Add Thisismyjam to the social profile widget thingie, please? February 24, 2012 10:35 AM Subscribe
Would it be possible to add This Is My Jam to the profile Also On social thingie - aka the social app list? You no longer need an invitation.
I like it - one song per week is about as much as my attention span can handle - and I wish to add more Mefites so I can listen to your choice of one song a week. Also, for those who are already there, please link! I want to follow you.
I like it - one song per week is about as much as my attention span can handle - and I wish to add more Mefites so I can listen to your choice of one song a week. Also, for those who are already there, please link! I want to follow you.
Whoops! Sorry, I should have checked the wiki first. I always forget about the wiki.
And on the wiki I found your profile, so now I am following you! Therefore let's use this thread to find out who people are - here I am, still mygothlaundry.
posted by mygothlaundry at 10:42 AM on February 24, 2012
And on the wiki I found your profile, so now I am following you! Therefore let's use this thread to find out who people are - here I am, still mygothlaundry.
posted by mygothlaundry at 10:42 AM on February 24, 2012
I was kind of hoping that your user name was actually "still mygothlaundry" which is even better than the original even though it does reminds me of this guy who had a Dead Can Dance themed radio show with my freshman year roommate.
Thisismyjam looks great and I'm mikemcnamara over there. Or at least I will be when they verify my account.
posted by MCMikeNamara at 10:51 AM on February 24, 2012
Thisismyjam looks great and I'm mikemcnamara over there. Or at least I will be when they verify my account.
posted by MCMikeNamara at 10:51 AM on February 24, 2012
On the topic of SocialStuffs, Pinterest is public now, right?
posted by mkb at 10:57 AM on February 24, 2012
posted by mkb at 10:57 AM on February 24, 2012
Is there really no volume control on that Thisismyjam site? Or am I just missing it?
posted by inigo2 at 11:02 AM on February 24, 2012 [1 favorite]
posted by inigo2 at 11:02 AM on February 24, 2012 [1 favorite]
Woot! In before all the good names are claimed. I'm yeti, or Yeti, or something. No confirmation email yet.
posted by filthy light thief at 11:06 AM on February 24, 2012
posted by filthy light thief at 11:06 AM on February 24, 2012
mkb, if I go to Pinterest I see "Request an Invite". Maybe that's just clever marketing at this point?
posted by pb (staff) at 11:06 AM on February 24, 2012
posted by pb (staff) at 11:06 AM on February 24, 2012
Wow, I have no heard the word "NYNEX" in god-knows-how-long. Of all the things to trigger nostalgia.
posted by griphus at 11:07 AM on February 24, 2012 [2 favorites]
posted by griphus at 11:07 AM on February 24, 2012 [2 favorites]
I'm a fan of TIMJ... it's like the twitter of streaming music sites (but better than that sounds, really.) I'm naxuu.
posted by naju at 11:10 AM on February 24, 2012
posted by naju at 11:10 AM on February 24, 2012
Oh, maybe I just assumed because everyone in my social circle has gotten an invite. Never mind!
posted by mkb at 11:16 AM on February 24, 2012
posted by mkb at 11:16 AM on February 24, 2012
okay I have no idea if I will continue to use this, but I just signed up.
posted by juv3nal at 11:22 AM on February 24, 2012
posted by juv3nal at 11:22 AM on February 24, 2012
ok, I just added it to the list. (Even though that undermines the whole system!) So you can add it to your profile now and then watch this space.
posted by pb (staff) at 11:28 AM on February 24, 2012 [2 favorites]
posted by pb (staff) at 11:28 AM on February 24, 2012 [2 favorites]
I'm phirephoenix, as usual. Please don't judge my taste in music.
posted by Phire at 11:29 AM on February 24, 2012
posted by Phire at 11:29 AM on February 24, 2012
Sweet! Thanks, pb.
posted by mygothlaundry at 11:33 AM on February 24, 2012
posted by mygothlaundry at 11:33 AM on February 24, 2012
This is me. Warning: I like pop music.
posted by Rock Steady at 11:41 AM on February 24, 2012 [1 favorite]
posted by Rock Steady at 11:41 AM on February 24, 2012 [1 favorite]
I'm metroidbaby. If you don't like my lyrics you can press fast forward.
posted by Metroid Baby at 11:44 AM on February 24, 2012 [4 favorites]
posted by Metroid Baby at 11:44 AM on February 24, 2012 [4 favorites]
I guess I should warn that I like beepy bloopy music.
posted by aubilenon at 11:44 AM on February 24, 2012
posted by aubilenon at 11:44 AM on February 24, 2012
Even though that undermines the whole system!
This is what happens when we let pb run amok in MeTa unsupervised!
I am jessamyn, as per usual.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 11:50 AM on February 24, 2012
This is what happens when we let pb run amok in MeTa unsupervised!
I am jessamyn, as per usual.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 11:50 AM on February 24, 2012
I just signed up, my profile has the link.
posted by Navelgazer at 11:50 AM on February 24, 2012
posted by Navelgazer at 11:50 AM on February 24, 2012
this reminds me of blip.fm but hopefully better and longer lived. as with almost all of my accounts throughout the web, i am ifjuly, same as in town. should warn i like shoegaze/noisepop, girlysounds, and maudlin shit, and am almost always 10+ years behind pop culture.
posted by ifjuly at 11:53 AM on February 24, 2012
posted by ifjuly at 11:53 AM on February 24, 2012
(also, to be creepy/stalker-y, signaling koeselitz, please come to the thread and divulge your account name koeselitz...)
posted by ifjuly at 11:54 AM on February 24, 2012
posted by ifjuly at 11:54 AM on February 24, 2012
oh, and i should've also warned that much like the scattered remains strewn through the web of other ifjuly accounts, mine may get abandoned almost immediately. it's like slipdresses; i try 'em on and then fling them off and wander away absentmindedly like the flake i am...
posted by ifjuly at 11:56 AM on February 24, 2012
posted by ifjuly at 11:56 AM on February 24, 2012
It's official, I'm yeti. I like the once-per-week thing, though it appears I'm fighting the interface by using Firefox + NoScript + Flashblock. I can preview YouTube songs, but once posted, I can't get it to play.
posted by filthy light thief at 12:04 PM on February 24, 2012
posted by filthy light thief at 12:04 PM on February 24, 2012
And I'll probably change my background image for a while until I find a pattern I like.
posted by filthy light thief at 12:07 PM on February 24, 2012
posted by filthy light thief at 12:07 PM on February 24, 2012
What a cool site. I'm off to sign up as . . . wait for it . . bearwife!
posted by bearwife at 12:07 PM on February 24, 2012
posted by bearwife at 12:07 PM on February 24, 2012
Sorry, I should have checked the wiki first.
Checking the wiki first is my new jam.
posted by Horace Rumpole at 12:24 PM on February 24, 2012
Checking the wiki first is my new jam.
posted by Horace Rumpole at 12:24 PM on February 24, 2012
Christ. How many services do I have to belong to to keep up with you people?
What if all my jams are old jams. What then, huh? *sigh* devilsrancher. I always feel obligated to grubstake my username space with all this stuff, you know, to keep away the hordes of imitators.
posted by Devils Rancher at 12:25 PM on February 24, 2012
What if all my jams are old jams. What then, huh? *sigh* devilsrancher. I always feel obligated to grubstake my username space with all this stuff, you know, to keep away the hordes of imitators.
posted by Devils Rancher at 12:25 PM on February 24, 2012
Oh hey, this is a pretty nice site. I've signed up as Kattullus.
posted by Kattullus at 12:34 PM on February 24, 2012
posted by Kattullus at 12:34 PM on February 24, 2012
I'm not sure how I feel about old jams simply being text. I take time to add a short comment, and *poof* it's gone when the next jam is posted (or am I missing some archival feature/area?)
posted by filthy light thief at 12:36 PM on February 24, 2012
posted by filthy light thief at 12:36 PM on February 24, 2012
I am there, but cautious of this crazy new thing.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 12:49 PM on February 24, 2012
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 12:49 PM on February 24, 2012
i see it is! but it stopped syndicating info to other feeds of mine so i guess i just was too lazy to fix it/see what was up.
what if my jam is kick out the jams?
posted by ifjuly at 12:49 PM on February 24, 2012
what if my jam is kick out the jams?
posted by ifjuly at 12:49 PM on February 24, 2012
Like Devils Rancher, I signed up to claim my username before anyone else got it. Not that that is likely to happen, but one never knows.
I've been trying to post mostly local (Alabama) music, with an emphasis on unsigned or overlooked indie music like Thomas Function, Fistful of Beard, and Baak Gwai. But sometimes I just post stuff I like, like John Prine or Jim White.
I kinda hate that there's no way to scroll back through older jams.
Here I am.
posted by BitterOldPunk at 12:49 PM on February 24, 2012
I've been trying to post mostly local (Alabama) music, with an emphasis on unsigned or overlooked indie music like Thomas Function, Fistful of Beard, and Baak Gwai. But sometimes I just post stuff I like, like John Prine or Jim White.
I kinda hate that there's no way to scroll back through older jams.
Here I am.
posted by BitterOldPunk at 12:49 PM on February 24, 2012
Oh cool, it connects with last.fm!
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 12:52 PM on February 24, 2012
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 12:52 PM on February 24, 2012
There's something kind of neat and ephemeral about only being able to see the comments/stats on the current jam, and the site only displaying the past 5 jams that you've actually posted.
That said, speaking as someone who navelgazes way too much, I too am upset that there's no archival function. I wonder if it has to do with plausible defenses with regards to copyright?
posted by Phire at 1:11 PM on February 24, 2012
That said, speaking as someone who navelgazes way too much, I too am upset that there's no archival function. I wonder if it has to do with plausible defenses with regards to copyright?
posted by Phire at 1:11 PM on February 24, 2012
Oh, who am I kidding? Evangelizing music is probably me second-favorite pastime after refreshing Recent Activity. This is cool.
posted by Devils Rancher at 1:21 PM on February 24, 2012 [1 favorite]
posted by Devils Rancher at 1:21 PM on February 24, 2012 [1 favorite]
Sincere question: what do people use it for? Do you think "Oh, Person I Like thinks this music is good, maybe I will like it too" and click on it? I understand this as much as I understand Foursquare, which is to say not at all.
posted by desjardins at 1:24 PM on February 24, 2012
posted by desjardins at 1:24 PM on February 24, 2012
Phire, it looks to me like youtube is the one who would really have to worry about any copyright issues here. I'm guessing that bandwidth issues are more front-and-center for them right now.
posted by Navelgazer at 1:25 PM on February 24, 2012
posted by Navelgazer at 1:25 PM on February 24, 2012
I'm immlass, as always.
