Great Listening
While decompressing from studying for my civil procedure final, I came across Last.fm, the self-proclamed “Social Music Revolution.” I must say, I’m impressed.
Similar to other social networks, last.fm relies heavily on user tagging to categorize and locate music. This quickly develops into a wealth of music that, ordinarily, I would not have found.
The system is easy enough to use. It consists of two major components: a plugin for your music player to link it to a list of what tracks you listen to, and a radio player, which allows you to listen to new music. It generates a list of what you have listened to and, based upon your tags, recommends new music. Thus far, it hasn’t done well to find new music for me, but I have to spend some time getting data in the system first, I think.
I’m hopeful that this system will work well for me. I’m certainly willing to give it a try.
