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Recent Issues with Scrobbling

Around about two weeks ago I started experiencing problems with Last.fm‘s scrobbling service. Scrobbling tracks what songs and albums users listen to and suggest similar music that the listeners may also like.

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Comments on the Music Genome Project

For those who don’t know, the Music Genome Project is the database behind Pandora‘s streaming service. Unlike many services that follow the recommendation format of “you like song ‘a’, and Bob likes song ‘a’ and song ‘b’, so you are likely to enjoy song ‘b’ as well”, Pandora’s algorithm is “you like song ‘a’, and song ‘b’ sounds like song ‘a’, so you will probably like song ‘b’ as well”. This method, at least to me, seems to be much more accurate.

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Deezer Review

Several months ago, a reader suggested that I try the Deezer music service. I signed up for an account shortly after that, but have not really checked it out until tonight.

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Last.fm Widget for Facebook 1.01 released

Yep, that’s right, there’s a new version of Music Discussions’ Last.fm Widget for Facebook. Version 1.01 introduces a new feature requested by several users.

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Pandora and Last.fm Mashup

For those who wish to scrobble (add to Last.fm statistics) music listened to in Pandora, there is web application to do just that. From what I understand, this site has been around for a couple of years, but it is new to me.

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