Last.fm

VERY late to the party, but if anyone's interested in adding me, I just joined the last.fm revolution! http://www.last.fm/user/charlieframe

Hey DL, Mount_Analogue is me fwiw.

surely this must have been addressed in one of the last.fm threads, but currently listening to a ton of ella fitzgerald, and have to cop to worrying how it will skew my last.fm stats. that's insane, right? i'm part of the problem, right?

Um, yes.

Just listen to what you like!

I mean surely you're not worried there's a mob out there thinking "Oh great, not only does this bastard lie about him being a woman but he listens to ELLA all day!"

when i cared more about last.fm this same thing used to cause me angst when i'd listen to mixtapes i had tagged as "lil wayne & dj drama" or w/e

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

xpost

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

All I want from Last.FM is for it to log what I listen to over the weeks/months/years and to display this in list form. That's all. And the android app does not do this and never has.

The old Android app used to scrobble for me, certainly worked a lot better than the Itunes scrobbler which never worked from my ipod properly, used to randomly scrobble about 5% of songs I listened to.

Apart from scrobbling the old app was total shit though. The events list had the wrong dates on it! The further in the future the gig was, the more inaccurate the date would be. I dunno how they managed that, probably takes some effort to code something that badly.

it always scrobbled, but you couldn't look at any top-tracks or artists lists, so pointless.

also, my top artists list has never changed since 2011 when for about 6 months everything i listened to scrobbled approx 10 times per play.

So, I've just heard from a good friend of mine that uses this thing quite a lot that apparently they've just rolled out the new site today, but unfortunately it seems that last.fm have decided to not complete work on the site before rolling it out, so the general vibe is that last.fm have half-assed it. I'm hearing about disabled features all over the place, the site generally not working properly and things going missing, coupled with the fact that it doesn't seem like many folks are keen on the new layout to begin with.

I looked over to the last.fm website support forum out of curiosity, and as you'd expect there's plenty of whining.

It looks like some people have had duplicate scrobbles return that they got rid of ages ago, and private messages that they'd deleted returning to their inboxes etc.

uggh, my eyes

wow, it looks awful

From the sounds of it, they've wildly over-complicated the whole site. Personally, I thought it was at its best when it was the original Audioscrobbler.

told you it was shite

Music purists everywhere are cringing at the idea of song title - artist. Myself included. Petty, yes, but kind of a huge deal to someone who sees music as their life and thus Last.FM as a big part of that venture.

i've tried to compose a snarky put-down for this gentleman but really

just cancelled my subscription

A couple of months back, we launched a BETA version of the new Last.fm to registered users and now we're ready for it to go live to everyone.

The new, re-imagined Last.fm includes a host of innovative features that will help users better navigate, explore and enjoy an infinite universe of music.

Some of the features included are:
The new User Homepage - which includes tracks, albums, artists and events (with even more to come) - surfaces all the music you are sure to love in one handy place. Whether it's a brand new release or a forgotten favourite, click play to listen instantly via the new Last.fm Playbar
Last.fm Live lets you visualise in real-time the listening habits and trends of Last.fm's global community. It does this by using a series of interactive widgets that surface trending music, artists, most loved tracks and more. Essentially, what Last.fm users are listening to and where.
A new Library Explorer, which enables you to delve deep into your listening history to rekindle those distant memories. What were you listening to on that hazy day back in Summer 2009? Last.fm can tell you exactly that.
The new Last.fm Playbar, gives you access to a huge catalogue of music by pulling in music from multiple streaming sources and staying with you across the site wherever your Last.fm journey takes you.
Last.fm has also added Metacritic scores to album pages. Metacritic aggregates music reviews from leading critics around the world; meaning you can now see what scores albums are given by tastemakers alongside our listening data from fans.
By surfacing Last.fm's listening data and music in new and more relevant ways, we're able to offer users the strongest, most personalised music recommendations around. Last.fm does this by connecting the most popular places to listen, watch and share music - from Spotify to YouTube, iTunes to Tidal - while organising your listening history and introducing you to music based on your tastes.
Love,
Last.fm

get fucked last.fm

I assume "we're now ready for it to go live to everyone" really means "the site isn't finished, but you're having it anyway so fuck off"

and Metacritic scores on album pages? Big fucking woo!

this is awful

By surfacing Last.fm'stening data and music in new and more relevant ways

Music purists everywhere are cringing at the idea of song title - artist. Myself included.

Holy shit, they reversed it?

Goodbye forever, lastfm.

oops i self-mangled my cut & paste of their own mangled verbiage xp

xp I'm looking around now and I don't see any place that they've reversed artist & title (except when displayed as a stack, which I don't care about). The ticker at the bottom of the homepage still displays info in artist/title form.

Eh? I copy and pasted that directly from here yet it doesn't say that on the site. Weird!

Sorry, that was xpost to NickB.

But even so, I don't really see how any of this is in any way an enhancement on what was already there.

looks like they've removed 'friends' and replaced it with 'following' and 'followers'. 'neighbours' has totally vanished afaict?

limiting Recent Tracks and Top Tracks to 10 tracks is bad enough, but limiting Top Artists to just 5 is heinous

I have never given a shit about artist photos and never will

i like artist photos, but i always hate it when they show a photo of the other band x

e.g. the photo of algiers is two pasty-looking yorkshiremen in their bathtowels

The homepage is full of this information that's being continuously refreshed and it looks like some kind of fake computer screen from a spy movie.

left my feedback on the site. hopefully there will be enough of a backlash that they make some changes. I'm cool with overhauling the site, but I'd really like the option to customize my lists the way I like them.

album pic not being displayed beside the recent tracks as well as not being able to seewhovisits your page is the worst

not being able to seewhovisits your page

i didn't even know this was a feature

subscriber feature innit

won't let me listen to 40s punk, cancel my subscription toot sweet

Yeah, that was a subscriber feature. I can't believe I used to pay to use that site at one point, but it was cool for a minute in the mid 00s.

tbf I made some friends on there that I'm still friends with 10 years later, even though none of us use it anymore. So thanks for that, lastfm.

that said, it suggested I would like "I Miss Your Bones" by Hospitality, and I do like it, so thanks last.fm. I always have found their recommendation engine better than most.

