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23 Jun 2005, 22:30
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wild one
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: River Edge, NJ
Posts: 3,313
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AudioScrobbler
Go to website.
Create Account.
Get plugin for your audio player.
Point at account.
Join the GD Group
Play music.
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23 Jun 2005, 22:37
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Bored
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Nottm ->Shef ->Croydon ->Manc ->Durham ->Sheffield
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Re: AudioScrobbler
I'm in
so what does it do?
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23 Jun 2005, 22:46
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wild one
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: River Edge, NJ
Posts: 3,313
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Re: AudioScrobbler
Essentially it simply sits there as a plugin, near enough not existing as it never shows itself. Whenever you play a song, it just uploads the details to your profile - track title, artist, etc.
Builds up a most listened to list, gives you recommendations based on what you play compared to others and accounts for everything in a global database so you can see how many other people listen to the same types of music as you.
It's rather ace.
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23 Jun 2005, 22:48
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Clerk
Join Date: Jun 2001
Posts: 13,940
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Re: AudioScrobbler
Does it only work with MP3s? What if I accidentally open porn in Winamp?
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23 Jun 2005, 22:52
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Bored
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Re: AudioScrobbler
a lot of my mp3's aren't tagged correctly...
and I have a random playlist where I just skip through songs until i get one I want to hear...
Will this affect it?
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23 Jun 2005, 22:52
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wild one
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: River Edge, NJ
Posts: 3,313
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Re: AudioScrobbler
I've no idea. Try it!
I'd assume it's clever enough only to work with audio, but as far as I can tell the plugins are format independent as far as encoding goes - it just checks the 'now playing' data and uploads that.
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23 Jun 2005, 22:54
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wild one
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: River Edge, NJ
Posts: 3,313
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Re: AudioScrobbler
Quote:
Originally Posted by Ste
a lot of my mp3's aren't tagged correctly...
and I have a random playlist where I just skip through songs until i get one I want to hear...
Will this affect it?
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According to the FAQ for my iTunes plugin, it doesn't care what's playing and in what order, it just checks the 'now playing' and uploads that, so random playlists shouldn't affect it - assuming the plugins all work in a relatively similar manner.
The tagging will cause you issues though, as it uploads the tags
I spent four hours on Saturday tagging all my iTunes tracks correctly after bringing them in from WMP - now my iPod is easy to navigate though.
And stop asking me questions, I only found the damn site half an hour ago!
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23 Jun 2005, 22:57
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Clerk
Join Date: Jun 2001
Posts: 13,940
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Re: AudioScrobbler
Well, I'm in but when the RIAA come round and kill me I'm blaming you Skiddy.
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23 Jun 2005, 22:57
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wild one
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: River Edge, NJ
Posts: 3,313
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Re: AudioScrobbler
One cool thing is though, if you click the song in your recently played list on your profile, or on anyone elses profile, it takes you to a page which gives you total number of people who've also listened to that track, similar artists and other songs by that artist.
I suppose it's kinda a cross between that cool Java music map thing and the GD Music Archive - but sorta dynamic.
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23 Jun 2005, 22:58
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wild one
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: River Edge, NJ
Posts: 3,313
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Re: AudioScrobbler
Quote:
Originally Posted by Dante Hicks
Well, I'm in but when the RIAA come round and kill me I'm blaming you Skiddy.
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They've no reason to, it's not uploading the music and playing it in MP3 format is no basis to believe it's ripped off
Although my Dad said the same thing as you, obviously replacing 'skiddy' with 'stu'.
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23 Jun 2005, 23:03
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Bored
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Re: AudioScrobbler
it seems quite good for finding the most popular song by a particular band, along with related artists.
I just downloaded some "fall out boy" mp3's because they are apparently quite close to Brand New and could see from the list which tracks are most popular.
(a cubass track just came on, heh I wonder what the site will do!)
EDIT
Track Stats
12 people have listened to songs by cubass
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23 Jun 2005, 23:04
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wild one
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: River Edge, NJ
Posts: 3,313
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Re: AudioScrobbler
for the tired skiddy!
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23 Jun 2005, 23:07
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Dum Di Dum Di
Join Date: Sep 2001
Posts: 858
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Re: AudioScrobbler
either it's slow updating, or the foobar plugin ain't doing its job.. it's loaded and all, but nothing's appearing on the site.
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23 Jun 2005, 23:10
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wild one
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: River Edge, NJ
Posts: 3,313
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Re: AudioScrobbler
Same happened here hyfe, don't worry though, it does update eventually. After the first update (when it tries to update your profile with the players history - big update, failed for me :shrug:) it goes quite quickly.
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23 Jun 2005, 23:10
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Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 3,382
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Re: AudioScrobbler
Joined. (mynameisjerome = me)
Beware that it has quite a lot of crashes and such btw, the site that is so statistics might miss out a week and such.
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23 Jun 2005, 23:11
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Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 3,382
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Re: AudioScrobbler
Oh and yes, it's slow updating, give it a few hours.
