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Last.fm is a rad music site, powered by the audioscrobbler tech.

After installing an Audioscrobbler plugin for your media player (eg iTunes, Winamp, Amarok) the name of every song you listen to is sent to the Audioscrobbler server and added to your music profile. The Audioscrobbler system powers our main site, Last.fm, as well as exposing data via webservices so other projects can make interesting things from the data and recommendations we provide.

It has many rad features, like showing you people who use ’scrobbler and have similar music interests. Naturally this is cool if you’re cool with the world knowing your listening habits, like how I have a tendency to listen to one song over and over again while I’m working. It’s cool because you can see what you and your buddies are listening to, while they are listening to it.

I just nuked my last.fm profile and am starting from scratch. I’ve not used it for months, so it was a bit outdated. That, and I sometimes left music running all night long on my computer at work, so some of the stats got skewed. Lastly, I think I may have lost my ENTIRE MUSIC COLLECTION because I was keeping it exclusively on my iPod, which won’t boot up anymore, (I know, I’m stupid, lesson learned,) so here’s to a fresh start.

Give it a shot; make an account if you haven’t yet, download the program, and fire it up. It auto-detects any audio players you may have, and automatically downloads and installs the appropriate plugins. Very easy and sleek. Then, make me your friend!

Watch my insane music habits unfold before your eyes!