Audioscrobbler: Also very cool

Yet another sound-related toy to play with raises a question for all you audiophiles: Why have you been holding out on me w/the Audioscrobbler scoop? This is muy cool! You create a free account, download a plugin for your favorite music-listening app, install it, and then the track names of everything you listen to get streamed to your user page on Audioscrobbler (like this). Over time it will tell you what your favorite songs and artists are (according to how much you play them), and connect you to other people who like the same music, through which you may find other music you'll also like. Pretty freakin' awesome, if you ask me. Many moons ago I installed iTunes Watcher here, and it also uploads track and album info for recently played tunes, but it doesn't have the “social networking” features and it's also more complicated to set up. The developer posted on his now-defunct blog that he wanted to give iTunes Watcher a lot of the features Audioscrobbler now has, but it looks like that ship has sailed. The one advantage I see for iTunes Watcher is how it allows you to customize the display of your recently-played page. Of course, that's something I never got around to doing, so maybe it's not that valuable. One problem with Audioscrobbler: I don't really listen to music on my computer all that often. More frequently I listen to the ipod through the stereo, or to the iPod itself, or just to a regular cd. Still, this is fun. It will be even more fun when you all set yours up so I can browse your musical collections. hint. hint. Now, could someone please explain to me (or point me to) the easiest way to get an RSS feed to display as a sidebar here on this blog? I futzed around with the RSS Feed plugin the other night and couldn't get it to work, so.... other options or tips for making RSS Feed work? Thanks!

Posted 08:06 AM | ai music