how do you set this up? and what is it about?
Audioscrobbler builds a profile of your musical taste using a plugin for your media player (Winamp, iTunes, XMMS etc…). Plugins send the name of every song you play to the Audioscrobbler server, which updates your musical profile with the new song. Every person with a plugin has their own page on this site which shows their listening statistics. The system automatically matches you to people with a similar music taste, and generates personalised recommendations.
You download plugins for your favourite media players, and go. That’s it
soulty:
along with what coppertop just said, it’s genious and is awesome for two and a half reasons:
1 - it’s a great way to check up on what music your close friends are listening to. my best friend from high school goes to a college half way across america. we were both huge music fans of the indie music genre. we relied on each other to let each other know about some cool new band. well, it’s hard now. so all i have to do is check up on his user account in the group i created for my hometown friends. then i can see what he’s been listening too lately.
2 - going along the same lines: it’s a good way to learn new music the site matches stuff you listen to with new upstart labels and bands. this way, a lot of the indie scene gets recognition by people who appreciate them.
1/2 - you can have a forum for whatever group you create. I’m in a bunch of groups. mostly are for a specific band. for example, in the Modest Mouse group in belong too, i can just go to the forum to check on news on the band, discussion about songs/album, and just converse with other people who appreciate the band.
the forum system is a good way to consolidate and centralize specific topics for forum discussion.
if you are at all into music, I HIGHLY encourage you to sign up for an account, download a plug in (and then join the kirupa group 
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aight, its all set up, throw me in the kirupa group if you want. 
you could ‘throw yourself’ into the kirupa group.
hehe… i seriously don’t know how to take that comment ruski, are you trying to be rude or just stating a obvious fact that i overlooked?..
ok done… i joined.
he’s just telling you that you don’t need an invite I think
sorry if i sounded harsh…yeah, bombingpixels is rite…
bump. more members need to know about this.
