What am I listening to?

People often ask me what I listen to or to make recommendations as to what they should listen to. For a number of reasons I generally try to avoid answering, but I found a great plugin that compiles what you are listening to into a music profile. It's called Audioscrobbler, which is "a database that tracks listening habits and does wonderful things with statistics." (If you are concerned about privacy, "the Audioscrobbler Plugins do not know the source of any of your music and the Last.fm database cannot tell if you played songs from an original CD or from an MP3 file.") It works with all the popular audio players (and even some of the not-so-popular ones), and best of all, it feeds into Last.fm which uses the Audioscrobbler-generated profiles "to make personalized recommendations, match you up with people who like similar music, and generate custom radio stations for each person."

So, for better or worse, if you want to know what I'm listening to, you can surf on over to http://www.last.fm/user/EAR-Rational and see for yourself. There's always the possibility that when it says I'm listening to the new Boards of Canada it's only because I changed the MP3 tags on some really embarrassing music...