Comments on: tagging music http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2005/08/12/tagging_music.html making connections where none previously existed Mon, 06 Feb 2012 07:10:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Steve Pike http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2005/08/12/tagging_music.html/comment-page-1#comment-11404 Steve Pike Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:56:40 +0000 http://ubuntu.my/wp30/archives/2005/08/12/tagging_music.html#comment-11404 Just thought I'd pass on a little project I've been working on - Shtaggle - its free and uses last.fm to get/send tags. Its Mac OS X (10.5 i386 only, at the mo), and in early/on-off development (I fully appreciate your lack of time due to academia ;-) Anyway, just thought I'd let you know. If you have a chance, its at <a href="http://shtaggle.co.uk" rel="nofollow">http://shtaggle.co.uk</a> Just thought I’d pass on a little project I’ve been working on – Shtaggle – its free and uses last.fm to get/send tags.

Its Mac OS X (10.5 i386 only, at the mo), and in early/on-off development (I fully appreciate your lack of time due to academia ;-)

Anyway, just thought I’d let you know. If you have a chance, its at http://shtaggle.co.uk

]]> By: Many-to-Many http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2005/08/12/tagging_music.html/comment-page-1#comment-11405 Many-to-Many Wed, 24 Aug 2005 11:10:17 +0000 http://ubuntu.my/wp30/archives/2005/08/12/tagging_music.html#comment-11405 <strong>apophenia round-up: posts that slipped through</strong> I’ve been doing a terrible job at posting to M2M because i’m never quite sure what fraction of my posts belong here and what tone is appropriate. I’ve been actively posting to my personal blog apophenia and looking back, i... apophenia round-up: posts that slipped through

I’ve been doing a terrible job at posting to M2M because i’m never quite sure what fraction of my posts belong here and what tone is appropriate. I’ve been actively posting to my personal blog apophenia and looking back, i…

]]> By: Ryan Schultz (Quiplash) http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2005/08/12/tagging_music.html/comment-page-1#comment-11403 Ryan Schultz (Quiplash) Sat, 20 Aug 2005 10:52:31 +0000 http://ubuntu.my/wp30/archives/2005/08/12/tagging_music.html#comment-11403 The best last.fm tag I have come across so far is: "songs that i sing along to but i always forget the words so i say duh duh while trying to sound like i do know the words and no one is falling for it but they keep quiet because they are embarassed for me" :-) The best last.fm tag I have come across so far is: “songs that i sing along to but i always forget the words so i say duh duh while trying to sound like i do know the words and no one is falling for it but they keep quiet because they are embarassed for me”

:-)

]]> By: joe http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2005/08/12/tagging_music.html/comment-page-1#comment-11402 joe Mon, 15 Aug 2005 19:51:10 +0000 http://ubuntu.my/wp30/archives/2005/08/12/tagging_music.html#comment-11402 The fucked up thing is that iPhoto already does "tagging"... that is you can enter keywords in for photos and then search, manipulate, etc. the photos based on the tags. The fucked up thing is that iPhoto already does “tagging”… that is you can enter keywords in for photos and then search, manipulate, etc. the photos based on the tags.

]]> By: Adam http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2005/08/12/tagging_music.html/comment-page-1#comment-11401 Adam Fri, 12 Aug 2005 13:25:29 +0000 http://ubuntu.my/wp30/archives/2005/08/12/tagging_music.html#comment-11401 [hmm... I guess "with great difficulty" was not the response to "How you do spell apophenia.] Tagging is great and all, but last.fm's implementation is painfully shortsighted IMHO. Unless they're somehow reading tags from your own music files, it's all rather ephemereal; last.fm goes belly-up, and all that metadata you've added just goes POOF. In a way, frankly, it's sort of like Flickr. I love Flickr, I'm a paying subscriber, but... there's no way in hell I'm tagging my stuff online. Because come the day that Flickr is no more or it becomes too expensive for me or I decide to close my account for whatever reason, all of the time I spent adding metadata to my photos would be lost to me. In Flickr's defense, they recently added the ability to have keywords read from *your own photo files* (IPTC) and translated into tags. That's much better :). And yes, I understand that last.fm is a radio station, not a personal music depository, so I'm not quite sure HOW they could effectively implement a meta-data'ing system that allows the meta-data'er to retain the fruits of his or her contributions. But still, I think it's an important issue to consider! [hmm... I guess "with great difficulty" was not the response to "How you do spell apophenia.]

Tagging is great and all, but last.fm’s implementation is painfully shortsighted IMHO. Unless they’re somehow reading tags from your own music files, it’s all rather ephemereal; last.fm goes belly-up, and all that metadata you’ve added just goes POOF.

In a way, frankly, it’s sort of like Flickr. I love Flickr, I’m a paying subscriber, but… there’s no way in hell I’m tagging my stuff online. Because come the day that Flickr is no more or it becomes too expensive for me or I decide to close my account for whatever reason, all of the time I spent adding metadata to my photos would be lost to me.

In Flickr’s defense, they recently added the ability to have keywords read from *your own photo files* (IPTC) and translated into tags. That’s much better :) .

And yes, I understand that last.fm is a radio station, not a personal music depository, so I’m not quite sure HOW they could effectively implement a meta-data’ing system that allows the meta-data’er to retain the fruits of his or her contributions. But still, I think it’s an important issue to consider!

]]> By: zephoria http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2005/08/12/tagging_music.html/comment-page-1#comment-11400 zephoria Fri, 12 Aug 2005 10:34:53 +0000 http://ubuntu.my/wp30/archives/2005/08/12/tagging_music.html#comment-11400 Sure - zephoria Sure – zephoria

]]> By: Ken http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2005/08/12/tagging_music.html/comment-page-1#comment-11399 Ken Fri, 12 Aug 2005 10:31:49 +0000 http://ubuntu.my/wp30/archives/2005/08/12/tagging_music.html#comment-11399 By the by, any chance you'd share your AudioScrobbler profile name with us? Pescabicicleta By the by, any chance you’d share your AudioScrobbler profile name with us?

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