On the other hand, I asked it to play "bands like Hospitality" and it's now played "I Miss Your Bones" 4 times in a row, which is a bit much.

WTF.

lol my profile picture has reverted to what it was a month ago.

Where the fuck are my events? This is quite impressive in its utter crapness.

If anyone wants to set up a new scrobbling site and steal thousands of users from last.fm, now's the time!

Jesus. My events are all wrong now as well, they've reverted to some earlier version.

This is quite impressively botched, to the point where it's so bad I can't help but think the new company strategy is to lose some users, maybe there are too many putting strain on the servers at the moment so they've deliberately designed something so broken and awful that people won't want to use it? I just can't believe their developers had a meeting and said yeah this is good, well done good job everyone.

I just can't believe their developers had a meeting and said yeah this is good, well done good job everyone.

I actually can believe that. The native OSX client hasn't worked properly in forever at this point, it always crashes. Their forum has a ton of posts about it, but no one at last.fm has addressed it as far as I can see. I mean, having the ability to scrobble is their entire business model. Why wouldn't you fix that?

looks like they've removed 'friends' and replaced it with 'following' and 'followers'. 'neighbours' has totally vanished afaict?

― feargal czukay (NickB), Monday, 17 August 2015 15:52 (1 hour ago) Permalink

Getting rid of the neighbours/compatibility rating thing would be quite possibly one of the most stupid things last.fm could ever do, IMO.

Scores of useless and/or deleterious updates to the website and they still haven't combined the pages for Elvis Costello and Elvis Costello & The Attractions

Why would they? Those are two different things.

Like, fold The Ramones into Ramones, as is proper, but the Costello/Attractions split is justified.

Just looking at my profile. Apparently I listened to the album Days by Real Estate 41 times on June 11th and another 10 times on June 5th. I don't remember that happening.

Agree with everyone that it looks terrible and it seems really confusing.

You can't get to Groups anymore. http://www.last.fm/group/ilXor still has the old layout, and they've disabled its charts (actually this happened a few weeks ago). Shame - I used to maintain a Spotify playlist of weekly top tracks: http://open.spotify.com/user/miketd/playlist/0tOUayXLSJS58cBIr5Fsa4

I find it a bit amusing that there's a bunch of people wanting to delete their last.fm accounts but they can't because the feature is disabled!

i bet that is deliberate on last.fms part. its a shambles

Just found the part where we can leave feedback for the new version. I'm going for the I Don't Like It/Sad Face option.

i told them i had unsubbed after being a subscriber for a decade

If they put out a statement that says or implies that the majority of feedback was positive, I'll laugh my tits off.

Don't they have to? It's part of the script - ruin something in the guise of making it new and better, ignore actual feedback, claim success.

That's exactly why I'll laugh my tits off, I honestly haven't seen anyone say anything positive about any of this yet!

Adblocked the yahoo suggests thing for linking to a Jake Bugg photo gallery.

Least favourite thing is probably the display of artwork by each artist, album and track in charts. So worthless, the jpg quality is v poor, several are broken and just slows things down in general.

Scores of useless and/or deleterious updates to the website and they still haven't combined the pages for Elvis Costello and Elvis Costello & The Attractions

― thom yorke state of mind (voodoo chili), Monday, August 17, 2015 2:06 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Why would they? Those are two different things.

― Johnny Fever, Monday, August 17, 2015 2:11 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Like, fold The Ramones into Ramones, as is proper, but the Costello/Attractions split is justified.

― Johnny Fever, Monday, August 17, 2015 2:12 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I sort of think that some "& The" bands should be folded into the featured artist profiles for statistics purposes but I understand where you're coming from.

The homepage is full of this information that's being continuously refreshed and it looks like some kind of fake computer screen from a spy movie.

― Johnny Fever, Monday, August 17, 2015 3:56 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Hahahahaha, it totally does... especially with the world map and the real-time worldwide scrobble count. The world's music listening habits completely under surveillance.

"A live global counter showing the total number of tracks listened to by Last.fm users since 2003"

ugh wgaf

I'd almost rather they brought back those awful adapted ad slogans in the footer.

just cancelled my subscription

― Cosmic Slop, Monday, August 17, 2015 3:34 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm seeing several others saying the same thing now... can't help but wonder what's going to happen when the "export data" and "delete account" functions become available.

HA!

This new Last.fm site will be used in Digital Marketing classes globally in the next 5 years...
QUESTION UPDATED 21 MINUTES AGO

7 ME TOO
4 FOLLOW

As an example of how not to build a UGC community platform that alienates your entire community. No-one listened to feeback from users and they just went and ploughed ahead with changes so that they can generate more advertising revenue.

Disabling the Delete Account function is sneaky as well because the one thing you don't want to get out into the digital media sphere is that thousands of users in your active user base deleted their accounts within hours of a change over because they hates it.

