Archive for the 'last.fm' Category

Test your musical taste

There’s a nice site which uses the data from your Last.fm account to find out how eclectic your musical taste is.
The script takes the 20 top artists in your musical profile from Last.fm, and finds the collection of the top 5 similar artists for the each of the top 20 for your profile. The result […]

Free video game mp3 remixes

Sheesh.
I had almost completed a lengthy post recommending websites where people could download remixes of video game music, when Firefox (and ScribeFire) crashed and I lost the whole damned thing. I’m not happy.
Anyhow, to cut to the chase, I had been about to recommend these four excellent sources of free remixes: OverClocked ReMix, Remix.Kwed.Org, AmigaRemix […]

Organise your mp3 collection

I’ve been using the free MusicBrainz database to tag and name my mp3 files for a while now. MusicBrainz is an interactive service where a software client, Picard, compares the “acoustic fingerprints” of a group of mp3 files saved on your hard disk with those fingerprints already uploaded to its servers by other members of […]

Another new BlogCatalog feature

I noticed yesterday that RT Cunningham, who runs Untwisted Vortex, had added a section called “My Communities” to his blog detail page on BlogCatalog. “How’d he do that?”, I wondered.
I had a brief chat with RT online, and he told me how to set this up on the “Edit My Profile” page. It’s about half […]

Off the beaten track

I just found out about the Mainstream-O-Meter for Last.fm users. I saw it mentioned over on the Last.fm blog.
The Mainstream-O-Meter rates me at 4.52% mainstream. Given that I’m in The Far Corner, of course, this doesn’t really come as a surprise to me.
Now, I happen to know that Miss Nexy of Step Into the Nexus […]