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23 Jun 2005, 23:12
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wild one
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: River Edge, NJ
Posts: 3,313
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Re: AudioScrobbler
I read that they'd had a couple of problems on the news page.
Judging by your stats, you've been around there for a while.
Nice one. You just offered to be GD's question answerer.
Well volunteered.
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23 Jun 2005, 23:15
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Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 3,382
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Re: AudioScrobbler
Sure, but most questions are generally covered by these two dots ..
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23 Jun 2005, 23:49
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Gone
Join Date: Jan 2001
Posts: 14,656
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Re: AudioScrobbler
I don't have any music on this comp.
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23 Jun 2005, 23:55
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Dum Di Dum Di
Join Date: Sep 2001
Posts: 858
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Re: AudioScrobbler
oh
me not noticing the 'audoscrobbler' tab in the options and hence me never giving it my username and supersecret password might be the reason nothing was happening.. that and the 'enable' checkbox which was fairly blatantly unchecked.
Not that enabling it helped though
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24 Jun 2005, 00:01
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This is bat country
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Norway
Posts: 1,693
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Re: AudioScrobbler
Im in for greater justice
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24 Jun 2005, 01:46
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Banned
Join Date: Jun 2002
Posts: 2,635
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Re: AudioScrobbler
I make the group 10. Now we get weekly `listned-to` charts which is very cool.
I've got 7000 tracks on this thing now. I really like it.
You can find people with similar tastes as you and find out about new artists.
You also get a `You like all this shit, maybe you'll like this shit` type ability.
You've also got an account at www.last.fm now as well.
You can listen to 30 second samples of most albums there.
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24 Jun 2005, 10:15
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Cute Kitten
Join Date: May 2003
Posts: 724
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Re: AudioScrobbler
Signed up, but I'm at work and his old thing cant cope with music, so it will have to wait til one of the rare occasions I get to play my music at home. Then it can really mess up the list by adding all my cheesey pop
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24 Jun 2005, 10:16
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Clerk
Join Date: Jun 2001
Posts: 13,940
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Re: AudioScrobbler
Quote:
Originally Posted by Flavius
I'll leave the computer at work playing my 20k songs in random order. I need to find a plugin to play the first 5 seconds only though.
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Surely that's missing the point a bit?
Oh hang on, weren't you the guy who "cheated" on that keystrokes-counting thing as well?
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24 Jun 2005, 10:21
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a new low in getting high
Join Date: Jan 2003
Posts: 2,810
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Re: AudioScrobbler
joined!
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24 Jun 2005, 10:47
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Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 3,382
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Re: AudioScrobbler
Flavius gets shunted with the fact that all songs need to be 66 or 75% (orso I forgot the exact %) completed before it gets recorded in it's statistics.
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24 Jun 2005, 10:54
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Bored
Join Date: Apr 2001
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Re: AudioScrobbler
Quote:
Originally Posted by Dante Hicks
Surely that's missing the point a bit?
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It's a quick way to upload your whole playlist... it won't work of course as jerome has explained.
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24 Jun 2005, 11:03
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Clerk
Join Date: Jun 2001
Posts: 13,940
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Re: AudioScrobbler
Quote:
Originally Posted by Ste
It's a quick way to upload your whole playlist... it won't work of course as jerome has explained.
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Well I get why he'd do it, but surely it's supposed to be about what songs you listen to, not what songs you have? I have thousands of songs, but it's more telling which songs I actually listen to.
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24 Jun 2005, 11:19
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wild one
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: River Edge, NJ
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Re: AudioScrobbler
Quote:
Originally Posted by _ryzekiel_
Flavius gets shunted with the fact that all songs need to be 66 or 75% (orso I forgot the exact %) completed before it gets recorded in it's statistics.
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50% or 240 seconds worth, whichever comes first.
Not trying to big myself here, I just read it last night so it's fresh in my mind.
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24 Jun 2005, 11:36
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I dunno...
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: manchester
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Re: AudioScrobbler
I'm in too. Sounds cool.
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24 Jun 2005, 11:46
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cynic
Join Date: May 2000
Location: Bishop Auckland Co. Durham
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Re: AudioScrobbler
i would... but i no longer listen to music on my PC
i will when i have my new house though (oh yeah, i'm buying a house, yey me \o/)
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24 Jun 2005, 12:01
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Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 3,382
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Re: AudioScrobbler
Ok, thanks skiddy.
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24 Jun 2005, 12:36
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Mr. Blobby
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Belgium
Posts: 8,271
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Re: AudioScrobbler
I'll join in.
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24 Jun 2005, 13:00
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Mr. Blobby
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Belgium
Posts: 8,271
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Re: AudioScrobbler
Quote:
Originally Posted by _ryzekiel_
Flavius gets shunted with the fact that all songs need to be 66 or 75% (orso I forgot the exact %) completed before it gets recorded in it's statistics.
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Ah, this is very good news.
This means that if the horrible stuff comes on that even I don't want to listen to right now, I can move to the next track, and it won't be recorded. Muaahahhahaahhaa, or something.
