
I still like Spotify BUT please get your act together on the meta data. Let's look at a couple of explenatory examples:
1. Robyn.
It starts out great with portrait, blurb of text, related artists that look somewhat OK and the top hits that are all by Robyn. The Biography tab also contains accurate info. But then what happens? The first album is by some other artist named Robyn.
Next up is the Body talk pt.2 album, released in 2010. That much Spotify gets right, but why four of them?
Four albums with four different settings of songs available for me to listen to.
And how accurate are those dates published next to the songs? Robyn's debut album with "Do you know (what it takes)" came out in 1996/1997 not 2001:
2. Bruce Springsteen.
The album section starts out good with Bruce's latest album,"Wrecking ball":
Start scrolling and see what happens, after a couple of albums the "Appears on" section starts with one of Springsteen's albums. Stange.And so it continues with "The Rising" and other Albums.
3. Kent
Find one correct date on these singles!It's that time of the year, the annual reports have been published. Last years revenue and net profit.. for companies and organizations! I think it's time to take a look at how we can create "annual reports" for our own amusement and maybe take the time to reflect on what we did last year. I imagine this can be used to strengthen our memory a bit as well. At least it makes for some nice graphics.
The good news is that this type of graphics, statistics and analysis can be automated with tools such as Mathematica and Trackety.com
Head over here to see the complete report: http://johanrhodin.se/RhodinReport/RhodinReport2011.html
There's still a lot of info in Trackety that I haven't pulled out and made nice graphs and stats for, but this is a start. Comments welcome!
Då och då händer det att jag lämnar bidrag till kulturen i annan form än matematik och teknik. T.ex i visor för barn eller som nu med synpunkter på framsidan till Tores bok "Sagor från verkligheten". Jag kan också glädjas extra åt att Tore tagit med två böcker jag rekommenderat honom i sin lista över böcker han varmt kan rekommendera :) (Böckerna är "How to win friends and influence people" och "När människan skapade världen")
Arcade Fire, lykke li och those dancing days favoriterna. Egentligen bara AF som var bra.
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