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Latest eMusic Albums List

Posted on | May 26, 2007 |

I’m not sure where the data is coming from, as I don’t think eMusic has an API, but this morning I came across a listing of all albums recently added to eMusic.

eMusic is notoriously bad at cataloging records, especially anything close to what you’d consider ambient, so sorting by genre isn’t particularly useful. But you can sort by “Label” and “Artist”, and while I don’t know that I’d use this thing too terribly often for finding new tracks, it’s a nice thing to have.

Speaking of finding stuff on eMusic, boy are there so many things they could do to improve the way the site works. If anyone from is eMusic reading this, maybe you’d like to have an ambient-music-listening, MLS-having, information & user experience professional on hand?

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2 Responses to “Latest eMusic Albums List”

  1. chi
    May 27th, 2007 @ 12:18 pm

    Hi, i tried to leave a message yesterday but i don’t know if it got to you. The long and short of it is: i have complained about the ambient list at emusic both to emusic and on their forum several times. i have even suggested they institute a ’space’ (ie zero beat) list there with no proper reply.
    i believe they will go along with any trance/house/breakbeat/popsong artist that describes their music as Ambient. The experiemental list is less confused!
    If you believe in a true enoesque description of ambient music complain to emusic about this ongoing mess.

  2. Tim Boyd
    May 27th, 2007 @ 1:12 pm

    Hi there,

    Thanks for the comment. I’m not even sure if eMusic does any editorial cataloging, i.e., they put records in to categories based on what they believe it to be, or if they just take whatever the label/artist gives them and uses that.

    In either case, it sure would be nice if they’d let users do some of the work for them. Whether it’s tagging records, or flagging things for review, whatever.

    Again, thanks for reading, and thanks for the comment!

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