Thankfully, Twitter still exists to vent.

lol @ how angry people are about this

Basically all lastfm has done is move their bigdata gathering from the background to the foreground and everyone just realized they were statistics.

xpost:

You should see some of the comments on their Facebook page... christ! I'm struggling to remember a site redesign that's provoked such an across-the-board negative reaction as this. Having said that, last.fm have brought it on themselves, really. I can actually understand why people are annoyed, even if some of the reactions are a bit OTT.

Basically all lastfm has done is move their bigdata gathering from the background to the foreground and everyone just realized they were statistics.

― Johnny Fever, Monday, August 17, 2015 10:13 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ha, yeah... welcometothematrix.fm

Were Myspace this rapid in their self-immolation

MySpace were bought by News Corp in 2005 but it took them until 2008 before Facebook overtook them in the Alexa rankings. They haven't recovered since.

fucking awful =/

They haven't recovered since.

They never will. If there's one thing that's true about the internet, it's that a site which was popular and then found itself being painfully NOT popular will never EVER be popular again. You'll scrape by for a few years catering to your remaining userbase and you might, like Myspace, try to shift the focus to bring in a different group of users, but you're toast and you know it and everybody else knows it. Might as well kill the site and try again with something new.

Oh yeah, MySpace is completely fucked at this stage and has been for years, and I'm actually quite surprised it still exists. It's one of those sites that I keep assuming was taken offline years ago, and whenever I'm reminded that it's still around my reaction is always "MySpace is still going!?" - I don't know of a single person who still uses it, and everyone that I know that did switched to Facebook a long time ago.

As for last.fm, all it's going to take at this stage, given the negative reaction that the new layout has received, is for a bright spark to somehow come up with a better alternative and that'll be it, I reckon.

you're toast and you know it

Funnily enough, the moment I read this I started singing it as per the Michael Jackson song.. "you're toast, you're toast, you know it! dah!"

thing is, the website does seem faster

Couple years back, the Last.FM people were trumpeting LUMI - their way of "scrobbling" the web for you. You can guess what happened next...
http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/11/last-fm-founders-throw-the-lights-on-lumi-a-site-that-uses-your-browsing-history-to-recommend-new-content/

Answer: absolutely nothing.

Last entry on Last.fm's developer blog was January 2014.

Surprised to see there has been an official export function apparently for some time. Was this available until they did the switch? Never noticed it unfortunately.

How do I 'heart' a song any more?

I was kind of wondering that myself. Seems to work from the desktop app but not the site.

unbreak my heart, last.fm

I tried signing up for Libre.fm but that doesn't work either, never got an email to activate my account, and no way to request it be resent.

The internet sucks.

Not sure whats going on with Soundclouds future, but that feels like something Myspace should be monitoring as a way back in? (not that they would do it right but still)

As someone who dgaf about dj sets and mixes, Soundcloud will probably continue to be just fine for my needs. It's only people who are uploading copyrighted material that are getting scrutiny.

Is it just me or is there no "Forgot password" link anywhere to be found as I've done just that and now can't log in (and the desktop app has stopped too as it requires "re-authenticating")?

tbh though I just want lastfm to do whatever's needed to survive. i kind of doubt this is that, but if it is i'll grin and bear it (kind of shocked it still exists at all)

All I used this site for was a plug in which showed me my top 20 albums from the previous week and the previous year. This doesn't work anymore but that could be a good thing? I stupidly often found myself listening to stuff with the express purpose of pushing it up my charts so I could see the thumbnail in my "top listens"

If this kills my interest in the site it might be a good thing. I have one iPod full of music that scrobbles, one that doesn't. Guess which one I listen to more.

I suppose if this does kill last.fm maybe people will be more invested in making libre.fm an alternative, so it may end up being a good thing. I had a look at libre.fm but it's very basic, just scrobbles your songs with no extra features, and since the events are the thing I mostly use last.fm for, not having events at all is a deal-breaker.

The approach should really be: "your stats, how would you like to view them?" rather than "here are some stats of yours, presented by us"

Last.fm Unveils Brand New Site Design and Most Users Are Really Upset About It

Some disgruntled users have started a petition - 1,385 "signatures" at the last count in just over 24 hours - I personally can't see that making any difference at all, myself.

They've now restored/re-implemented the "delete account" function. Should be interesting to see how many users delete their accounts now.

The approach should really be: "your stats, how would you like to view them?" rather than "here are some stats of yours, presented by us"

this

Would there be an interest in a OS X iTunes data-mining app that could aggregate listening statistics similar to how Last.FM should be doing it? Asking for a friend...

The friend is me.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tech/news/a664005/lastfm-unveils-brand-new-site-design-and-most-users-are-really-upset-about-it.html#~plKjgcZWpDPdDV

I'm kind of willing to wait a week or two before rage quitting, you know? It's a dumb site for statscocking and finding out about music, I can live without it if I have to but maybe they'll fix it.

If you're pondering your post-Last.fm future, you might be interested in this article, featuring Matt Ogle, once of Last.fm and This Is My Jam, who is now working on discovery and personalization things at Spotify...

you forgot the link

sounds like something I'd like to read though

I really really hate the Song Title - Artist change.

Also they've changed my profile picture to an old one.

Also web scrobbling seems to have stopped working.

I do actually like the graph you get of scrobbles per year/month/week. Could do with some colouring in tho.

Oops. To atone, here are two:

http://blogs.wsj.com/personal-technology/2015/07/20/spotify-aims-to-automate-music-discovery-with-personalized-weekly-playlists/
http://musically.com/2015/07/20/spotify-discover-weekly-personalised-mixtape-playlist/

I do actually like the graph you get of scrobbles per year/month/week. Could do with some colouring in tho.

