The sporadic tech junkie post, heh heh. If you like what last.fm offers as much as I do and not afraid of the ‘geek’ label, children--here’s some stuff you may play with in your own idle time:
Some rather handy small applications and greasemonkey scripts here, including Chart Changes, Recent Tracks Updater, 6 Degrees, Reverse Neighbours, and PyScrobble. (If you don’t know what greasemonkey is—it’s a Mozilla Firefox extension that allows users to install scripts that make on-the-fly changes to specific web pages (wiki). Which means before you install any monkey scripts you’ll need the monkey itself--believe me, the magic is well worth the two clicks you need to execute!) I’ve had Chart Changes and Recent Tracks Updater for some time now--CC allows you to see the changes in artist and track rankings over time (7 days for the weekly charts, and for every update of the overall charts), and RTU updates your recently listened track list without you having to leave the user page--more details and illustrations in the links themselves. Work like magic. xD.
- Gijsco’s Last.fm Desktop Generator
Great little application here--downloads your personal chart data, and generates desktop wallpapers of various sizes from various schemes of your choosing. Very neat.
"A little application to rank your favourite artists and albums by an estimation of how long you have spent listening to them" instead of number of tracks, which is often not a very accurately representative stat.
Finally somebody thought of making another -O-Meter, lol.. A little blurb from the author: "The Mainstream-O-Meter calculates your mainstreamness by comparing the listener count of your favorite bands to the average listener count of the five bands who have the most listeners among Last.fm-users." More maths here.
I tried that mainstream o meter some time ago and realized it was meaningless. They sure don't recognize asian music which's marked as 'non mainstream' lol.
ReplyDeletelol yeah i suppose 'mainstream' is relative and needs a context...in this case it's more of a western (plus a bit of japan) scene. just imagine the impact IF a fraction of music loving chinese start to use the service...(i'm just kinda afraid it's gonna crash.) :P
ReplyDeleteI haven't tried any of these :-/, but thanks for the post Jade, I'll take a look at some of them.
ReplyDeleteIts surely western mainstream.... i mean Elvis, Beatles....Stones....Wagner...Beethoven...Noisia...Prodigy...Rammstein...who cares bout sumthing else?
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