Audioscrobbler

Audioscrobbler is a website that tracks what music you listen to. By simply register as a user and installing a tiny plugin your music application will send the song information of what you listen to, to this website which logs it for you. After time the website will display users who listen to the same music as you, recommend other bands that are similar to the ones you listen to, and also allow others to listen to streaming radio based on your musical tastes. It is a pretty wild system and can quite quickly show you what music you listen to most. Also all the information they collected is collected under the creative commons license, which makes them even cooler.

All right, so you might be asking how do you go about setting this up so it monitors what you listen to? Well it is really easy. First step is to go to: http://www.audioscrobbler.com/signup.php and signup for an account. Once you have registered an account (which doesn’t require your email address!) the next (and last step) is to go to this page: http://www.audioscrobbler.com/download.php and download the plugin for your media player. The plugins are very lightweight so don’t worry about it taking too much space or memory. Once you have the plugin install you are good to go. Next time you open your media player you will be asked for your username and password to login to your account and then your music will start getting logged. If you do signup for an account add me as a friend (at http://www.audioscrobbler.com/user/kloppster/ just click the little icon top right), I can never use enough friends!

Lastly the other cool thing about Audioscrobbler is that they are developing (and have developed) web services for this website. This allows you to syndicate your content on your website, or even do things like control your radio station. An example of this is on this site on the right panel under the pictures, I have a listing of my last 10 listened to songs. Cool hey? I think so.