Yeah. I was really surprised at how uniform mine was. Basically seem to scrobble 100 tracks each and every day.

Good god. last.fm's "similar artists" feature was pretty much the deepest and most useful/accurate of its kind on the net. But with the new redesign, only 10 similar artists are displayed. Bah!

^yeah, this is my biggest complaint. I haven't scrobbled in years, but up until recently I still used last.fm for recommendations.

I also noticed that shoutboxes now only include the 10 most recent shouts (whereas you used to be able to browse through hundreds of shouts dating back nearly a decade)

^the shoutbox thing may seem trivial, but there was a certain value in being able to see how casual music fans reacted to Sung Tongs upon its initial release (also I made some quality zings/shitposts in Neutral Milk Hotel's shoutbox over the years, and I was counting on being able to return to them in my old age)

i just want scrobbling to work again for me

I've been scrobbling since 2001, and this new site is a real bummer for me. Its just so ugly and unnecessary, and they just dumped a whole bunch of customization features in order to make a website that is as pleasant as Windows 8. The site has made itself pretty unusable for what I liked to do with it, so I might just delete what is currently my oldest account on the internet.

I don't think I understand libre.fm. Does it just keep track of these weird no-label songs in its own library? It's reminding me of the OG mp3.com with these tracks.

i'm taking a wait and see attitude for now. usually when something updates and ppl moan i usually roll my eyes so i was kinda impressed that no, this change really is as disastrously bad as it's been made out to be. they've destroyed like 90% of the functionality of the site, on nearly every front - social media, music suggestion, personal data mining, etc. even w/ the cosmetic changes i have to think there was a better way to do that (actually i know there was as i've seen it in various apps etc ppl have made to personalize last.fm over the years). i scrobbled a) because to an extent i like have the data recorded and accessible (i can't justify this) and b) it made suggestions more accurate and useful. the social aspect came into play here in that i could see whoelse scrobbled this act and then see if they scrobbled a similar act and to what extent. a competitor would be nice, esp if i could export that data, but it would only really work if a) my "friends" were also on there and b) it was easily compatible w/ spotify, itunes, etc.

i don't know how many other ppl cared about this aspect of last.fm, overwhelmingly most ppl i knew used it as a streaming service once upon a time and haven't been on there in many years. it would be interesting and perhaps not that hard to do (obv they know what you play and when) for spotify to add this feature, though ppl might freak out on 'privacy' grounds.

I am a weirdo who likes meticulous lists of my music habits broken up into several different variables... and the recommendations.

So, lemme get this straight, from what I've been reading about this:

1. You no longer have "friends" on the site, more "people you are following" and "people who are following you" - why this needed to be changed, I don't know.

2. There is no way of seeing who your "neighbours" are, or the accounts of the people your music taste closely matches... therefore, how are you meant to find people to "follow"? Random browsing?

3. There is no "compatibility bar", therefore no way of quickly seeing how closely a persons music taste matches yours without browsing deep into their library, in which case you have to use the numerous drop-down menus to actually see for yourself, whereas before you could conveniently see most of this information on a persons front page.

4. No display of a persons age, gender or location on their actual profile, they've limited the "About Me" section to a smaller amount of characters and there's a lack of customisation to a persons profile. There's also (at present) no "groups". You still have your shoutbox and private messages, but basically it seems that they've hollowed out most of the "social" element, rendering it almost useless on that front.

5. The "recommendations" function has been pared back considerably, where once you were able to go quite deep into the recommendations portion of the site, now it only displays 10 results at any given time. Apparently, you can't "dismiss" anything or "add" anything to your library at the moment. You have the ability to view recommendations by Artists, Albums or Track, but from what I've read, people are getting track recommendations for tracks they've already listened to and album recommendations for Greatest Hits/Best Of's or artists which already have hundreds of listens on their profile. What's the point? It basically seems like they've taken a perfectly great feature and again, rendered it almost useless.

6. From the sounds of it, the seem to have focused more on the re-design of the site rather than solving a more frustrating problem, which is getting people's tracks to fucking scrobble properly without having "lost" scrobbles etc.

On the other hand, here's what you can do...

1. Better, deeper way of actually browsing through what you've listened to over the years, which I suppose is great, but at the cost of all the features they've stripped out of the site?

2. On the main page you can see what artists and songs are "trending", which is great if you choose to listen to or seek out music that way but many, many people don't - for those that didn't care about how many people were listening to Lana Del Rey, Arctic Monkeys, Coldplay or The Beatles on a daily basis, they tended to use the site by seeking out like-minded people with similar tastes or using the recommendations function. Oh, wait...

So basically, if you want to keep up with what's popular and you don't mind being a "statistic", then last.fm seems to be a good option. For finding people with similar tastes to chew the fat with or to find deep recommendations on that site, I think the game is up... as for scrobbling/stats, well, they're pretty useless just on their own. Personally, I don't need to see an on-screen layout of everything that I've listened to the most to know what my favourite albums or artists are. Remove the social/recommendations aspect to it and there is legitimately no fucking point of scrobbling - might as well use a search engine, or your "play count" function on your media player, and stop worrying about whether the scrobbler is working properly or not.

I guess audioscrobbler/last.fm was a pretty novel thing or a good experiment at first, but I think its definitely ran its course and is worthless in its current form.

another good feature apparently taken away: "friends who listen to this artist"

unregistered otm re: shoutboxes

i do like the new "top albums" thing

Just noticed a lot (if not all) of my duplicate track scrobbles were cleared.

