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    Posted: October 25 2007 at 00:39
This website calculates an open mind index given your last.fm data using records of tags and playcounts. It's pretty interesting and gives nice graphs if you're interested in that.
For example. here is mine:




This means that I am a bit closed minded and only listen to some genres (which I guess is true) and then lists my most popular.
Anyone else find this interesting?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 25 2007 at 00:52





Hmm... that looks about right.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 25 2007 at 01:19
I don't think this program is very accurate.. I'm open to listen to just about anything, however, that doesn't mean I enjoy everything. It should be called a taste-diversity index or something lol. Whatever, it's still interesting.

 
Hmm.. I'm surprised theres so much rock
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 25 2007 at 09:36
 
You got me by one, Dan.
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Doesn't quite look as I would like it to :/ Must be because the Finnish part there consists of only one band :)

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 25 2007 at 11:54
 
Haven't used last.fm much though...
 
Oh and I got 97, forgot to copy that.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 27 2007 at 16:28
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 27 2007 at 17:26





Kind of misleading because I used the computer a lot more for music when I was new to prog, but whatever.  I think I'm more open minded than the chart would lead you to believe, but not extremely.

To quote Howard Devoto from Magazine: "My mind ain't so open so that anything could crawl in," or something along those lines.  The fact that I love post-punk in addition to prog probably says a bit about my music tastes. Tongue
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90 - 99: a balanced bandwidth of tags; the golden mean Thumbs%20Up
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 27 2007 at 21:41
Originally posted by Chameleon Chameleon wrote:

 
You got me by one, Dan.

But it was close. But thinking of the scopes of genres like "progressive rock" or "indie", I think I'm a bit more open minded than this thing gives me credit for.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 27 2007 at 21:49


I'm right about the average

I bet most people who listen to popular music (ie the actual "average') would get about a 20 though, so I dont know what they mean by "average"LOL that isn't to say I'm not limiting, most of what I listen to falls within some realm of "rock"


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 27 2007 at 21:51




Wow. No Prog... Confused



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 27 2007 at 22:15
If you think about it, this is kind of flawed.  I mean, somebody could only listen to really popular bands that are from totally different genres, like 50 cent, the beatles, RHCP, linkin park, rammstein, etc. requiring little open-mindedness as compared to somebody who specializes in an unpopular genre, for example avant jazz. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 28 2007 at 02:16
Originally posted by Bluesaga Bluesaga wrote:

If you think about it, this is kind of flawed.  I mean, somebody could only listen to really popular bands that are from totally different genres, like 50 cent, the beatles, RHCP, linkin park, rammstein, etc. requiring little open-mindedness as compared to somebody who specializes in an unpopular genre, for example avant jazz. 


I don't think that someone who specializes in any particular genre could be called open minded. Popular or unpopular ... doesn't matter IMO, the more narrow your bandwidth of acceptable styles is, the more narrow/closed minded you are IMO.

And don't you think that Avant Jazz is any better than Rap!WinkTongue
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 28 2007 at 02:47
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