AKMA’s Random Thoughts

Dave Rogers Music Alert Update

I haven’t been listing DRMA updates often lately, because I tend to blog either late in the evening or early in the morning, before the family’s day begins. I’ve missed that; part of my writing lies in the soundtrack, either actually playing or simply running around the neurons that would more productively be employed at writing books that editors have almost given up dunning me for.

Over at Tom’s plastic bag (in “Linkloggery,” so I don’t think there’s a permalink), though, I noticed a terrific alternative: AudioScrobbler, an Open Source app that integrates with your MP3 player to aggregate the selections you play, display them on a page at AudioScrobbler. Eventually, when their database includes enough information about your taste, it suggests music from the playlists of other listeners with listening patterns like yours. It combines four or more of my hobbyhorses (music, open source software, general gadgetiness, and social software are the ones that come to mind right away) — so I downloaded it to check it out and so far it seems to perform as advertised: transparently, inconspicuously, and neatly.

Updates the database only periodically, I notice. And by the way, I still have plenty of eggs.