Barcelona, Spain is home. Before the pandemic I would bounce around the world wherever cheap airfare would take me, so I spent a lot of time living in and taking in the world, but those times are now past. However, Barcelona without tourists is truly magical!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The MetaBrainz Foundation<\/a>. Nominally I am the Executive Director — this means I deal with supporters (customers), some bigdata\/recommendation engine engineering, some hosting, some legal, some business, managing my team and everything else that no one else wants to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Space Walk<\/a>, by Lemon Jelly, but my whole listening history can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Right now, I primarily listen to Spotify and find new music through it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But, I am very unhappy being tied to one platform and that people must be tied to platforms in the first place. For that reason I\u2019ve been investing a lot of time into the ListenBrainz project which is similar to what last.fm used to do back in its heyday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We\u2019re working very hard to allow users to find other users who have similar music tastes and then to be able to explore what they are listening to. We\u2019re also working to create an open music recommendation engine, that is free of bias and works to recommend music fairly and not based on what someone is trying to sell you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So in a way, this answer is very poor, but I really hope that our work can change this for myself and many others going forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Digital. All digital. I gave away my CD collection in 2013 and don\u2019t even have the means to play a CD, let alone a cassette.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At work and at home. Each computer has at least decent speakers and each room at home has a good quality stereo system or Sonos speaker. Music is the background to my life and I cannot do without. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I walk to my office (a few minutes away) so I never listen to music when commuting. However, if I am traveling, I always have my noise cancelling headphones on to try and keep sane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As far as when I listen to music, check out my reports here<\/a>. Now with a spiffy map of where the artists are from that I am listening to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I spend so much time building music discovery tools that I have very little time to \u2026 discover music. We\u2019re working very hard to change this so that we can use our tools to escape the confines of people who wish to sell us their music!<\/p>\n\n\n\n I am most frustrated with music silos and the utter lack of interoperability between these systems. Music that is recommended in these silos is recommended to sell more music and less for you to discover the music you like. I hate this and am spending many waking hours fixing this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “I am most frustrated with music silos and the utter lack of interoperability between these systems. Music that is recommended in these silos is recommended to sell more music and less for you to discover the music you like.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n ListenBrainz<\/a> — see above!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n My teammates and I are constantly recommending music to each other. One of them is constantly on Bandcamp and when new stuff comes out that I might appreciate, he sends me a link. Given that we\u2019re all digital people, we share links to music, rather than sending music to each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ListenBrainz<\/a>. We\u2019re working hard to re-create the cool features of last.fm that have been lost over the years. If anyone has is a Spotify listener and you\u2019d like to get some slick insights into your listening habits, come link your Spotify account<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n We\u2019re working to tie in as many music sources as possible, but these silos do not make it easy for us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"template":"","tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nWhat are you listening to?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
How do you discover new music?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
What formats do you usually listen to? LP, CD, Cassette, Digital, Streaming Services? Why?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Where do you do most of your music listening?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
How do you find and listen to pre-release music?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
What are your frustrations with listening to music digitally? Any benefits?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
How do you keep track of everything you are listening to?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Do you tip other people off to new music? How?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Anything you want to \u201cpromote\u201d?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n