Sincere question: what do people use it for?
On the front page, you can listen to everyone else's jams (that you follow) in a stream, which is a nice way of finding new stuff.
posted by immlass at 1:26 PM on February 24, 2012 [1 favorite]
Sincere question: what do people use it for?
On the front page, you can listen to everyone else's jams (that you follow) in a stream, which is a nice way of finding new stuff.
posted by immlass at 1:26 PM on February 24, 2012 [1 favorite]
Do you think "Oh, Person I Like thinks this music is good, maybe I will like it too" and click on it?
Yeah, pretty much. I've been using it for about a month and a half and that's more or less what I do. Well, that and when I get the email prompt that my weekly jam is expiring I go scrambling around to track down a copy of whatever song has been pinging around in my head most insistently over the last few hours/days/weeks and then I post it. I also like the homepage where you can just listen to everyone's jams one after another - then it's background music with surprises, stuff I would never, ever have listened to by myself. pbs jam * is actually a good example - the first time I clicked on it I was like Gah! Electronica! Kill it! but then it came up again when I was listening to everyones in a row and before I realized what I was listening to I was enjoying it. So that's a new thing for me, which is good, because I think sometimes I need to step out of my indie/roots/postpunk/folk or whatever you would call whatever I usually listen to groove.
* which I see came from this FPP which I would never, ever have clicked on because, well, electronica! Gah!
posted by mygothlaundry at 1:36 PM on February 24, 2012
Yeah, pretty much. I've been using it for about a month and a half and that's more or less what I do. Well, that and when I get the email prompt that my weekly jam is expiring I go scrambling around to track down a copy of whatever song has been pinging around in my head most insistently over the last few hours/days/weeks and then I post it. I also like the homepage where you can just listen to everyone's jams one after another - then it's background music with surprises, stuff I would never, ever have listened to by myself. pbs jam * is actually a good example - the first time I clicked on it I was like Gah! Electronica! Kill it! but then it came up again when I was listening to everyones in a row and before I realized what I was listening to I was enjoying it. So that's a new thing for me, which is good, because I think sometimes I need to step out of my indie/roots/postpunk/folk or whatever you would call whatever I usually listen to groove.
* which I see came from this FPP which I would never, ever have clicked on because, well, electronica! Gah!
posted by mygothlaundry at 1:36 PM on February 24, 2012
Signing up for this is a no-brainer for me, since I'm That Annoying Guy who won't shut up about his current favourite song. I'm here.
posted by vanar sena at 1:38 PM on February 24, 2012
posted by vanar sena at 1:38 PM on February 24, 2012
Now how the hell did I screw up that link... here.
posted by vanar sena at 1:39 PM on February 24, 2012
posted by vanar sena at 1:39 PM on February 24, 2012
Same name you've come to know and love. Can't promise I'll always live up (or down) to it, musically speaking.
posted by obscurator at 1:54 PM on February 24, 2012
posted by obscurator at 1:54 PM on February 24, 2012
Aww, cortex began his channel with my favorite song of the past decade.
posted by Navelgazer at 2:02 PM on February 24, 2012
posted by Navelgazer at 2:02 PM on February 24, 2012
Is the trick to sign up with twitter or fb? I used two different browsers and email addresses and I'm still accountless. Maybe it just isn't ready for the funk.
posted by cashman at 2:08 PM on February 24, 2012
posted by cashman at 2:08 PM on February 24, 2012
My registration e-mail ended up in my spam folder, check there cashman.
posted by Kattullus at 2:10 PM on February 24, 2012
posted by Kattullus at 2:10 PM on February 24, 2012
Yeah mine went straight there too. Sort of weird because that never happens.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 2:11 PM on February 24, 2012
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 2:11 PM on February 24, 2012
Yeah, ditto. Either thisismyjam got unlucky or they did something stupid at some point with their emailin' habits. I can see how a rush of beta excitement could turn a well-meaning service into an apparent spammer in Google's cold electronic eyes.
posted by cortex (staff) at 2:13 PM on February 24, 2012
posted by cortex (staff) at 2:13 PM on February 24, 2012
Mine too.
posted by Navelgazer at 2:13 PM on February 24, 2012
posted by Navelgazer at 2:13 PM on February 24, 2012
Not just google, all their emails are pinging thunderbird's scam alert something fierce too. Oddly enough, spamassassin is totally fine with them.
posted by vanar sena at 2:20 PM on February 24, 2012
posted by vanar sena at 2:20 PM on February 24, 2012
I'm joethedough - as is the case most everywhere. Except here. No you shut up.
posted by Jofus at 2:32 PM on February 24, 2012 [1 favorite]
posted by Jofus at 2:32 PM on February 24, 2012 [1 favorite]
Titivillus. Assume disclaimer about my lack of good taste.
posted by frimble at 2:41 PM on February 24, 2012
posted by frimble at 2:41 PM on February 24, 2012
Weird, it must be something recent they've done. All their emails are now going to spam for me whereas when I signed up the verification email came through just fine, and I definitely recall seeing their "update your jam!" emails in my inbox a few times.
posted by Phire at 2:49 PM on February 24, 2012
posted by Phire at 2:49 PM on February 24, 2012
I'm grumperella. My jams will have fiddles.
posted by runningwithscissors at 2:56 PM on February 24, 2012
posted by runningwithscissors at 2:56 PM on February 24, 2012
scarykarrey, where are you? I know we like similar music!
posted by runningwithscissors at 3:10 PM on February 24, 2012
posted by runningwithscissors at 3:10 PM on February 24, 2012
I'm there as ufez. It's a mixed bag. Your mileage may vary, wildly.
posted by Ufez Jones at 4:19 PM on February 24, 2012
posted by Ufez Jones at 4:19 PM on February 24, 2012
Okidokie, likeso is in. Also with fiddles!
posted by likeso at 4:29 PM on February 24, 2012 [1 favorite]
posted by likeso at 4:29 PM on February 24, 2012 [1 favorite]
I'm philipy.
Knowing me, I'll check out everyone's tastes for a while and then I'll forget to visit again.
posted by philipy at 4:44 PM on February 24, 2012
Knowing me, I'll check out everyone's tastes for a while and then I'll forget to visit again.
posted by philipy at 4:44 PM on February 24, 2012
I can already tell this is going to be awesome. I love last.fm, but given peoples' varied tastes over time and all the info, it's hard to use to discover new music from people you know because it's sort of TMI. (But it's great when you find someone who has great taste in music that you've never heard before...I discovered a lot of new music years ago via mefite/mechatter matildaben.)
Anyway, some things about TIMJ that I just discovered....
• If you are listening to a playlist of all those you follow and want to like/comment, it will seamlessly go to that user's page, where you can comment. And then after that track finishes playing, it will continue with the playlist. Which is confusing...except that, amazingly, if you use your browser's back button (at least on Chrome), it seamlessly goes back to the playlist with no interruption at all in the music. Weird.
• There is apparently no volume control. Which is bad.
• If you've linked to Last.FM, then it scrobbles what you're listening to.
The very first thing I heard on the playlist, likeso’s "Mieleni Alenevi" by Värttinä, impressed me so much that I immediately made and added it to a text file in which I can note artists that I want to learn more about.
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich at 5:10 PM on February 24, 2012
Anyway, some things about TIMJ that I just discovered....
• If you are listening to a playlist of all those you follow and want to like/comment, it will seamlessly go to that user's page, where you can comment. And then after that track finishes playing, it will continue with the playlist. Which is confusing...except that, amazingly, if you use your browser's back button (at least on Chrome), it seamlessly goes back to the playlist with no interruption at all in the music. Weird.
• There is apparently no volume control. Which is bad.
• If you've linked to Last.FM, then it scrobbles what you're listening to.
The very first thing I heard on the playlist, likeso’s "Mieleni Alenevi" by Värttinä, impressed me so much that I immediately made and added it to a text file in which I can note artists that I want to learn more about.
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich at 5:10 PM on February 24, 2012
Well. The iPad interface needs work... I managed to follow most folks, post my jam, screw up my comments, then just wanted to listen to everybody's jams - and Safari keeps crashing. So now *I* will, and try again tomorrow on the laptop.
(Ivan liked my jam! Ayup!)
posted by likeso at 5:43 PM on February 24, 2012
(Ivan liked my jam! Ayup!)
posted by likeso at 5:43 PM on February 24, 2012
There should be an App Store app for it. I'm assuming there's not? (Apparently you can't search the App Store via the web, which is stupid. I'm not going to go get my iPod Touch just to check. Or fire up iTunes because I Freaking Hate iTunes. Besides which, I run iTunes on a dedicated virtual machine which I only run when I need to do maintenance of my collection.)
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich at 5:54 PM on February 24, 2012
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich at 5:54 PM on February 24, 2012
If there was an App it would be prominently featured on their home page.
Otherwise, just do a Google search for " App".
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 5:59 PM on February 24, 2012
Otherwise, just do a Google search for "
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 5:59 PM on February 24, 2012
This seems simple and neat. I'm gnfti.
Also, I'd like to receive an email when the space station passes overhead.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 6:03 PM on February 24, 2012 [1 favorite]
Also, I'd like to receive an email when the space station passes overhead.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 6:03 PM on February 24, 2012 [1 favorite]
"Otherwise, just do a Google search for ' App'."
I don't know what I'd do without nuggets of wisdom like this. Thanks MeFi!
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich at 6:05 PM on February 24, 2012
I don't know what I'd do without nuggets of wisdom like this. Thanks MeFi!
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich at 6:05 PM on February 24, 2012
"Also, I'd like to receive an email when the space station passes overhead."
Twisst - tweeting ISS passes near youposted by Ivan Fyodorovich at 6:08 PM on February 24, 2012 [4 favorites]
Seeing the International Space Station fly over your head is a magical experience.
It crosses your sky often, but if you want to see it, you'll need to know when exactly to look up.
Twisst sends you an alert on Twitter when you will be able to see ISS. Twisst uses the location you entered in your Twitter bio.
I don't know what I'd do without nuggets of wisdom like this.
