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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: Attn: Audioscrobbler UsersRe: Attn: Audioscrobbler Users
From: Shervin Riahi <shervin_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 14:14:15 -0500 I wholeheartedly support audioscrobbler tracking support, but I do fear one thing....like others before it, viralsound and listento, I can't help but wonder how many more days are left in audioscrobbler's life before it too succumbs to mass usage and hideous bandwidth bills. That said, I too feel the same with the "wasted listens"...I use Winamp at home and at work, but use my jukebox extensively on the road and everywhere else, so to be able to track my music listening habits for winamp as well as audioscrobbler would be execllent! From: Peter van Hardenberg <pvh_at_uvic.ca> Date: 2005-03-08 > On Tue, 2005-08-03 at 12:00 +0100, rockbox-request_at_cool.haxx.se wrote: > > Hi Matt, > > > > don't get me wrong, but I don't understand the gain of such services. > > > > >> I just thought it would be > > >>mildly interesting finding out what type of music most Rockbox users > > >>listen to. > > > > I really don't like the idea to send my current playlist for statistics or whatever to any server. Sorry when my playlists are not listet in the web. > > > > Joerch > > Audioscrobbler is wonderfully awesome. It is tightly integrated into amaroK, which if you are a Linux user, kicks ass. You can enable an option which will append Audioscrobbler recommendations to your playlists, so you can queue up an album and when it ends, more similar music will follow up. Last.FM (a sister site) will create a custom streaming radio station from your audioscrobbler profile, and the charts they generate are just the bees knees. For example, Radiohead is the most popular band (among audioscrobbler users) anywhere in the world, and Led Zeppelin, the Beatles, and a surprising number of other old bands still feature in the top twenty. I'd love a plugin for Rockbox which would give me the ability to upload my listening stats to Audioscrobbler. I always feel like I'm "wasting listens" when I don't get my stats tracked. My friends check my profile for music tips (as I check theirs) and I don't have to worry about rescuing the data when I reformat. This is one of the best projects in the Music Information Retrieval world, and is highly respected. All their data is Creative Commons licensed, and they don't have any ads on their site (or at least, there are no traces left behind with Adblock running in FF.) I know there are people out there who are not interested in sharing their information with other people, and that is very understandable. On the other hand, many of us see music as a community experience. Audioscrobbler provides tools to help with that. As with Matt, I am not in any way affiliated with AS, though I am taking a class with a Music Information Retrieval expert who speaks fondly of their character. All the best, Peter van Hardenberg _______________________ _______________________________________________ http://cool.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/rockbox Received on 2005-03-08 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |