New Charts System
I’d just like to tell people about the changes to the charts system which will be made over the next week or so. We’ve changed several items over already (weekly charts, artist top tracks/top fans), and we’ll soon be moving the rest over.
Here’s a summary of what will be changing:
Overall Charts:
There may be several days‘ dead time on these during the actual changeover, while we reconcile profile edits from the old profile clusters with the submission logs which power the new system. After that, these charts will initially be updated weekly. I know that’s slower than the old system was, but I promise that these updates will be much more reliable.
Monthly, Rolling 3 Monthly/6 Monthly/12 Monthly Charts:
Yes, you’ll get all of these too with the new system, updated monthy (or maybe more frequently).
Recent Tracks:
We will hopefully be providing the last 2 weeks‘ worth of recent tracks within 4 minutes of realtime (the last 10 tracks will be as realtime as they are now), assuming this isn’t too intensive for our system to cope with.
Profile Editing:
Initially, this will be restricted to your recent tracks (i.e. the last 2 weeks of plays). Subsequently we will be adding editing of your entire love/ban lists. The new Audioscrobbler client will have a lightning-fast love/ban/tag editing plugin.
Unfortunately, editing your entire profile will no longer be possible – at least initially – but hopefully with the new charts, it’ll be much more dynamic. The radio will put more emphasis on your more recent plays, so that one Britney Spears track you listened to back in 2004 won’t matter anyway.
Hopefully this is ok with everyone – you have to understand that our current system has become unfeasible. The new system will be much more scalable.
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Quelle: last.fm
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