My bad, I used arrows instead of brackets or parentheses , so Mefi thought it was code and stripped it out.
It should read "otherwise, just do a Google search for "(Name of what you're looking for) App"."
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 6:13 PM on February 24, 2012
My bad, I used arrows instead of brackets or parentheses , so Mefi thought it was code and stripped it out.
It should read "otherwise, just do a Google search for "(Name of what you're looking for) App"."
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 6:13 PM on February 24, 2012
There are just way to many identities for this old fart to keep with these days.
posted by jonmc at 6:16 PM on February 24, 2012
posted by jonmc at 6:16 PM on February 24, 2012
Brandon: Yeah, I guessed that. Really, do you think anyone reading this thread, including me, needs to be told that "x App" would be how to use Google to search for an app store app?
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich at 6:19 PM on February 24, 2012
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich at 6:19 PM on February 24, 2012
Ivan Fyodorovich: " Apparently you can't search the App Store via the web, which is stupid."
There is iTunes Preview.
And if you don't like that interface or need to search you can use AppShopper. It catalogs every app.
posted by IndigoRain at 6:24 PM on February 24, 2012
There is iTunes Preview.
And if you don't like that interface or need to search you can use AppShopper. It catalogs every app.
posted by IndigoRain at 6:24 PM on February 24, 2012
I'll be posting some combination of old school rave music, dubstep, post-rock and indie-dance, probably.
posted by empath at 6:25 PM on February 24, 2012
posted by empath at 6:25 PM on February 24, 2012
Brandon: Yeah, I guessed that. Really, do you think anyone reading this thread, including me, needs to be told that "x App" would be how to use Google to search for an app store app?
Probably, yeah. Not because they're stupid or ignorant, but I've noticed over the years that perfectly smart people sometimes don't think of the obvious, including Google search terms. Never hurts to mention.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 6:29 PM on February 24, 2012 [2 favorites]
Probably, yeah. Not because they're stupid or ignorant, but I've noticed over the years that perfectly smart people sometimes don't think of the obvious, including Google search terms. Never hurts to mention.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 6:29 PM on February 24, 2012 [2 favorites]
Classical, early jazz, opera, klezmer, folk songs, and such - here.
posted by notquitemaryann at 6:29 PM on February 24, 2012
posted by notquitemaryann at 6:29 PM on February 24, 2012
Thanks, IndigoRain, AppShopper is helpful.
"Never hurts to mention."
Fair enough.
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich at 6:37 PM on February 24, 2012 [1 favorite]
"Never hurts to mention."
Fair enough.
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich at 6:37 PM on February 24, 2012 [1 favorite]
Also, thanks mygothlaundry for bringing this to my attention!
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 6:37 PM on February 24, 2012 [2 favorites]
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 6:37 PM on February 24, 2012 [2 favorites]
My stuff is going to probably be mostly new wave from either the first time around (late '70s/'80s) or the modern stuff influenced by it, with some '90s nostalgia sure to pke in there as well. I love this new toy, and am already being probably a bit too hyperactive with it, but whatever.
I mentioned my channel above, but since I added a step in the process to get to it for no good reason, it's here.
posted by Navelgazer at 6:50 PM on February 24, 2012
I mentioned my channel above, but since I added a step in the process to get to it for no good reason, it's here.
posted by Navelgazer at 6:50 PM on February 24, 2012
I've on the seventeenth "jam" in the (dynamic) playlist of all the people I'm following. (Which are exclusively those linked in this thread.) There's been seven new people I've begun following since I started the playlist, and they were added to the top of my playlist, which is weird. And my own jam begins the playlist, too.
I've "liked" ten of those seventeen, commented on five or six, and so far there's been two new artists that made such an impression on me that I've noted them and, in one case (Emika) , already gotten the album. That's pretty good. And it's not that I'm easy to please—it's that mefites have pretty great taste in music. Or at least those moved to read/contribute to this thread and join TIMJ.
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich at 6:57 PM on February 24, 2012
I've "liked" ten of those seventeen, commented on five or six, and so far there's been two new artists that made such an impression on me that I've noted them and, in one case (Emika) , already gotten the album. That's pretty good. And it's not that I'm easy to please—it's that mefites have pretty great taste in music. Or at least those moved to read/contribute to this thread and join TIMJ.
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich at 6:57 PM on February 24, 2012
Ivan: the playlist order is determined by whatever account was updated most recently (so, for instance, if you're getting me near the top of your list, it's because I recently changed my jam.)
posted by Navelgazer at 7:00 PM on February 24, 2012 [1 favorite]
posted by Navelgazer at 7:00 PM on February 24, 2012 [1 favorite]
Just when I needed to shake up my playlists I get this - thanks, nstoff over there for the inquisitive types.
posted by N-stoff at 7:31 PM on February 24, 2012
posted by N-stoff at 7:31 PM on February 24, 2012
Wait, wait, wait! Is this an opportunity to share my dubious amazing taste in music? Why, yes, it is.
Shock of shocks, I am hoyland. God knows how long it'll last until the novelty wears off.
posted by hoyland at 7:45 PM on February 24, 2012
Shock of shocks, I am hoyland. God knows how long it'll last until the novelty wears off.
posted by hoyland at 7:45 PM on February 24, 2012
Yeah, I bought that Atomic Fireballs album Brandon Blatcher jammed a cut from and I'm also considering the Emika myself. Fantastic and dangerous.
posted by immlass at 7:51 PM on February 24, 2012 [1 favorite]
posted by immlass at 7:51 PM on February 24, 2012 [1 favorite]
"...the playlist order is determined by whatever account was updated most recently"
Huh, that's very useful because this way you can listen to the playlist at any time and then stop when you get to the stuff you've already heard.
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich at 8:01 PM on February 24, 2012
Huh, that's very useful because this way you can listen to the playlist at any time and then stop when you get to the stuff you've already heard.
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich at 8:01 PM on February 24, 2012
I also like the homepage where you can just listen to everyone's jams one after another
Aha! That's what I'd been missing about this. Before I was all, who wants to listen to one random song at a time? Not this lady.
But now I'm grapesaresour. And I've already found a song I really like that I'd never heard before! Thanks, Navelgazer!
posted by grapesaresour at 8:13 PM on February 24, 2012
Aha! That's what I'd been missing about this. Before I was all, who wants to listen to one random song at a time? Not this lady.
But now I'm grapesaresour. And I've already found a song I really like that I'd never heard before! Thanks, Navelgazer!
posted by grapesaresour at 8:13 PM on February 24, 2012
No problem! I love that one!
posted by Navelgazer at 8:15 PM on February 24, 2012
posted by Navelgazer at 8:15 PM on February 24, 2012
In case anyone was looking for an interesting tiling image for their background, I just found DinPattern, which have some lurvly images, like my current pick, renzler. Instead of downloading the ZIP, you can simply save the background image in the preview mode, and viola, a nice tiling background. I tried to find wide, interesting images by using Google image search for 1400 wallpaper and other 1400+[term] searches, but the weird layout of clear background above a semitransparent portion was hard to take into consideration.
posted by filthy light thief at 9:29 PM on February 24, 2012
posted by filthy light thief at 9:29 PM on February 24, 2012
Ivan Fyodorovich: I've "liked" ten of those seventeen, commented on five or six, and so far there's been two new artists that made such an impression on me that I've noted them and, in one case (Emika) , already gotten the album.
Ooh, ooh, Emika was mine! Srsly, sooo goood. /NinjaTuneFanboy
And I'm going through this thread, adding EVERYONE. I'm the TehLoki of TIMJ ;)
But like the real Loki, I am capricious, and if your music selections displease me, I will un-follow you like *that*
And then I will re-follow you, because I really want to hear something different, and your past pick can only last for 7 days. You can't have a completely awful taste in music, can you? ;)
I think I should go to bed. That's two frickin' emoticons in one rambly comment. Welp, that's enough internet for me today.
posted by filthy light thief at 9:38 PM on February 24, 2012
Ooh, ooh, Emika was mine! Srsly, sooo goood. /NinjaTuneFanboy
And I'm going through this thread, adding EVERYONE. I'm the TehLoki of TIMJ ;)
But like the real Loki, I am capricious, and if your music selections displease me, I will un-follow you like *that*
And then I will re-follow you, because I really want to hear something different, and your past pick can only last for 7 days. You can't have a completely awful taste in music, can you? ;)
I think I should go to bed. That's two frickin' emoticons in one rambly comment. Welp, that's enough internet for me today.
posted by filthy light thief at 9:38 PM on February 24, 2012
filthy light thief, as I said before, I'm hyperactive like crazy on this. If you don't like what I'm playing, wait an hour or two.
posted by Navelgazer at 9:41 PM on February 24, 2012
posted by Navelgazer at 9:41 PM on February 24, 2012
"I'm hyperactive like crazy on this. If you don't like what I'm playing, wait an hour or two."
After about twenty minutes from when I joined, I changed my initial jam to a different track by the same artist. Not entirely sure why. Liked the other track better. But I've had to resist changing it since then.
I've now listened to every single jam added by everyone here as of this moment. Everyone should have at least one play.
Anyway, I just now changed mine to something quite different from the first track. But I think I'll try to wait until at least tomorrow to change it again.
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich at 9:47 PM on February 24, 2012
After about twenty minutes from when I joined, I changed my initial jam to a different track by the same artist. Not entirely sure why. Liked the other track better. But I've had to resist changing it since then.
I've now listened to every single jam added by everyone here as of this moment. Everyone should have at least one play.
Anyway, I just now changed mine to something quite different from the first track. But I think I'll try to wait until at least tomorrow to change it again.
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich at 9:47 PM on February 24, 2012
After about twenty minutes from when I joined, I changed my initial jam to a different track by the same artist. Not entirely sure why. Liked the other track better. But I've had to resist changing it since then.
Yeah, tomorrow I'm going to try playing the world's slowest DJ and change it up every two hours. Dunno how this site is going to play yet, but I might as well do my part to make it dynamic.
posted by Navelgazer at 11:00 PM on February 24, 2012
Yeah, tomorrow I'm going to try playing the world's slowest DJ and change it up every two hours. Dunno how this site is going to play yet, but I might as well do my part to make it dynamic.
posted by Navelgazer at 11:00 PM on February 24, 2012
Ok. I bitterly, bitterly hate the phrase 'this is my jam'.
