Audioscrobblin’ and Guiltin’
Some time back, my boy Andrew Thomas goaded a bunch of us into trying Audioscrobbler. Eventually, I decided to get over my initial data privacy concerns and throw it out there. I love collaborative filtering, and I was going to get benefits out of it. [I already have ... I've got some new music coming from Hem as a result.]
You can now check out my Audioscrobbler output in two venues: the gfmorris account page on Audioscrobbler or on my personal portal, where I’m using a piece of PHP code to get myself a GD-generated image of the last song my plugin outputted.
Two things that amuse me about this:
- Jeff Holland’s comment that: “but, yeah, the guy who came up with the idea of caching your data on the client until the server is ready for it in these plugins is brilliant“, which he is. That’s intelligent design, something you don’t often see when clients pass data to servers.
- That I’ve guilted more than a couple people into contributing to the service. As someone who runs a hosted service, I believe in that kind of guilt. Of the 30 of us in the RMFO group, five are presently members. That’s my kind of numbers!
You best be adding me and Amy to your expansive friends list on there.
February 3rd, 2005 at 13:15Yeah, especially since I just added you.
I really need to donate. Add that to the millions of things I’ve gotta do when I get back. Blah, blah, blah.
February 3rd, 2005 at 13:16can I say I’m disappointed you’ve listened to Franz more than Derek OR Wilco?
February 3rd, 2005 at 13:50Brad and Amy: done.
Josh: I just got the Wilco back on my machine today, and I haven’t yet put Derek back on here, either. I’m doing this right from a metadata perspective, which means that my listening habits will be skewed a little; but since I’m running it 24 hours a day here at the office and muting it when I leave at night, it’ll even out in the long run.
February 3rd, 2005 at 13:55isn’t that cheating?
February 5th, 2005 at 00:15I tried the audioscobbler thing a while back when I was looking for something, anything to either show what I’ve recently listened to on my blog, or show what was playing when I posted. (Why am I obsessed with this? I’m sure it has something to do with my identity.) It was cool, but I couldn’t seem to get the code right to make it show up on my blog. Still a nifty little thing though.
February 7th, 2005 at 07:07Howdy, Neighbor
After almost a month of dumping data at Audioscrobbler, I have found my closest musical neighbor: Jeff Holland. Next closest? Katey.
It’s a little weird to me that I know these two people; I expected to not have a clue whose ears were most like m…
February 17th, 2005 at 16:23