iTunes Registry

Any­thing that gen­er­ates cool graphs is alright by me, and the iTunes Reg­istry has them in spades. The site lets you upload your iTunes library file, then gen­er­ates stats on your lis­ten­ing habits. It even out­puts a human-​readable descrip­tion of your tastes. Mine didn’t work too well because I don’t use the rating fea­ture in iTunes , and I sus­pect my habit of assign­ing mul­ti­ple genres to each song and using Smart Playlists to list each genre is foxing the site a bit, but it’s still a vaguely accu­rate sum­mary of recent listening:

You don’t have enough song rat­ings to be very good at this, but I’ll try. I can’t deter­mine your favorite genre, but your favorite artist is White­house which is weird since you’ve spent more time lis­ten­ing to Johnny Cash yet you have more Prince than any­thing else.

In a sim­i­lar vein, but broken at the moment, is Audio­scrob­bler, a ser­vice that tracks your lis­ten­ing habits via a plugin for your MP3 player.

Posted at 9am on 23/12/03 by Jack Mottram to the music category.
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