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VanderGraafKommandöh 
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 Posted: May 01 2008 at 10:22 |
Mine's quite high, which is pleasing:
Bare in mind too, that a lot of the obscure stuff I listen to, probably hasn't been tagged by me yet. I have tried to personally tag as many of the bands I listen to as possible, though. Also, a lot of the music I listen to is on CD and CDs don't always like my PC (my computer doesn't have enough RAM really, plus I have a lot of applications open), so therefore much of my avant-jazz/Canterbury/fusion isn't listed. A band like Magma, for instance, seems to be tagged as Progressive Rock and secondly as Zeuhl, which means that the Zeuhl tag won't get any votes on this system. So it is flawed if the band is tagged incorrectly. Another thing: there are often several bands with the same name. Egg, for example. Now if you listen to the Canterbury Scene Egg, it will likely be tagged as something completely different, because there is another band/artist called Egg that is more popular than the Canterbury Scene Egg. Until last.fm can find a way of separating such bands, then this problem will remain.
Edited by James - May 08 2008 at 13:23
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Equality 7-2521
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Posted: May 01 2008 at 10:12 |
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"One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. "
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WalterDigsTunes
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Posted: May 01 2008 at 04:34 |
Sounds about right.
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mrcozdude
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Posted: May 01 2008 at 03:28 |
If anyone wondered the sites back up again and better! And my mind has become more open!
Edited by mrcozdude - May 01 2008 at 03:29
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cuncuna
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Posted: March 04 2008 at 08:35 |
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I don't know... I've never seen my own mind.
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¡Beware of the Bee!
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keiser willhelm
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Posted: March 04 2008 at 05:02 |
i think just last fm. i have so many more artists not on my computer. any more its rare i listen to music on the computer at all and do so mostly through my iPod and its various audio outlets (oooooo, fancey) Last.fm hasnt updated my playlist for any of those songs/artists played via iPod or portable device. . . might have a completely different outcome. for example. my lastfm page says i like jimi hendrix and eric clapton MUCH more than i do. its almost embarassing. 
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mrcozdude
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Posted: March 04 2008 at 04:46 |
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Does anyone know if the genre rating is taken from genres on last.fm or your personal audio player?
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goose
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Posted: December 18 2007 at 18:15 |
 Bob Greece wrote:
goose wrote:
Do I win a prize?
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Elephant 6?! You really are open minded.
What's power pop? |
I'm pretty sure of the Elephant 6 bands I've only listened to Olivia Tremor Control consistently, and since I own everything they've released on CD now it's unlikely to get listened to on my computer again  As for power pop, I have no idea what's coming up as that. Ohh... Teenage Fanclub? Maybe I shouldn't admit to that 
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MikeEnRegalia
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Posted: December 18 2007 at 17:22 |
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I actually like this service ... and please don't take it so seriously, they have to work with the data which last.fm provides, and that's the tags which the user create.
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Jimbo
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Posted: December 18 2007 at 15:36 |
The T wrote:
I seriously think all of this is utter bullsh*t. Being "open minded" doesn't mean you have to hear a small percentage of every genre known to man and not specialized into a genre. On the contrary, being "narrow minded" is not the same as listening a lot of your favorite genre and just a little of others.
I'd say being "open minded" is just allowing yourself to listen to any kind of music before giving an opinion on it instead of dismissing ir beforehand. Narrow minded would be the person who is presented with a new style of music and says "I don't need that, I have my prog (or jazz or whatever)".
So the person that listens 70% of prog and 30% of everything else is narrow minded...Because that stupid "chart" only takes anglo-european genres into considerations (and not even all of them)... where are all the other genres?
How many of you wise masters of prog have heard latin music? Oh, you're all so narrow minded!
No, you're not. You just haven't had the exposure.
But if you think this stupid chart says anything, well, congratulations...
