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.
― very avant-garde (Variablearea), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 14:40 (four years ago) link
No issues here (from the spotify web player)
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 14:41 (four years ago) link
I went to last.fm > settings > applications and disconnected and reconnected the spotify scrobbler and it's working now
― ogmor, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 14:42 (four years ago) link
Yeah, done the same and seems ok now.
― Dan Worsley, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 16:36 (four years ago) link
it hasn't scrobbled from iTunes for years now, is that true for anyone else?
― frogbs, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 20:18 (four years ago) link
I've been using Neptunes for years and it still scrobbling along...https://micropixels.software/neptunes
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 20:24 (four years ago) link
For ITunes, mine was down for a while but I updated the scrobbler app and it’s fine again.
― aphoristical, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 20:24 (four years ago) link
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.
― Melomane, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 21:17 (four years ago) link
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
― ogmor, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 21:20 (four years ago) link
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.
― tangenttangent, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 21:44 (four years ago) link
erstwhile ilx0rs like electricsound and stevem are still listening to 1000 tracks a week -- helps me maintain faith
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 21:56 (four years ago) link
Been Scrobbling for nearly 15 years and still have no idea why I like it
― PaulTMA, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 22:23 (four years ago) link
Yeah. Big fan too. Can we do more ourselves as a community?
― kraudive, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 22:54 (four years ago) link
would be cool, im still scrobblin away
― devvvine, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 23:01 (four years ago) link
Still scrobbling here too. 16 years' of data
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 26 March 2020 03:16 (four years ago) link
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.
― cooldix, Thursday, 26 March 2020 04:18 (four years ago) link
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
― the burrito that defined a generation, Thursday, 26 March 2020 04:44 (four years ago) link
It definitely seems more of a personal thing rather than a community one now. My last shoutbox messages were almost 9 years ago :(
― groovypanda, Thursday, 26 March 2020 07:53 (four years ago) link
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.
― Roz, Thursday, 26 March 2020 08:24 (four years ago) link
Nice.
What does being a subscriber get you - more analysis/stats?
― groovypanda, Thursday, 26 March 2020 08:39 (four years ago) link
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.
― Roz, Thursday, 26 March 2020 08:50 (four years ago) link
I still check mine fairly often without really knowing why. I've been on there 12 years.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Thursday, 26 March 2020 09:11 (four years ago) link
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.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Thursday, 26 March 2020 09:13 (four years ago) link
Haha. That's a dark secret but yep.
― kraudive, Thursday, 26 March 2020 09:21 (four years ago) link
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?
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 26 March 2020 09:34 (four years ago) link
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.
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 26 March 2020 09:53 (four years ago) link
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.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 26 March 2020 09:55 (four years ago) link
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
― groovypanda, Thursday, 26 March 2020 09:59 (four years ago) link
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
― devvvine, Thursday, 26 March 2020 11:24 (four years ago) link
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
― Corduroy Stridulations (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 26 March 2020 13:22 (four years ago) link
signed a guy who used to go to great lengths to scrobble vinyl and mp3 player tracks
― Corduroy Stridulations (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 26 March 2020 13:23 (four years ago) link
I had no idea that existed - cheers.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Thursday, 26 March 2020 19:08 (four years ago) link
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.
― michaellambert, Thursday, 26 March 2020 19:58 (four years ago) link
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.― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), donderdag 26 maart 2020 10:13 bookmarkflaglinkHaha. That's a dark secret but yep.― kraudive, donderdag 26 maart 2020 10:21 bookmarkflaglink
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― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Thursday, 26 March 2020 21:00 (four years ago) link
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
― frogbs, Thursday, 26 March 2020 21:06 (four years ago) link
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.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Thursday, 26 March 2020 21:23 (four years ago) link
had a laptop with iTunes until last year, and it was working just fine (maybe too well: it double-scrobbled every played track)
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Thursday, 26 March 2020 21:40 (four years ago) link
I'm still on this thing. If anybody would like to add me I'll add you backhttps://www.last.fm/user/Algerian_Goalie
― Oor Neechy, Friday, 27 March 2020 00:36 (four years ago) link
"signed a guy who used to go to great lengths to scrobble vinyl and mp3 player tracks"
I listen to a lot of SACDs with 5.1 surround sound. I have evolved this little dance where I hit play on my media center so that the rip of the album starts playing and scrobbles, and then I quickly switch the stereo over to my SACD player so I can actually enjoy the music.
― Melomane, Friday, 27 March 2020 22:20 (four years ago) link
glad i'm not alone in my obsessiveness!
― Corduroy Stridulations (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 28 March 2020 00:58 (four years ago) link
fyi I was having some wifi issues on OS X, most obvious symptom was poor videoconference quality. turns out the AudioScrobbler thing I had in the menubar was causing them.
in case anyone is still using AudioScrobbler and having network issues on OS X. it was very obvious for me:
1. open terminal, type: ping 8.8.8.82. ping times reliably went up every thirty seconds or so3. close AS4. ping times were fine
― lukas, Monday, 22 June 2020 01:12 (three years ago) link
I’m not using AS but last.fm in general has been wonky the past couple of days, there’s been a few hours where it would just suddenly stop scrobbling or my charts would disappear. The missing scrobbles do come back later on though
― Roz, Monday, 22 June 2020 06:48 (three years ago) link
Been flaky for me today.
― Dan Worsley, Friday, 24 July 2020 19:17 (three years ago) link
same here. happens sometimes.
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Friday, 24 July 2020 19:21 (three years ago) link
like the fonz I had to fix that shit by knockin on it, and by that I mean logging out and then logging back in again ok
it is much pleasing to see my results. I mean wouldn't you be pleased to see these pleasing-ass results
minutemen - my heart and the real worlde-40 - GOATkanye west - lift yourselfkanye west - i love kanyebill wells - ducku.s. girls - rosebudthe invaders - spacing outtoots & the maytals - pressure dropkeith & tex - stop that trainthe spinners - could it be i'm falling in loveal green - it ain't no fun to medionne warwick - you're gonna need mejohnny paycheck - fifteen beerssilver jews - friday night feverpavement - black outcreedence clearwater revival - ramble tambleghostface killah - jellyfishsuicide - ghost riderscott walker - the lady came from baltimoreultramagnetic mc's - traveling at the speed of thoughtramon ayala y sus bravos del norte - rinconcito en el cielothe strokes - hard to explainflipper - sex bomboptimo - liquid liquiddeerhoof - o ye saddle babesjames taylor - i was a fool to careterry callier - you don't care
― the burrito that defined a generation, Saturday, 25 July 2020 02:28 (three years ago) link
There seem to be two different Spotify widgets now (or there have been for a while) - Spotify Scrobbling and Spotify Playback (the old one). Lost two days of scrobbling as a result (I'm devastated can you not tell) - no communication about this from last.fm that I noticed, had to go to Settings and the Applications tab to enable it.
― nashwan, Tuesday, 28 July 2020 12:42 (three years ago) link
one of these days i need to arrange matters so that ZEUHL is my leading genre of the week
― mookieproof, Saturday, 20 February 2021 02:15 (three years ago) link
congrats to me, i guess, for having scrobbled a quarter-million tracks
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 11 August 2021 02:53 (two years ago) link
I'm almost there - 246,000.
― aphoristical, Wednesday, 11 August 2021 03:40 (two years ago) link
Just checked and surprised to find out I'm almost on half a million - 495,000
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 11 August 2021 06:39 (two years ago) link