Just because I listened “And the Cradle Will Rock” thousands of times in the 80’s doesn’t mean I’d still consider it a “favorite”. The hard part is the time-sensitivity to “favorites”. (which is starting to actually be worth something)Graham Hill
Perhapsmy way of listening isn’t common in which case your suggestion would makesense for the majority.My $0.02 canadian. This allows me to over time create a huge “best of” of my collection which I canlater mine for mixes or simply listen to on random.I can see how you might not like favoriting but I think this is due to howyou listen to music, which from the sounds of it is more directed. I listen while working and take 5 secs to love thetracks that I like.When I want to hear stuff I like, I play my loved tracks.With itunes, I’ll often listen to large playlists or the whole collection on randomand apply the same approach, delete stuff i hate and rate stuff I like. This approach is important for me as it helps me surface new musicthat i like in an easy fashion.
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After a week or so, I can goback through my loved tracks and download entire albums or songs in order to dig deeper into these new finds. But, by loving/banning while i go, i tune the system to my desires and end up with a list of loved tracks of new bands that i can investigate later. I most oftenhave it in the background while working so I end up listening to last.fmin two ways:1) to discover new music by listening to other people’s stations or by putting in an artist i like and seeing what comes up.2) by playing my “loved tracks” when i want to hear stuff that i know that i like.When i’m in discovery mode, i end up listening to some stuff that i don’t particularly like, stuff that could end up as my faves by chance if your approachwas applied. I hope they do it.įred,I think this depends on how you listen to your music. They should set a default way of calculating it. They can and should publish a feed of my favorite songs. They know if I’ve played a song more than 5x this week. So I don’t favorite songs on last.fm, or I rarely do.īut last.fm knows what songs I’ve listened to the most this month.
First of all, I often don’t do my listening on last.fm, I do it on iTunes or Rhapsody and I don’t favorite on those services. FriendFeed just made a switch to only posting songs I favorite on last.fm. I mention this because I want to put my last.fm listening feed into my lifestreams on Tumblr and FriendFeed but I don’t want to link out to every song I listen to in those streams. If I play it more than 50x no matter what the time period is, it’s a favorite. If I play it more than 25x in a month, it’s a favorite. If I play this song more than 10x in a week, it’s a favorite. And so the data isn’t perfect.įortunately there’s another way to figure out what you love. But I am sure there are many songs you love that you’ve never favorited or given five stars in iTunes. You do it if you think of doing it, if you have the inclination. I’d prefer not to favorite songs in the new Hype Machine either.įavoriting is kind of arbitrary. I don’t favorite songs in last.fm, I don’t rate songs in iTunes. And doing that helps the services understand you better and give you more of what you like.īut favoriting music doesn’t make sense. Photos on flickr, blog or twitter posts you like, youtube videos. There are a lot of things on the web where favoriting makes sense.
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