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Last.fm tool: How eclectic is your musical style?

Please consider taking the updated super-eclectic test.
It's like level 2, for the 'leet only.

The following script takes the 20 top artists in your musical profile from Last.fm, and finds the collection of top 5 similar artists for this top 20. The resulting is a list of artists similar to your preferred artists. As the list is larger (maximum = 100), your musical preference is more diverse.

Please be patient, the script may require up to a 30 seconds to process your request. The script needs to download and analyze your profile and your top 20 artists. Last.fm policy states that we can only make 1 request per second, and the script's worst case scenario requires 21 requests. Caching is used to lower the load on user (cache = 10 minutes) and artist (cache = 1 week) database requests.

Also check out my scripts to compare your profile with that of other users, generate your personal musical tag cloud, or generate a cloud of recommended artists for your profile!

How eclectic is the musical preference of Babs_05?

Babs_05's eclectic score is

97/100

If your score is small (lower than 70) your musical preferences are very limited, and if it is large (larger than 80), then you have an eclectic musical preference.

BBCode!

The following BBCode can easily be copied to Last.fm forums, journals, ...

Take your top 20 artists. For each of these artists, collect the top 5 similar artists. The resulting number of unique artists is your [b]eclectic score[/b]. If the score is small (extreme = 5) your musical preferences are very limited, and if it is large (larger than 80, extreme = 100), then you have an eclectic musical preference. You can compute your own score at http://anthony.liekens.net/pub/scripts/last.fm/eclectic.php


My eclectic score is currently

[align=center][size=18][b]97/100[/b][/size][/align]

The 97 related artists for my profile are A Sunny Day In Glasgow, AFX, Andrew Bird, Animal Collective, Anita Lane, Antony and the Johnsons, Aphex Twin, Archive, Asobi Seksu, Atoms for Peace, Autechre, Avey Tare (2), Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan (2), Avey Tare and Panda Bear (2), Band of Horses, Bat for Lashes, Beck, Blur, Broken Bells, Casino Versus Japan, Christ., Cotton Jones, Creature With the Atom Brain, DIIV, DM Stith, Deakin, Death Cab for Cutie, Devendra Banhart, E, Elizabeth Fraser, Feist, Fiona Apple, Fleet Foxes, Fruit Bats, Grandaddy, Grinderman, Grizzly Bear, Harold Budd, Simon Raymonde, Robin Guthrie & Elizabeth Fraser, I Am Kloot, I Break Horses, Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan, Jenny Lewis, Jenny Lewis with The Watson Twins, Joanna Newsom, Jonny Greenwood, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Keane, Kings of Leon, Loudon Wainwright III, MGMT, Martha Wainwright, Mazzy Star, Megapuss, Melody's Echo Chamber, Mick Harvey, MillionYoung, Morcheeba, Muse, Neko Case and Her Boyfriends, Neon Indian, Nick Cave & Warren Ellis, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, OneRepublic, PJ Harvey, Panda Bear, Pond, Portishead, Robin Guthrie, Rosie Thomas, Screaming Trees, Secret Machines, Sigur Rós, Slowdive, Small Black, Snow Patrol, Soulsavers, Sparklehorse, St. Vincent, Teddy Thompson, Teen Daze, Terrestrial Tones, The Cave Singers, The Corn Sisters, The Decemberists, The Gutter Twins, The Hundred in the Hands, The New Pornographers, The Welcome Wagon, This Mortal Coil, Thom Yorke, Toro y Moi, Tricky, Twin Sister, UNKLE, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Wild Nothing, Youth Lagoon

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