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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.

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

such as "Philippines 161"...

I'm struggling to think of where this is coming from? Slint/Papa M? Versus? Beabadoobee?

If you click on the country it'll list who you've scrobbled.

3 for the Phillipines for me; beabadoobee, Options, No Rome. Only one scrobble each for last two.

4 for me, the main one being Franco from, uh, DRC.

My top 25 Countries

Country Artists
USA 4547
United Kingdom 3072
Germany 413
France 351
Canada 320
Australia 205
Jamaica 195
Sweden 188
Italy 155
Japan 152
Ireland 115
Brazil 104
Norway 101
Netherlands 95
Denmark 84
Belgium 82
South Africa 71
Greece 68
Spain 59
Nigeria 58
New Zealand 49
Austria 48
India 48
Finland 44
Switzerland 41

and by scrobbles

Country Artists Scrobbles
USA 75430
United Kingdom 74494
Canada 5524
Germany 4229
France 3544
Sweden 2495
Australia 2336
Japan 1742
Ireland 1737
Norway 1596
Jamaica 1408
Denmark 957
Iceland 884
Italy 864
New Zealand 803
Mali 787
Belgium 695
Nigeria 643
Brazil 603
South Africa 498
Greece 464
Austria 463
Netherlands 418
Colombia 345
Spain 340

I worked out which countries have the highest ratio of tracks to artists, results are much more varied.

Saint Kitts and Nevis 75
Benin 37
Venezuela 33.5
Mali 25.3870967742
United Kingdom 24.2493489583
Iceland 23.2631578947
Zambia 21.3333333333
Colombia 20.2941176471
Guatemala 19.3333333333
Malawi 19.25
Canada 17.2625
USA 16.5889597537
New Zealand 16.387755102
Malta 16
Norway 15.801980198
Ireland 15.1043478261
Cameroon 14.75
Cebtral African Rep 14
Sweden 13.2712765957
Pakistan 12.4
Ghana 12.125
Barbados 12
Lebanon 12
Albania 12
Niger 11.6666666667

The artist from Saint Kitts and Nevis, Joan Armatrading.

Some of the labelling is a bit suss, The Tubs are my #1 act from Belgium for example.

i got 146 of 210 countries, but yeah i don't think it's terribly accurate. i'm sure there are a bunch of artists called 'alpha' but the one i've listened to is from bristol, not kazakhstan

https://qc-ckb.s3.amazonaws.com/ilx/explr-fm_qc.jpg

The detailed breakdown timed out on me - perhaps server overload or the 12,000 artists it's trying to slog through?

i have tried and tried for weeks but i just can't get that thing to work.

anyway, here's my current top artists collage:

https://i.imgur.com/9086w6Z.jpeg

here's the tier breakdown from top to bottom:
tier 1: women with captivating voices
tier 2: people with attention getting hairstyles
tier 3: japan is dark right now
tier 4: beat makers

honored to be acquainted with this ilx user

https://i.imgur.com/GsU9d4V.jpeg

I respect that event horizon

https://scitechdaily.com/images/Black-Hole-Accetion-Disc-Illustration.jpg

Is it colonel poo?

New (I think?) feature graphing scrobbles by artist over time:
https://www.last.fm/labs/artist-velocity

yes! i noticed they've opened up some of the previous subscriber-only "labs" data.

as for me, the past week's top artists has resulted in a staredown between new jersey and glasgow. proper 'game recognize game' moment imo:
https://i.imgur.com/HiOm6je.jpeg

On the origins of Last.FM and AudioScrobbler:
https://cybercultural.com/p/lastfm-audioscrobbler-2002/

https://support.last.fm/t/last-fm-is-now-independent/118591/13

Hopefully its future is secure. Would be gutted if it went down.