I created my profile at Audioscrobbler. I downloaded a plugin for WinAmp that reports every song that I play back to the Audioscrobbler website. It keeps track of the music that I like and lets me find people that have similar musical interests. Potentially.
You need to have 100 songs in the list of songs you’ve played in order to get recommendations. And since my list only has a few songs in it at this point, I can’t get recommendations. I should be able to whip through my collection in short order.
The only thing that concerns me is the huge Tori Amos archive I have on here. (It’s 16% of all the music I have on the computer - and that’s a very large percentage indeed, when you consider that the next highest, Radiohead, is 3.3%.) I put a few CDs together for Jen, since her brother had run off with her CDs. Anyway, all of the MP3s for those albums are on this computer, including some bootleg stuff I got from Brian, and some other crazy things, like BT’s “Blue Skies”, which features Tori’s custom vocals in its mix. I figure that I’ll end up with a ton of recommendations of Lilith Fair chicks.
You should also check out Last.fm if you’re so inclined. It’s like a rdio station, except you choose an Audioscrobbler user (uses the same account info) whose music you like and it plays through their collection. I’m not sure how they do this, but it seems to work. You could check out my personal radio station and see if you like any of the stuff I have played on MP3 lately. Of course, it’ll only work after I’ve gotten 100 songs in there. I wonder how long this will take…