Duplicates appear to have cleared for me too.

Last.fm is now largely useless for my purposes: apprising me of recent releases artists in my library, digging deep into related artists (and usually having to exclude other locals).

Has anyone found where recent releases has moved to?

scrobbling works again, dgaf about anything else

they've limited the "About Me" section to a smaller amount of characters

They've also deleted everyone's existing "About Me" text, whether it fitted the number of characters or not (pretty sure mine would've as it was a single goofy quote rather than an actual profile).

Someone I know is pissed off because apparently he actually used it to see which bands were playing in his town, add all the gigs he was going to, and use the resulting gig calendar to remind him where to be when. Now you can't see any of that stuff.

(I didn't use that stuff myself because every gig it ever told me about was in London, where I am not.)

Someone I know is pissed off because apparently he actually used it to see which bands were playing in his town, add all the gigs he was going to, and use the resulting gig calendar to remind him where to be when. Now you can't see any of that stuff.

That is exactly what I use it for :(

The big question I have over this re-design is what do the last.fm developers think last.fm is for? Do they really think that people give that much of a shit about how many people are listening to The Beatles worldwide? Who cares!?

You can betmost of the devs arent 10+ year users of it and just want to show off what they can do and dgaf about what the users liked about it

Yeah. I still think there's potential for a great music-related social media site, though... even though the ones I've come across over the years haven't really hit the mark, and last.fm seems to be going down the plughole.

Wondered where the gig calendar had gone, I maybe don't sue it as much as I used to but still found it useful.

It probably got bored of getting sued :P

ha ha!

The calendar was the only part of the site I really liked. I used to add events to it all the time.

I mean I think the general calendar is still there but not my own list of upcoming events I'm attending.

I hope Last.fm survives - it is the only non-cynical, non-depressing and global and inspiring music site out there. As an American from Chicago, it's amazing to see music made in your backyard find its way all over the world. I love it as a means of international communication and expression.

The site has always looked nice, too.

Internet seems hell bent on pissing on anyone's hopes for world peace.

one cool thing that's probably just a side effect of other changes: shoutboxes for albums

album shoutboxes have been around for as long as I've been on last.fm. ex. http://www.last.fm/music/Miles+Davis/Filles+De+Kilimanjaro (w/ shouts dating back to 2008). the main difference with beta is that shoutboxes (for users, songs, artists, and albums) are now limited to the 10 most recent shouts, and all shouts beyond that limit have been deleted.

damn, i ought to have known that

yeah the ten shout limit thing is terrible.

i want to believe that the new site is just presenting a new framework that's more amenable to incremental feature addition (i.e. more stats)... i should care less about this, though

i should care less about this, though

yeah even though i know that in the scheme of things this whole enterprise is silly and just not worth caring about, the changes still leave me extremely frustrated

looks like there's no way to change your location for events?

I just tried to 'love' a track while it was playing and it disappeared from Recent Tracks altogether ha.

Anyone followed another user yet?

Nope.

Yes, I'm still mad at how abysmally bad the redesign turned out to be.

I'm very surprised that nobody has taken the opportunity to set up an alternative yet.

Am I just being dim or is there no way to just see a feed of what the people I follow are listening to?

People are still using this?

Yes, but since I feel annoyed every time I visit the site and have to struggle to find anything I want, might be leaving soon.

you can never leave the internet...

is there something else out there which is good for just scrobbling plays?

literally the only reason i still have a last.fm, albeit rarely checked, but the scrobbler barely works any more anyway and that's the only thing i want tracked

I'm keeping an eye on this: http://listenbrainz.org

It's not ready yet, but could be an alternative in the future.

There is Libre.fm as well but doesn't seem to be under development and doesn't support events etc.

Good god. last.fm's "similar artists" feature was pretty much the deepest and most useful/accurate of its kind on the net. But with the new redesign, only 10 similar artists are displayed. Bah!

― brimstead, Wednesday, August 19, 2015 5:44 PM (2 months ago)

I also noticed that shoutboxes now only include the 10 most recent shouts (whereas you used to be able to browse through hundreds of shouts dating back nearly a decade)

― scarlett bohansson (unregistered), Sunday, August 23, 2015 5:26 PM (2 months ago)

both of these features have been restored/corrected, fyi

yeah there are still things i'm not happy are gone (that you could see which or yr friends/ppl you follow/whatever listen to an artist and how much on the artist page was convenient) but for now i'm waiting and hoping they'll eventually be restored.

Or just revert to the obviously superior old version.

^

...and now album cover art for the "recent tracks" list is back.

i too hope they restore the social stuff... seems like a really strange thing to scale back on in 2015

http://i1093.photobucket.com/albums/i431/SwampMan91/icon_eq.gif

Heads up, you can now change your top artists/albums back to the old "list" format by clicking on your profile page's settings gears.

Cool. Fair play to them - the lists are actually better than the old ones now.

List of the most-scrobbled artists on LastFM, courtesy of Reddit user NubsFtw: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EC7c0wUD3IzqRT-zd1Rv2ebS6hUPolsZ4AMr_hRilWI/edit#gid=0&vpid=A2

Black artists in the Top 50:
Kanye West (#20)
Rihanna (#30)

Beyonce is just below the cut, tied with the Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish.

