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An evening with last.fm’s Boffin
Filed under General by Alex at 8:24 pm on Mar 11 2009
I’ve just downloaded last.fm‘s Boffin. Fortunately, as I can’t use it until it’s finished working it’s way through all of my media library it has pretty pictures to keep me happy, with a nice scrolling effect for images of new artists as it finds them.
1 nuttyxander » One evening of Boffinating lateron 11 Mar 2009 at 11:57 pm
[...] Four hours of metadata parsing later… The initial look of the completed tag cloud compiled thanks to running last.fm’s data over my music sure ain’t pretty. Thank $deity for wordle, cos they make it look far cuter. So I decided to start by listenning to the tracks at the intersection of electronic, mashup and folk. This yielded me a strange mashup of some shitty rap and Phil Collins. Well, at least it looks pretty. [...]