What’s up? Just a quick update tonight. I should have a full post this weekend, I’m working on something. For the moment, I wanted to talk about Last.fm’s first update of the new year. I noticed it when it first went live but I only now noticed some of the more interesting features. The quilt is a Flickr-esq montage of album covers taken from your Last.fm stats. I thought it was a cool extra but not something I would use, I didn’t like the style. Today I noticed that, also like Flickr, you can take the base code and style it as you please. Well, to an extent. It is Flash. One thing I don’t like about it, however, is that with a rather limited selection of albums to choose from, albums that you haven’t listened to in quite a while start showing up on the quilt. Not a big deal if you have a huge track list on your Last.fm.

Another more subtle feature is that tracks seem to remain on your last played list, something I’ve been wishing for since I started using the my feed for my Last.fm link instead of the chart. I don’t know yet how long the tracks remain there, but my current round has been there a day and a quarter now, so it is substantially longer than before. This means the Last.fm in the sidebar - powered by FeedBurner - is back, presumably for good. No more messages about there being no items on the feed! I removed it because that message was bugging me. Normally I’d listen to enough music to prevent that from happening, but I’ve had my laptop with my 360 for wireless Live so I have been streaming my music to my 360, meaning no Last.fm support.

Well, that’s enough rambling and run-on sentences. I’d show you what I’ve done with the quilt so far but the code is giving me XHTML warnings.

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