Letting Last.fm linger

Posted by Daniel Stout on Thu 17 Jan 2008 at 6:15 AM

I’ve got an account with Last.fm that tracks what I’m listening to on the computer. Unfortunately there’s no automatic way to record what I’m listening to on vinyl. At any rate, Last.fm is the kind of thing that one can just leave running and not worry about it. Occasionally the Last.fm plug-in to iTunes alerts me that it has a new version. Otherwise it pretty much maintains itself. I like that it records what I listen to on my iPod as well when I sync it.

But here’s the idea: leave the Last.fm account alone for a few months, and then check in and see what it recorded. There are a variety of tools online to visualize what you’ve recorded into Last.fm. It would be fun to just let this go for a while and see what happens. As I’ve been listening to more classical lately, I would expect some of my top 50 artists to change somewhat. What else would change? I’ll have to check back in a few months and report what I find: the mysteries of Dan’s listening habits revealed.

Tags: last.fm · social music

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