Music from places you never knew existed.
May 29th, 2006I’ve been ’scrobblering for about a year now, and the idea behind what used to be AudioScrobbler and is now Last.fm always interested me. A website that tracks your play counts via a small plug-in for your media player of choice and does all the back-end math to offer up pretty little charts on a weekly basis? Sign me up!
In addition to telling me that I’ve listened to 662 Beatles tracks in the past year and a bit, I found out today that one of the Last.fm staff members (RJ) has been playing around with country submissions. In his own words:
“I just started to experiement with some IP->country lookups, based on the MaxMind GeoIP database. I hope to make the country charts on last.fm use this data soon, which will give us many more profiles to build the charts from.”
He goes on to list data from almost every country on the planet. (If Last.fm has a user there, it’s on the list!)
Check out the list for country-based music player goodness.
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May 29th, 2006 at 1:12 am
Welcome aboard!
Thanks for the article -
I haven’t really mucked about with last.fm,
but it seems interesting.
Thanks again,
jmcgready (admin)
June 1st, 2006 at 2:45 am
last.fm is a lot of fun, when it’s up. They seem to have been having some server issues lately which sorta sucks. It’s cool, though, because the plug-ins store music data until the database accepts it.