It's the worst kind of shallow marketing devised cocaine-fuelled 'hey let's take another shit on music culture' bullshit I've ever seen and it makes me want to heave until I actually puke up my own guts and die. I hate the phrase that much.
This is basically why I have not yet joined. Even as more and more of my friends do, and - largely - post good music, I am left so utterly cold by the 'this is my jam' phrase that instead I simply pretend I haven't seen the post. This is getting harder and harder - I've been doing this for a while, more and more frequently as the site grows - and I'm dimly aware that I've been pretending not to see a lot of posts about a lot of good music.
Just to be absolutely clear, in case you haven't followed me, I'm not talking about a mild distaste here, I'm talking about the kind of fiery loathing fuelled by the burning heat of a thousand suns.
Reading this thread, more annoyingly than you can possibly imagine, I now actually sort-of almost want to join, but really I still don't know if I can bring myself to do so.
I hate the phrase 'this is my jam' that much.
Don't bother telling me to get over myself - I know, and thanks, but no thanks - but I'm just wondering: is there anyone else in the same position who has found a way of mentally sidestepping their own hatred for the unforgivably horrible text going on here and actually joining this site?
I'd like to know how you did it.
posted by motty at 12:02 AM on February 25, 2012 [2 favorites]
It's the worst kind of shallow marketing devised cocaine-fuelled 'hey let's take another shit on music culture' bullshit I've ever seen and it makes me want to heave until I actually puke up my own guts and die. I hate the phrase that much.
This is basically why I have not yet joined. Even as more and more of my friends do, and - largely - post good music, I am left so utterly cold by the 'this is my jam' phrase that instead I simply pretend I haven't seen the post. This is getting harder and harder - I've been doing this for a while, more and more frequently as the site grows - and I'm dimly aware that I've been pretending not to see a lot of posts about a lot of good music.
Just to be absolutely clear, in case you haven't followed me, I'm not talking about a mild distaste here, I'm talking about the kind of fiery loathing fuelled by the burning heat of a thousand suns.
Reading this thread, more annoyingly than you can possibly imagine, I now actually sort-of almost want to join, but really I still don't know if I can bring myself to do so.
I hate the phrase 'this is my jam' that much.
Don't bother telling me to get over myself - I know, and thanks, but no thanks - but I'm just wondering: is there anyone else in the same position who has found a way of mentally sidestepping their own hatred for the unforgivably horrible text going on here and actually joining this site?
I'd like to know how you did it.
posted by motty at 12:02 AM on February 25, 2012 [2 favorites]
motty: Yeah, it's a terrible name. I just sucked it up and joined and I actually really like it.
And then ... I do quite like all their toast based imagery.
posted by aubilenon at 12:30 AM on February 25, 2012 [1 favorite]
And then ... I do quite like all their toast based imagery.
posted by aubilenon at 12:30 AM on February 25, 2012 [1 favorite]
motty: "I'd like to know how you did it."
Well it's just jam, you know? Not even the real thing, which can be cloying and sticky. It's just the word "jam", three letters that quite likely have a completely different meaning in a language you don't understand.
Perhaps this might help, for example, to squint just a little and consider it a synonym for "bung" the way aussies use it ("jam it in" becomes "bung it in" and so on). That way the site becomes "this is my bung."
You lot post good music, btw. I think I've listened to everything at least twice.
posted by vanar sena at 4:17 AM on February 25, 2012
Well it's just jam, you know? Not even the real thing, which can be cloying and sticky. It's just the word "jam", three letters that quite likely have a completely different meaning in a language you don't understand.
Perhaps this might help, for example, to squint just a little and consider it a synonym for "bung" the way aussies use it ("jam it in" becomes "bung it in" and so on). That way the site becomes "this is my bung."
You lot post good music, btw. I think I've listened to everything at least twice.
posted by vanar sena at 4:17 AM on February 25, 2012
I do have the same general problem as motty. I was in a cover band too long and got approached by way to meant drunks asking us "hey, are y'all gonna jam out tonight?" Couple that with dumb questions about out "axes" -- ugh. "Yeah! We're gonna jam out on our axes! I'm going to plug my lead axe into my lead brain and jam out!" has become a long- running joke.
A freind posted a tweet the other day that was basically "Boiled fruit with sugar and pectin is my new jam" which kinda sarcastically summed it up for me. The name of the site sticks in my craw too, but it looks like a cool enough idea that I'm trying to look past that. No way in hell I'm earnestly twitting from that, though.
posted by Devils Rancher at 6:23 AM on February 25, 2012
A freind posted a tweet the other day that was basically "Boiled fruit with sugar and pectin is my new jam" which kinda sarcastically summed it up for me. The name of the site sticks in my craw too, but it looks like a cool enough idea that I'm trying to look past that. No way in hell I'm earnestly twitting from that, though.
posted by Devils Rancher at 6:23 AM on February 25, 2012
motty, I think the name is dumb and built-for-auto-tweeting in a sort of bleh way, but I don't have the visceral reaction you do apparently. So the comparison may not be usefully similar. But for me it went about like this:
"What the hell kind of name is "thisismyjam" and why are you robotweeting that shit, I hate it when people oh this is a really good song, ooooh"
The best band with the worst band name is better than a shitty band with a clever name. So it goes for enjoyable music experiences in general. Maybe get yourself a greasemonkey script that changes "this is my jam" and "thisismyjam" to "corporate branding chafes" wherever it appears on the page.
posted by cortex (staff) at 7:58 AM on February 25, 2012 [3 favorites]
"What the hell kind of name is "thisismyjam" and why are you robotweeting that shit, I hate it when people oh this is a really good song, ooooh"
The best band with the worst band name is better than a shitty band with a clever name. So it goes for enjoyable music experiences in general. Maybe get yourself a greasemonkey script that changes "this is my jam" and "thisismyjam" to "corporate branding chafes" wherever it appears on the page.
posted by cortex (staff) at 7:58 AM on February 25, 2012 [3 favorites]
I hate the phrase 'this is my jam' that much.
It makes me nostalgic. I worked with a really young queen of the dance/funk scene who used this phrase with such vehemence. She was a force of nature and I liked the window in to club life. Tunes I would never have had a reason to listen to, she would play repeatedly and they suited the work (a database conversion that had us working odd hours).
So I chose my first tune in honor of LaRhonda - THIS IS MA' JAM!!!!!!
It is hard to deny that kind of love.
posted by readery at 8:06 AM on February 25, 2012
It makes me nostalgic. I worked with a really young queen of the dance/funk scene who used this phrase with such vehemence. She was a force of nature and I liked the window in to club life. Tunes I would never have had a reason to listen to, she would play repeatedly and they suited the work (a database conversion that had us working odd hours).
So I chose my first tune in honor of LaRhonda - THIS IS MA' JAM!!!!!!
It is hard to deny that kind of love.
posted by readery at 8:06 AM on February 25, 2012
Yeah, it bugs me too. What about peanut butter, why does everyone ignore that?
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 8:11 AM on February 25, 2012
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 8:11 AM on February 25, 2012
I'm epiphyte. This is a great idea... so great that I had a very similar idea many years ago when it just wasn't feasible to build something so easy to use. Would have needed some kind of client application that transferred music via P2P, so I gave up on the idea since I figured that would vastly reduce the utility. Not to mention there didn't seem a way to do it legally back then. Hooray for progress!
posted by Emanuel at 8:18 AM on February 25, 2012
posted by Emanuel at 8:18 AM on February 25, 2012
l love this site so much. i am tangentially involved in it (enough to feel word about hyping it here) but even without that i'd still be on TIMJ almost all day. it really speaks to a certain kind of music fan, and the people that make it are all that kind. anyway I am bwhitman on there, and re: the name, I will note that no one hated it back in 2008 (!) and i promise no one involved is interested in corporate branding chafing, cortex. all music dorks to the end.
posted by brianwhitman at 8:19 AM on February 25, 2012 [1 favorite]
posted by brianwhitman at 8:19 AM on February 25, 2012 [1 favorite]
I enjoyed it and then I listened to everyone's jams and now I am done until I get more friends or people upload more. I find it a little weird that it's a bit of a challenge to find the song you're listening to. Maybe I've been ruined by blogs but the top song on the page is the last one linked but it's also the one I heard already. So if I'm getting up and want to resume where I left off, I have to scroll around to figure out where that was. Is there a way to do this that I am just missing? Also I made this script but it doesn't work as well as I'd hoped.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 8:20 AM on February 25, 2012
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 8:20 AM on February 25, 2012
(word->weird)
posted by brianwhitman at 8:20 AM on February 25, 2012
posted by brianwhitman at 8:20 AM on February 25, 2012
jessamyn: the current playing song is highlighted in yellow background on the main page, also of course there should be a gray footer area on the bottom that shows the current playing song and a link to the detail page.
posted by brianwhitman at 8:22 AM on February 25, 2012
posted by brianwhitman at 8:22 AM on February 25, 2012
Yeah totally get that. It's weird getting used to a site that doesn't stop the music when you click around in it. Love that. Here is my nerdy use case. I was listening to, um, my jam last night. Closed down my computer. Turned it on this morning. Want to start listening where I stopped. If I just click play it starts at the top again and I have to remember where I left off. Or is there a way to do that that I am missing?
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 8:25 AM on February 25, 2012
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 8:25 AM on February 25, 2012
oh yeah, jessamyn, you can't do that (yet). please email feedback@thisismyjam.com with your suggestion!!
posted by brianwhitman at 8:27 AM on February 25, 2012
posted by brianwhitman at 8:27 AM on February 25, 2012
and i promise no one involved is interested in corporate branding chafing, cortex. all music dorks to the end.
Ha, I should have seen you lurking there. Yeah, I think it's one of those de gustibus things—there's nothing inherently wrong or skeezy with the name, it just has that feel for me (and apparently a much stronger sort of feel for some other folks). The line between clever and "slick" is grey and wobbly one, I guess. But the actual site sort of decides the question, and I've been enjoying wandering around it ala carte and am really liking having a big list of followed people even more.
The auto-tweeted thing is a bit of a button easily pressed for me, which isn't fair to the actual site in this case because it makes sense and has utility for thisismyjam in a way that a lot of autotweeted shit does not (I do not care that you checked in at a diner in a city two thousand miles away, I do not care that you got fifty gamer points from indieplumberfantasies.org, I really do not care that you retweeted to enter to win a fucking ipod).
