Mnml.nl @ Audioscrobbler

dsat · Post by **dsat** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 12:26 pm

i'm too much of a hermit already not to want this on my system...
no thanks

plaster · Post by **plaster** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 12:31 pm

lame thing imo.

smith · Post by **smith** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 8:35 pm

^^

Actually, I felt the same way until I read their privacy policy. It's been a very useful tool for me for networking and finding out about obscure artists that haven't got much exposure outside their immediate geographic vicinity. Beyond that, the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folksonomy involved in the tagging and cross referencing of users by tastes allows for a simple, and easy means to scan all the artists working in a specific field outside of the confines of music journalism & promotion. It's democratic baby..

They may be hocking adsense and CD's by linkthroughs.. but as an exploratory tool the pros far outweigh the cons. This is far more interesting to me than 95% of the music press out there, because it's participatory and user defined.

,g
(I've also made lots of good soulseek contacts through it...

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thomasjaldemark · Post by **thomasjaldemark** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 10:39 pm

actually i cant see any cons with it

adam · Post by **adam** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 6:06 am

This is a great tool for any music fan.

It's not about letting people know what you listen to, it's more what you gain from it... discovering music, etc. Hell, you don't even have to tell people who you are, use it with a fake name or something. It's definitely cool though.

You might get a lot more out of it if you're into/searching for weird listening music as opposed to dancefloor stuff though..

cyhl · Post by **cyhl** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 8:49 am

thomasjaldemark wrote:actually i cant see any cons with it

it's a computer/program telling you who you are and what you should be doing/listening next...

smith · Post by **smith** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 9:03 am

cyhl wrote:
thomasjaldemark wrote:actually i cant see any cons with it
it's a computer/program telling you who you are and what you should be doing/listening next...

Replace "telling you who you are" with "keeping track of your listening habits" and "what you should be doing/listening to" with "letting you know what other people with similiar taste in music enjoy" and you are bang on. Good work.

,g

nowayback · Post by **nowayback** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 9:07 am

cyhl wrote:it's a computer/program telling you who you are and what you should be doing/listening next...

i barely have the time to listen to what i download or purchase, coz it's
tons & tons of music that i've burnt on dvds & still haven't listened to.
so actually it'd be useless if i was "told" what to listen to.
about the new artists discovering, i can barely keep up with that too
(almost 40-50% of my incoming music is from artists i hadn't heard b4).

so i reckon this seems like a tool for the clueless people...