(an unfinished post from February 2007 that was never published:)
Very early in 2005, in deep snow, I was temping in Cleveland, long outstaying my expected tenure at Heinen’s corporate office, distributing and replacing preferred customer cards. I was becoming obsessed with foobar and listening mostly to The Mollusk and Guero. I had recently converted [...]

the other night i had a dream that last.fm came out with a new beta :\

Wow, I can’t believe I was able to do this.

http://www.kilobitspersecond.com/topalbumart.php?user=
Just tack your last.fm username onto the end of that url to generate the cover art for your most listened-to album of last week. Pretty cool.
Bands and albums with ampersands don’t work at the moment. urlencode() doesn’t seem to do the trick. Any theories?

For a long time, last.fm has linked to a purported weekly album chart feed on their web services page. Because I find this much more interesting than the weekly artist and track charts, I was happy to find today that these feeds have finally become active. Just replace “topdownjimmy” with your username in [...]

last.fm is great, and it gets better every single day. Part of its appeal is voyeurism. I love being able to see what my friends are listening to, but that usually requires going to the “What are my friends listening to?” page, which is still too much effort; I’m not that curious. [...]

Audioscrobbler has now been subsumed by its cousin last.fm. Aside from the bold new colors, there are a lot of additional features that are really easy to get sucked into. Each user is provided a blog, whose posts appear on that user’s profile page and can contain links to artists, albums, or tracks [...]