earFeeder: Current Awareness of your favorite musicians
I won’t be a surprise to anyone who reads this blog that I love RSS as a current awareness tool for academic and medical libraries. But earFeeder scans your computer to see what musicians you like and builds a custom feed to bring you news on those musicians. Audiophiles, rejoice.
From the site, here’s a brief description of how it works:
Step 1
earFeeder will scan your machine for music and automatically detect your favorite musical artists.Step 2
Once that’s done, earFeeder will generate an RSS newsfeed just for you.Step 3
Subscribe to the newsfeed and earFeeder will make sure you’re in the know.Your RSS newsfeed contains:
Artist News
New releases
Ticket presales and more…
After earFeeder scans your system for music files and collects artist names, it lists the artists found so you can refine the list of musicians you want updates on:
Then earFeeder creates your custom feed and makes it easy to subscribe with many popular aggregators, or via email with R-mail:
Here’s what a couple of feed items from my custom feed look like in BlogLines:
…and note that links inside of each feed item let you edit the feed!
I love this idea, and am impressed with the beta’s interface design. Can’t wait to see what it does next.
(Contrary to a number of comments I’ve read, it worked just fine in Firefox for me. YMMV.)
[Thanks, TechCrunch!]
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October 18th, 2006 at 8:05 am
I’m glad you like the tool, and would invite your readers to the earfeeder blog (use the link on the bottom left of earfeeder.com). We’d like to hear what users like, don’t like, and would like to see us add to the service.