Monday, May 03, 2004
Carving out my internet aural soundscape
Courtesy of Idletype, I found out about Audioscrobbler. It functions as a plug-in on your computer's media player, and it pays attention to what you play, then submits the songs automatically to the Audioscrobbler servers. Then it organizes favorites, lists, suggestions, and other listeners according to your listening habits. It's also kind enough to post your results to your own personal webpage, so people can browse your listening habits and see what you've been putting in your ears. Here's mine.
It's not uploaded any of my songs, as there's something of a delay before it submits them to your page. It seems, also, that there's an additional delay for song submissions, but I'm comforted by the news that RJ, the guy who's a developer behind this business, has tracked down the problem and has formulated a solution "involving a Java version of the queue muncher and a secondary database." Honestly, I'm glad he thought of that, because tech wizard I am, I'd likely have just thought of implementing some kind of fix with the secondary database and forgotten altogether about the mighty powers of the Java queue muncher.
Looks like I'll need all my technical expertise, however, to figure out how to get this thing to identify what songs I've been playing on my iPod--that's how I listen to most of the music on iTunes, and if it's honestly going to watch only the information I play while I'm at my desktop and playing iTunes, it's in for a pretty unexciting ride.
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