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Nice idea, would use it if adapted for last.fm.

Your survey contains "FooBar" as a listening option - assume this should not be on there ?

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I second the motion for last.fm support.

1) it's easier than uploading my XML file which is currently on another computer

2) you can recommend music based on a window of time ... for example recently I've been super interested in EDM (dance music and remixes) but if you look at my entire iTunes library (~80GB of music) what i'm currently super interested in is only a small percentage of that. So, it would be cool to see "what would I like to be listening to based on what I have been listening to for the last 6 months

3) You get access to my data indefinitely (more or less) and can re-run the algorithm on my account at your own leisure ... every day, every week, etc...

Music discovery has always been huge in my mind. I LOVE music and cannot really go a day without it. If i'm working, you better believe I have earbuds in and i'm listening to something. I'm always on the prowl for new stuff.

Recommendations according to the number of plays you've had on a track would be great too.

I'd also like to try it out if it could use my last.fm history since I've been switching platforms and players a lot but I was always scrobbling all the songs.

But anyways, very cool idea :)

Last.fm has similar built-in functionality:

last.fm/home/newreleases

I was surprised too, but it is actually a music player that some of my early testers use: http://www.foobar2000.org/.

Wow - I totally thought it was something you'd been using to test the survey and left in place when going live :)

A fantastic one, too. Unfortunately not on Linux, though.

Was just going to say the same thing. Very lightweight, skinnable (via css + html).

Probably the single program I miss the most on Linux. I've never been able to find an acceptable replacement.

I use MPD + ncmpcpp/ario, and then Picard for tagging. It works pretty well, and I can do a bunch of stuff I couldn't do with Foobar2000, too, such as controlling my music via an app on my phone.

foobar2000 is one of the best music players on Windows (though like antihero said, it's unfortunately not available for Linux). I'm surprised you haven't heard of it.

I'll check this out, thanks

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