uPlayMe — last.fm clone

uPlayMe is something like last.fm. It sits in your computer, sees what you are playing, and then matches it up with other uPlayMe users. I can’t see how it is different from last.fm, except that it’s much more approachable. In last.fm, the webpage is kinda crowded and you need to dig through many names like Audioscobbler etc, to get it integrate with your music players. Or, it could be that I’m horribly mixing up last.fm and Pandora here and last.fm didn’t have any recommendation/matching thing. Whatever. For me, it’s all one big pot of “social music”. And since I listen to a really small pot of bad music myself and don’t spend too much time “consuming music media”, not too interesting. Could be for others, though, and again, the uPlayMe page is nicely approachable. BUT: the biggest “music users” I know are all Mac fans. As of Nov 2006, uPlayMe Mac version “will be available shortly”. Congrats, you just lost a bunch of people who otherwise may have tried you out after reading this.

Thumbs up for Alan doing his homework and referring to a relevant post in this blog.