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24 Jun 2005, 13:18
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Caveat Lector
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Tucson, Arizona
Posts: 3,038
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Re: AudioScrobbler
Oh wow, I wish they had a plugin for Rhapsody. I joined with a winamp plugin.
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24 Jun 2005, 13:20
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Caveat Lector
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Tucson, Arizona
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Re: AudioScrobbler
Quote:
Originally Posted by skiddy
Go to website.
Create Account.
Get plugin for your audio player.
Point at account.
Join the GD Group
Play music.
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I'm going to pos rep you for the next week for playing massive attack.
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24 Jun 2005, 13:36
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mmm.. pills
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: Australia
Posts: 2,152
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Re: AudioScrobbler
\o/
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24 Jun 2005, 15:07
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Mathamagician
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: At the very edge of existance
Posts: 1,803
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Re: AudioScrobbler
whey, 20th member.
BeardedGeorge btw.
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24 Jun 2005, 15:20
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TashTastic
Join Date: Jul 2001
Posts: 1,354
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Re: AudioScrobbler
You can all see when i listen to madonna now
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24 Jun 2005, 15:29
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NEWSBOT
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: The enby cave!
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Re: AudioScrobbler
Quote:
Originally Posted by Leshy
Ah, this is very good news.
This means that if the horrible stuff comes on that even I don't want to listen to right now, I can move to the next track, and it won't be recorded. Muaahahhahaahhaa, or something.
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I don't get why your music collection would contain horrible stuff you didn't want to listen to ?
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24 Jun 2005, 15:49
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Mathamagician
Join Date: Aug 2001
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Re: AudioScrobbler
so how long does it take to put the shit i've been listening to up then?
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24 Jun 2005, 16:07
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:alpha:
Join Date: May 2002
Location: London, UK
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Re: AudioScrobbler
Quote:
Originally Posted by Flavius
I'll leave the computer at work playing my 20k songs in random order. I need to find a plugin to play the first 5 seconds only though.
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I'm willing to bet you're one of those kids who was never really good at anything at school.
Either that, or your brothers/sisters were consistently better than you at things.
You're so competitive at things that aren't supposed to be competitions.
The reputation thing - you swap reputation with people. It completely defeats the point of it, just swapping for the hell of it. You're supposed to give people feedback on good/bad posts, not just try to rack up your "score".
The keystroke thing. I can't remember what you did, but as Dante mentioned, you treated that as some sort of silly competition.
Now this. It's not a competition of "who has the most songs". I have plenty of songs. Recently, I've just been listening to Cream (Clapton etc). So my AudioScrobbler contains most of that, as I go through phases of listening to different artists. I'm not going to try to prove something to people by showing my entire playlist.
Get the point please
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24 Jun 2005, 16:23
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Mr. Blobby
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Belgium
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Re: AudioScrobbler
Quote:
Originally Posted by NEWSBOT3
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Let's say I get in the mood to download a load of crappy 80's songs, or for a week or two I like a certain artist's album, but then grow weary of it. Now of course I could go into my big folder of mp3's and delete all the offending items, or move them into specific folders, but that requires effort. More effort than Ctrl+Alt+PgDn, at least.
Also, I need to spread the love around before giving it to TomKat again, it appears.
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24 Jun 2005, 16:30
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Hamster
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: Crewe, England
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Re: AudioScrobbler
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Originally Posted by NEWSBOT3
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Theres plenty of reasons why this could be true. Maybe like me Leshy has a shared mp3 collection (in my case any mp3 anyone in the house has is on a seperate server) or sometimes you rip an albums but you only like a couple of tracks or the same with downloading them
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24 Jun 2005, 16:30
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Godfather
Join Date: May 2000
Location: England
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Re: AudioScrobbler
I joined too.
Fear my good taste
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24 Jun 2005, 16:32
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Godfather
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Location: England
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Re: AudioScrobbler
Quote:
Originally Posted by wakey
Theres plenty of reasons why this could be true. Maybe like me Leshy has a shared mp3 collection (in my case any mp3 anyone in the house has is on a seperate server) or sometimes you rip an albums but you only like a couple of tracks or the same with downloading them
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I have a good few gig of crap ive never listened too or thats just utter utter shit. Its usually from ripped combination albums or friends stuff.
I should really clean it out i guess
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24 Jun 2005, 16:55
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wild one
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: River Edge, NJ
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Re: AudioScrobbler
Quote:
Originally Posted by JammyJim
I joined too.
Fear my good taste
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I used your avatar for the group image in your honour. Or something like that. I thought it was symbolic anyway...
<3
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24 Jun 2005, 16:59
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Caveat Lector
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Tucson, Arizona
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Re: AudioScrobbler
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24 Jun 2005, 22:57
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Bored
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Nottm ->Shef ->Croydon ->Manc ->Durham ->Sheffield
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Re: AudioScrobbler
How come I haven't got statistics???
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24 Jun 2005, 23:32
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wild one
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: River Edge, NJ
Posts: 3,313
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Re: AudioScrobbler
You need over 100 songs played to get statistics.
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