Alex's space

one week on Last.FM

Have been playing my i-tunes in the background for a week now (when ever i am at my PC) and it seems like Last.FM already knows me!

if you go to my user page you will see there is a lot of Pink Floyd and Faithless at the top of the tree. This is because there are a lot of their tracks on my PC and so they get played more often, although I do sometimes think that the random play function on i-tunes is not too great as I only have 1 they might be giants album but it seems to play a lot!

I still do not think I have enough data up there yet for it to start recomending tracks, but the other day I had the Last.FM player on and as I had not enough data for it to play my sort of music yet, I said play stuff like Goldfrapp (CD that was on my desk at the time), it was spot on with a really good selection of music.

I continue to be impressed.

more on Last.fm

with reference to my last post on Last.fm and Pandora as interesting models for MySpace …

Matt Biddulph has been using BBC6 Music (digital station) to feed a Last.fm account with the habbits of a radio station ... pretty interesting results….

so could you (again if MySpace had an API), feed Last.FM with your MySpace music choices (a Firefox toolbar plugin …. ‘post to Last.FM’ perhaps)? would that work …

lets go see… BRB

I would like a MySpace version of Last.FM or Pandora

This may have already been done / discussed / poo pooed but:

I find music I like on MySpace, its on peoples profiles, its on bands MySpace pages its all over the place …

So while I am working away I like to listen to music, wouldn’t it be nice to be able to select your favourites on MySpace and have a music player or i-Tunes station or other internet radio station, pick them up and randomly play them ?

Indeed if it was like Pandora or Last.FM (see comparison of them here) where you tag up your favourites and it played you music you liked and new music you might like, that would be brilliant!

Actually if MySpace had a nice API it would be possible to write this sort of application and MySpace would benefit as their user’s music may get to a wider audience and potentially bring more visitors to MySpace… anyway we can all wish for these things…

(any arguments of people not buying the music there after, are bunk as if you like music enough you will buy it….)

the MySpace section starts

all done before by other bloggers, so this is from my perspective as a new MySpace member

it is supposed to be the 2nd most visited site on the internet, and currently has 73,663,446 members (although how many of these are active or not ‘spam profiles’ or jokes set up by mates etc ?).

i registered and created a profile, started to learn about what is acceptable there and what is not and got my profile up to date. I then found out you can ‘pimp’ your profile by using CSS and some HTML, my pimped up profile is courtesy of Mike Industries

very importantly Mike (who is a HTML / CSS guru type) spent a lot of time building his pimping kit properly as MySpace seems to be very non complient and a bit of a mess. (rather frustratingly there is no open API there too, so we can’t do interesting mobile things with it, ho-hum).

MySpace is talked about constantly for all sorts of reasons, some times valid sometimes not, but so far the experience is good and a little like on-line dating! more on this as I learn more…