“Groovy Motherfucker”

An attempt to create an open scrobbler infrastructure.

Last.fm follow up to the unsubstantiated rumour published as fact by TechCrunch on Friday.

No idea what this means, but it’s pretty. “ohh roof da walk boy gigantic”

Which tracks do last.fm’s users hide from their profile most often? Your guide to the world’s finest guilty pleasure tunes.

The last.fm music visualizer just upped the awesome a tad. I love the “posters” showing your artist preferences over time.

Renderer for that awesome squiggly last.fm-over-time visualization I posted a couple of weeks ago. Very excited to see my results from this!

last.fm bought by TV & radio network, CBS. OK, the radio connection makes a little sense, but still strikes me that the other half of Viacom would have been a better match.

Gorgeous visualization of a year’s worth of music listening. Hey! Last.FM! I would pay $50 in a heartbeat for a nice poster print of this with my own listening habits.

Last.FM confirm that, despite their claims for the last two years that “We will also provide periodic for data mining and research purposes, soon.”, they’re never going to do another Creative Commons-licensed data-dump, as the data is considered “too valuable”. This is why I’ve been scraping my real-time feed and storing it myself.

I didn’t realise last.fm had this functionality. Rather puzzled that The Beatles are Number 1 — I do love their new “Love” album, but I didn’t think I’d played it more than The Delgados, or even Girls Aloud, in 2006.

Interesting thought: Is your “music collection” just your audio files, or is it all the ratings and playlists and stuff that go along with it? Is Apple’s DRM less of a lock-in than just the time spent organising your music *just so* in iTunes?

Player for Pandora which supports the multimedia keys on keyboards, minimizes to your system tray, and uploads your track info to last.fm.

Google appear to be building their own scrobbler — The new Google Talk client lets you opt to send your Winamp/iTunes/etc playback data up to Google.

Article covering the myriad of music discovery and recommendation engines out there. “Echo Nest” sounds interesting (and they’re local).

Matt Biddulph scripted an AudioScrobbler profile containing a live feed of the music played on the BBC 6Music radio station.