Last.fm

yeah there are still things i'm not happy are gone (that you could see which or yr friends/ppl you follow/whatever listen to an artist and how much on the artist page was convenient) but for now i'm waiting and hoping they'll eventually be restored.

Or just revert to the obviously superior old version.

^

...and now album cover art for the "recent tracks" list is back.

i too hope they restore the social stuff... seems like a really strange thing to scale back on in 2015

http://i1093.photobucket.com/albums/i431/SwampMan91/icon_eq.gif

Heads up, you can now change your top artists/albums back to the old "list" format by clicking on your profile page's settings gears.

Cool. Fair play to them - the lists are actually better than the old ones now.

List of the most-scrobbled artists on LastFM, courtesy of Reddit user NubsFtw: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EC7c0wUD3IzqRT-zd1Rv2ebS6hUPolsZ4AMr_hRilWI/edit#gid=0&vpid=A2

Black artists in the Top 50:
Kanye West (#20)
Rihanna (#30)

Beyonce is just below the cut, tied with the Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish.

I knew the userbase was rock-centric (top 2 artists tagged as funk: RHCP & Jamiroquai) but remind me again why we bother patting ourselves on the back over the crossover breakouts of late Armstrong/Berry/Charles et al? Is taste less segregated now than the days of Louis Jordan and Jimmie Lunceford?

sounds like rym is fairly keen on adding last.fm style functionality, ways away from their funding goal though

https://sonemic.com/campaign/3/

I guess I'm just a simple guy but Knut here really tickled me when I logged on earlier

http://i.imgur.com/gHtNlwc.png

"You've got an ad blocker installed!"
Yes, I sure do.
"You've got an ad blocker installed!"
"You've got an ad blocker installed!"
"You've got an ad blocker installed!"
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Uggghhh fuck off last.fm I'm just trying to statscock

oh so they made it even more unusable? glad I left

It's a perfect combination of passive-aggressive popup and repeatedly fooling you into thinking that maybe you can use the site, then nope!4

Really not sure why I bother using it anymore, maybe I'll stop

deleted my account when they made the big update. havent regretted it for one second

Met cool people on last.fm that I'm still friendly with 10-12 years later on other platforms. afaik, not a single one of us are still on lfm.

Ad blockers are at least a decade old, why is it now all of a sudden that ad blocker blockers are showing up everywhere?

their use didn't reach critical mass or w/e until recently I assume

I've been using noscript for years which is a total pita, esp with all these gggdndtvbey.cloudfront addresses. I can deal with it though, but I wouldn't recommend it if you visit a lot of news/clickbait sites

Did another scrobble-type site/rival ever materialise? It's the only reason I still use last.fm.

I still scrobble everything and feel vaguely put out when I realise I've done something stats-invalidating (not turned scrobbler on, left work machine scrobbling to itself through a giant playlist overnight) but I don't really know why since I never look at the site any more: too horrible, too hard to find anything, last time I looked it seemed like there was basically 0 chance of finding interesting music or people there any more

I still want to believe, I guess

Did another scrobble-type site/rival ever materialise? It's the only reason I still use last.fm.

libre.fm (lol..) though i could never get it to scrobble so i gave up

When I really think about it, it's been a slippery slope since last.fm and audioscrobbler merged. Audioscrobbler was at its most stable in the first couple of years!

Just to be fair, it should be noted that last.fm now seem to have got rid of the anti-adblock script.

Also just to be fair, they have reliably fast intensive stats features running for some time now which allow for worryingly deep and detailed dives in your exact listening behaviour over the years, if this is your thing (it's mine).

Click "more tracks" from your profile, the first page of results is a duplicate of the tracks you see on your profile. Great work, I should have to click again just to get page 2.

this is only true if you modified your profile to display 50 tracks. which is a thing you can do, but whatever.

Ah, okay. Still kind of annoying.

I still use Last.fm and associated add-ons to get it to work on different sites, but the site is a skeleton of what it used to be. They have these superpowered algorithms that are not being used at all effectively. What is the sense in cataloguing listens when there isn't even a way to search artists or tracks within them? 'I guess I've listened to [X] about 50 times, so I'll skip to roughly the eighth page' is not a successful search facility. And as for cross-referencing anything with a friend...

I hope they get bought out by some wealthy fan who can restore the site to its former glory.

At least the app lets you see more than just your top ten all time plays or whatever it used to show. That was totally pointless.

Finally ditched my seven year old iPhone 4 for an Android one.

What's the best App for scrobbling from my phone? (Reviews of the official Last.fm make it seem a bit rubbish)

Simple Last.fm Scrobbler

has anyone found a good recommendation service?
last.fm used to have a fairly robust recommendation feature that recommended artists by genre which I loved.
spotify leaves me cold.

Really? Spotify's "related artists" feature is easy to go rabbit holing in for long periods of time.

I was kind of looking to short-circuit the rabbit hole process.

Welp, finally deleted the Scrobbler yesterday.

My final stats: https://www.last.fm/user/Austintayeshus

no more scrobbling for you?

they have a new LastFM app but you have to manually submit your scrobbles. Everyone hates it.

My scrobbler's still working automatically? (v 2.1.37)

the old one still works, but supposedly not with future OS updates

I got rid of it to prepare for the suck days

Last.fm used to have a really deep/useful recommendations feature - it's a shame even that is reportedly a huge pile of suck now.

Aren't there loads of scrobbling apps in any case?

I just don't care about the stats like I used to. In the past, I really wanted to be able to see an accurate reflection of my listening. Anymore, it's just not important to me at all. The Scrobbler has been installed and running on my computer since whenever I first started using it (seven, eight years ago?), but I couldn't tell you when the last time I actually visited the site was. Well over a year ago. Probably a lot longer.

last.fm have a habit of inexplicably getting rid of old features and bringing them back three years after the majority of users have stopped giving a fuck

Same for me Austin. Ten, twelve years ago last.fm was one of the coolest musical places on the internet. Loads of interaction, new finds etc. The beginning of their downfall was CBS buying the site in 2007 imo. I had a paid account until that time, but after the takeover, in 2009, they started charging for radio too. That was the straw that broke the camel's back.

Haven't been on the site for ages until clicking your profile today :) (very high compatibility between us iirc) I have the scrobbler and spotify also set to record what I play, but I never look at the site tbh.

with iTunes 12.7, LastFM scrobbler no longer works, so I've officially joined the alternate scrobbler side (scrubbler).

Oh, people are still using this!

hell yeah

Guilty.

it's helpful when you don't remember a detail of an album or track you liked, i def don't use for the streams or reccomendations anymore

I only use to track what I've listened to, and what my friends listen to. tbh I wish all my friends were on it!

I'll add ya, buddy