I’ve started playing a little bit with AudioScrobbler and Goombah. I think the idea of gathering (and predicting/guessing at) useful bits of information from large amounts of data is pretty cool. I like Goombah because it will mine existing data rather than just harvest it in real time. Also, AudioScrobbler still hasn’t shown me any musical neighbors and it’s been over a week since I started giving them data… perhaps I’m very unique in my musical tastes?
What other community music tools have you used? What kind of experience have you had?
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Anonymous adds this Comment:
audio scrobbler suffers from a lack of resources to process all the data it collects, apparently. They usually generate sts and suggestions once a week, so give them a couple more days.
also check out music mobs
April 2nd, 2005 at 10:55 pm
Alex adds this Comment:
It’s already been 10 days - I guess they’ll get to it when they get to it.
April 2nd, 2005 at 11:02 pm
Andy adds this Comment:
According to last.fm :
April 3rd, 2005 at 11:40 am
Feaverish adds this Comment:
Audioscrobbler has been down off and on all week. They’ve replaced or repaired a couple of servers, though, so supposedly things should start picking up. I’ve been using it for several months, and I love it. I’ve never tried Goombah, though.
April 3rd, 2005 at 11:43 am
Geof F. Morris adds this Comment:
Yeah, this has been a big bad time for AS.
April 3rd, 2005 at 1:24 pm
indieb0i adds this Comment:
I just started using Audioscrobbler a few weeks ago. While I like the potential, it’s been really slow with updates (with a lot of complaints in the forums regarding this). I like pooling stats from my work and home computers, but unless they iron out these kinks (hey, it’s updated today, which is good) I may give up.
I’d look at Goombah, but I hate iTunes.
April 4th, 2005 at 11:15 am
Geof F. Morris adds this Comment:
I reckon you’ve seen this, Alex, but the full fury of the new server clustering at Audioscrobbler is now unleashed … I’m getting Top Artists and Top Tracks updates every couple days now, where I used to wait weeks. You can see that they munch data much faster now.
April 6th, 2005 at 2:19 pm