If you’ve used computers for any length of time, you can probably remember when watching video or streaming music was a guaranteed headache. Only a few years ago, the web was teeming with sites that claimed to provide streamlined video and audio experiences when the experiences were in fact...

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Voor de tweede keer dit jaar was de database met de muzieksmaak van alle last.fm-gebruikers door een storing bijna twee dagen offline.  De miljoenen profielpag ina’ s van alle gebruikers van last.fm waren zondag en maandag akelig leeg. Vanwege een storing leek het alsof gebruike...

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last.fm ha introdotto per i suoi iscritti uno strumento in grado di recuperare la lista dei contatti da altre piattaforme e inserirli tra i propri amici. In particolare, al momento l’im portazione dei contatti funziona con Facebook, GMail e Yahoo. Nel prossimo futuro saranno aggiunti Twit...

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There is something indescribably special about attending a music festival. Yes, the idea of watching your favorite bands and musicians perform in one place, in a short amount of time, is amazing. However, when actually standing there amidst an enormous crowd of people from all walks-of-life, you ar...

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It’s possible songwriters during the 1980s where composing music at 120 beats per minute (bpm), because that was the default speed of the drum machines many were using at the time. As the 80s seems to have been an unusual time for rhythm, it would be no surprise if we also saw stri...

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last.fm â€' the Blog · Lyric clouds, genre maps and distinctive words......

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Andrew Clegg analysed words used in almost 240,000 songs to create Wordle , or weighed, lists of words that commonly crop up in songs to form lyric clouds, and then plotted often used words on a genre map to visualise matches, and contrasts, between musical styles . A limitation of word clouds i...

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Andrew Clegg of last.fm has been doing some data mining , armed only with with a database of lyrics and the contents of of last.fm’s catalogue: One of the interesting things that sets even superficially similar genres of music apart is their lyrical content. last.fm tags can overlap to a ...

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Those graphics loving geeks over at last.fm are at it again. Remember the flower power experiment ? Now last.fm staffer Andrew Clegg describes how he’s grabbed a pile of the online music service’s user tags and combined them with data from the Echo Nest’s million song dataset ....

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Jimdo Gute Idee: Jimdo integriert Dropbox. Wie das Video schon zeigt, könnt ihr dank der neuen Dropbox-Funktion wahnsinnig schnell Inhalte auf eure Webseite hochladen – und zwar von überall. » Dropbox & Jimdo: schneller, immer und überall hochladen!   6Wunderkinder Nach High-Tec...

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