Compare Your Last.FM Music With FriendCompare
Aug 07 2008 
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I’ve just discovered FriendCompare, a web service that allows you to compare your Last.FM music tastes to your friends or compare two completely random users. To start, the service has a clean, and simple design on the homepage. Here, you’d simply enter your Last.FM name to get started. On the next screen, you’re provided with a list of friends and people within your neighborhood to compare yourself too.
Once you’ve selected a friend, you may have to wait a few seconds for FriendCompare to work it’s magic. Here’s a look at a comparison from someone that I know I have a lot in common with:
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FriendCompare shows the top tracks from both users and a compatibility meter at the top. I’m currently 33% compatible with Timon50cent based on common artists, albums, and top tags. We don’t have any friends in common nor any of the same recently played tracks. Links for each track, artist, album, and tags are also provided incase you’d like to do some exploring.
If there had been any common tracks that we’ve both played the site would’ve shown how many times you’ve played the track versus how many times your friend has played the track.
Digging Deeper
All in all, the service doesn’t bring anything relatively exciting to the table, but it could be a useful tool when trying to find more music, which is the point of Last.FM. One thing that could make this more useful for me is to display more tracks. My top 10 tracks just aren’t enough to go by for comparisons. I’d like to see more interesting ways that I can compare myself to my friends. For example, what if we’re the only 2 people that have ever played a particular song on Last.FM? I’d like to know that. That’s a great and unique comparison. Or maybe we played a particular song on the same day? Who knows, but I’d love to see FriendCompare dig deeper into the musical styles and matches between my friends and I.
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Thanks for posting this. Going to check it out right now. I'm a last.fm freak and love using all the services built around it.
Comparing against you now…
I'll be trying out FriendCompare very soon, thanks for bringing it to my attention.
I've found Last.fm to be a great service but (like del.icio.us) very personal and not given to socialising, so 3rd party apps that make for a more social experience are welcome.
Oh, and I see my avatar up there too, *waves*
This is a similar concept to the website Wesabe – except instead of music it helps you track how you spend your money. I think it is always interesting to see what others are into, and how I compare. I agree this needs a little more meat to it though.
Thanks for your suggestions :) Meanwhile, I am working on new and more unique comparisons. I liked your suggestion of songs that are played only by 2 people on last.fm, even though the possibility of that happening is very dim :)
As of now, I'm racking my brains for more unique and useful comparisons
Interesting stuff. Gotta check this out. Thank for the update.
Interesting stuff. Gotta check this out. Thanks for the update.
Interesting stuff. Gotta check this out. Thanks for the update.