So in my quest for finding the best way to get new listeners of my music, I revisited a much looked-over internet music service, last.fm. Last.fm is basically internet radio. However, it has a wonderful feature if you download their scrobbling plug-in. A what? You ask? Scrobbling a song means that when you listen to it on your media player, the name of the song is sent to Last.fm and also added to your music profile. The scrobbling plug-in sends the name of songs you play in the media player of choice (e.g. iTunes, Winamp, etc) to Last.fm.
One advantage to scrobbling is that you can see what artists are really listened to the most. Songs you listen to will also appear on your Last.fm profile page for others to see in a type of limited, musical social networking.
The “Scrobbled” songs also create the data set that assists Last.fm in organizing and recommending music to other users and to create personalized radio stations, among other uses. These recommendations are picked using a collaborative filtering algorithm. What a neat way to find NEW music and share the music you love with others! And, for an Indie musician like myself, this is a goldmine of potential listeners.
I am loving last.fm. I listen to a lot of music using itunes and up until now I have occasionally Tweeted what I was listening to for others to check out. Now, I launch my scrobbler which runs in the background while I'm listening to itunes and my listening stats are automatically updated on last.fm. If you want to know what I'm listening to regularly, just check it out on last.fm. I hope to check out what you're listening to also because I love to get turned on to new music.
If I really get turned on to something new, I'll be sure to blog about it!
Happy listening,
Beth
One advantage to scrobbling is that you can see what artists are really listened to the most. Songs you listen to will also appear on your Last.fm profile page for others to see in a type of limited, musical social networking.
The “Scrobbled” songs also create the data set that assists Last.fm in organizing and recommending music to other users and to create personalized radio stations, among other uses. These recommendations are picked using a collaborative filtering algorithm. What a neat way to find NEW music and share the music you love with others! And, for an Indie musician like myself, this is a goldmine of potential listeners.
I am loving last.fm. I listen to a lot of music using itunes and up until now I have occasionally Tweeted what I was listening to for others to check out. Now, I launch my scrobbler which runs in the background while I'm listening to itunes and my listening stats are automatically updated on last.fm. If you want to know what I'm listening to regularly, just check it out on last.fm. I hope to check out what you're listening to also because I love to get turned on to new music.
If I really get turned on to something new, I'll be sure to blog about it!
Happy listening,
Beth