New Dating Site: Tastebuds.com

[BRISH]

I just saw this site being advertised the other day. What caught my eye was that they base the matches on an individual's music interests. Creative idea!

I'm playing around on it right now. An instant drawback I see to it is that it matches you up with someone even if you only have 3-4 common music interests. Well, that means you'll be matched up with everyone IMO. I'm not looking for a match as in dating. I put on there I'm treating it as a meet and greet thing. It's really the music aspect that I thought would be a blast to get on there.

Any stories out there yet on this site? yay? nay?

I just think it's a neat twist. Some of these profile pictures are a riot. The "glamour shots" are a turn off. Although, I'm thinking of favoriting the guy with a picture of his head near a statue of a horse's rear end. (What? I think it's funny. lol)

 

[HazelWings]

Just as I had never heard of POF until fairly recently with Skype chats, I'm also unfamiliar with this one. Good luck though!

 

[Inkachu]

"Tastebuds.com" isn't a valid website, according to my browser.

 

[Obzocky]

tastebuds.fm
"Tastebuds helps you meet new people who share your passion for music
Tell us the bands you love and we'll find people nearby who share your tastes"

Is that the one? I've not really looked at it yet, did a basic search and found out not many people had the same combined musical tastes It does look fun though.

 

[The Honey Badger]

Tried it. Apparently nobody around here likes Klingon opera.

 

[dayhiker]

whoda thunk that!

 

[Qyöt27]

It links into last.fm, that's hilarious.

 

[BRISH]

Just as I had never heard of POF until fairly recently with Skype chats, I'm also unfamiliar with this one. Good luck though!

Oh I'm NOT out "fishin" lol I found that a lot of people are on there just promoting their music. That part's interesting.

"Tastebuds.com" isn't a valid website, according to my browser.

odd, I don't know

tastebuds.fm
"Tastebuds helps you meet new people who share your passion for music
Tell us the bands you love and we'll find people nearby who share your tastes"

Is that the one? I've not really looked at it yet, did a basic search and found out not many people had the same combined musical tastes It does look fun though.

Yeah that's that one I thought it would be fun too but it matches you up with anyone who has even just ONE band in common with you. When you list upteen million music artists (like me) then you'll be matched with everyone. So there's no common anything with me or any of these matches. I'll be deleting it tonight. nya

Tried it. Apparently nobody around here likes Klingon opera.

funny

It links into last.fm, that's hilarious.

Well I hope that's not bad because I don't have a clue what that is. yikes

 

[Qyöt27]

last.fm (aka 'audioscrobbling') is a site that allows users to log their listening patterns. It then generates charts based on said patterns.

For instance, what it reports* as the Top tracks I've listened to over the past 12 months:

#1 		The Birthday Massacre – Sleepwalking
#3 		Gin Blossoms – Found Out About You
#4 		Katy Perry – Teenage Dream
#5 	  	A Life Divided – Heart on Fire
#6 		Rob Zombie – Living Dead Girl
#7 		JP, Chrissie & The Fairground Boys – If You Let Me
#8 		The Birthday Massacre – Midnight
#9 	  	Lacrimas Profundere – The Letter
#9 	  	Kobayashi Aika – Kimi wo Mamoritai
#11 		UnSun – Home
#12 		Matt & Kim – Daylight
#13 	  	EastNewSound feat. Tsubaki – Flowers Are At The End Of Illusion
#14 		The Protomen – Light Up The Night
#15 		The Last Dance – Nightmares

*it is a bit skewed because of how I treat stuff I've purchased from iTunes, though. Unless that was actually counted under the '(null) - (null)' entry for #2 which I omitted from the list.


Tastebuds.fm can access those charts and use those to match users with better accuracy, basically. I entered my last.fm username, narrowed down the age bracket, and gave my zip code, and it chopped the match number down from 142 pages to a single page. Amongst those on the page, three of them were close matches, and four weren't.

 

[Sketcher]

They couldn't find any women with my taste. Typical.