Keeping it all together with Last.fm

Posted by Daniel Stout on Mon 29 Jan 2007 at 10:04 PM

The site Last.fm is a great approach to social music listening. You can create an account on Last, and thereafter your music listens are kept for later dissemination. There are groups devoted to various artists, labels and genres. Last.fm also suggests people whose musical tastes are close to yours. Best of all — Last.fm works with all of your music players, regardless of platform. For example, on Linux you can use Amarok to play your music and send your listens to Last.fm. On Windows or Mac, you can download plug-ins for various players including iTunes and Windows Media Player.

I just signed up for an account a couple of weeks ago, so there’s not that much data to churn through, but after a year or two there would be a great dataset to look at. All of my music is somehow channeled through my computer — either listening while computing or streaming to the stereo via my AirPort Express. So it’s bound to get interesting after a while. I think probably the best approach to Last.fm is to sign up, plug in, and then leave it alone — just let the song plays mount up, and the neatness of the data pile up.

If you’re already on Last.fm or are thinking about it, stop by the Lettuce Iceberg page on Last.fm and say hi.

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