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This is an old page from Rod Begbie's blog.
It only exists in an attempt to prevent linkrot. No new content will be added to this site, and links and images are liable to be broken. Check out begbie.com to find where I'm posting stuff these days.
Filed under 'lastfm'
➠ April 8, 2009
➠ February 23, 2009
"Techcrunch are full of shit"
Last.fm follow up to the unsubstantiated rumour published as fact by TechCrunch on Friday.
➠ December 15, 2008
Last.fm's Playground: Unwanted
Which tracks do last.fm’s users hide from their profile most often? Your guide to the world’s finest guilty pleasure tunes.
➠ June 29, 2008
What I’ve been listening to
My last three months worth of listening. Generated with last.fm data and Wordle.
➠ May 26, 2008
LastGraph3
The last.fm music visualizer just upped the awesome a tad. I love the “posters” showing your artist preferences over time.
➠ June 1, 2007
LastGraph: Welcome
Renderer for that awesome squiggly last.fm-over-time visualization I posted a couple of weeks ago. Very excited to see my results from this!
➠ May 30, 2007
Last.fm -- the Blog: Last.fm Acquired By CBS
last.fm bought by TV & radio network, CBS. OK, the radio connection makes a little sense, but still strikes me that the other half of Viacom would have been a better match.
➠ May 4, 2007
What have I been listening to?
Gorgeous visualization of a year’s worth of music listening. Hey! Last.FM! I would pay $50 in a heartbeat for a nice poster print of this with my own listening habits.
➠ March 21, 2007
Is it possible to get a partial database-dump? - Last.fm
Last.FM confirm that, despite their claims for the last two years that “We will also provide periodic for data mining and research purposes, soon.”, they’re never going to do another Creative Commons-licensed data-dump, as the data is considered “too valuable”. This is why I’ve been scraping my real-time feed and storing it myself.
➠ January 21, 2007
My most-played artists of the last year
I didn’t realise last.fm had this functionality. Rather puzzled that The Beatles are Number 1 — I do love their new “Love” album, but I didn’t think I’d played it more than The Delgados, or even Girls Aloud, in 2006.
➠ January 15, 2007
rc3.org: Defining your music collection
Interesting thought: Is your “music collection” just your audio files, or is it all the ratings and playlists and stuff that go along with it? Is Apple’s DRM less of a lock-in than just the time spent organising your music *just so* in iTunes?
➠ November 2, 2006
➠ October 10, 2006
My last.fm chart arcs
Funky visualization of my music listening over time from MartinD at last.fm. Read his explanation to understand what it means, or just enjoy the soothing colours.
➠ October 9, 2006
OpenPandora
Player for Pandora which supports the multimedia keys on keyboards, minimizes to your system tray, and uploads your track info to last.fm.
➠ August 16, 2006
Google Music Trends
Google appear to be building their own scrobbler — The new Google Talk client lets you opt to send your Winamp/iTunes/etc playback data up to Google.
➠ May 30, 2006
Better Than We Know Ourselves: Pitchfork Feature
Article covering the myriad of music discovery and recommendation engines out there. “Echo Nest” sounds interesting (and they’re local).
➠ April 30, 2006
rODbegbie’s Charts - Last.fm
The last.fm Flickr group's been a bit quiet of late. Here's the first seven rows of my current album chart. Compare and contrast with last February.
➠ April 26, 2006
➠ February 11, 2006
➠ February 22, 2005
last.fm’s list of my top albums
According to the folks at audioscrobbler.com/ and last.fm/, these are my top albums. Mostly true, although the "Standing on the Shoulder of Giants" in the bottom left is somewhat suspect.
About This Site
This is an archive of groovmother.com, the old blog run by Rod Begbie — A Scottish geek who lives in San Francisco, CA.
I'm the co-founder of Sōsh, your handy-dandy guide for things to do in San Francisco this weekend.