd, 2006
More site updates – I added a LastFM weekly top artists list for my profile to the sidebar. It looks like this:
I’ve been tracking my music habits for about a year now using the service, and it’s a bit odd to look at the stats. LastFM tracks what songs you play using plugins for players like Winamp and iTunes. I have both plugins installed, but I rarely use iTunes to play music – just to organize it. Most of my music listening happens in Winamp with music that I recently acquire or rip – while it is still unorganized and possibly incorrectly tagged. I usually play the hell out of an album if I like it, then tag it correctly and file it away in my iTunes library – rarely to be played with any frequency again.
The main inaccuracy is that I use Winamp to search through tracks for use in creating Système-D podcasts, and then reviewing podcast release candidates. I also listen to Shoutcast streams frequently, which are not recorded. So that skews the stats a bit too. But I think the weekly top artists list that I included is a good reflection of what’s been hitting my ears recently.
The primary reason for including this thing is to keep myself sharp. If I catch it looking completely lame, I know I have to go out and discover new music – or awesome older music.
More site updates – I added a LastFM weekly top artists list for my profile to the sidebar. It looks like this:
I’ve been tracking my music habits for about a year now using the service, and it’s a bit odd to look at the stats. LastFM tracks what songs you play using plugins for players like Winamp and iTunes. I have both plugins installed, but I rarely use iTunes to play music – just to organize it. Most of my music listening happens in Winamp with music that I recently acquire or rip – while it is still unorganized and possibly incorrectly tagged. I usually play the hell out of an album if I like it, then tag it correctly and file it away in my iTunes library – rarely to be played with any frequency again.
The main inaccuracy is that I use Winamp to search through tracks for use in creating Système-D podcasts, and then reviewing podcast release candidates. I also listen to Shoutcast streams frequently, which are not recorded. So that skews the stats a bit too. But I think the weekly top artists list that I included is a good reflection of what’s been hitting my ears recently.
The primary reason for including this thing is to keep myself sharp. If I catch it looking completely lame, I know I have to go out and discover new music – or awesome older music.