I’m a sucker for statistics, charts and graphs.
I look at statistics, and try to develop my own assumtions, and pick out patterns in my head. For example, I can look at my site statistics and see that 50% of my visitors spend less that 30 seconds on the blog, and seeing as about 75% of the visitors come from search engines and land on short blogs (Ones where I’m saying “Look at this” or “Download this” or “Look what I found…”) and read them, and either follow my links or go back to the search engine - which means either my blogs aren’t “sticky” or I am following the 30 Second Rule.
Last.fm, as most of you will know, gives you statistics from iTunes, Winamp, Windows Media Player etc, via an AudioScrobler plugin. Last.fm tells me that my overall (from the last 3 weeks) most played band is Sonic Youth (142 plays), and I have played a total of 1383 tracks.
But the problem is that these are just the songs I have ripped to iTunes, which are from CD’s, and I quite often listen to stuff on vinyl. And then there are mix CD’s I have, which are made from MP3’s, so I can’t automaticly find the titles, so I don’t rip them (like the wealth of French/Japanese pop my uncle has burned for me.). I’m also on a move a lot, so I use an iPod.
Maybe the page should read: “*Records I listen to when I am at the computer that I have actually got on my hard drive.”
But I have really been enjoying these statistics recently, even if they are slightly flawed. Now everyone can know that I really dig Modest Mouse, and listen to The Specials on a regular basis.
This is an essential for any music elitist.
