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<p>I&#8217;ve posted a while ago about <a href="http://alcidesfonseca.com/blog/200"><span class="caps">APML</span></a>, a format that stores the attention you give something. Today I&#8217;ll show you how to get your own personalizes music magazine thanks to this format.</p>

<p>I assume that you have a <a href="http://last.fm">last.fm</a> account like <a href="http://last.fm/user/alcidesfonseca">I do</a> or a <a href="http://alcidesfonseca.com/blog/200">Pandora</a> account, If no, get one, <em>scrobble</em> around a little and come back then.</p>

<p>Thanks to <a href="http://tastebroker.org">tastebroker</a>, a project by <a href="http://blogs.sun.com/plamere/">Paul Lamere</a> of Sun Microsystems, you can export your music attention data into a <span class="caps">APML</span> file. If you use last.fm, it will be located at  <a href="http://TasteBroker.org/apml/last.fm/YOURUSERNAME">http://TasteBroker.org/apml/last.fm/YOURUSERNAME</a> and if you use Pandora it will be at <a href="http://TasteBroker.org/apml/pandora/YOURUSERNAME">http://TasteBroker.org/apml/pandora/YOURUSERNAME</a>. You will need your <span class="caps">APLM</span> url later. In tastebroker you can also get your <span class="caps">APML</span> for you del.icio.us account, but it won&#8217;t be useful here unless you only bookmark music-related stuff.</p>

<p>Finally enter <a href="http://www.idiomag.com/apml">Idiomag.com</a>, a daily music magazine that focus on the music <span class="caps">YOU</span> like.  Just write you <span class="caps">APML</span> <span class="caps">URL</span> in the input field, and click GO. Have fun with the mag that you will like for sure!</p>

<p>Note: If you get a "Oops" error message, try the following URL: http://research.sun.com:8080/AttentionProfile/apml/music/YOURLASTFMUSERNAME. It worked for me!</p>