I knew the userbase was rock-centric (top 2 artists tagged as funk: RHCP & Jamiroquai) but remind me again why we bother patting ourselves on the back over the crossover breakouts of late Armstrong/Berry/Charles et al? Is taste less segregated now than the days of Louis Jordan and Jimmie Lunceford?

sounds like rym is fairly keen on adding last.fm style functionality, ways away from their funding goal though

https://sonemic.com/campaign/3/

I guess I'm just a simple guy but Knut here really tickled me when I logged on earlier

http://i.imgur.com/gHtNlwc.png

"You've got an ad blocker installed!"
Yes, I sure do.
"You've got an ad blocker installed!"
"You've got an ad blocker installed!"
"You've got an ad blocker installed!"
"You've got an ad blocker installed!"
"You've got an ad blocker installed!"
Uggghhh fuck off last.fm I'm just trying to statscock

oh so they made it even more unusable? glad I left

It's a perfect combination of passive-aggressive popup and repeatedly fooling you into thinking that maybe you can use the site, then nope!4

Really not sure why I bother using it anymore, maybe I'll stop

deleted my account when they made the big update. havent regretted it for one second

Met cool people on last.fm that I'm still friendly with 10-12 years later on other platforms. afaik, not a single one of us are still on lfm.

Ad blockers are at least a decade old, why is it now all of a sudden that ad blocker blockers are showing up everywhere?

their use didn't reach critical mass or w/e until recently I assume

I've been using noscript for years which is a total pita, esp with all these gggdndtvbey.cloudfront addresses. I can deal with it though, but I wouldn't recommend it if you visit a lot of news/clickbait sites

Did another scrobble-type site/rival ever materialise? It's the only reason I still use last.fm.

I still scrobble everything and feel vaguely put out when I realise I've done something stats-invalidating (not turned scrobbler on, left work machine scrobbling to itself through a giant playlist overnight) but I don't really know why since I never look at the site any more: too horrible, too hard to find anything, last time I looked it seemed like there was basically 0 chance of finding interesting music or people there any more

I still want to believe, I guess

Did another scrobble-type site/rival ever materialise? It's the only reason I still use last.fm.

libre.fm (lol..) though i could never get it to scrobble so i gave up

When I really think about it, it's been a slippery slope since last.fm and audioscrobbler merged. Audioscrobbler was at its most stable in the first couple of years!

Just to be fair, it should be noted that last.fm now seem to have got rid of the anti-adblock script.

Also just to be fair, they have reliably fast intensive stats features running for some time now which allow for worryingly deep and detailed dives in your exact listening behaviour over the years, if this is your thing (it's mine).

Click "more tracks" from your profile, the first page of results is a duplicate of the tracks you see on your profile. Great work, I should have to click again just to get page 2.

this is only true if you modified your profile to display 50 tracks. which is a thing you can do, but whatever.

Ah, okay. Still kind of annoying.

I still use Last.fm and associated add-ons to get it to work on different sites, but the site is a skeleton of what it used to be. They have these superpowered algorithms that are not being used at all effectively. What is the sense in cataloguing listens when there isn't even a way to search artists or tracks within them? 'I guess I've listened to [X] about 50 times, so I'll skip to roughly the eighth page' is not a successful search facility. And as for cross-referencing anything with a friend...

I hope they get bought out by some wealthy fan who can restore the site to its former glory.

At least the app lets you see more than just your top ten all time plays or whatever it used to show. That was totally pointless.

Finally ditched my seven year old iPhone 4 for an Android one.

What's the best App for scrobbling from my phone? (Reviews of the official Last.fm make it seem a bit rubbish)

Simple Last.fm Scrobbler

has anyone found a good recommendation service?
last.fm used to have a fairly robust recommendation feature that recommended artists by genre which I loved.
spotify leaves me cold.

Really? Spotify's "related artists" feature is easy to go rabbit holing in for long periods of time.

I was kind of looking to short-circuit the rabbit hole process.

Welp, finally deleted the Scrobbler yesterday.

My final stats: https://www.last.fm/user/Austintayeshus

no more scrobbling for you?

they have a new LastFM app but you have to manually submit your scrobbles. Everyone hates it.

My scrobbler's still working automatically? (v 2.1.37)

the old one still works, but supposedly not with future OS updates

I got rid of it to prepare for the suck days

Last.fm used to have a really deep/useful recommendations feature - it's a shame even that is reportedly a huge pile of suck now.

Aren't there loads of scrobbling apps in any case?

I just don't care about the stats like I used to. In the past, I really wanted to be able to see an accurate reflection of my listening. Anymore, it's just not important to me at all. The Scrobbler has been installed and running on my computer since whenever I first started using it (seven, eight years ago?), but I couldn't tell you when the last time I actually visited the site was. Well over a year ago. Probably a lot longer.

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.

― 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.

Maxwell, Karate and Abullah Ibrahim is just the kind of dinner party I'm here for. Bring it.

Your compatibility with thepoacher is Super.

You both listen to Big Thief, Grouper and Karate.

Your compatibility with Austintayeshus is High.

You both listen to Karate, Grant Green and Fugazi.

Your compatibility with EdgemontSoDu is Very High.

You both listen to Big Thief, Anna von Hausswolff and The Meters.

Your compatibility with space_ is Very High.

You both listen to Mdou Moctar, Low and Insides.

Your compatibility with quartz_city is Very High.

You both listen to Loop, Spacemen 3 and Spiritualized. Hehe Chris, that is so predictable, innit?

Some excellent taste you guys have

https://www.last.fm/user/groovypanda

Your compatibility with thepoacher is Very High.
You both listen to Cleo Sol, Rochelle Jordan and Tim Clément

Your compatibility with space_ is Very High.
You both listen to Jane Weaver, Rochelle Jordan and Loscil.