So I find myself twitching at the robotic "this is my new jam" stuff popping up in my twitter stream, but it's more of annoyance-at-the-form coupled with a mitigating "ooh, something new to listen to" than an actual hate-on for the tweets themselves. I have complicated feelings about this, clearly.
But I wanted to name my first band Shatner and the other guys in the band vetoed that, so clearly I am frequently on the wrong side of naming instincts one way or the other.
posted by cortex (staff) at 8:35 AM on February 25, 2012
Ha, I should have seen you lurking there. Yeah, I think it's one of those de gustibus things—there's nothing inherently wrong or skeezy with the name, it just has that feel for me (and apparently a much stronger sort of feel for some other folks). The line between clever and "slick" is grey and wobbly one, I guess. But the actual site sort of decides the question, and I've been enjoying wandering around it ala carte and am really liking having a big list of followed people even more.
The auto-tweeted thing is a bit of a button easily pressed for me, which isn't fair to the actual site in this case because it makes sense and has utility for thisismyjam in a way that a lot of autotweeted shit does not (I do not care that you checked in at a diner in a city two thousand miles away, I do not care that you got fifty gamer points from indieplumberfantasies.org, I really do not care that you retweeted to enter to win a fucking ipod).
So I find myself twitching at the robotic "this is my new jam" stuff popping up in my twitter stream, but it's more of annoyance-at-the-form coupled with a mitigating "ooh, something new to listen to" than an actual hate-on for the tweets themselves. I have complicated feelings about this, clearly.
But I wanted to name my first band Shatner and the other guys in the band vetoed that, so clearly I am frequently on the wrong side of naming instincts one way or the other.
posted by cortex (staff) at 8:35 AM on February 25, 2012
"If I just click play it starts at the top again and I have to remember where I left off. Or is there a way to do that that I am missing?"
It's a design decision. Note that when you say "starts at the top again", it's not actually starting at the top again. The list is dynamic, in reverse order of the time the user changed their jam. So, this way, if you do listen to the entire list, stuff that is new is at the top and you can listen from that point until you get to where you've already heard.
The alternative would both break that functionality and would violate the decision to place the emphasis on what a user's song-of-the-moment is, and not what it's historically been.
I guess they could allow you to take a snapshot of all the jams of those you follow at any given time, which you could save as a playlist for playing elsewhere, somehow. Or there, maybe. But I doubt that'd be a high priority thing for them, relative to other things like a volume control.
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich at 8:36 AM on February 25, 2012
It's a design decision. Note that when you say "starts at the top again", it's not actually starting at the top again. The list is dynamic, in reverse order of the time the user changed their jam. So, this way, if you do listen to the entire list, stuff that is new is at the top and you can listen from that point until you get to where you've already heard.
The alternative would both break that functionality and would violate the decision to place the emphasis on what a user's song-of-the-moment is, and not what it's historically been.
I guess they could allow you to take a snapshot of all the jams of those you follow at any given time, which you could save as a playlist for playing elsewhere, somehow. Or there, maybe. But I doubt that'd be a high priority thing for them, relative to other things like a volume control.
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich at 8:36 AM on February 25, 2012
I enjoyed it and then I listened to everyone's jams and now I am done until I get more friends or people upload more.
I find I'm torn between wanting to upload new stuff, and thinking that a lot of people probably still haven't listened to my current one yet, so I should wait.
(And another part of the brain thinks, "Hey I'm not one of the cool kids that knows all kinds of obscure music, so maybe they just don't *want* to listen to it anyway.")
Btw, if we're discussion possible features, a couple of things I'd like are:
- Play everything that I haven't already listened to
- Play everything again that I said I liked
posted by philipy at 8:39 AM on February 25, 2012 [1 favorite]
I find I'm torn between wanting to upload new stuff, and thinking that a lot of people probably still haven't listened to my current one yet, so I should wait.
(And another part of the brain thinks, "Hey I'm not one of the cool kids that knows all kinds of obscure music, so maybe they just don't *want* to listen to it anyway.")
Btw, if we're discussion possible features, a couple of things I'd like are:
- Play everything that I haven't already listened to
- Play everything again that I said I liked
posted by philipy at 8:39 AM on February 25, 2012 [1 favorite]
Okay, there's a permanent or at least longer-lived user/song-specific url available for a particular jam available on the user's jam page, via the "share --> share link" option.
Unfortunately, that's not available from the "Home" page, so you couldn't, for example, write a script to scrape all those links to some kind of a playlist.
However, I'm thinking you might pull YouTube links from the list page because the YT id is specified by "data-youtubeid=". Is there a YT API available? If so, then you could write a script to pull those IDs, then use the YT API to generate a YT playlist from them on a given YT user account. You could call it, say, TIMJ-{myusername}-FollowingList-{DateTime}. Or something. Of course, not everyone uses YT for their jams.
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich at 9:15 AM on February 25, 2012
Unfortunately, that's not available from the "Home" page, so you couldn't, for example, write a script to scrape all those links to some kind of a playlist.
However, I'm thinking you might pull YouTube links from the list page because the YT id is specified by "data-youtubeid=". Is there a YT API available? If so, then you could write a script to pull those IDs, then use the YT API to generate a YT playlist from them on a given YT user account. You could call it, say, TIMJ-{myusername}-FollowingList-{DateTime}. Or something. Of course, not everyone uses YT for their jams.
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich at 9:15 AM on February 25, 2012
I've never heard of this site before but I like it already. Here's me.
posted by aldurtregi at 9:22 AM on February 25, 2012
posted by aldurtregi at 9:22 AM on February 25, 2012
This is really, discovered a lot of new music. The only complaints are the lack of "buy" button and being hit or miss in finding some stuff.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 9:39 AM on February 25, 2012
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 9:39 AM on February 25, 2012
Great site. Discovered a ton of new, great stuff on here in the past few weeks. Here I am under another name.
posted by Rewind at 9:56 AM on February 25, 2012
posted by Rewind at 9:56 AM on February 25, 2012
that's not available from the "Home" page
It was there when I looked at the page source for my home page. And it turns out there is a YouTube API that can create playlists and so on.
Also if you have something you really want built, EuroBunny is asking people what they'd like right now, so could be open to suggestions.
posted by philipy at 10:05 AM on February 25, 2012
It was there when I looked at the page source for my home page. And it turns out there is a YouTube API that can create playlists and so on.
Also if you have something you really want built, EuroBunny is asking people what they'd like right now, so could be open to suggestions.
posted by philipy at 10:05 AM on February 25, 2012
philip-random is philiprandom
Not that keen on the name -- but I find it easy to love any service that puts me in touch with cool music I haven't heard before.
posted by philip-random at 10:06 AM on February 25, 2012
Not that keen on the name -- but I find it easy to love any service that puts me in touch with cool music I haven't heard before.
posted by philip-random at 10:06 AM on February 25, 2012
"It was there when I looked at the page source for my home page."
You sure? When I looked at the source, it links to the user's jam page...that is, the links everyone is providing here. But that's not to the specific song. In contrast, the "share" link on the user's jam page has a URL in this form: http://www.thisismyjam.com/kmellis/_k8acdk, which will be to that specific track even when the current jam is changed. I searched for any of those strings such as that _k8acdk in the "Home" playlist page, and there weren't any.
OOPS. I'm wrong about that link. Now I just changed my jam and that share link goes to my current jam, not the old one. So I don't know what purpose that extended link serves when it functions exactly the same as the one without the _k8acdk. Dammit.
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich at 10:24 AM on February 25, 2012
You sure? When I looked at the source, it links to the user's jam page...that is, the links everyone is providing here. But that's not to the specific song. In contrast, the "share" link on the user's jam page has a URL in this form: http://www.thisismyjam.com/kmellis/_k8acdk, which will be to that specific track even when the current jam is changed. I searched for any of those strings such as that _k8acdk in the "Home" playlist page, and there weren't any.
OOPS. I'm wrong about that link. Now I just changed my jam and that share link goes to my current jam, not the old one. So I don't know what purpose that extended link serves when it functions exactly the same as the one without the _k8acdk. Dammit.
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich at 10:24 AM on February 25, 2012
I'm phirephoenix, as usual. Please don't judge my taste in music.
Can I judge as good?
FUN are always worth the trouble.
posted by philip-random at 10:32 AM on February 25, 2012
Can I judge as good?
FUN are always worth the trouble.
posted by philip-random at 10:32 AM on February 25, 2012
The popup login is pretty annoying; Firefox's stored passwords thingy doesn't seem to like those, which means I have to remember stuff and type it all in manually every time.
STOP DOING THAT, INTERNET.
posted by Sys Rq at 10:32 AM on February 25, 2012 [1 favorite]
STOP DOING THAT, INTERNET.
posted by Sys Rq at 10:32 AM on February 25, 2012 [1 favorite]
I'm really enjoying touring around everyone's music. I like how simple & straightforward this is.
posted by flex at 10:34 AM on February 25, 2012
posted by flex at 10:34 AM on February 25, 2012
Started with a ragtime kazoo diddy. Be warned.
posted by lazaruslong at 10:36 AM on February 25, 2012
posted by lazaruslong at 10:36 AM on February 25, 2012
my jam. I strongly advise you listen to this song every morning as soon as you wake up, as you are walking out the door, as you are leaving work and as you are walking into the bar for a drink.
posted by Ad hominem at 10:37 AM on February 25, 2012 [2 favorites]
posted by Ad hominem at 10:37 AM on February 25, 2012 [2 favorites]
Anyone else having trouble playing the Hype Machine tracks (specifically, philiprandom's current jam)? It could be some blocking I have going on. Although I was able to follow the link to the track on Hype Machine, and it played fine there.
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich at 10:43 AM on February 25, 2012
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich at 10:43 AM on February 25, 2012
Okay this is seriously awesome. I just followed a bunch of people from this thread and the mefi social explorer, and now it's just auto-playing a bunch of eclectic yet thoughtfully curated music. Fabulous.
posted by lazaruslong at 10:54 AM on February 25, 2012
posted by lazaruslong at 10:54 AM on February 25, 2012
Considering I've been adding everyone on this thread, it'd probably break some internet etiquette rule if I wasn't to share mine: litleozy
posted by litleozy at 10:57 AM on February 25, 2012
posted by litleozy at 10:57 AM on February 25, 2012
This would be me.
