The new quilt and a late post :)

My customization-of-the-template spree continues and a new widget gives its entry - The Quilt.



First,an introduction to the concept of scrobbling, or more precisely as audioscrobbling.Each and every song you listen to is noted down an a database of it is maintained online.This is called 'scrobbling'.And your 'charts' are generated.They might be weekly,monthly or even yearly.This is a way of analyzing your music habits.As time passes, you come to know of your tastes and how they have undergone changes as you discover new artists and songs.Like how Enter Sandman could make Linkin Park go down to Metallica in three days in my case ;) .

And, here is where Last.fm enters the scene.Last.fm© is primarily a Internet radio station and music recommendation system.

Last.fm provides a software that you can install on your computer that would scrobble all the songs that you play on your media player.Ofcourse you also have to install a Audioscrobbler© plugin for that media player.The best part is that it will scrobble even when you are offline.It will write all data to a file and then upload it when you are connected.

Now,the extras:
Last.fm provides nice goodies in the form of code snippets that you can embed on your webpage/blog. This includes live RSS feed of your played songs, and a nice widget called 'quilt' which consists of small thumbnails of all the albums/artists you've hears to.And again ,the choice between albums or artists is yours.

This was just intended to give you a little introduction to the world of audioscrobbling and the world's largest social music platform, Last.fm.

Find out more about Last.fm at Wikipedia and the site itself.

And,in case you join Last.fm ,add me as a friend :).

My profile at Last.fm