Your compatibility with EdgemontSoDu is Low.
You both listen to Depeche Mode, Daft Punk and Stars of the Lid.

Your compatibility with Algerian_Goalie is Low.
You both listen to Spiritualized, Insides and The Bug

Your compatibility with quartz_city is Medium.
You both listen to Spiritualized, Stars of the Lid and Loscil.

alright, I've added all of you. this one is me:

https://www.last.fm/user/JAMOOL

First week back into it and:

961 Scrobbles
You scrobbled on average more than 96% of all Last.fm users this week.

You would think I'd spend my time listening to something other than "telepatía" but here we are.

Also not to be all like, "HEY LOOKAH ME!" but I've been binging DJ Muro on YouTube. So if I'm not currently listening on Spotify, there's like a 98% chance I'm either sleeping or listening to DJ Muro. I wish there was a way to scrobble those mixes. I used to have a link to a web-based "manual scrobbler" but I think Last.fm started blocking it. Anybody know of anything?

https://openscrobbler.com

Brilliant, thank you!

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

― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 4 April 2022 20:21 (five days ago)

Oh, FWIW: https://www.last.fm/user/hamicle

love the idea of this more than i could keep up with scrobblin (made several false starts with the Spotify linkage, Android apps that watch other apps, the manual open scrobbling, etc). Still gonna bookmark this thread as a way to find good suggestions. thanks for the profile links.

thanks Austin for mentioning DJ Muro, i haven't thought of him in years. I am filling up a USB stick for my new used car and these mixes will go great

started a new account from scratch, idk https://www.last.fm/user/flamencodrop

my top tracks will all be from my writing playlist, inevitably

20 years old!
https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/22/23473358/lastfm-discord-bot-neil-young-spotify

honestly last.fm/goodreads/scrobbling stuff is the best of the internet

I had to stop scrobbling stuff because it was an obsession (and because Last.fm on Mac is fucked.)

The amount of time I spent correcting scrobbles from my iPod ...

none of those words are in the Bible, etc

starting a new account is one of the best things i’ve done this year. it’s… focused? my listening

I had to stop scrobbling stuff because it was an obsession (and because Last.fm on Mac is fucked.)

Like I mentioned upthread, Neptunes is *so much better* at scrobbling on the Mac.
https://www.neptunesmac.app

!!!

I still scrobble for my own amusement, but the social nature of the site largely died years ago, once concert listings were removed and the disastrous redesign happened. A decade ago, the site was so popular that, at least in my country, a lot of one’s hipster friends were scrobbling there. Plus, it was easy to make new real-life friends by seeing who else in your town was listening to X and arranging to meet up. That doesn’t really happen anymore.

my android scrobbler stopped working a couple of weeks ago and I had no idea until yesterday, was easy to reset, but lost all those scribbles, annoying, this is not the first time either.

I wasn't aware of any issues scrobbling on Macs although as I play music through two I know that it works fine on one but then for scrobbles to be logged from the other I have to start a new session or resume it back on the first Mac.

And so yeah the obsession just about continues.

got Neptunes but it won't open.

my top most played new tracks of the year (had to compile this myself):

1. mariah the scientist — "church" 79 plays
2. kendrick lamar — "rich spirit" 73 plays
3. ella mai — "power of a woman" 56 plays
4. lucky date — "feels like" 47 plays
5. carla morrisson — "diamantes" 42 plays
6. sza — "shirt" 41 plays
7. kendrick lamar — "mirror" 40 plays
8. kendrick lamar — "die hard" 34 plays
9. kendrick lamar — "the heart part 5" 33 plays
10. lightning in a twilight hour — "the circling of the seasons" 28 plays

*lucky DAYE sry

nice, my most played tracks EVER are only just over 50 plays

i just started using this again after like 13 years.

welcome back! it rules

I'm mainly doing it for the scrobbling feature but if anyone wants to add me (I think I'm connected to like three other ilxors and no one else now) feel free: https://www.last.fm/user/akmonday/

also scrobbling this year! https://www.last.fm/user/elinsound

I started again a bit over a year ago. charts are still a bit odd, but slowly improving.

https://www.last.fm/user/weejay

Followed!

https://www.last.fm/user/thepoacher

it seems that this now won't scrobble music played via apple music on mobile, is this true?

I have to turn scrobbling off and on again every few months on my phone as it will suddenly stop for no obvious reason every now and again.

it seems that this now won't scrobble music played via apple music on mobile, is this true?

You have to get another app to do it manual. QuietScrob. Works well although not free. Not expensive nevertheless.

The last.fm app scrabbles, you just have to do it manually.

Still out there, still scrobbling https://www.last.fm/user/quartz_city

followed all of you, I'm https://www.last.fm/user/space_

Your compatibility with space_ is Super.

You both listen to The Beths, Real Lies and Eddie Chacon

Your compatibility with space_ is Very High.
You both listen to Teri Gender Bender, Lucrecia Dalt and Stereolab.

When is that tour happening?!

scrobbled starless and bible black today, and learned the following:

(NOTE: Album covers and band images are not available due to certain legal restrictions imposed on Last.fm by King Crimson's management.)

yeah that's one of those weird anomalies arisingfrom legal shenanigans - like bryan adams not having an entry on allmusic.com

I was going to make a poll of this but blimey we have enough polls already

Top 10 most listened to albums over the last 3.5 years on my lastfm account

1. Billy Woods/Kenny Seagal - Maps
2. El Kinto - Circa 1968
3. Lil Ugly Mane - VOLCANIC BIRD ENEMY AND THE VOICED CONCERN
4. Fontaines DC - Skinty Fia
5. Cathal Coughlan - Song of Co-Aklan
6. ACDC - Power Up
7. Pearl Jam - Vs
8. Sofie - Cult Survivor
9. Mr Fingers - Around the Sun pt.1
10. The Reds, Pinks and Purples - Uncommon Weather

Finding I have to jump start the Spotify Scrobbling app by disabling it, logging out, back in again and re-enabling it more and more. Switching between desktop app, web app and mobile app can still seemingly really confuse it also.

