2006.03.17
Yes, I am a geek. And I like music.
Well, I’ve finally caved and signed up with last.fm.
There were several motivations for doing this. First, I was tired of iTunes’ utter failure to track the music I play at work. Probably 80% of the music I listen to is in remote iTunes libraries, and the iTunes instance hosting the library does not count these “plays” in its stats. This is really uncool, since part of my eventual goal is to discover what I actually listen to (as oppoosed to what I only believe I listen to). With last.fm, I can track my music usage from all of my iTunes instances, even for tracks that actually reside in remote iTunes instances. Yay!
Second, the (ahem) geeky part of me thought it would be fun (even if it’s cliché) to display the songs I’m listening to on my weblog as I’m playing them. Thanks to a handy little WordPress plugin, doing this with last.fm is easy. And you can see the result at the left of this page.
If it says something boring like “not listening”, it means my life has been music-deprived for the past few hours. Perhaps I’m dead, or merely asleep. Or maybe I’m out having fun instead of sitting at home writing lame weblog posts on a Friday night.
In any case, we’ll have to see how this whole last.fm thing goes after it’s monitored my true listening habits for a week or two.
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