this year.

I own a bit of vinyl, and I love sitting around listening to it while reading a book, or similar relaxing activity. The only problem is that I’m unable to capture these listening sessions to my last.fm profile. I’ll admit that I have (once or twice) played the album in iTunes on mute while spinning the album just so I could capture the tracks, but even I’m to lazy to do this every time. Well, it looks like someone has hacked together an interesting solution using Shazam, an iPhone, and a simple ruby application. Shazam is an amazing application that can listen to any 10 seconds of a song and tell you what that song is. A short talk discussing how the hack went down is available at the aforementioned link. This solution is crude, but it shows it is possible.