Same for me. Although everything scribbled when the connection was "lost" shows up on reconnecting

my phone blocks it for no apparent reason and doesn't tell me, it does this every three months or so.

I got lazy about constantly re-connecting and found that the missing scrobbles will eventually show up after about a few days to a week anyway.

https://www.last.fm/user/Smithsixe

Your compatibility with Smithsixe is Very High.

You both listen to McCoy Tyner, Lee Morgan and Art Blakey & The J….

File this under 'things that shouldn't matter but HELL they matter': listening to lots of Grant-Lee Phillips and different platforms calling him Grant Lee vs others calling him Grant-Lee and the result being split results on last.fm. Damn. I assume there's no way of fixing this? (And, again, why should this even matter to me?)

https://www.last.fm/user/El_Zanahoria

Your compatibility with El_Zanahoria is Super.

You both listen to Acetone, The For Carnation and Bark Psychosis

Your compatibility with El_Zanahoria is Super.

You both listen to The Clientele, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy and Acetone.

Your compatibility with El_Zanahoria is Very High. You both listen to The Fall, Slowdive and Los Lobos.

Your compatibility with El_Zanahoria is Very High.

You both listen to Fishmans, Slowdive and King Krule.

Odd one, all my listening is scrobbling ok. However albums listened to in past 7 days isn’t updating or only doing so after several hours.

they posted yesterday that they had problems with scrobbling

Ah, ok didn’t see that. Thanks.

Aye, I saw it on Twitter.

We're currently investigating a possible lag issue with scrobbling, which started approximately 2pm BST (30 mins ago). Scrobbles should come through, but may be slightly delayed. Sorry for any inconvenience caused by this.

— Last.fm Status (@lastfmstatus) October 6, 2023

19 years today

294,477 tracks
19,637 artists

also i'm pretty old now

dang. 20,000 artists!!?!?

i just had my 14th last.fm bday last month and mine looks like—
SCROBBLES
297,208

ARTISTS
5,039

i need to work on my diversity, sheesh.

I'm 17 years and 6 months.

216,238 tracks
13,452 artists.

Also pretty old.

17 Years, 9 months
203,748 scrobbles
5718 artists

18 Years, 4 Months
92,224 scrobbles
14,323 artists

I have gone through long periods of not using it / it not working for one reason or another, so my page is kind of odd.

my original account sat dormant for a long time & I switched from it to a new one in 2017 but sometimes I end up logged into the wrong one, there's a lot of Sonos-related "this didn't scrobble" stuff but the stats since 21 May 2017 say:

47.,443 scrobbles
6,921 artists
9,953 albums scrobbled

I've only been using it consistently since 2020 tbh

36,092 scrobbles
6,158 artists

made my new account in april 2022:

36,438 scrobbles
2,012 artists
3,265 albums

tracks from 37,812 albums in my 19 years

top album has 775 scrobbles; seven others are over 400

Yikes. Coming up on 20 years in 5 months! I’m amazed it’s still around — and even more amazed it seems to be gaining traction with Gen Z (observation based on tiny sample, granted)

798,925 scrobbles
9,136 artists

I hadn't looked at Last.fm in years, but had to check to see if I had still been scrobbling all this time in the background. No, apparently I stopped. Active 2006-2016; 85,057 scrobbles from 16,362.

Since December, 2005 (across MediaMonkey, iTunes, iPod, lala, rdio and now Spotify)

223,599 scrobbles
18,104 artists
37,701 albums

My first two tracks were Philip Glass and John Cage and both remain my most played artists (5077 and 3961 scrobbles respectively) followed by Domenico Scarlatti, John Fahey and the Black Angels. Better Luck Next Time by Royal Baths is my third most scrobbled album and probably my favorite.

18 years one month

597,714 scrobbles
19,058 artists

Coming up to 19 years on 23rd December.

180,350 scrobbles
14,923 artists
29,612 albums

Saint Etienne top with 868, Bowie close by with 861 then a gap to Pet Shop Boys on 789.

since 20 Apr 2004, 132,555 scrobbles from 11,621 artists

My most listened to acts

The Clientele
Thin Lizzy
The Reds, Pinks and Purples
Fontaines DC

since 10 Oct 2005
153,076 tracks
12,213 artists
16 loved tracks

Since 2007.

528,443 tracks.
29,942 artists.
0 loved tracks.

Friend me up, creeps.

will presumably hit 300,000 this week

https://i.imgur.com/RMa5maE.jpeg

too lazy to actually bother, but let's just say this song will turn the scrobometer over

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckpf0aglO7U

lol last.fm know-it-all ass bitch...
https://i.imgur.com/Uj0XFhu.jpeg

tesia is NOT a typo lol. the data is coming from straight from spotify. wtf is happening!?

(shoutout edge tho, good to see you around!)

also current stats-

Scrobbles

310,084
Artists

5,511
Loved tracks
1,179
scrobbling since 24 Oct 2009

haven't really kept up with the "loved tracks" thing in recent years. it would surely be twice that if i had.

I've been out scrobblin'