Taking over Anywhere.FM

[alainbryden]

The site: http://www.anywhere.fm/player/



The gold: Upload your entire music collection which you, yourself will thereafter be able to access from any computer. On top of this, you can stream random music from the library of anyone else. The GUI is brilliant, and it even comes with some visualizers.

This site is a great way to discover genres you like, and find new music to buy / download, as well as take a look at your friends and see how your tastes in music match up.



The goal: Anyone else can stream your music from the player if they like it. Become the most listened to and befriended music collector on FFR and on the site.

When you browse for other libraries (Browse Community) the top 15 listened to people appear on that list. Let's all build libraries, listen to each other's music everywhere we go, and get all FFR members on the top 15 list.



Here are all the members on FFR, and their ranking based on my own personal preference, and some statistics provided by the website. My formula for their calculated rating is below. You should definitely add the top people on this list to your friends when you join, if not all of them, and listen to their music to help them climb the anywhere.fm ranks based on number of complete song plays.

FFR Library Scores:

Rank MyRating Name           Songs Comp Plylsts Plays Lisnrs Genres                                      
1    753      alainbryden    826   100  27      16875 251    Trance, House, Ambient, Dance, Techno       
2    546      Zageron        1620  13   64      2490  36     Game, Electronica, Pop                      
3    532      Hicn           746   32   43      6176  86     Rap, Hip-Hop, Techno/Trance                 
4    528      bluguerrilla   3887  20   31      211   12     Alternative / Indie, Rock, Electronica      
5    487      nadzb21        1523  61   24      660   16     Ambient, Dance, Rock, Hip-Hop, Electronica  
6    482      ELRayford      1452  65   29      231   12     Electronica, Trance, Dance                  
7    430      Mentalmage     1529  32   29      66    6      Alternative, Game, Techno                   
8    354      pyroshock      119   44   10      648   41     Trance, Dance, Electronica                  
9    350      r0nburgundy    725   8    23      97    7      Metal, Hard Rock, Classic Rock              
10   349      Chromer        378   20   29      299   37     Electronica, Techno                         
11   337      Tokzic         1345  8    12      511   42     Metal, Rock, Alternative                    
12   327      Moogstacular   537   0    29      154   17     Rock, Alternative, Techno                   
13   319      sleeplessdragn 16    100  9       69    20     Original, Electronica                       
14   317      bochean        221   0    18      431   23     Electronic, Avantgarde, Rock                
15   308      TheSorrow      521   32   30      27    11     Rock, Dance, Pop                            
16   307      Tibs           45    0    9       763   52     Rock, Electronica, Alternative              
17   286      intensez       125   35   19      63    13     Rock, Alternative, Game                     
18   274      Jurs           320   13   14      42    9      Dance, Rock, Alternative, Indie             
19   255      6LiveFree9     281   0    14      49    13     Rock, Alternative                           
20   252      lordcarbo      249   0    29      46    33     Alternative, Pop, Blues                     
21   250      SethSquall     43    0    16      122   20     Electronica, Pop, Rock                      
22   248      kenzya         297   0    14      42    15     Punk, Rock, Punk Rock                       
23   240      Nyokou         163   64   8       174   16     Trance, Blues, Electronica                  
24   236      mead1          236   0    12      22    7      Electronica, Indie, Rock                    
25   232      bobloblaw      300   0    17      24    15     Rock, Indie, Ambient                        
26   221      biffmage       180   0    11      23    10     Metal, Rock, Gangster Nerd Rap, Electronica 
27   214      Telvanni_guard 124   0    18      11    5      Alternative, Blues, Unique                  
28   205      windsurfer-sp  85    11   13      8     5      Alternative, Rock, Punk                     
29   201      Pumble         95    0    9       9     2      Electronica, Rock                           
30   200      FishFish       120   8    16      13    14     Hip-Hop, Metal, Electronica                 
31   192      purplepopcorn  660   10   11      19    18     Rock, Indie, Alternative                    
32   191      T_T            100   0    10      9     6      Rock, Alternative, Electronica, Techno      
33   179      CypherToorima  151   12   14      4     11     Techno, Goa                                 
34   160      p337           38    0    9       8     13     Indie, Alternative, Rock                    
35   157      Tps222         582   0    10      4     3      Classic Rock, Rock, Alternative             
36   137      adlp           7     0    13      2     6      Rock, Accoustic, Indie                      
37   124      TwilightShade  17    32   8       8     3      Techno, Electronica                         
38   107      Specforces     0     100  6       0     1      N/A                                         
39   101      loot           156   60   8       0     3      Dance, Electronic                           
40   80       felixjawesome  26    0    5       12    7      Alternative / Indie, Rock, Electronica      
41   65       gazeebo        11    0    8       13    16     Rock, Hip-Hop, Electronica                  
42   32       Raziel         7     0    5       3     9      Rock, Hip-Hop                               
43   32       Lito           34    0    8       1     4      Dance, Pop, Techno                          
44   29       lilshortieman  9     12   8       0     2      Jazz, Electronica                           
45   27       GLoVE          1     0    6       2     6      Metal                                       
46   26       xinpig         58    0    8       0     1      Anime                                       
47   22       fastfingers65  1     0    7       1     10     Anime                                       
48   17       CaZ            13    0    8       0     1      Rock, Pop, Rap

Formula:

Rating=INT(songs/LN(songs+2)^2*5)+compatibility+MIN(100,INT(7500*MAX((playlists-8),0)/(songs+1)))+playlists+INT(40*LOG(1+(songplays/(listeners/3+0.01))^2))+listeners

The formula is complex, but loosely works as follows: Your score is a weighted combination of the number of songs you have, the number of playlists, which determine the organization of your music, the number of plays and listeners, and the compatibility (which is subjective, and can be used to tweak or inflate scores, but comes from the compatibility statistic when viewing another member's music.)

To improve your FFR Library Score:
-The number of songs adds to your score with a weighting that decreases logarithmically, so the difference between having 1000 songs and 2000 songs starts not making such a difference.
-The compatibility is between 0 and 100, subjective, and is added directly to your score.
-The playlists component is between 0 and 100, where 0 is no playlists (discounting the 8 automatically generated ones) and 100 is one playlist for every 75 songs or better. The number of playlists you have (a relatively small number) is then added to your score.
-The number of plays you have decreases logarithmically and with the number of listeners you have, using low pass filter formulae so that users with few plays are not penalized for having many listeners initially.
-The number of listeners increases your score directly.

The original thread where lord_carbo discovered the site and people started joining up is here.