... for allowing stupid internet devices tell you who you are. |
That's my definition as well.I already said this in some other thread, but open-mindedness has more to do with being honest with yourself and giving the artists/genres you happen to encounter during your lifetime an honest chance to impress you than it has about actually enjoying them. Imho, of course. Sorry about the awkward sentence, I hope I got my point across. As chamberry said though, these charts are just for fun, not to be taken too literally/seriously. I don't think open-mindedness can be calculated in any way.
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The T
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Posted: December 18 2007 at 14:41 |
I know...I drunk too much caffeine today.... 
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chamberry
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Posted: December 18 2007 at 14:38 |
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^^^^ Don't take this too seriously Teo. It's just a silly chart and I don't think any of us is taking this seriously.
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The T
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Posted: December 18 2007 at 14:27 |
I seriously think all of this is utter bullsh*t. Being "open minded" doesn't mean you have to hear a small percentage of every genre known to man and not specialized into a genre. On the contrary, being "narrow minded" is not the same as listening a lot of your favorite genre and just a little of others.
I'd say being "open minded" is just allowing yourself to listen to any kind of music before giving an opinion on it instead of dismissing ir beforehand. Narrow minded would be the person who is presented with a new style of music and says "I don't need that, I have my prog (or jazz or whatever)".
So the person that listens 70% of prog and 30% of everything else is narrow minded...Because that stupid "chart" only takes anglo-european genres into considerations (and not even all of them)... where are all the other genres?
How many of you wise masters of prog have heard latin music? Oh, you're all so narrow minded!
No, you're not. You just haven't had the exposure.
But if you think this stupid chart says anything, well, congratulations...
... for allowing stupid internet devices tell you who you are.
Edited by The T - December 18 2007 at 14:28
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Bob Greece
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Posted: December 18 2007 at 04:22 |
goose wrote:
Do I win a prize?
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Elephant 6?! You really are open minded.
What's power pop?
Edited by Bob Greece - December 18 2007 at 04:23
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goose
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Posted: December 18 2007 at 04:07 |
Do I win a prize?
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Bob Greece
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Posted: December 18 2007 at 03:50 |
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tardis
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Posted: October 28 2007 at 21:44 |
| Typical OMI values: |
| Below 20: | an extremely small bandwidth of tags; a faker or fanatic of an artist |
| 20 - 39: | a small bandwidth of tags; a fanatic of a specific tag |
| 40 - 59: | a small bandwidth of tags; a fanatic of a few types of music |
| 60 - 79: | a substandard of bandwidth of tags |
| 80 - 89: | a balanced bandwidth of tags; a little below the average |
| 90 - 99: | a balanced bandwidth of tags; the golden mean |
| 100 - 109: | a balanced bandwidth of tags; a little above the average |
| 110 - 129: | a high bandwidth of tags |
| 130 - 149: | a very high bandwidth of tags; truly open minded |
| above 150: | an extremely high bandwidth of tags; an absolute freethinker and freak |
Edited by tardis - October 28 2007 at 21:46
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MikeEnRegalia
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Posted: October 28 2007 at 15:26 |
^ I just said it was wrong to tell from a diverse playlist that the person has an undefined taste. Still don't understand why you want to replace "wrong" with "not necessarily correct" here. The deduction is simply not valid. You can't tell from the playlist why the person chose these particular albums - could be random, could be very carefully chosen. Uh ... what was the subject again?
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Ivan_Melgar_M
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Posted: October 28 2007 at 15:10 |
MikeEnRegalia wrote:
^ So do I have a undefined taste simply because I just listened to The Eagles, King Crimson, Porcupine Tree, Secret Chiefs 3 and Le Orme? |
Of course not, neither dio I for just listening Cat Stevens, Mercedes Sosa and Cranberries, but we are not the average listener that buys what their favorite DJ tells them to buy and listen.
We don't care of popularity, we know what we like, we may have a versatile taste, but lets admit it, not all the people is like us, we're not better, not worst, only more obsessed and different.
Iván
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MikeEnRegalia
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Posted: October 28 2007 at 14:37 |
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^ So do I have a undefined taste simply because I just listened to The Eagles, King Crimson, Porcupine Tree, Secret Chiefs 3 and Le Orme?
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