Seb writes about RSS feeds from AudioScrobbler playlists. What a wonderful idea!
Using a RSS-to-HTML device like feedroll, letting others know what you've been listening to recently on your weblog becomes a snap. ...All of Audioscrobbler's data is published under the Creative Commons licence, and so are the user feeds. Which enables clever people to build crawlers ("Musicrati"?) and devise algorithms that exploit the distributed database and add value, for instance by matching participants' listening profiles (à la blogmatcher) or by building new playlists out of the raw materials.
I have friends with fabulous taste in music, and would absolutely love to be able to "listen in" to what they're listening to. Because only the titles are syndicated, there's no RIAA problem with sharing, and a feed listener could go off and get the music on itunes or somewhere. Music wants to be social.
Posted by alevin at December 12, 2003 09:52 AM | TrackBack