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"iTunes, Winamp, Pandora, and YouTube" Any love for Amarok? (Also, why the need to ask for gender?)

chrischen 16y ago
Yea somebody requested Amarok today. I'm going to start that soon. I have to setup a linux desktop first though in order to test it (if any Last.fm client developers are reading this, Like.fm uses an identical scrobbling API. You can email me at chris@like.fm if you'd like to help). Do you think the gender is intrusive? At the moment I don't really do anything with gender except personalize pronouns (he/she) in emails. I know it seems a bit out of place... I guess I can make it optional. However I'm planning to do stats and analytics and gender would be useful in the future (like what girls listen to vs what boys listen to, etc).
- bmelton 16y ago
  I say leave it there. It's innocuous enough, and it'll be valuable demographic data later on. If you stop asking for it now, and then need to start later then people will be suspicious, and you'll have holes in the data from when you didn't ask. Of course, with all user submitted input, don't ever assume it to be right. ;-)
- jamesbritt 16y ago
  "(if any Last.fm client developers are reading this, Like.fm uses an identical scrobbling API. You can email me at chris@like.fm if you'd like to help)." Hmm. Can I just tell (if possible) amarok to use a Like.fm URL in place of last.fm? Also, the gender thing is not a big deal, but feels like a big sign saying "We're going to use your data for marketing purposes". If you think it actually adds to the quality of the user's experience (via some analytics and such), then that's a good thing. But my initial reaction is that all a site needs is a unique way to identify me; past a name and password, everything else I'm made to enter isn't done for for my benefit. Maybe I've been thinking about form usability too much lately for my own sites ...

Yea somebody requested Amarok today. I'm going to start that soon. I have to setup a linux desktop first though in order to test it (if any Last.fm client developers are reading this, Like.fm uses an identical scrobbling API. You can email me at chris@like.fm if you'd like to help). Do you think the gender is intrusive? At the moment I don't really do anything with gender except personalize pronouns (he/she) in emails. I know it seems a bit out of place... I guess I can make it optional. However I'm planning to do stats and analytics and gender would be useful in the future (like what girls listen to vs what boys listen to, etc).

bmelton 16y ago
I say leave it there. It's innocuous enough, and it'll be valuable demographic data later on. If you stop asking for it now, and then need to start later then people will be suspicious, and you'll have holes in the data from when you didn't ask. Of course, with all user submitted input, don't ever assume it to be right. ;-)
jamesbritt 16y ago
"(if any Last.fm client developers are reading this, Like.fm uses an identical scrobbling API. You can email me at chris@like.fm if you'd like to help)." Hmm. Can I just tell (if possible) amarok to use a Like.fm URL in place of last.fm? Also, the gender thing is not a big deal, but feels like a big sign saying "We're going to use your data for marketing purposes". If you think it actually adds to the quality of the user's experience (via some analytics and such), then that's a good thing. But my initial reaction is that all a site needs is a unique way to identify me; past a name and password, everything else I'm made to enter isn't done for for my benefit. Maybe I've been thinking about form usability too much lately for my own sites ...