{"id":887,"date":"2007-08-25T17:32:28","date_gmt":"2007-08-25T16:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/08\/scrobbling-audio-at-lastfm.htm"},"modified":"2007-08-26T14:32:58","modified_gmt":"2007-08-26T13:32:58","slug":"scrobbling-audio-at-lastfm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/08\/scrobbling-audio-at-lastfm.htm","title":{"rendered":"Scrobbling audio at Last.fm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hate it when websites gather more information about me than is necessary and more than a few sites now have nonsensical entries in their marketing databases as a result; however I have found one site recently that I&#8217;m more than happy to give information too &#8211; because I get something in return.  You see, as I write this, I&#8217;m listening to a mixture of laid back beats, chilled house and trance, recommended to me by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.last.fm\/\">Last.fm<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Last.fm\">incorporating audioscrobbler<\/a>). It&#8217;s being streamed to me over my Internet connection, free of charge, based on my musical tastes.  How did it find out what I like?  Well, I have a client application on my computer, which hooks into iTunes and each time I synchronise my iPod, play a track in iTunes or listen via the Last.fm website it &#8220;scrobbles&#8221; my recently played tracks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.last.fm\/user\/mark-wilson\/\">my profile<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been using the service for a few months now and still can&#8217;t get my head around just how useful (and varied) it&#8217;s many features are &#8211; so I&#8217;ll point you to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ciao.co.uk\/Last_fm__Review_5584783\">this review by Steffie<\/a> for a better idea of just what Last.fm can provide for your listening pleasure.  <a href=\"http:\/\/reviews.cnet.com\/4520-3000_7-6312115-1.html\">For a review from a more mainstream media source, try CNET<\/a>.  Meanwhile, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stevekrause.org\/steve_krause_blog\/2006\/01\/pandora_and_las.html\">Steve Krause looks at the differences between Last.fm and Pandora<\/a> &#8211; another popular music recommendation site that is often referenced alongside Last.fm but which, as Steve explains, is fundamentally different in the way it determines its recommendations.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re anything like me, you&#8217;re probably wondering how sites like Last.fm can stream music free of charge whilst <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/08\/bbc-iplayer-seems-to-work-well-on-windows-xp-but-what-about-the-rest-of-us.htm\">others wrangle with the complications of DRM-protected content<\/a>.  Well, that&#8217;s because it&#8217;s not just a free online music library &#8211; whilst you can hear &#8220;radio stations&#8221; based on your preferences there is no choice in what is played next and if you do search for a particular track then only a 30 second sample is played.  As for the viability of the site (a question that should be asked of many &#8220;web 2.0&#8221; sites) &#8211; it&#8217;s viable enough for <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.last.fm\/2007\/05\/30\/lastfm-acquired-by-cbs\">CBS to buy it<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbscorporation.com\/news\/prdetails.php?id=2263\">for $280m<\/a> &#8211; and hopefully not just to shut it down).  The theory is, that if I like what I hear, then I&#8217;ll buy some more music and to some extent that&#8217;s feasible.  If I enter the name of a well-established band then I&#8217;ll probably recognise the names of similar artists (those who like Kylie Minogue may also enjoy Madonna or Britney Spears &#8211; or, closer to my tastes, if I like Faithless then why not try Groove Armada and Moby, etc.) but for something more obscure (e.g. The Age of Love), then I&#8217;d never have known to try something by Kamaya Painters, The Thrillseekers or Nalin &#038; Kane.  As for CBS, they get access to a huge database of musical tastes (whilst <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio4\/news\/inbusiness\/inbusiness_20070524.shtml\">others are relying on a combination of software and intuition to predict their next hit<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hate it when websites gather more information about me than is necessary and more than a few sites now have nonsensical entries in their marketing databases as a result; however I have found one site recently that I&#8217;m more than happy to give information too &#8211; because I get something in return. 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