Last.fm

VERY late to the party, but if anyone's interested in adding me, I just joined the last.fm revolution! http://www.last.fm/user/charlieframe

Hey DL, Mount_Analogue is me fwiw.

surely this must have been addressed in one of the last.fm threads, but currently listening to a ton of ella fitzgerald, and have to cop to worrying how it will skew my last.fm stats. that's insane, right? i'm part of the problem, right?

Um, yes.

Just listen to what you like!

I mean surely you're not worried there's a mob out there thinking "Oh great, not only does this bastard lie about him being a woman but he listens to ELLA all day!"

when i cared more about last.fm this same thing used to cause me angst when i'd listen to mixtapes i had tagged as "lil wayne & dj drama" or w/e

no, more like, if I listen to 250 tracks by her in the next week, that's totally going to SKEW MY STATS! probably put her in my top 10-- is she really one of my top ten artists? probably not. god, I need some serious help

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if she's not in ur top 10 how do u explain listening to her a ton

dig it; my top ten:

1. Denki Groove
2. P-Model
3. Ween
4. They Might Be Giants
5. Underworld
6. Scooter
7. Yellow Magic Orchestra
8. Happy Mondays
9. Ryuichi Sakamoto
10. The Bran Flakes

kinda surprised by this list, I guess TMBG and the Bran Flakes do put like 20-30 songs on their albums, just surprised Sakamoto ranked so high too

I'm guessing The Fall will be #1 all time at some point. It's unavoidable

if she's not in ur top 10 how do u explain listening to her a ton

it's insanity. but I guess I just don't consider her one of my top 10 favorite artists. when i go through big phases like this, it charts certain artists really high on my last.fm.

first and foremost, it's manic obsessiveness

my top tracks is compiled almost entirely of things i've listened to consistently over a period of years, but in the past few weeks there's one song that's beginning to creep up there even though i've only known it for that period of time. is that right? does it really deserve to be there??? (i've so far managed to resist the temptation to not listen to it and so keep the figures stable. just about.)

Dom, don't you know you can just turn the scrobbler off? It's usually in your task-bar... right click, exit. Turn it back on when you'd like to scrobble something "less embarassing".

I've only done this in regards of Oasis, when I had this really bizarre urge to to listen to Be Here Now and didn't want them fucking up my e-representation of myself.

It is craziness! I suffer from this crazy, too. P sure no one even looks at my last.fm (except Algerian Goalie).

I have a playlist of motivational German-language songs to put on when I ought to be doing my German homework. I've often considered turning scrobbling off for them, because they are not really my favourite songs in the world ever and I don't want my entire last.fm top 20 to be made up of them. Haven't bothered yet though.

(On the other hand, I put the playlist on every couple of weeks and I'm not completely sick of them yet, so I guess that says something for them.)

http://lastfm.obsessive-media.de/weekly/6x5/algerian_goalie.jpeg

i made a "bert jansch" station and it's awesome

If, when I did my initial setup, I only selected iTunes as an import source for plays, is there a way to also add my Winamp history? 'Cause the resulting profile is all kinds of skewed.

last.fm should add badges + achievements and totally gamify

or shut down

deadpool 2015

that would be a shame as i still use it all the time but i am wondering what is keeping it open tbh

I've heard about last.fm pulling the plug for a while but last time I checked they were gaining users at a high rate so I don't know about that happening soon

I would be absolutely devastated if they shut down.

How do you check to see the rate at which they're gaining users?

I remember seeing that some time ago:
http://www.skilledtests.com/wiki/Last.fm_statistics#user_accounts_at_last.fm

Could be bullshit obv and it was a bit better in my memory but still it seems to keep growing.

i'd be sad if this shut down but i assume someone else would pick up the torch for at least the personal stats component of it, which is all i care about anyway. it's really neat to have a record of my listening habits for the past 12 years, i don't need to have it social-media-ized though.

Imagine if they shut this down without warning, I could easily see more than a few people having a meltdown because their stats have disappeared.

I'm the reverse, I don't care about the scrobbling only the social media aspects

xp

they ever gonna fix the iTunes plugin for this?

What's wrong with it?

their "similar artists" algorithm is really really good.

i mean, the results of it is really really good. way deeper and more accurate than anything else on the net i've seen.

Your compatibility with space_ is Very High.
You both listen to Teri Gender Bender, Lucrecia Dalt and Stereolab.

When is that tour happening?!

scrobbled starless and bible black today, and learned the following:

(NOTE: Album covers and band images are not available due to certain legal restrictions imposed on Last.fm by King Crimson's management.)

yeah that's one of those weird anomalies arisingfrom legal shenanigans - like bryan adams not having an entry on allmusic.com

I was going to make a poll of this but blimey we have enough polls already

Top 10 most listened to albums over the last 3.5 years on my lastfm account

1. Billy Woods/Kenny Seagal - Maps
2. El Kinto - Circa 1968
3. Lil Ugly Mane - VOLCANIC BIRD ENEMY AND THE VOICED CONCERN
4. Fontaines DC - Skinty Fia
5. Cathal Coughlan - Song of Co-Aklan
6. ACDC - Power Up
7. Pearl Jam - Vs
8. Sofie - Cult Survivor
9. Mr Fingers - Around the Sun pt.1
10. The Reds, Pinks and Purples - Uncommon Weather

Finding I have to jump start the Spotify Scrobbling app by disabling it, logging out, back in again and re-enabling it more and more. Switching between desktop app, web app and mobile app can still seemingly really confuse it also.

