History:AudioScrobbler

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Status: This Page is Glorious History!

The content of this page either is bit-rotted, or has lost its reason to exist due to some new features having been implemented in MusicBrainz, or maybe just described something that never made it in (or made it in a different way), or possibly is meant to store information and memories about our Glorious Past. We still keep this page to honor the brave editors who, during the prehistoric times (prehistoric for you, newcomer!), struggled hard to build a better present and dreamed of an even better future. We also keep it for archival purposes because possibly it still contains crazy thoughts and ideas that may be reused someday. If you're not into looking at either the past or the future, you should just disregard entirely this page content and look for an up to date documentation page elsewhere.

Quoting from the project's about page: ..After installing an Audioscrobbler Plugin, your computer sends the name of every song you play to the Audioscrobbler Server. With this information, the Audioscrobbler server builds you a 'Musical Profile'. Statistics from your Musical Profile are shown on your Audioscrobbler User Page, available for everyone to view. .. With this information, Audioscrobbler is able to automatically generate suggestions for new songs/artists you might like. These suggestions are based on the same principles as Amazon's "People who bought this also bought X,Y,Z", but because the Audioscrobbler data is what people are actually listening to, the suggestions tend to make more sense than Amazon.

RJ writes:

We've have matched a lot of our artist database to the appropriate MusicBrainz artist id, and we have a simple artist linking system on the way to reduce noise levels so that a direct text-match on artist names will connect most of our artists to musicbrainz.

We're hoping to provide clever playlist generation, and artist similarity data under the same cc license as MB use, which we reckon will be useful to MusicBrainz. We'll also be spewing out RDF for profiles and chart data, containing MB ids. When the webservice is up to it, we'd like to put MB votes/mods on artist(track/album) pages at audioscrobbler.com. Another application of these musical profiles is as a way to serve mods/votes to people based on their musical taste (eg, order the pending moderations list with the most interesting stuff at the top - artists i listen to (and similar artists) should come first)



AudioScrobbler is now integrated into LastFm