This week's jam will probably generate a load of groans from the Australia contingent, so I'll link to last week's jam, which is a Kanye mashup for the ages.
posted by dw at 10:57 AM on February 25, 2012
This week's jam will probably generate a load of groans from the Australia contingent, so I'll link to last week's jam, which is a Kanye mashup for the ages.
posted by dw at 10:57 AM on February 25, 2012
Heh, check the notifications section of the settings for a lil giggle.
posted by lazaruslong at 11:09 AM on February 25, 2012 [3 favorites]
posted by lazaruslong at 11:09 AM on February 25, 2012 [3 favorites]
I love the fact that if I have multiple tabs open with different people's pages, the one that I'm actually playing the song on has a little sideways "play" triangle on the tab!
posted by horsemuth at 11:16 AM on February 25, 2012 [1 favorite]
posted by horsemuth at 11:16 AM on February 25, 2012 [1 favorite]
Heh, check the notifications section of the settings for a lil giggle.
Oh god.
*checks email*
Oh god.
That'll explain the spam folder thing, then.
posted by Sys Rq at 11:18 AM on February 25, 2012 [1 favorite]
Oh god.
*checks email*
Oh god.
That'll explain the spam folder thing, then.
posted by Sys Rq at 11:18 AM on February 25, 2012 [1 favorite]
You all have some excellent taste, btw. I'm stuck working all day, and this is making it infinitely more enjoyable.
posted by smirkette at 11:23 AM on February 25, 2012
posted by smirkette at 11:23 AM on February 25, 2012
You sure? When I looked at the source...
Ivan F, maybe I'm misunderstanding what you are looking for. But in the page source of http://www.thisismyjam.com/ (when I'm logged in as me), there are entires like this for every song that is on the playlist.
As you can see it includes a data-youtubeid="bBJWiiXnzpQ" piece which is all the info you need to play the linked video.
posted by philipy at 11:25 AM on February 25, 2012
Ivan F, maybe I'm misunderstanding what you are looking for. But in the page source of http://www.thisismyjam.com/ (when I'm logged in as me), there are entires like this for every song that is on the playlist.
As you can see it includes a data-youtubeid="bBJWiiXnzpQ" piece which is all the info you need to play the linked video.
posted by philipy at 11:25 AM on February 25, 2012
The best band with the worst band name is better than a shitty band with a clever name.
A bit long, but I'd love this on a bumper sticker.
posted by philip-random at 11:37 AM on February 25, 2012
A bit long, but I'd love this on a bumper sticker.
posted by philip-random at 11:37 AM on February 25, 2012
Ivan, I was riffing on the joke on the Notifications settings page with the ISS thing.
Kind of disappointed we can't access the Popular jams as a playlist though.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 11:39 AM on February 25, 2012
Kind of disappointed we can't access the Popular jams as a playlist though.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 11:39 AM on February 25, 2012
"Ivan F, maybe I'm misunderstanding what you are looking for."
Yeah, the YT ids were the ones I did say were there. The ones I said weren't there, were the links in the form I mentioned in my previous comment—the links that it provides via Share --> Share Link. I had thought those were to the specific track within the context of the TIMJ interface because they include more info in the URL, whereas just the plain link to a user's jam goes to the current jam and so the extra info wouldn't be necessary for a share link if it were just to the current jam.
But that's not the case—the share link goes to the same place as just the user's current jam.
Anyway, what I did was search the source for that extra string in that share link. Since pulling the YT id and utilizing it would require a fair bit of work and given that all the tracks aren't YT links, that's not as useful. But, yeah, as I wrote in that original comment, those YT ids are available in the list.
"Ivan, I was riffing on the joke on the Notifications settings page with the ISS thing."
Yeah, I just now figured that out. :) But, hey, someone (a la BB earlier comment) might have found the site I found useful, so it's all good.
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich at 11:51 AM on February 25, 2012 [1 favorite]
Yeah, the YT ids were the ones I did say were there. The ones I said weren't there, were the links in the form I mentioned in my previous comment—the links that it provides via Share --> Share Link. I had thought those were to the specific track within the context of the TIMJ interface because they include more info in the URL, whereas just the plain link to a user's jam goes to the current jam and so the extra info wouldn't be necessary for a share link if it were just to the current jam.
But that's not the case—the share link goes to the same place as just the user's current jam.
Anyway, what I did was search the source for that extra string in that share link. Since pulling the YT id and utilizing it would require a fair bit of work and given that all the tracks aren't YT links, that's not as useful. But, yeah, as I wrote in that original comment, those YT ids are available in the list.
"Ivan, I was riffing on the joke on the Notifications settings page with the ISS thing."
Yeah, I just now figured that out. :) But, hey, someone (a la BB earlier comment) might have found the site I found useful, so it's all good.
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich at 11:51 AM on February 25, 2012 [1 favorite]
Thanks for making me aware of this. I've signed up - username jonnyploy.
posted by jonnyploy at 12:22 PM on February 25, 2012
posted by jonnyploy at 12:22 PM on February 25, 2012
Okay now. This is cool.
49 songs chosen, maybe a half dozen of which I'm familiar with. I'm now doing housework while listening to my favorite kind of radio -- a mix of familiar and unfamiliar stuff that ignores such concerns as genre but which is nevertheless uniformly GOOD (at least to my ears).
Thanks all. Keep yr selections current. I think I now have my Saturday morning routine reconfigured.
posted by philip-random at 12:27 PM on February 25, 2012
49 songs chosen, maybe a half dozen of which I'm familiar with. I'm now doing housework while listening to my favorite kind of radio -- a mix of familiar and unfamiliar stuff that ignores such concerns as genre but which is nevertheless uniformly GOOD (at least to my ears).
Thanks all. Keep yr selections current. I think I now have my Saturday morning routine reconfigured.
posted by philip-random at 12:27 PM on February 25, 2012
I'm just going to change my song every time I get 20 plays or so...
posted by empath at 12:35 PM on February 25, 2012
posted by empath at 12:35 PM on February 25, 2012
The robotweeting is annoying, but I think it's a great name. Encompasses both fickle and faithful music lovers, and jamming those two groups together always produces great results.
Is there to access the archive and browse your old jams? Or a way to delete jams on your archive list? Because of course the first time I used it, I switched the artist/song title fields. Dumb.
In the name of dumb consistency, I'm still Chichibio.
posted by Chichibio at 4:54 PM on February 25, 2012
Is there to access the archive and browse your old jams? Or a way to delete jams on your archive list? Because of course the first time I used it, I switched the artist/song title fields. Dumb.
In the name of dumb consistency, I'm still Chichibio.
posted by Chichibio at 4:54 PM on February 25, 2012
This inspired me to sign up. I'm maryr there, as in so many other places.
posted by maryr at 7:08 PM on February 25, 2012
posted by maryr at 7:08 PM on February 25, 2012
I'm on as well as mattvadnais.
posted by Dromio_of_Columbus at 7:12 PM on February 25, 2012
posted by Dromio_of_Columbus at 7:12 PM on February 25, 2012
kind of disappointed that this isn't a homemade preserves swap site.
posted by stavrogin at 7:53 PM on February 25, 2012 [4 favorites]
posted by stavrogin at 7:53 PM on February 25, 2012 [4 favorites]
I'd pay for a service that took all the songs I like on TIMJ and found the MP3s and sent them to me. I'd even pay for the MP3s themselves...!
But seriously, I got back to my computer tonight for the first time since adding everyone from this thread/the Social Explorer and my evening has been been one delightful journey of discovery of awesome new music. You guys rock.
posted by Phire at 8:14 PM on February 25, 2012
But seriously, I got back to my computer tonight for the first time since adding everyone from this thread/the Social Explorer and my evening has been been one delightful journey of discovery of awesome new music. You guys rock.
posted by Phire at 8:14 PM on February 25, 2012
I am kosmosxipo.
...is the name of my chiptune side project.
posted by gc at 10:16 PM on February 25, 2012
...is the name of my chiptune side project.
posted by gc at 10:16 PM on February 25, 2012
This website is awesome; not sure why I hadn't heard of it before. Thanks, mygothlaundry! This is the only thing I use facebook for (to post my current favorite song- or jam, to use the parlance of our times) so I'm happy to have "discovered" this.
I'm k8lin there but have not added anything yet. Will do tomorrow; I'm excited!
posted by k8lin at 11:00 PM on February 25, 2012
I'm k8lin there but have not added anything yet. Will do tomorrow; I'm excited!
posted by k8lin at 11:00 PM on February 25, 2012
Kate Beaton, of Hark! A Vagrant fame, shows you what her jam is.
posted by Kattullus at 3:39 AM on February 26, 2012 [3 favorites]
posted by Kattullus at 3:39 AM on February 26, 2012 [3 favorites]
For those who dislike the "Jam" part of the name, it looks like the site was originally meant for something rather different, and more like what I might understand by "jamming"...
ThisIsMyJam allows you to create interwoven music mixes that take into account song attributes such as tempo, key, timbre, genre, and more.
Probably like a lot of services they had to evolve their concept in the light of experience with real users.
posted by philipy at 6:11 AM on February 26, 2012
ThisIsMyJam allows you to create interwoven music mixes that take into account song attributes such as tempo, key, timbre, genre, and more.
Probably like a lot of services they had to evolve their concept in the light of experience with real users.
posted by philipy at 6:11 AM on February 26, 2012
IT IS ME
Like the concept, we'll see if it lasts. As much as I like you folks, some of your jams are stuff I don't want to hear. Not sure how they plan to allow me to search for stuff or users I might prefer. Tags? Groups? I dunno.
In my daily music habits, I'll stick to turntable.fm.
posted by Potomac Avenue at 6:47 AM on February 26, 2012
Like the concept, we'll see if it lasts. As much as I like you folks, some of your jams are stuff I don't want to hear. Not sure how they plan to allow me to search for stuff or users I might prefer. Tags? Groups? I dunno.
In my daily music habits, I'll stick to turntable.fm.
posted by Potomac Avenue at 6:47 AM on February 26, 2012
"I'd pay for a service that took all the songs I like on TIMJ and found the MP3s and sent them to me. I'd even pay for the MP3s themselves...!"
Because I'm a deeply insane person, I've made available most of the songs that people here have chosen as their jams.
