How eclectic is your musical style?
That’s a question that’ll quicken the pulse of many a music geek. Am I narrow-minded or open-minded? Am I just right? What is right? Okay, I’ll rein back on the worrying, but I have wondered whether the plethora of music recommendation services will result in more or less homogeneity. Anthony Lieken’s script isn’t going to provide the answer, but - if you have a Last.fm account - it does promise to tell you how eclectic your listening habits are relative other Last.fm subscribers:
The following script takes the 20 top artists in your musical profile from Last.fm, and finds the collection of top 5 similar artists for this top 20. The resulting is a list of artists similar to your preferred artists. As the list is larger (maximum = 100), your musical preference is more diverse.
If this tweaks your curiosity, the author has a number of other online scripts that might be of interest.
Just in case you were wondering (as I was), how eclectic Music Interfaces is - I got a 90 out of 100 (I ascribe that to my love of Barbra Streisand and Bad Brains - er, I’m joking about one of those…)
Links: Anthony Lieken.net, Last.fm,
