Last.fm

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

awesome

The recommendations was the best thing about it, IMO.

Ya

Also the scrobbling

Stopped scrobbling from Spotify for me. Looking in settings can’t see it under social. I see on Twitter a few others are having the same issue. Same issue on both IOS and Android.

same, that's basically its entire function thus why I stopped using it -- in addition to having accidentally deleted all of my music from 2005 to 2018.

No issues here (from the spotify web player)

I went to last.fm > settings > applications and disconnected and reconnected the spotify scrobbler and it's working now

Yeah, done the same and seems ok now.

it hasn't scrobbled from iTunes for years now, is that true for anyone else?

I've been using Neptunes for years and it still scrobbling along...
https://micropixels.software/neptunes

For ITunes, mine was down for a while but I updated the scrobbler app and it’s fine again.

As someone in his thirties, I find scrobbling a lonely endeavour these days. All the real-life acquaintances I had friended on Last.fm 10–15 years ago no longer scrobble due to changes in how they listen to music, or they got married and started families which dampened their time and interest in seeking out new music. I feel like the last living member of a tribe.

Looking around to see if strangers out there share my tastes is no longer rewarding: apparently challenged by the sheer bulk of music available to anyone nowadays, which means two people’s listening is even less likely to overlap than before, Last.fm has changed its compatibility algorithm. The way Last.fm tries to drive up website engagement by being too optimistic feels slimy and dishonest: now I’m seeing “Your compatibility with X is Super” even when we just share a small handful of common artists, and they aren’t even close to my most-listened artists.

it's all true but I love it. so much hot listening data! a last.fm revival wld be good, tho I am used to music being a lonely/online endeavour

I agree with both of these takes. Last.fm still feels like a superpower I wished was available when I was ten, and every time this thread gets bumped I'm terrified it's going to go away. It would be so lovely if someone gave it a revamp though...so much of that wonderful data is languishing inside the clunkiest interface.

erstwhile ilx0rs like electricsound and stevem are still listening to 1000 tracks a week -- helps me maintain faith

Been Scrobbling for nearly 15 years and still have no idea why I like it

Yeah. Big fan too. Can we do more ourselves as a community?

would be cool, im still scrobblin away

Still scrobbling here too. 16 years' of data

Mostly listen to vinyl at home, but still scrobbling strong at work and on the go.

Times have changes a lot since '07...
I still discover new stuff via a handful of fellow listeners I trust.

what would I do without last.fm? I mean how would I know what my top 20 tracks of the last 90 days are?

btw they are

1. Los Tucanes de Tijuana - La Chona (9)
2. X - In This House That I Call Home (9)
3. Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've) (8)
4. Olivia Kaplan - Barely Above (8)
5. Neil Hamburger - Three Piece Chicken Dinner (7)
6. Novos Baianos - Preta Pretinha (7)
7. Texas Tornados - Hey Baby Que Paso (7)
8. The Left Banke - Walk Away Renee (7)
9. Wire - The 15th (7)
10. Cate le Bon - Cyrk (6)
11. D Train - Keep On (12" Remix) (6)
12. Jackie Lynn - Casino Queen (6)
13. Mission of Burma - All World Cowboy Romance (6)
14. Nap Eyes - Mark Zuckerberg (6)
15. Teenage Fanclub - Everything Flows (6)
16. Al Green - Tired of Being Alone (5)
17. Boz Scaggs - Lowdown (5)
18. Duncan Dhu - Cien Gaviotas (5)
19. Guy Clark - Anyhow, I Love You (5)
20. Herbie Hancock - Watermelon Man (5)

isn't that fun? I think it's fun. plus tonight I got to scrobble my first Juicy J and 2 Chainz tracks and that's not something I'll ever get to do again, god bless this website and the 100% free amusement it has provided me since June 2010

It definitely seems more of a personal thing rather than a community one now. My last shoutbox messages were almost 9 years ago :(

for some reason, last.fm still thinks i'm a subscriber/pro user even though I haven't paid them anything in four years, and for that I am grateful.

Nice.

What does being a subscriber get you - more analysis/stats?

yep though I hardly use them - monthly charts, historical charts, library images etc. But I appreciate the no-ads browsing.

Back in the day, I used to subscribe for their radio streaming service but spotify pretty much killed it off so it wasn't really worth it anymore.

I still check mine fairly often without really knowing why. I've been on there 12 years.

Who am I kidding, I LOVE knowing my stats. And haven't once played a record and queued it up on Spotify so it won't be missing from my data. Nope.

Haha. That's a dark secret but yep.

I still wonder what went on there in what was it 2015/2016 when for no apparent reason they rebuilt the site, made everything worse or just removed features completely, then just let it rot. why even bother rebuilding it? what was it like working in their development team at that time? was there some demented management decision behind it?

I think the re-design was meant to make the site more phone/tablet-friendly, as this had been introduced as a factor in Google page rankings, and they needed to maintain the site hits to retain the ad clicks.

It's one of those things that I would just never stop using and would probably be low-key sad about if it went under. I've got like 13 years' worth of listening on there.

Also, for the recent noughties poll I was looking back over my loved tracks from 2007 or so and there were loads of great tunes I'd completely forgotten about

biggest stats gripe atm is that the iphone app will sometimes scrobble a song 20 times after i listen to it once

btw if anyone wants to add me - last.fm/user/jdevine28

And haven't once played a record and queued it up on Spotify so it won't be missing from my data.

just fyi you can use openscrobbler.com to do it without having to waste the time/bandwidth

signed a guy who used to go to great lengths to scrobble vinyl and mp3 player tracks

I had no idea that existed - cheers.

I use universalscrobbler.com to log my cd/vinyl listening.

Was disappointed to find that the new Apple Music app doesn’t tell last.fm what’s been played on my phone - iTunes did.

Who am I kidding, I LOVE knowing my stats. And haven't once played a record and queued it up on Spotify so it won't be missing from my data. Nope.

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Haha. That's a dark secret but yep.

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I haven't been able to scrobble anything through iTunes for 2 years....anyone else have that issue? the scribbler still pops up every time I open the program, it just....doesn't do anything

Mine hadn't worked for a long time, either. Since switching laptops I've abandoned it altogether (iTunes) and haven't missed it for a moment.

had a laptop with iTunes until last year, and it was working just fine (maybe too well: it double-scrobbled every played track)