I'm subscribed to everyone listed via the social explorer and who've commented here, as well as to the MeCha folk. So, last evening I started the playlist running, with a utility to grab all the videos or songs. The videos were converted to a different format (for my use) and then the audio was stripped from them. Those audio files were normalized with Audition and then saved as MP3s. Tags were generated from the filenames and I ended up having to use another utility to recreate the variable bitrate song lengths.
And then I made an html listing. It's here.
I'm not done pushing the songs to my web server, at this moment they're about 2/3 finished. I won't keep this around for more than a week...don't like having MP3s on my hosting provider because I don't want to get into trouble with them. But I started this sort of for myself and because of Phire's comment and thought, hell, people are having fun with these songs so, what the heck. Think of it as an extended, limited availability mix. :)
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich at 7:23 AM on February 26, 2012 [2 favorites]
Because I'm a deeply insane person, I've made available most of the songs that people here have chosen as their jams.
I'm subscribed to everyone listed via the social explorer and who've commented here, as well as to the MeCha folk. So, last evening I started the playlist running, with a utility to grab all the videos or songs. The videos were converted to a different format (for my use) and then the audio was stripped from them. Those audio files were normalized with Audition and then saved as MP3s. Tags were generated from the filenames and I ended up having to use another utility to recreate the variable bitrate song lengths.
And then I made an html listing. It's here.
I'm not done pushing the songs to my web server, at this moment they're about 2/3 finished. I won't keep this around for more than a week...don't like having MP3s on my hosting provider because I don't want to get into trouble with them. But I started this sort of for myself and because of Phire's comment and thought, hell, people are having fun with these songs so, what the heck. Think of it as an extended, limited availability mix. :)
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich at 7:23 AM on February 26, 2012 [2 favorites]
Yeah the lack of tagging etc does make it a bit limited, but at the moment I don't care, as I'm enjoying plenty of music that folks are posting that I'd never have heard if my regular filters had kicked in.
Potomac Avenue: " I'll stick to turntable.fm"
... which remains staunchly US only. I know that there's a trade-off to everything, but this is a deal-killer for plenty of us.
Off topic: If you want a social-music site with a truly regrettable name, try "herd.fm". Haha yes very clever play on words - hearing, flocking behaviour and all that. Click on the FAQ, and there are two sections. The one that applies to me is titled "consumers." Er no thanks I won't be using your site guys, though I'm sure it's lovely.
posted by vanar sena at 7:58 AM on February 26, 2012 [1 favorite]
Potomac Avenue: " I'll stick to turntable.fm"
... which remains staunchly US only. I know that there's a trade-off to everything, but this is a deal-killer for plenty of us.
Off topic: If you want a social-music site with a truly regrettable name, try "herd.fm". Haha yes very clever play on words - hearing, flocking behaviour and all that. Click on the FAQ, and there are two sections. The one that applies to me is titled "consumers." Er no thanks I won't be using your site guys, though I'm sure it's lovely.
posted by vanar sena at 7:58 AM on February 26, 2012 [1 favorite]
The strange thing for me is the length of time you get to keep a jam posted. I have a hard time keeping the same song up there for more than a day or so. One of those reasons is because Sundays are for Fats Waller (I believe this very strongly). So a change had to be made.
So, if you like the stuff that I.F. took a snapshot of, take him up on his offer. Because things are changing fast. (Thanks, I.F.!)
posted by .kobayashi. at 8:07 AM on February 26, 2012
So, if you like the stuff that I.F. took a snapshot of, take him up on his offer. Because things are changing fast. (Thanks, I.F.!)
posted by .kobayashi. at 8:07 AM on February 26, 2012
Here I am.
I've found it to be the most effective music discovery service I've used. That users can only have one jam up at a time makes me much more compelled to listen to them.
posted by ignignokt at 1:33 PM on February 26, 2012
I've found it to be the most effective music discovery service I've used. That users can only have one jam up at a time makes me much more compelled to listen to them.
posted by ignignokt at 1:33 PM on February 26, 2012
There can only be one jam.
posted by the jam at 3:30 PM on February 26, 2012 [3 favorites]
posted by the jam at 3:30 PM on February 26, 2012 [3 favorites]
I've put together a little script that can take the things that I've liked and post them to a Wordpress blog: metajams.wordpress.com
It's simple and probably not very robust, but if there is a demand for this kind of thing, I could look into ways of letting other people do the same.
I only pick up YouTube embeds at the moment, though there are posts for other things I've liked, just not with any play link included.
At the least, you'll probably find a few things that we've liked in common noted for posterity there.
posted by philipy at 5:36 PM on February 26, 2012 [1 favorite]
It's simple and probably not very robust, but if there is a demand for this kind of thing, I could look into ways of letting other people do the same.
I only pick up YouTube embeds at the moment, though there are posts for other things I've liked, just not with any play link included.
At the least, you'll probably find a few things that we've liked in common noted for posterity there.
posted by philipy at 5:36 PM on February 26, 2012 [1 favorite]
I just signed up for some jam. Got this day old bread here.
posted by safetyfork at 9:28 PM on February 26, 2012
posted by safetyfork at 9:28 PM on February 26, 2012
Because I'm a deeply insane person, I've made available most of the songs that people here have chosen as their jams.
Ivan, that's tremendous! Thanks for that.
I agree with .kobayashi. that it seems strangely limiting for the service to want you to keep up each chosen jam for a week - almost as if they don't want you coming back every time you find something that you want to share. Which would be weird of them. I do like that this is completely bypassing filters that I would normally throw up around my sensitive ears, and I've already heard some fabulous stuff. But even following 100+ accounts, it gets repetitive quickly when you're only encouraged to post every seven days. Huh.
posted by Chichibio at 7:38 AM on February 27, 2012
Ivan, that's tremendous! Thanks for that.
I agree with .kobayashi. that it seems strangely limiting for the service to want you to keep up each chosen jam for a week - almost as if they don't want you coming back every time you find something that you want to share. Which would be weird of them. I do like that this is completely bypassing filters that I would normally throw up around my sensitive ears, and I've already heard some fabulous stuff. But even following 100+ accounts, it gets repetitive quickly when you're only encouraged to post every seven days. Huh.
posted by Chichibio at 7:38 AM on February 27, 2012
Alright, y'all, I'm getting my jam on, too. Surprisingly, owtytrof wasn't taken.
posted by owtytrof at 7:49 AM on February 27, 2012
posted by owtytrof at 7:49 AM on February 27, 2012
To be fair, I don't get the feeling that seven days is meant to be "how long you should leave it up" so much as "how long we'll allow you to leave it up". Some folks might consider posting regularly to mean once a week; some might consider it to mean several times a day. The ephemerality of the whole jam list thing seems more like a general design concept than an attempt to enforce slow updating.
Basically, it's the inverse of the AskMe 7-day cooldown, with the same core notion: one week is the limit, not necessarily a suggestion.
posted by cortex (staff) at 8:13 AM on February 27, 2012 [2 favorites]
Basically, it's the inverse of the AskMe 7-day cooldown, with the same core notion: one week is the limit, not necessarily a suggestion.
posted by cortex (staff) at 8:13 AM on February 27, 2012 [2 favorites]
it seems strangely limiting for the service to want you to keep up each chosen jam for a week
I suspect you misunderstood how it works.
You can only keep a chosen jam up for a *max*of one week. You can change it any time you like, but after a week it disappears by itself.
posted by philipy at 8:13 AM on February 27, 2012
I suspect you misunderstood how it works.
You can only keep a chosen jam up for a *max*of one week. You can change it any time you like, but after a week it disappears by itself.
posted by philipy at 8:13 AM on February 27, 2012
What is good though is that you are subtly encouraged to only post stuff that you find very good indeed.
Kinda the opposite of all those automated things that post everything that showed up in your player, regardless of whether you even really liked it.
posted by philipy at 8:17 AM on February 27, 2012 [1 favorite]
Kinda the opposite of all those automated things that post everything that showed up in your player, regardless of whether you even really liked it.
posted by philipy at 8:17 AM on February 27, 2012 [1 favorite]
I'm really digging turntable.fm... i don't know how i missed that before...
posted by empath at 8:21 AM on February 27, 2012
posted by empath at 8:21 AM on February 27, 2012
"What is good though is that you are subtly encouraged to only post stuff that you find very good indeed."
Right. That's why I've resisted changing my jam very much. While it's less useful if people don't change it for a long time (and so a listener quickly runs out of new stuff to listen to), it's also less useful if it changes too much, because then that probably degrades the overall quality of what's posted. And, also, like with last.fm, a huge amount of information is just overwhelming. I'm friends with, oh, thirty or so people on last.fm, but I don't really browse their libraries for new stuff and I don't even listen to their stations because, well, that's just too much stuff and too likely to be somewhat arbitrary with regard to what I discover. Only in the case of someone that very strongly impresses me with their taste, like matildaben did, will I make an effort to take a long, hard look at their library.
Also, jessamyn and I, for example, don't share much of the same musical taste and so I don't expect to get much out of listening to her last.fm station or even perusing her library. On the other hand, I do expect that something she would choose to post as her jam on TIMJ might be unusually good and therefore more likely to be worth my giving a listen to, even if her tastes and mine don't much intersect. But if, for example, she posted something new every hour, that would be less likely to be the case, wouldn't it?
So I think that TIMJ hits a nice sweet spot in this. I mean, really, I listened to about a hundred of those jams over the weekend, some of them more than once because of how I did it. And people have pretty diverse tastes, yet a much larger portion of what I heard I really liked than I expected to. It was sort of weird, actually. But that's because people are, I think, selecting their jams thoughtfully. Or maybe it's a coincidence. Or I'm in a receptive mood. But it's interesting that a lot of the reactions that people have expressed here have been similar.
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich at 8:39 AM on February 27, 2012 [2 favorites]
Right. That's why I've resisted changing my jam very much. While it's less useful if people don't change it for a long time (and so a listener quickly runs out of new stuff to listen to), it's also less useful if it changes too much, because then that probably degrades the overall quality of what's posted. And, also, like with last.fm, a huge amount of information is just overwhelming. I'm friends with, oh, thirty or so people on last.fm, but I don't really browse their libraries for new stuff and I don't even listen to their stations because, well, that's just too much stuff and too likely to be somewhat arbitrary with regard to what I discover. Only in the case of someone that very strongly impresses me with their taste, like matildaben did, will I make an effort to take a long, hard look at their library.
