I was going to post about the wonders of Listen-to.com, but unfortunately, it looks like they may be shutting down by the end of June. This is unfortunate; like Audioscrobbler (more about this in a moment), Listen-to tabulates the music you, uh, listen to, and breaks it down in endlessly fascinating ways. Endlessly fascinating to me, anyway.
Check out my profile, for instance: it says that I listen to 48 songs per day -- and that's only on the computer -- and that Guided By Voices (naturally) is my most-played group.
You can also look at the .jpg on the right side of my blog that tells you what I'm currently listening to. (I guess it'll be back to BlogAmp after June.)
[Update: the .jpg is now from Viralsound, which works like a charm.]
Audioscrobbler is extremely cool as well, doing much of the same things but displaying the results in neat bar graphs. Here's my profile, which has GBV leading by a mile. (Eileen may be amused to discover that she's right between Kanye West and Radiohead on my list.) Still unimplemented -- at least for people who signed on only recently -- are music recommendations and a display of other Audioscrobbler-enabled people who have your same musical tastes.
The problem with both sites/plugins are their constant outages; there are 226,418 submissions currently in the Audioscrobbler queue, which means that what used to be real-time reports now take hours before they show up in your profile. (As I write this at 10:22 in the evening, the songs I listened to this morning are only just showing up.) This, unfortunately, is the result of its popularity, and the fact that it's absolutely free.
Posted by the wily filipino at April 28, 2004 10:40 PM