MA guides | metal amino starter apps

Hey Autumnal Svn here, the only cold star to exist. This blog goes out to new MA s not new metalheads, big difference. No this is not a "How to use metal amino" or "Guide to metal amino" blog, there's already an existing blog by an old here if you want to check it out BeginnersGuideToMetalAmino .

Like the title suggests, these are apps that other MA s use but mostly these are just my picks hehe so say it with me; "the comment section is always free of charge". Anyhow these are not that very surprising plus I only have less than 5 apps/sites here. These are just to put s in the same page when chatting y'know? So they'll know fit in with the community better. Especially dem new s as what this blog is for.

P. S. Im no expert in these apps/sites i just use em based on how i understand them so please be kind wil ya :)

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1.) Last.fm

(or "rate your music" but i dont know how that works)

By google's definition; "Last.fm is a music website using a music recommender system called "Audioscrobbler". Last.fm builds a detailed profile of each 's musical taste by recording details of the tracks the listens to. This information is then transferred to last.fm's database either by the 's music player, youtube, spotify, deezer etc. The data are then displayed on the 's profile page and compiled to create a reference pages for individual artists.

Right! So in layman's term, this monitors your music listening activity through whatever app you grant last.fm access to. It then shows what artist do you listen to the most, what song you listen to the most or what genre you listen to the most. It is all then displayed on a chart with all the detailed info right on the webpage. Not only that but you can also find similar artists you wish to discover or blogs about particular genres/band. Big plus because it still scrobble (monitor) even if you dont have internet through the free last.fm app

There's also these album squares you see around this app, they are created by another website but still using your last.fm data personally i use a different method but if you want to know how to make these album squares check this blog out Squares and how they're made

Here are some of my own screenshots of the app:

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2.) Music Map

Im not gonna copy their wikipedia description because its too complicated and boring BUT basically its where you type in one band literally any band with the english alphabet letters in it and it shows all the bands that are similar to the one you typed in. The closer the name to the band you typed, the closer they are alike. Check out the image so you'll understand more.

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3.) Metallum encyclopedia/ Metal archives

Ahhh metallum, some love it some hate it. But I'll try to keep it as simple as possible. Metal archives or metallum has EVERY single metal band in existence, am i exaggerating? hmmm. There are currently 141,827 bands listed in the site. So what you'll find in the site are band infos like genre, lyrical themes, discography and all. There are reviews and News. I myself didn't even know about this till recently that metallum is kinda like metal amino where you write blogs/reviews (obviously) and there are ranks also and mods and all that stuff but i dont bother with that part of the site.

There's also an app but not as good as the real deal website. Also we have our own encyclopedia of bands in this very app if you dislike metallum hehe (im saying "our" as if i own this amino or what not lmao)

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4.) instagram (metal amino instagram)

Haha yes, you really need to follow THE only metal amino instagram page. This where you can all them pesky mods yknow if you got banned but you think you didnt do anything stupid (unless team amino is the one that banned you) this is the place to be because the "metal amino ban appeals" amino seemed to have stopped service. Anyway dont wait, go follow the gram right now Metal amino instagram

This is honestly all I have for this blog, i was gonna include spotify, bandcamp, deezer etc but everyone knows all of them already and dont need more explanation. Anyways take care