About Music
At home I use the computer, probably, only to listen to music and browse the internet.
In one article on Habr it said that a Mac forces you to be organized. Back then I did not attach any special importance to it. As it turned out, the Mac really does have that effect. I had always kept music simply in folders on the hard drive. Files and folders were named somehow or other... and I navigated by those names. A perfectly classic approach. I absolutely did not expect to encounter a more convenient way than that.
A little later I started listening to music on bee.fm. I liked that you did not need to download it, and that there was a lot of it there.
And then came the Mac with its iTunes. And only then did I feel what that Habr article had been talking about.
And indeed, now you want to fill in tags, add covers - choosing and listening to music here becomes incomparably more convenient than choosing files. I had generally forgotten that music is files. Perhaps this can also be done in Windows Media Player. But there the user's attention is somehow not focused on it. Here it is.
Moreover, now I have installed iTunes at work as well. And I am gradually putting six gigabytes of music in order there.
But I am putting all this in order not only for aesthetic and contemplative pleasure. The second part of the story is about Last.fm.
I had heard about Last.fm a long time ago. For a long time I did not register there. Then I registered, clicked around, understood nothing. For a long time I did not come back. And after this whole story with putting the media library in order, I registered again. Earlier the ".fm" threw me off - I expected to get exactly internet radio. Something like the already familiar bee.fm. And the fact that you could not listen to everything, and often only to fragments of tracks, was very off-putting.
So after putting the media library in order, I finally understood the purpose of this Last.fm. It is not internet radio at all (though there is radio there too). Now I use the site as a music encyclopedia. And when I understand it better, I am sure there will be a lot more useful and interesting information to dig out there.
Here, for the current song, it shows information about the artist, the album, similar music. It is quite interesting to read all this without making any effort to search - everything is beautiful, convenient, and right there immediately with one mouse click.
Here is my Last.fm profile: lastfm.ru/user/raskumandrin. If suddenly interesting. And yes, I really do like listening to Pink Floyd right now.
And it is also great that once you know a person's Last.fm page, in general you do not need to ask about their musical interests; you can simply look at the site - everything is laid out on shelves there.