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Newly Discovered: MusicBrainz, AudioScrobbler and del.icio.us

July 31, 2004 | RSS | EMAIL | PRINT | 5 COMMENTS

Anyone who listens to MP3 should consider downloading the MusicBrainz tagger. It searches your MP3 files and compares the information versus their huge user-modified database. If your tags are incorrect they fix them. The program takes some time to figure out, but once I got the idea it's really a great piece of software for getting your MP3's in order.

The use of MusicBrainz was prompted by Audioscrobbler, a plugin that keeps track of all the songs you listen to and then makes reccomendations based on others listening habits. I'm not sure that AudioScrobbler is allowing any new users to sign up at the moment, though if they are it's worthwhile and a fun way to find new music.

Last, and this has nothing to do with music. If you don't have a del.icio.us account, get one. It's a social bookmark program that allows you to bookmark webpages of interest in a public place. Instead of using a folder hierarchy, del.icio.us uses tags that allow you to identify a link in multiple categories. All the links on the right side of this page are kept on del.icio.us and then fed onto this page. I've also found it incredibly useful for work where it allows me to easily organize information that I plan to use for future stories. When you sign up you get a little button to put on your toolbar that allows you to bookmark any page you're on very easily. Go sign up.

Update (6/26/05): As I was going back through old entries adding categories, I realized this was really a Newly Discovered, so I have adjusted it accordingly.

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1Dick Costolo

Hey Noah, you should check out the feed splicer we released for del.icio.us today. Basically, you can use FeedBurner to merge your del.icio.us links into your RSS feed. Read more about it here.

August 6, 2004

2Dick Costolo

Sorry, no html in comments...ok, you can read more about it at http://www.burningdoor.com/feedburner/archives/000683.html

August 6, 2004

3Noah

Checked it out, really cool stuff. I think I may move over to FeedBurner, my only question is about the people who currently use my feed. There's no way to automatically roll them over to FeedBurner right?

August 13, 2004

4James Holloway

Noah, when I made the switch I was just sure to post it on my weblog. I reasoned that at least the regular readers of my old feed would pick it up and know to change.

September 9, 2004

5Noah

I expect that is the easiest way to get it done, I was just seeing if there was some easier way to do it. You're right though, I would imagine that any regular readers who use the feed would have little trouble switching it over to a Feedburner feed. Thanks for the feedback.

September 9, 2004