Also, jessamyn and I, for example, don't share much of the same musical taste and so I don't expect to get much out of listening to her last.fm station or even perusing her library. On the other hand, I do expect that something she would choose to post as her jam on TIMJ might be unusually good and therefore more likely to be worth my giving a listen to, even if her tastes and mine don't much intersect. But if, for example, she posted something new every hour, that would be less likely to be the case, wouldn't it?
So I think that TIMJ hits a nice sweet spot in this. I mean, really, I listened to about a hundred of those jams over the weekend, some of them more than once because of how I did it. And people have pretty diverse tastes, yet a much larger portion of what I heard I really liked than I expected to. It was sort of weird, actually. But that's because people are, I think, selecting their jams thoughtfully. Or maybe it's a coincidence. Or I'm in a receptive mood. But it's interesting that a lot of the reactions that people have expressed here have been similar.
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich at 8:39 AM on February 27, 2012 [2 favorites]
Can't believe I missed a mass enfriendening. This is me anyway
posted by minifigs at 9:00 AM on February 27, 2012
posted by minifigs at 9:00 AM on February 27, 2012
If you missed the initial inertia, don't forget to check this space to add MeFites on this service (and others if you go up a level).
posted by lazaruslong at 9:04 AM on February 27, 2012
posted by lazaruslong at 9:04 AM on February 27, 2012
Yeh, I think that's how it ought to work, Ivan Fyodorovich. Here I am.
posted by spandex at 9:09 AM on February 27, 2012
posted by spandex at 9:09 AM on February 27, 2012
> I don't get the feeling that seven days is meant to be "how long you should leave it up" so much as "how long we'll allow you to leave it up".
That's how I took it too. As a suggestion. One that I'm entirely ignoring. One that many of the interesting people I follow are ignoring too. "A week? Who can wait that long?" is more the tenor of my earlier comment that Chichibio took in a different direction.
posted by .kobayashi. at 10:00 AM on February 27, 2012
That's how I took it too. As a suggestion. One that I'm entirely ignoring. One that many of the interesting people I follow are ignoring too. "A week? Who can wait that long?" is more the tenor of my earlier comment that Chichibio took in a different direction.
posted by .kobayashi. at 10:00 AM on February 27, 2012
I've followed all the new people today, including all the people who started following me. So I've got about thirty more jams in the list today to listen to than I did on Saturday, although many of them haven't yet changed. I'm looking forward to it!
By the way, how do y'all like the special-made avatar I created for TiMJ? I actually created it in Premiere, of all things. Because, as I mentioned earlier, I'm a bit nuts. If I had been really motivated, I'd have done a better job of making something that freaked people out without them realizing it. That's me at two years old, by the way, and wearing a UNM Lobos sweatshirt. (Go Lobos! Stop losing games you oughtn't be losing, dammit.)
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich at 2:10 PM on February 27, 2012
By the way, how do y'all like the special-made avatar I created for TiMJ? I actually created it in Premiere, of all things. Because, as I mentioned earlier, I'm a bit nuts. If I had been really motivated, I'd have done a better job of making something that freaked people out without them realizing it. That's me at two years old, by the way, and wearing a UNM Lobos sweatshirt. (Go Lobos! Stop losing games you oughtn't be losing, dammit.)
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich at 2:10 PM on February 27, 2012
in what will undoubtedly surprise everybody, I can be found at heeeraldo.
posted by heeeraldo at 6:30 PM on February 27, 2012
posted by heeeraldo at 6:30 PM on February 27, 2012
One minor little thing. I've been running into the problem that a lot of YouTube videos are geo-locked, depriving me of some righteous jams. Please think of the foreign children and choose non-YouTube streaming options =)
posted by Kattullus at 4:44 PM on February 28, 2012
posted by Kattullus at 4:44 PM on February 28, 2012
Just added everyone (I think!) who posted here. I'm jessypie.
posted by jessypie at 6:23 PM on February 28, 2012
posted by jessypie at 6:23 PM on February 28, 2012
As predicted earlier, I've not removed all those MP3s and the page from my website. I hope everyone got the songs who wanted them. If you'd intended to, but not gotten around to it, just message me and I'll arrange something.
Great jams, everyone! It's cool to continue to see new people to follow.
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich at 10:10 PM on February 28, 2012
Great jams, everyone! It's cool to continue to see new people to follow.
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich at 10:10 PM on February 28, 2012
empath: I'm just going to change my song every time I get 20 plays or so...
So you're the Phantasma Disques of TIMJ? Damned limited edition bastards.
posted by filthy light thief at 10:58 PM on February 28, 2012
So you're the Phantasma Disques of TIMJ? Damned limited edition bastards.
posted by filthy light thief at 10:58 PM on February 28, 2012
Is there a way to add enmasse everyone who is listed on the Social Explorer page?
posted by bardophile at 1:01 AM on February 29, 2012
posted by bardophile at 1:01 AM on February 29, 2012
To be fair, I don't get the feeling that seven days is meant to be "how long you should leave it up" so much as "how long we'll allow you to leave it up". Some folks might consider posting regularly to mean once a week; some might consider it to mean several times a day. The ephemerality of the whole jam list thing seems more like a general design concept than an attempt to enforce slow updating.
Basically, it's the inverse of the AskMe 7-day cooldown, with the same core notion: one week is the limit, not necessarily a suggestion.
I get it now - reading everything slowly, twice, always helps. I thought it was awful strange to lock in choices for a week, but that's how I understood the countdown timer - and perhaps I was subconsciously influenced by the AskMe rules, good point. Then I read .kobayashi.'s first sentence as "The strange thing for me is the length of time youget have to keep a jam posted." Thus the misunderstanding.
So I went and changed my jam right away, just because I could! Thanks for the explanation, y'all.
posted by Chichibio at 4:12 AM on February 29, 2012
Basically, it's the inverse of the AskMe 7-day cooldown, with the same core notion: one week is the limit, not necessarily a suggestion.
I get it now - reading everything slowly, twice, always helps. I thought it was awful strange to lock in choices for a week, but that's how I understood the countdown timer - and perhaps I was subconsciously influenced by the AskMe rules, good point. Then I read .kobayashi.'s first sentence as "The strange thing for me is the length of time you
So I went and changed my jam right away, just because I could! Thanks for the explanation, y'all.
posted by Chichibio at 4:12 AM on February 29, 2012
Is there a way to add enmasse everyone who is listed on the Social Explorer page?
Spend ten minutes clicking systematically, basically. There's no existing "add everybody" functionality on our end, and rolling up a means to do it automatically with whatever API thisismyjam may provide for follow management would probably take longer than just brute forcing it.
posted by cortex (staff) at 7:16 AM on February 29, 2012
Spend ten minutes clicking systematically, basically. There's no existing "add everybody" functionality on our end, and rolling up a means to do it automatically with whatever API thisismyjam may provide for follow management would probably take longer than just brute forcing it.
posted by cortex (staff) at 7:16 AM on February 29, 2012
I'm a big fan of ThisIsMyJam - anything that gets people excited about music and lets you share your enthusiasm is something to celebrate. I'm Slack-a-gogo over there.
posted by Slack-a-gogo at 9:17 AM on March 3, 2012
posted by Slack-a-gogo at 9:17 AM on March 3, 2012
Late to the party, but this is fun! I'm Doris over there, randomly.
posted by yarrow at 7:08 AM on March 6, 2012
posted by yarrow at 7:08 AM on March 6, 2012
I might finally get into this! (I was trying to go over the SXSW torrent first.) I'm Pronoiac.
posted by Pronoiac at 3:45 PM on March 16, 2012
posted by Pronoiac at 3:45 PM on March 16, 2012
Just ducking in again to say I'm grateful for this MeTa and the heads up to the site it gave me--I have been using it almost daily and I love it so much more than Pandora or Last.fm. Once I got the hang of how to use it to suit my needs--friending people with overlapping but wider-ranging music knowledge/taste as me--it quickly became indispensible. Love gearing up to work each morning and firing my playlist up. So yay and thanks!
posted by ifjuly at 7:57 PM on March 16, 2012
posted by ifjuly at 7:57 PM on March 16, 2012
I've been enjoying it, too. I've discovered a fair bit of new music.
As most of you probably noticed, it keeps a limited history of the tracks you've "liked", which is helpful. However, if you use last.fm and link timj to it in your settings, one of the options that will become available, besides scrobbling, is to set the "loved track" flag on last.fm when you "like" a track on tijm. And because your entire history of loved tracks are kept on last.fm, you'll be able to explore music you've liked on tijm at your leisure.
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich at 8:34 PM on March 16, 2012 [1 favorite]
As most of you probably noticed, it keeps a limited history of the tracks you've "liked", which is helpful. However, if you use last.fm and link timj to it in your settings, one of the options that will become available, besides scrobbling, is to set the "loved track" flag on last.fm when you "like" a track on tijm. And because your entire history of loved tracks are kept on last.fm, you'll be able to explore music you've liked on tijm at your leisure.
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich at 8:34 PM on March 16, 2012 [1 favorite]
i didn't know there was a limit there, hence my "liking" everything that even remotely intrigues me as a form of bookmarking. what's the limit? 'cause my list is really long and still holds everything from the start.
but yeah, either way doesn't matter really 'cause of the lovely last.fm connection. yay.
posted by ifjuly at 8:21 AM on March 17, 2012
but yeah, either way doesn't matter really 'cause of the lovely last.fm connection. yay.
posted by ifjuly at 8:21 AM on March 17, 2012
Oh, I guess it does keep all of them.
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich at 10:11 AM on March 17, 2012
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich at 10:11 AM on March 17, 2012
If I like a certain jam chosen by let's says Jessamyn, it will disappear from my liked-list either when Jessamyn changes her jam, or that jam expires because of the 7-day time limit.
As far as I can tell there's no limit to how many jams you can like at any one time, and they alll show up in your likes page, along with a list of all your previously-liked jams.
The previously liked jams don't have play links though, only the current ones can be played. Here's an example likes page for user bwhitman.
posted by philipy at 11:58 AM on March 17, 2012
As far as I can tell there's no limit to how many jams you can like at any one time, and they alll show up in your likes page, along with a list of all your previously-liked jams.
The previously liked jams don't have play links though, only the current ones can be played. Here's an example likes page for user bwhitman.
posted by philipy at 11:58 AM on March 17, 2012
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Luckily I added this site as a suggestion myself already so it's on the list.
posted by pb (staff) at 10:38 AM on February 24, 2012 [3 favorites]