New year, new music
To start the new year, I’ve re-arranged my audio equipment, added some new hardware into the mix and started using Ableton Live. Here’s the result of me learning how to use Live:
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I’ve also got some some other stuff I’ve been working on that really deserves its own post, but I’ll toss it in here anyway seeing as it’s already a few weeks old and that my last post here was in April.
After reading this tweet by Jason Herskowitz who I met at a gathering after Music Hack Day – Boston, I decided to give it a shot and came up with this:
http://music.mashthe.net/filtered_chart.php
If you’ve got a last.fm account, just enter your user name and select the length of time you’d like to see a chart for. If you don’t have an account, feel free to check out my chart.
When the page loads, you can then quickly filter the album chart by release year. Just grab the slider handles and drag them to select the years you want (0 means that last.fm doesn’t know the release year for the album). You can also hover over the years to see which albums were released in that year or grab the html of the chart so you can embed it on your site.
Here are my top albums from 2009 that were released in 2009 (minus a few that weren’t picked up because the tags didn’t match the entries that last.fm had year info for):
