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Kung-Tunes - Post your iTunes listening habits to the web
Authored by: Ranger Rick on May 05, '03 12:53:25PM
Another related but different thing is AudioScrobbler. It's a site where you can see everything you've played in your MP3 player and it correlates your listening habits with users that have similar tastes. Good way to find new bands you might like. (AudioScrobbler has an iTunes plugin called iScrobbler to submit your music to the site).

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Problems Using AudioScrobbler
Authored by: grrr223 on May 05, '03 05:46:06PM

I don't know what caused it, but a few days after I installed Audioscrobbler, it started sending duplicate copies of my songs. It would send 3, 4, 5 copies of it to them, so the stats were all messed up. It was a fun idea, but it just uses up too many resources, accessing the internet 3 times a song.

Also, keep in mind that any program or script that accesses iTunes can be a huge system hog. There is no way for iTunes to notify the programs when a song has completed, so they have to poll the program every so often, some as often as every 3 or 5 seconds, it takes a toll on your system in a big way, esp. if you have more than one running at a time, like I do sometimes when I have Synergy, AudioScrobbler, M-Beat, and a few Konfabulator widgets all accessing it every so often. I eventually just settled on Synerty with the access interval at it's most system-friendly setting. Using the function keys as hot keys to rate a song from any program at any time is sooo awesome.



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Polling...
Authored by: robg on May 05, '03 07:21:55PM

That's one of the nice things about Kung-Tunes; I set the polling time manually to three minutes -- no need to update more often than that as far as I can tell...

-rob.



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