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[Kooonsty]

I'm guessing most people here are pretty interested in stats. This is a great website for tracking your music listening habbits. You download plugins for various media players, and it tracks what you listen to. I have created a group for anyone interested, so in adition to your own listening stats, it will keep track of the team's as well.

http://www.last.fm/group/AMD%2BUsers

There is also a pretty nice streaming radio that goes along with the site.

Just thought some of you may be interested.

[NeoGen]

I found that it had a plug-in for winamp so I'll give it a spin.

EDIT:
Someone had already taken "NeoGen" so I'm NeoGenAMD.

[Kooonsty]

Yeah, they have plugins for the major media players

http://www.last.fm/postsignup.php

I have learned alot about my own listening habits by looking at all the different charts available, and the radio is a good feature when away from home.

[NeoGen]

I'm slowly building up my list.

This is also good to see how our mp3's are most of the times badly tagged. I've caught myself correcting errors in songs tags so that they show up allright on the site after played...

[Kooonsty]

That did bug me at first too, until I head about this program called musicbrainz. It will scan your music and corrects many mistagged files. I found it very useful.

http://musicbrainz.org/

[NeoGen]

I'm trying it now.

It's still processing, but geez... almost half of my mp3's appear as "Unidentified".

And two files already errored out. Saying "Error: Cannot decode file (Decoder crashed)"

[Empty_5oul]

just set it up and it looks quite good.

i use "Flash Renamer v4.71" to rename my tracks. It will chage it where you rip it from disk and then later decide you dont want the name or something in the song e.g. tracknum - artist - album - year of release to whatever you specify e.g. remove artist.

[NeoGen]

You have not got any neighbours yet. Neighbours are auto-generated after you've listened to about 300 tracks.

This won't be a problem, but it will take a bit of time! :P

[gamer007]

Joined a few hours ago. Sounds interesting. And thanks for the link to musizbrainz, Kooonsty.

EDIT: Is musicbrainz smart enough to correctly tag the music? I have lots and don't want much to be mistagged.

[Kooonsty]

I'm pretty sure it didnt mistag any of my music, if there is too much of a question about the file, I think it is just skipped over.