Last.fm

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.

xxp - it doesn't work with newer versions of iTunes

seems to work fine for me (Mac/iTunes 12.1.something)

It also works fine for me (Vista w/latest iTunes).

i don't care as much about last.fm now that less of my listening happens on platforms allowing (decent) scrobbling

Is there something more concrete about them shutting down than Dudes In A Thread Talking About It?

No, just speculation at this point.

I still hate the beta. Last.fm gonna lose a lot of users when they roll it out. I've had access to the beta for 2 or 3 months and its awful. You don't even get the pic of the album cover beside the tracks now.
http://i.imgur.com/3wIr75d.png
http://i.imgur.com/Bxpp07j.png
http://i.imgur.com/iN7Ajim.png

and yeah, it's drop down menus to see stuff

plus Subscribers cant see who visits their page

how do you see that?

every scrobbling mechanism I use seems to have decided to become a dick and not record anything I listen to

same, none of my ipod plays get scrobbled, plus the fact that a large portion of my listening is on youtube and this new design = seeya later

how do you see that?

― campreverb,

http://beta.last.fm/user/Algerian_Goalie

you need to be a subscriber tho

I think it's open to all users now.

They finally updated their Android app and... now nothing scrobbles at all. Nice work guys.

wtf is this shit, where is my calendar of upcoming events

WHERE ARE MY PM'S

you cant tell if you have stalkers now either

that's hideous. stop making everything so desktop unfriendly.
what i want from last fm is to see someone's entire music taste in one vista

i have no idea why they have changed it. as you say, it's hideous.

I'm pretty bummed out about the Android app not working. I use my phone as my portable music player and virtually all my digital listening is done this way, and I really liked having it log all my songs because I use the gig recommendations RSS feed to notify me when bands I like are playing live. That's pretty much the main reason I even have a last.fm account.

Apart from the official app (which has always been shit, but at least it used to scrobble tracks), I've tried Simple last.fm Scrobbler, Scrobb, Last.fm for Android and none of the bastards work.

This app has been solid the entire time on OS X: http://meloapp.com

All I want from Last.FM is for it to log what I listen to over the weeks/months/years and to display this in list form. That's all. And the android app does not do this and never has.

The old Android app used to scrobble for me, certainly worked a lot better than the Itunes scrobbler which never worked from my ipod properly, used to randomly scrobble about 5% of songs I listened to.

Apart from scrobbling the old app was total shit though. The events list had the wrong dates on it! The further in the future the gig was, the more inaccurate the date would be. I dunno how they managed that, probably takes some effort to code something that badly.

it always scrobbled, but you couldn't look at any top-tracks or artists lists, so pointless.

also, my top artists list has never changed since 2011 when for about 6 months everything i listened to scrobbled approx 10 times per play.

So, I've just heard from a good friend of mine that uses this thing quite a lot that apparently they've just rolled out the new site today, but unfortunately it seems that last.fm have decided to not complete work on the site before rolling it out, so the general vibe is that last.fm have half-assed it. I'm hearing about disabled features all over the place, the site generally not working properly and things going missing, coupled with the fact that it doesn't seem like many folks are keen on the new layout to begin with.

I looked over to the last.fm website support forum out of curiosity, and as you'd expect there's plenty of whining.

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

lol last.fm know-it-all ass bitch...
https://i.imgur.com/Uj0XFhu.jpeg

tesia is NOT a typo lol. the data is coming from straight from spotify. wtf is happening!?

(shoutout edge tho, good to see you around!)

also current stats-

Scrobbles

310,084
Artists

5,511
Loved tracks
1,179
scrobbling since 24 Oct 2009

haven't really kept up with the "loved tracks" thing in recent years. it would surely be twice that if i had.

I've been out scrobblin'