Added a couple of nifty new things to the site.  The Most useful one is the lastfm audio player widget that I aded to the mus.so des homepage.

Also, a spiffy information visualization of the artists in the collection has been added.  It was created using the Google AJAX visualization API.

Did a little bit of prettification the other day.  added graphics for the ratings on individual album pages.

Given, not every album is rated.  I’d like to make it so that users can rank albums, too, rather than just admins…  We’ll need to implement some sort of registration system, first.  (hopefully coming before next December.

Hey, finally made it so that anyone can leave opinions, remarks, what have you on individual album pages.  It’s just a home-brewed system that I may need to take down if there is abuse.  But check it aht while it’s open for anyone to use!

example page: http://music.ahsodes.com/album.php?album_id=1578

I recently discovered all of the web services that Last.fm provides at their audioscrobbler site… There certainly is a lot of good information there so I just linked a couple of pages up with it.

On the homepage, I am pulling in my most recently listened to tracks and 50 most listened to artists. It’s not 100% accurate because it only keeps track of my digital music (ipod and computer – nothing from my stereo) which means that it’s cutting out all of the vinyl, cassettes (yes, I still listen to cassettes sometimes), and cds that I listen to but it’s relatively accurate.

I’m now pulling some audioscrobbler data into the artist detail page so now list a lot more of the artist’s recordings, related artists, and tags that are associated with the artist on last.fm. There are surely going to be problems with artist name not matching exactly what last.fm has in their db but I can work on that later.

I was planning on bringing album info into the individual album details pages but forgot that I had been getting album info by album id (mine) and the scrobbler service uses album name. I’m going to have to plan how I’m going to get the two datasources to mesh before I can use that feed.

Made a favorite artists page. Only uses the number of albums I have of each artist so isn’t completely accurate (many artists are missed).

Added a new page to allow browsing by musical genre (really by tag). Not quite completed but will update you when it’s completely functional. Right now, it just serves to show what the available tags are but hopefully I’ll have some time this week to finish the browse functionality…

Today, I added a bunch of new music my music database and added some functionality to the left and right rails on music.ahsodes.com. The layout is a little bit off but it was a bit of a conceptual design/development process when I did it last year. I never had time to fix it and have since expanded my vision of what the site can become… I need to return to some of my earlier brainstorming sessions and get back to work on it. Hopefully soon…