Who’s more unique now?
Hey Keir, didn’t you and Corey think that you guys were going to be more unique on Audioscrobbler because of your extensive musical tastes? *AHEM*.
My nearest musical neighbor on Audioscrobbler is a 57% match. And yours? Corey’s nearest musical neighbor is 65%. I WIN!
[I know this properly belongs in an e-mail, but why gloat over e-mail when you can gloat on your weblog?]
March 25th, 2005 at 12:32 am
I would guess the higher match is because we have a lot more variety and therefore can be matched with virtually anyone, especially those who have a high variety of music as well. It’s interesting to note that of your 1323 tracks played, 11 percent are the same song. What are the odds that someone has listens to the same lack of variety?
When are you going to fix this stupid comment overlapping sidebar? I hate it when my comments disappear under the bar and I can’t figure out where the heck I am in what I’m trying to say!!!
March 25th, 2005 at 9:07 am
Make your window wider? Don’t you have a huge monitor? Try maximizing your window to see if that fixes it.
The original argument was who would be more unique, and under that standard I still win. I prefer to look at it this way: I’m more picky about what I’ll listen to within my record collection, whereas it appears that you guys are more picky about which albums you get so that, on average, you like nearly all of the songs on any given album. My CD collection is far more haphazard than yours, so I have far fewer albums in which I like every single song.
Of course, sometimes I just like to listen to Radiate by Fleming and John; it’s a good song to put on repeat play because the ending and beginning go together, but it’s really short so for a given amount of listening time, it’s played more. In a few days, when the server gets around to processing my stats that far, there was a day where I listened to On A Night That Felt Outdated by Waterdeep for about the same amount of time as the time I listened to Radiate on repeat play. But On A Night… is 3.8 times as long as Radiate. Not too many of the Grateful Dead concerts I listen to are showing up in my Audioscrobbler stats.
Anyway, another partial explanation is that when I’m programming I prefer to listen either one album in which all of the songs are similar or flow together (like Apostrophe by Frank Zappa) or one or two songs over and over again. I only like wide musical diversity when I’m cleaning or doing something away from my computer, but since I got married I can no longer blast the stereo across the apartment to accomplish that. I have to use a mix CD or listen to the radio, which Audioscrobbler doesn’t capture. Whereas if I’m programming I’m guaranteed to be working at the computer.
March 25th, 2005 at 9:14 am
Nevermind Keir, I fixed the wordpress comment box menu overlap thing.
(WP 1.2 users: the fix is to muck the ‘cols=”70″‘ bit in the commentbox textarea.)
March 25th, 2005 at 9:44 am
[Yeah, you can fix that, or you can declare #commentform #comment { width: 100%; }, which constrains it to the width of the div.]
Well, Keir, the similarity scores, as I understand them, are R-values or something similar, so if you listen to obscure stuff, you get lower values. I listen to some obscure stuff, so …
March 25th, 2005 at 9:54 am
And since the bulk of Audioscrobbler users are in the UK and Europe (as of right now, anyway), things like Fairport Convention and Uriah Heep might not be as obscure to the average Audioscrobbler listener, as opposed to the average dude in the U.S.
March 25th, 2005 at 1:48 pm
I don’t think Corey is picky at all. He just listens to what I give him. And yes I’m more picky about albums. If there is only one good song on the album, why get it? Guess what? The comments just got sucked under the sidebar again. My monitor is huge and my window is maximized. Why does your side bar like to eat my comments!?!?!?
It’s true I have a lot of European music, but they probably don’t listen to as much jug band music, bluegrass, jazz, and American folk in Europe. I’t easy to match up people that have a lot of variety. If two people each have 1000 artist and half of them are the same, they are probably a good match. I think possibly once you play a lot more of your variety you’ll have higher matches. It’ll be interested to see if I ever listen to enough music on my computer to get a match and how good of a match that is.
March 25th, 2005 at 1:56 pm
um, no, you didn’t fix the wordpress comment box thing yet….
the neighbors list probably isn’t a good measure of the “uniqueness” of ones musical list the way I understand it, it gives you “match points” toward each thing in two peoples list that are the same. in order for it to answer your argument it would have to give points for matching items AND take points away for non matching item.
March 25th, 2005 at 2:01 pm
ah, I see you fixed the comment box for firefox…. you do realise that lots for people don’t use firefox?
March 25th, 2005 at 4:01 pm
No, I don’t realize that, or, at the very least, I don’t care. All other browsers are worthless. http://www.getfirefox.com/
*sigh* I tried fixing this and IE is broken AS USUAL.
I got a fix in for firefox, a seperate fix for stupid IE users, and a very special IP based fix for Keir that sets the comment box width to be 50 pixels. *smirk*
March 25th, 2005 at 4:39 pm
It’s a wee bit small.
March 25th, 2005 at 4:54 pm
Heh. Okay, you should be back to normal too.
March 25th, 2005 at 5:12 pm
I’m trying Firefox. I really don’t see how it’s better yet. The tabs are kind of cool, but really no different than the window tabs at the bottom of the screen.
March 25th, 2005 at 5:13 pm
Oh yeah, I tried Internet Explorer too for the comments and they both seem to work properly now.
March 25th, 2005 at 5:26 pm
Keir: Firefox is far more secure, blocks popups by default, and renders CSS enabled websites correctly. Compare the design of 8 eyes in firefox vs. IE.
March 25th, 2005 at 11:24 pm
I didn’t see much difference, nothing particularly mindboggling anyway.
So, if I’m using Firefox, should I get certain extensions and such?
What do you think of my Jesus picture? It was in honor of Easter.
March 26th, 2005 at 1:04 am
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March 26th, 2005 at 1:39 am
Jesus can shave his legs if he wants to!
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