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Last.fm Task Two - Tags!

Thank you so much everyone who's got themselves up and running on Last.fm as well as letting us know you're there by friending each other, it's been such a great response :D

 

Our next task is - Tags

Because Last.fm do an annual roundup of the Top 1000 most popular artists by tag, it’s really helpful to increase awareness by tagging your tracks.

 

Lets aim to get Kris on some year-end tag lists for 2011. He did make the Top 10 tagged acoustic list and it's really important for users to tag his tracks, and not just with “UNF” and “#wiggly” but with things like "male vocalist", "rock", "acoustic". Fun tags have their place, people get curious about “#wiggly” & click…  But to get him noticed by the tag aggregators at Last.fm, we need some standard ones too.

 

We have a minimum of some agreed tags so that we tag EVERY song the same and with the appropriate tag. This makes sure we maximize Kris’s chances of being on the roundup list.

 

You can either tag the individual song, the album, or the artist or all of these.

 

Click on the “tag” button on the header.  For each song, please tag it with two or more of these tags, whichever is appropriate…

 

  • Male Vocalists
  • Singer-songwriter
  • Pop
  • Rock
  • Acoustic

 

You don't need to include all of these for every song - but for every song, please add at least two of these in addition to any others you might like to add.

 

This is the scrobbler screen:

 

Click on “Tag” (third from the left on the header):

 

Add your tags!

 

 

ETA:  Thanks to those that pointed it out "Male Vocalists" (plural) has a lot more uses than "Male Vocalist" so I've updated the suggested tag to reflect that.  Thanks again :-)

On to Task Three - Meeting the Neighbours

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Permalink Reply by dy77 on February 23, 2011 at 4:54am
Just let me or Amanda know here or on twitter (@dy7764 or @pomegranate02) if you have any questions! I was tagging before, but am more aware of it since we've been focusing on this project. What works for me is to open up last.fm when Kris comes on and doing the tagging right then and there. Kris right now is one of the top tagged "male vocalists" and it would be great to get him up there for "singer songwriter" and other categories. Super easy and it will be a good thing for him!
Permalink Reply by Sweetpea on February 23, 2011 at 7:00am
Of course I have a question already.  When you tag, is it tagged for good or do you have to do it each time one of his songs comes up?
Permalink Reply by pomegranate02 on February 23, 2011 at 7:13am

I like questions :-)

 

Each individual song that you tag is tagged for good.  But if you have multiple versions of the song, then you need to tag each version.

 

I hope that answers what you need :-)

Permalink Reply by Sweetpea on February 23, 2011 at 7:19am
Yes that answers my question. Thanks. Great initiative by the way and thanks for organizing. (you too dy77)
Permalink Reply by lyndsey_n on February 23, 2011 at 8:56am
Homework \o/ Hee, I have tons of tagging to do tonight :)
Permalink Reply by pomegranate02 on February 23, 2011 at 2:28pm
And make sure you eat your vegetables young lady!!!!!  ;-)
Permalink Reply by lyndsey_n on February 23, 2011 at 3:33pm
LOL! That I can't promise but I'll try ;P
Permalink Reply by Allyson on February 23, 2011 at 11:00am
You can also tag from LastPandora. Just thought I'd throw that out there.
Permalink Reply by pomegranate02 on February 23, 2011 at 2:28pm

Brilliant!  Thanks for letting us know :-)

 

Not being a LastPandora user, these sort of tips are really helpful :D

Permalink Reply by Marissa on February 23, 2011 at 5:03pm
Yay! Just got done with final project with journalism..and now I have project on here :) Will get right to it!
Permalink Reply by pomegranate02 on February 23, 2011 at 6:45pm
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Permalink Reply by tenma on February 24, 2011 at 4:28am
i think "Male Vocalst'S'" is more popular tag..? probably? haha

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