讨论 → What do we want to see in the Playground?

Seems like a natural question to ask. So I'll provide my answer:

I'd like to see a streamable version of last.fm that works on older mobile phones (specifically, a first generation Motorola Q that runs Windows Mobile 5). While I can get di.fm on my mobile phone, I am unable to get last.fm on my mobile phone. It would be nice if I could...

So, I'm curious - what do other people want to see in the Playground?

something where you can get specific stats about specific users. Like artists that made the weekly top ten the most or what artists have stayed unchanged in the top 50 for the longest, etc

Well there is one feature I have been hoping for. Maybe the idea would be more appropriate for the last.fm beta, but the idea could be tested on the playground.

Stats based on time played not play count

I feel this would be a fairer representation of what I listen to most. This is mostly a problem when you listen to different genres. For example my overall top artist is Radiohead, the number two spot is taken by Plastikman. Now my guess is that most tracks by Plastikman are probably three times as long as those from Radiohead. Which would mean I have probably spent more time listening to my number two artist, although the play count is lower.

I think the above can be applied in general to music genres. Most electronic music tracks are much longer then for example rock tracks. Which gives the latter a certain unfair advantage in my charts. This advantage is currently not weighted in the charts.

I think the idea of calculating charts by play count is outdated and was more useful in the days when the only charts we had were those on the radio. If I spent an whole evening listening to some classical composition but it only consists of three parts it would still be at the bottom of my chart. To me that seems unfair.

@Dirklectisch: Great ideas! You might want to have a look at this btw.

It´s fun and a good ideia to research, but it´s needed a better layout or design on it. Firstable on the colors and pixel resolution.

thanks.

we never had any time-of-the-day-based charts before. i'd like to see some that show the most popular artists, tracks or tags listened to within any given hour. each time would be converted to it's user's local time first of course. is that any good? i think it would be fun. maybe we can even make a radio out of it.

-New artist radio (only artists that are not in your library yet)
-tag control over my groups and personal profile (I want to say that the music in this group IS: dark cabaret | singer-songwriter | ethereal | trip-hop so I can then go and have another group that is: Punk & Guitar-Virtuoso.

This will prevent every single group from having Radiohead and Coldplay on their charts!

I think that would be the most important feature ever. To make a station filled with certain tags.

You could further make this better by having other group and profile options like "I want to hear xx% new music, or xx% of tag1 and a different percent of tag2. Oh wow would this start to make wonderful groups and stations ~!!!

Sort by how far they are from you, say you want to start a band or need a ride to a show or something. Doesnt help if the person lives on the other side of the country

Dirklectisch's ideas sound awesome.

More sophisticated semantic framework for artists. The information could/should come from users so this is not a massive content-creation task.

Ability to handle multiple artists with a given name.

Ability to define individual artists, then say person X is in band Y.

Ability to say A is the same song as B recorded by a different band or C is a different recording to A but is the same song recorded by the same band. Then say the song A/B/C was written by people Z and W.

Stuff like that.

How about a steerable similar artists algorithm? So you could look up a band and see 100% tag-based similar artists, or 100% listener-based similar artists, or some combination of both.

In other words, if you steered it towards tag-based, you would get artists who have the most tags in common, and if you steered it towards listener-based, you would get artists who have the most listeners in common.

per-artist radius for events

(I'll travel 10 miles for this artists, 100 for that other one, and 500 for that last one.)

akrde said:
I would love to see a recommendation page for Last.fm radios that are compatible the user's musical taste!

love this one 2!! You know when you have been on last.fm a couple of years you dont get to find many new artists, you sort of flote around in your own taste so every option that lets you discover new artists would be great!