www.last.fm

The last few days I have been messing about with Audioscrobbler which sends every song you play on your computer to www.last.fm, I originally heard about it over a year ago but couldn't see the point in using it at the time and wasn't all that impressed when I looked at the website.

But over the last week I was messing about with Jinzora 2 and XBMC on my Xbox both support Audioscrobbler. So decided I would give it a go, I have been hooked ever since.

Basically whenever you listen to a song the name of the song, artist and album are sent to www.last.fm, so at the most basic level you could see every song you listened to. This information is then made into charts so you can see who you listen to the most. You can click on the song, artist and album to see more information about it and which tracks are the most popular. All this information is used in various ways. You could see what people with similar tastes in music to you are listening to and discover new music.

Anyone who knows me will know how much I like collecting stuff on the computer like music and logging stuff. People at work say I have some sort of Obsessive-compulsive disorder, lol. So having all this information logged without me having to physically do anything is like heaven to me. Well that's going too far but is interesting (to me at least).

So far I have listened to about 270 songs but that will quickly rise with the amount of music I listen to. Maybe the people at work are right about the Obsessive-compulsive disorder thing I do for some reason still store every Text I've sent or received since April 2003 not sure why maybe they will come in handy one day (how I don't know). Although it does come in handy after a drunken night out when I've texted people, I can see what I've said and spend the next few days apologising, lol...

Any way if you listen to music on the computer check out www.last.fm and give it a go. When I have 500 songs submitted I will post the link so you can see what I've been listening to.