Same for me. Although everything scribbled when the connection was "lost" shows up on reconnecting

my phone blocks it for no apparent reason and doesn't tell me, it does this every three months or so.

I got lazy about constantly re-connecting and found that the missing scrobbles will eventually show up after about a few days to a week anyway.

https://www.last.fm/user/Smithsixe

Your compatibility with Smithsixe is Very High.

You both listen to McCoy Tyner, Lee Morgan and Art Blakey & The J….

File this under 'things that shouldn't matter but HELL they matter': listening to lots of Grant-Lee Phillips and different platforms calling him Grant Lee vs others calling him Grant-Lee and the result being split results on last.fm. Damn. I assume there's no way of fixing this? (And, again, why should this even matter to me?)

https://www.last.fm/user/El_Zanahoria

Your compatibility with El_Zanahoria is Super.

You both listen to Acetone, The For Carnation and Bark Psychosis

Your compatibility with El_Zanahoria is Super.

You both listen to The Clientele, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy and Acetone.

Your compatibility with El_Zanahoria is Very High. You both listen to The Fall, Slowdive and Los Lobos.

Your compatibility with El_Zanahoria is Very High.

You both listen to Fishmans, Slowdive and King Krule.

Odd one, all my listening is scrobbling ok. However albums listened to in past 7 days isn’t updating or only doing so after several hours.

they posted yesterday that they had problems with scrobbling

Ah, ok didn’t see that. Thanks.

Aye, I saw it on Twitter.

We're currently investigating a possible lag issue with scrobbling, which started approximately 2pm BST (30 mins ago). Scrobbles should come through, but may be slightly delayed. Sorry for any inconvenience caused by this.

— Last.fm Status (@lastfmstatus) October 6, 2023

19 years today

294,477 tracks
19,637 artists

also i'm pretty old now

dang. 20,000 artists!!?!?

i just had my 14th last.fm bday last month and mine looks like—
SCROBBLES
297,208

ARTISTS
5,039

i need to work on my diversity, sheesh.

I'm 17 years and 6 months.

216,238 tracks
13,452 artists.

Also pretty old.

17 Years, 9 months
203,748 scrobbles
5718 artists

18 Years, 4 Months
92,224 scrobbles
14,323 artists

I have gone through long periods of not using it / it not working for one reason or another, so my page is kind of odd.

my original account sat dormant for a long time & I switched from it to a new one in 2017 but sometimes I end up logged into the wrong one, there's a lot of Sonos-related "this didn't scrobble" stuff but the stats since 21 May 2017 say:

47.,443 scrobbles
6,921 artists
9,953 albums scrobbled

I've only been using it consistently since 2020 tbh

36,092 scrobbles
6,158 artists

made my new account in april 2022:

36,438 scrobbles
2,012 artists
3,265 albums

tracks from 37,812 albums in my 19 years

top album has 775 scrobbles; seven others are over 400

Yikes. Coming up on 20 years in 5 months! I’m amazed it’s still around — and even more amazed it seems to be gaining traction with Gen Z (observation based on tiny sample, granted)

798,925 scrobbles
9,136 artists

I hadn't looked at Last.fm in years, but had to check to see if I had still been scrobbling all this time in the background. No, apparently I stopped. Active 2006-2016; 85,057 scrobbles from 16,362.

Since December, 2005 (across MediaMonkey, iTunes, iPod, lala, rdio and now Spotify)

223,599 scrobbles
18,104 artists
37,701 albums

My first two tracks were Philip Glass and John Cage and both remain my most played artists (5077 and 3961 scrobbles respectively) followed by Domenico Scarlatti, John Fahey and the Black Angels. Better Luck Next Time by Royal Baths is my third most scrobbled album and probably my favorite.

18 years one month

597,714 scrobbles
19,058 artists

Coming up to 19 years on 23rd December.

180,350 scrobbles
14,923 artists
29,612 albums

Saint Etienne top with 868, Bowie close by with 861 then a gap to Pet Shop Boys on 789.

since 20 Apr 2004, 132,555 scrobbles from 11,621 artists

My most listened to acts

The Clientele
Thin Lizzy
The Reds, Pinks and Purples
Fontaines DC

since 10 Oct 2005
153,076 tracks
12,213 artists
16 loved tracks

Since 2007.

528,443 tracks.
29,942 artists.
0 loved tracks.

Friend me up, creeps.

will presumably hit 300,000 this week

https://i.imgur.com/RMa5maE.jpeg

too lazy to actually bother, but let's just say this song will turn the scrobometer over

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckpf0aglO7U