Saturday, April 5

Last.fm: number of tracks vs. time played

What I find a bit weird about how last.fm tracks listening trends, is that they only use the number of times you played a certain track. I always felt that this would favour bands that create shorter songs. A band with a average song lengths of 7 minutes will only get half as much scrobbles (in last.fm jargon) as a a band with average song lengths of 3,5 minutes. I used to wonder what effect this would have on my charts.

I must not have been the only one, because when I was looking at the build.last.fm page, my eye caught the last.fm normalizer tool. This tool will take your top 50 artists and rerank them according to the estimated time that you listened to them (more info can be found on the tool's site).



Yes,It was time to rant and got nothing better than this shit. :|


Hail IIT as its going to screw my net in few minutes.
Good Night :-)

1 comment:

The Drunk Santa said...

Good point and a great tool, I was kinda looking for the same thing, and IIT kicks arse xD