Where Is Shelfari for Music?
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008I believe I made a plea for this some time ago, but I am reiterating it tonight. I want a service similar to Shelfari for music. Shelfari is a web 2.0 application for books. One adds the books he owns. I usually type in the ISBN and the database spits backs the details of the book. I select to add it to my shelf. From there I can do a lot. I can record when I read the book, tag the book, write a review, create favorite/will read/am reading, etc. lists, and so on.
It seems trivial to replicate this for music; trivial in the sense that if it can be created for books (and there a lot of such services: Library Thing, aNobii, etc.). Why can’t a music service be created that I can add the CDs I own, tag them, write reviews, etc.?
Folks point to last.fm. I use the service. I like some of it. When I plug my iPod in, what I have listened to is recorded to my page. Lots of statistics can be had from that. That is awesome!
But I can’t create a list of the music I own from that information. I cannot write a review of an album. I cannot create favorites lists, playlists, etc.
I am surprised such a site does not exist. Long ago I created a spreadsheet of all my commercial CDs. I kept track of what I listened to. The idea was to work through the list. It didn’t work. I still long for that, but I want to document it as I do so.
So, who is going to tackle the music web 2.0 stuff?