Category: Music

MusicMobs isn’t working for me, I’m afraid

Note: As of 23 Mar 2005 the problem seems to be fixed. Go here for more.

Earlier I wrote about MusicMobs.com, which seemed like a neat way for people to collaboratively share ideas and suggestions about music in an indirect and happily distributed sort of way.

Unfortunately I can’t seem to make it work. I’ve tried to upload my library listing several times, both through their web site and through their Mobster application, and it’s never worked. I even e-mailed the guy that runs it, but never heard back.

To be fair, my library is pretty big (well over 5,000 songs), so I shouldn’t be entirely surprised that it choked on something that big. Still, it had a lot of potential and I’m disappointed that I can’t play.

Maybe I should try to upload just a subset (like my 4 and 5 star songs) and see if that works better…

Currently listening to the title track from Medeski, Martin, and Wood’s album End of the world party (just in case). I got this for Dad for Xmas; I kind of doubt that it’s entirely his thing, but we figured that we’d stretch his horizons a little :). SubEvilBoy and I were seriously grooving to it this morning at breakfast, though. Some good stuff here.

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A potentially cool way to see your music

Levi (KUMM‘s music director) pointed me at musicmobs.com, and it looks like it could be pretty cool.

There are two main ways to use it. First, you can just go to their web site, enter three bands, and get a list of other bands that you might be interested in. Their recommendations are broad and interesting, which makes that useful in its own right.

The real win, though, is when you actually upload the list of songs in your iTunes library. This adds to the depth and breadth of their recommendations, and allows their system give you recommendations based on what you have and what you like. You can also search for other people that have “similiar” playlists as a way of discovering new stuff. (I tried uploading my iTunes library list yesterday, but nothing’s shown up yet. They say it can take up to 24 hours, though, so I’ll need to be patient.)

I’m currently listening to the excellent “Evolution” by Fred Frith from the recent re-release of Cheap at half the price. Their optional but cool Mobster program (with the Hipster/Mainstream slide down towards Hipster at 27%) is then recommending lots of cool stuff. Some of it is arguably expected (John Zorn, Can, Laurie Anderson), but others are just cool (Mingus and Monk, Ralph Stanley and Buena Vista Social Club). And I haven’t a clue who Yann Tiersen and Eyvind Kang are, so I guess I’ll have to check them out.

It’ll be interesting to see whether this catches on or fades away. They certainly seem to be struggling with some scaling issues at the moment (as do so many things like this), but it seems worth a spin.

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