Rate Your Music

I've always had a problem rating my music - because pretty much everything I buy is bloody great and therefore deserves a 4.5 or a 5 out of 5 - so Rate Your Music was something I just shrugged off - I like the idea of collecting music online and using these sites to learn about more good music (it's why I love last.fm so much) but the "Rate" bit put me off for a long time. BUT I signed up anyway...

I still have a problem, even with a concerted effort to make full use of the five-star rating system, pretty much everything I've rated so far has fallen into the 4.0 to 5.0 range - but I'm trying harder. I like the little things about it - comparing my ratings to other users, having a map of the world with my music dotted over it. It's simple to use as long as I resist the temptation to turn it into a catalogue of my collection and instead use it as another way to find and reccommend music I'm sure I'll learn to love it.

In reality it, like so much of Web 2.0 it really is just about me - the person who will find my page most interesting is undoubtedly me (just like I'm the one who finds my last.fm profile most interesting!)