Post your Audiosrobbler userlink so we can always watch what you're listening to

The beta started a while back and now theyre inviting non-subscribers (possibly people who have subscribed in the past) as my alternative account i hardly use got an invite too.
So what do you think of it,Stephen?

It won't let me through actually. Says I oughta subscribe. Bah.

the shoutbox is at the bottom of the page and is much much bigger, shows a lot more messages.
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does it show both sides of a conversation now? i hope not, it's a really stupid idea that i'm kinda glad they kept, i can't deal with straight up pms

uh

No. But there is an activity feed where you can see where you posted on other shoutboxes/posted on groups or forums/wrote a journal etc.

no weekly chart? fuck that!

I will miss the weekly charts, but I quite like the idea of adding non-scrobblable music to your collection (though I suppose there are other sites for that and I don't use those). But what can you do with this info once you've taken the time to add it?

Slighty tempted to stump up the subscriber fee to have a poke at this, but considering I haven't even bothered to check my weekly charts for ages (and it used to be a matter of considerable sad ego-stroking every Monday to look at them and congratulate myself or something) it's probably not worth it.

You can change your top artist chart to a rolling 7 day one but it's not the same. I like the charts the way they were. They can change the look but they need to keep the principle the same.

I bet they've only done this to stop people moaning "my weekly charts haven't updated"

Yeah, I too have become obsessed with my weekly chart.

Have also just discovered the delights of the ILXor group radio station- I was unaware that groups had stations:
http://www.last.fm/listen/group/ilXor

It won't let me through actually. Says I oughta subscribe. Bah.

-- stephen,

http://www.last.fm/group/Last.fm+Beta/forum/95114/_/427454

* squeakypants said...

I can't access the beta
I'm not a subscriber, but I got this email:

Your account has been added to the list of users who can access the beta.

However, I get this message when I try to access it:
Sorry, the Last.fm Beta site is currently only accessible by subscribers.

The advice given was clear out cookies (or make sure you're logged in)

I'll bet that within a week of the beta going live there will be a greasemonkey userscript that will allow you to have both charts on your main page.

I think the charts will come back as everyone is moaning about it.

hmm. having played with it a bit, i really like it. the charts thing doesn't matter so much, i think, if -- as others have said -- you set your top artists to the last seven days. in fact, that way you get a rolling one every day, which is way cooler :)

yes, that means you can't have an overall top artists thing -- but surely that's made up for by the library, which basically does the same job?

i'm quite taken with it, anyway. bring it on.

I want my weekly snapshot!

LastGraph3 is an experimental site trying to come up with ways to graph people's playlists. So far, they do have hotlinkable graphs that always update themselves. Here's mine

http://lastgraph3.aeracode.org/graph/mackromackro/sig1/500/50/

..however, it doesn't really show which artists I've been playing. It doesn't look like much at all, in fact. I think later the site will have some neat hotlinkable stuff. But in the meantime, here's a snapshot from March to July 2008 of my last.fm plays in a neat sunset colored water graphic chart:

http://i30.tinypic.com/2ptyyro.jpg

Now, if they could hotlink THAT, regenerated every load, that would be awesome. Andrew G. who runs the LastGraph3 site, I think, is trying to work on this.

beta still not any better

I want my weeklies back dammit and get rid of that shitty player!

MEDIA PLAYER AT TOP RIGHT OF SCREEN FUCK OFF AND BRING BACK MY WEEKLY SNAPSHOT!

new version is sooo slow

and shit

Playlists are for subscribers only now
http://www.last.fm/forum/21713/_/432857

What does everyone else think of the new site?

What a fucking mess of a design. Who cares about that stupid media player anyway? The library thing also looks extremely useless to me, but takes up big space. Horrible.

If anyone knows a Greasemonky script to make it look like it was before, I'd really appreciate a nudge.

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i would critique but can't get the fucker to load

I also miss the dashboard overview badly. I'm with you on this Herman, this is insane.

Blueski, seems I was just lucky. Mine now looks like a html page from 1995. Djeez.

Yeah steve it really is slooooooooooooooow.
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Im glad someone agrees with me. That rolling 7 day chart is not the same.
I liked it the way it was before, Weekly snapshot on top, then top 50 artists then top 50 tracks. Cant understand why they've changed that PLUS that player is so horrible. Not to mention the shoutbox et al.
This really is a change for the worse.
And i really hate those last fm arselickers on the forums who are desperate to become staff.

yeah wtf about the dashboard? Did they really kill it? Because that was the only reason to bother friending someone as far as I can tell.

this is like when facebook did their hueg overhaul. these companies get big money from ads/investments and they don't have shit to do with it except pay programmers to "redesign" the site

And i really hate those last fm arselickers on the forums who are desperate to become staff.

shit i should've posted on the forum when i applied for job with them

there is a see who is listening now thing here for friends http://www.last.fm/home

fuck them if they nuked dashboard

ok I finally got last.fm/home to load (it keeps timing out), and that's a crappy replacement for dashboard. It just shows one song from each of your friends. What they had before was perfectly good.

I haven't even seen it yet (I saw a screenshot of the beta version a few weeks ago somewhere), but what the eff are they doing? What point does it even serve anymore other than for labels to push streaming audio on you? I always liked Audioscrobbler/Last.fm because the benefit lay squarely with the user, but now it's all about the provider.

front page is inexcusable

'selling out' will do that i guess xp

That activity thing is a load of shite

Finally got it to load. Damn. Pitiful.

Having the shoutbox at the bottom of the page does absolutely no good. And get rid of that fucking media player! And I never go to the home page, not when I had a dashboard anyway.

Fuck this.

http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/9416/lastfmnu0.png

This what the 'dashboard' looks like for me, now. FAIL.
Everything I liked about it has been dragged down to the bottom. Media player, recommendations, 'my stations'... all the things I couldn't care less about is featured prominently. Whereas the songs my 'friends' are listening have been put away on the right side. Too bad I just paid three days ago for the renewal, this blows.

Shite, that's big, sorry

For some reason the see who has visited you recently thing isnt on my page now either. They better bring that back.

what the fuck is YOUR LIBRARY anyway

^^^that's really the best perk of a subscription. xp

ha + with a subscription you could listen to your own radio station but it seems like now you don't need one to do that

I want my weeklies back dammit and get rid of that shitty player!

weeklies are still there if you click "Last 7 Days ----> see more -----> or browse by weekly snapshots"

ITT, people struggle to cope with change

True, but that doesn't mean some change just isn't good. In the case of last.fm, "that's not change we can believe in!"

I wish you could drag compartments around like you can on Facebook. Change schmange...I just want all the info where it was before. They can put bells and whistles on the design if they want, but I'm completely disoriented.