Easy Way To Track Concert Listings February 7
I just discovered iConcertCal which is a very cool plug-in for iTunes. It scans your iTunes library and then compiles concert listings in your area. It uses your the location associated with your public ip address, but you can easily change this. The ability to change the default location was important for me since my public ip is located in Virginia.
This plug-in differs from tourfilter which is an online tour tracking site. Tourfilter you have to set up the bands you want to track. iConcertCal uses your iTunes library so you get up and running a lot quickly with iConcertCal. You can add additional bands to track in iConcertCal that are not in your library, but unfortunately this feature is not working in windows. I did not find a way in iConcertCal to filter out any bands in your library that do not want to know about. Tourfilter also has an advantage that it is viewable on any web browser while you have to view the iConcertCal via iTunes. Tourfilter also emails you new listings. There is another key difference between the products. iConcertCal uses the bands’ websites to get its data from which it updates weekly. Tourfilter uses local listings which it seems to poll daily.
In summary if you use iTunes, you can get going really quickly with iConcertCal since you do not have to enter much data. If you do mind setting your band watch list, then tourfilter gives you a lot more functionality and flexibility for concert listings. You can easily use both products too like I do. You can view my concert listings from tourfilter here.