Last.fm

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.

― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), donderdag 26 maart 2020 10:13 bookmarkflaglink

Haha. That's a dark secret but yep.

― kraudive, donderdag 26 maart 2020 10:21 bookmarkflaglink

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)

I'm still on this thing. If anybody would like to add me I'll add you back
https://www.last.fm/user/Algerian_Goalie

"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.

glad i'm not alone in my obsessiveness!

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 8.8.8.8
2. ping times reliably went up every thirty seconds or so
3. close AS
4. ping times were fine

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

Been flaky for me today.

same here. happens sometimes.

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 world
e-40 - GOAT
kanye west - lift yourself
kanye west - i love kanye
bill wells - duck
u.s. girls - rosebud
the invaders - spacing out
toots & the maytals - pressure drop
keith & tex - stop that train
the spinners - could it be i'm falling in love
al green - it ain't no fun to me
dionne warwick - you're gonna need me
johnny paycheck - fifteen beers
silver jews - friday night fever
pavement - black out
creedence clearwater revival - ramble tamble
ghostface killah - jellyfish
suicide - ghost rider
scott walker - the lady came from baltimore
ultramagnetic mc's - traveling at the speed of thought
ramon ayala y sus bravos del norte - rinconcito en el cielo
the strokes - hard to explain
flipper - sex bomb
optimo - liquid liquid
deerhoof - o ye saddle babes
james taylor - i was a fool to care
terry callier - you don't care

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.

one of these days i need to arrange matters so that ZEUHL is my leading genre of the week

congrats to me, i guess, for having scrobbled a quarter-million tracks

I'm almost there - 246,000.

Just checked and surprised to find out I'm almost on half a million - 495,000

Given that the world is burning I thought I'd idly check my last.fm stats. Looking at the weekly stuff they produce, I average around 400 scrobbles a week, which equates to about a days listening. Given I can't listen to music at work anymore, a fair amount of listening in a week, I figured.

Well, I'm following someone who regularly posts 6000 scrobbles a week, so more than ten times my amount and, well, what? Are they just shuffling 24 hours a day for the shits and giggles? A bot? Are there prizes for most scrobbles?

Answers on a postcard to the usual address plz.

I think a lot of folk just leave spotify running at work with the volume down and just forget to log off.

Here is my monthly listening report https://www.last.fm/user/Algerian_Goalie/listening-report/month

https://i.imgur.com/FHw2K9Y.png

Yours are pretty similar to mine by the looks of it. This dude has racked up 162,500 scrobble this year already. 586 a day. Shrug.

Is he a Minutemen fan? lol

This dude has racked up 162,500 scrobble this year already

I've done 120,888 in 11 years.

Just checked and I averaged 200 a day last year and I listen all day in work and several hours out of work so almost 600 seems ridiculous.

You'd have to be scrobbling 24/7 with an average track length of just over 2 minutes (unless they're double or triple scrobbling in error)

I remember a guy who had sth like 100,000 scrobbles mostly of Barney The Dinosaur, and was quite aggressive when people made fun of his profile, it must have been a troll but he never let the mask slip.

Same account for his whole family?

Nah he would search out people who made fun of Barney and leave rude messages on their profiles.

bo I mean the guy that has 6,000 a week.

His most listened to artists are stuff like Chihei Hatakeyama, Jon Hassell and Harold Budd so it's some pretty niche trolling if it is trolling.

Oh hey, guess I'm doing this again.

It seems I already follow you.
Here is mine should anyone care to follow me https://www.last.fm/user/Algerian_Goalie

of the people i follow, and myself, the upper limit of songs listened to in a week is usually around 300-400 or so

and then there's the dearly departed electric sound of jim at 1000+

Following, Neechy!

I just got it talking to my Spotify yesterday and already at 300+ scrobbles.

FYI: the first song I ever scrobbled was "Penny Arcade" by the Cyrkle, which was played at 7.43am on an October morning in 2009. I'm sure this is only funny to me, but sure okay: coffee and corn why not.

Wait, Jim died?!

Thought this thread revive might be about the news regarding a co-founder who sold Lasttfm for £23m: "Taxpayer-backed tech tycoon charged with sex assault"

xp

I doubt it if he's listening to 1000+ tracks a week. I'm sure he just means that he departed ilx?

Just noticed this new feature

https://i.imgur.com/GGSjf4e.jpg

for my weekly scrobbles I'm in 3rd place with 513 with ESOJim in 2nd on 1088 but top place is someone I don't know who I randomly added at some point with 4007!

Unless you've got apps double/triple counting, how is that even possible?

That's like listening 24/7 with an average track length of two and a half minutes

Maybe they just leave Spotify running

The newfangled Last.fm just asks if you want to grant access between them and Spotify. No need to to download the scrobbler or the app. Whenever I play something on Spotify, it registers. Of course, anything played on my iPod or elsewhere doesn't scrobble. Oh well.

This is me if anyone is interested: https://www.last.fm/user/space_. Kind of crazy that I can go and check what I listened to in 2005.

I'm at https://www.last.fm/user/quartz_city

Can't believe I'm still keeping on but I'm here: https://www.last.fm/user/thepoacher

Of course, anything played on my iPod or elsewhere doesn't scrobble. Oh well.

The iOS Last.FM client will do this after the fact.

most of my streaming seems now to scrobble at random. i try to keep up my irl listening with universal scrobbler but I miss a lot. kind love this site/app though more than most online things, there's a gentleness to it

I'm here fwiw https://www.last.fm/user/EdgemontSoDu

Can't believe I'm still keeping on but I'm here: https://www.last.fm/user/thepoacher

― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Monday, April 4, 2022 1:18 PM

"Your compatibility with thepoacher is Very High.

You both listen to Maxwell, Karate and Abdullah Ibrahim."

Okay actual lol.

I just added all of you guys. Not sure what that actually means anymore at this point, but thanks for sharing your links.