Big Brother likes your record collection

[sfllaw]

I signed up with last.fm a while ago, which is pretty interesting. It's a website that stems from a piece of software called Audioscrobbler that would record your music listening habits and do some fancy statistical analysis on them. Unlike many other "community-based" websites, last.fm actually has a good user-interface and a decidedly non-evil

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[drkeys]

For what it's worth, my closest last.fm neighbour is something like 4.xxxx match value.

last.fm is cool just to track personal statistics. I've somewhat given up on the community aspect of it. I do like the radio station feature though.

[sfllaw]

There seems to be a local mean at 18 and a local mean at 35.

[scjody]

5. last.fm matching sucks

I don't use it myself (since I'm a luddite who does most of his listening using actual CDs) but my friends who do universally report on it taking far more songs than expected to produce matches, and those matches not being very good.

[squarkz]

i don't understand how they generate matches at all. for instance, inertiacrept constantly fight over music and who has better taste, which is to say that we don't exactly converge in musical tastes, yet i am fairly consistently the queen of his match list. (yet he doesn't even rank on my list.)

anyway, i just noticed you'd added me on there.

[sfllaw]

I did, because you seemed to be quite interesting. Certainly, your drawings make me smile.