Comments on: Community Music Tools

By: Geof F. Morris

Geof F. Morris — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 21:19:44 +0000

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.

By: indieb0i

indieb0i — Mon, 04 Apr 2005 18:15:56 +0000

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.

By: Geof F. Morris

Geof F. Morris — Sun, 03 Apr 2005 20:24:50 +0000

Yeah, this has been a big bad time for AS.

By: Feaverish

Feaverish — Sun, 03 Apr 2005 18:43:01 +0000

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.

By: Andy

Andy — Sun, 03 Apr 2005 18:40:46 +0000

According to last.fm :

We are finally switching to clustered profile DBs (01/04/05 11:26 GMT):
Audioscrobbler.com is already back as it uses this stuff a bit less. The radio / neighbour / recommendation functions here need a bit more work we expect to be back either tonight or tomorrow night, depending on how much RJ can do today. stay tuned, we will be back, and faster.

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 03 Apr 2005 06:02:32 +0000

It’s already been 10 days - I guess they’ll get to it when they get to it.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 03 Apr 2005 05:55:10 +0000

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