Rolling last.fm thread 2009 no haters!

Your musical compatibility with nathanwoolls is Low
Music you have in common includes The Knife, Scott Walker, Minutemen, of Montreal and Animal Collective.

Your musical compatibility with trailofgybe is Medium
Music you have in common includes Paavoharju, Grouper, Redd Kross, Can and Lau Nau.

Your musical compatibility with nstewart is Medium
Music you have in common includes Young Marble Giants, Studio, Pet Shop Boys, Can and The Knife.

Your musical compatibility with sonderangerbot is High
Music you have in common includes Soft Machine, Animal Collective, Arthur Russell, Camper Van Beethoven and John Fahey.

Your musical compatibility with nstewart is Very High

Music you have in common includes Minutemen, Big Black, Shellac, Hüsker Dü and No Age.

Your musical compatibility with treblekicker is Very High

Music you have in common includes The Breeders, Spoon, The Field, No Age and LCD Soundsystem.

Your musical compatibility with trailofgybe is HIGH
Music you have in common includes Trans Am, Jesu, The Goslings, Neurosis and Isis.

... so yeh, seems to work the same way in both directions for us. At the point of checking, anyway :)

Looks like the new changes only work if you have english chosen.

Your musical compatibility with nstewart is VERY HIGH
Music you have in common includes The Fall, New Order, A Certain Ratio, Wire and Kraftwerk

... which is pretty much how I remember it from before. Nothing's changed :)

Your musical compatibility with nstewart is High

Music you have in common includes mclusky, Minutemen, The Hold Steady, The Fall and Big Black

Your musical compatibility with lexpretend is Very High

Music you have in common includes The Bug, Marnie Stern, Iron Maiden and Parliament.

Your musical compatibility with lexpretend is LOW
Music you have in common includes Roots Manuva, The Bug, M.I.A., Dizzee Rascal and Santogold

... again, all is as I remember before these mysterious and uninspiring "changes".

Music you have in common includes The Bug, Marnie Stern, Iron Maiden and Parliament.

Lex, care to comment on this?

(Although the idea of Pfunkboy and Lex having high musical compatibility is kinda awesome, if true.)

Your musical compatibility with lexpretend is Low

Music you have in common includes Lindstrøm, Ricardo Villalobos, Junior Boys, The Knife and Ellen Allien & Apparat.

It was actually Music you have in common includes The Bug, Marnie Stern, PJ Harvey, Iron Maiden and Parliament.

There's probably a female grime dj called iron maiden .

Your musical compatibility with weesimon is Very High

Music you have in common includes Trans Am, New Order, The Fall, 10cc and Saint Etienne.

Your musical compatibility with lexpretend is Medium

Music you have in common includes Lil' Kim, Solange, Aaliyah, Paris Hilton and Sade.

it's obviously still a bug in the stupid system, i've never listened to iron maide: http://www.last.fm/user/lexpretend/library/music/iron+maiden

It will sort itself out. It says now

Your musical compatibility with lexpretend is Very Low

Music you have in common includes The Bug, PJ Harvey, Ricardo Villalobos and School of Seven Bells.

However if you visit my page it's entirely possible it will say something completely different.
I did like the idea of you having listened to Parliament and Marnie Stern though.

Your musical compatibility with lexpretend is Low

Music you have in common includes Junior Boys, Luomo, Pantha Du Prince, Varg Vikerness and Gang Gang Dance.

Your musical compatibility with nathanwoolls is High

Music you have in common includes Scott Walker, Spiritualized, The Field, of Montreal and M83.

i have!

http://www.last.fm/user/lexpretend/library/music/Parliament

^^no idea what this is - presumably on some sort of mix

http://www.last.fm/user/lexpretend/library/music/marnie+stern

^^gave her a try when people first started going nuts over her, found it completely impenetrable, a bit headachey and generally pointless

lex i sent you parliament and funkadelic albums. I guess you only managed one song.

no the links expired :(

that song is on the prins thomas cosmo galactic prism mix from a few years back, anyway

Your musical compatibility with nstewart is Very High

Music you have in common includes Wire, The Juan Maclean, Lindstrøm, Neu! and Studio.

Your musical compatibility with trailofgybe is Low

Music you have in common includes Neu!, Can, Aphex Twin, Pavement and My Bloody Valentine.

lex and i are no longer high compatibility boo.

Your musical compatibility with lexpretend is Medium

Music you have in common includes Lindstrøm, School of Seven Bells, Pantha Du Prince, Junior Boys and Ellen Allien.

Music you have in common includes Lil' Kim, Solange, Aaliyah, Paris Hilton and Sade.

now that's what i'm talkin bout

i don't actually understand what they've recalibrated btw

its a new algorithm. but they dont say whats new about it

it's definitely changed things quite a bit, i can swear I checked lex's before and I had low with him, now:

Your musical compatibility with lexpretend is High

Music you have in common includes Ricardo Villalobos, Lil' Wayne, Young Jeezy, Tinchy Stryder and Luomo.

I also had low before for pfunkboy, now:

Your musical compatibility with trailofgybe is Medium

Music you have in common includes Can, Don Caballero, Miles Davis, Boris and Funkadelic.

i still don't trust it: have gone to a few users i was pretty much 100% super-compatibility with before, and it still says low.

they should really say how they changed it and why or it just seems slightly arbitrary.

its changed for some people and not for others. so maybe the new algorithm hasn't been applied to everyone yet.

anyway all of you check your neighbours page. It's totally different now.
A Belgian friend of mine (no, not nath) is now my top neighbour!

heyyy cis is my neighbour now!

Yeah its still working its way through the system. by the end of the week it should all be done.

all my neighbours are totally different now. Alan N and Harpal are gone. No ilxors in it now.

greysunkencunt, my top neighbour is totally gone and Kenan, the only ilxor in my neighbourhood is also gone.

rip greysunkencunt :(

I now have noodle vague as a neighbor

Is http://www.last.fm/user/Chernibog from here? 32 tracks played and 10875 friends, wtf?

wtf????

Your musical compatibility with greysunkencunt is High

Music you have in common includes Ryoji Ikeda, Glass Candy, Current 93, Steely Dan and Sibylle Baier.

ön the ILX group

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2 hours ago

jed_ is a neighbour now, but not mike harper who used to be my top neighbour.

Adam will still be very low with everyone

Is there anyone here math-savvy-geeky enought to try to GUESS what the last.fm algorithm is?

Or perhaps just make one up anyway?

I'm guessing it's something like

SUM(Directly Matching Band * Your Plays * Neighbor's Plays) + SUM(Adjacent band * your plays * neighbor's plays * 0.5) + SUM(Two-degrees-away band * your plays * neighbor's plays * 0.25) + etc.

Too bad there's no BBCode for mathematical notation. :(

Don't say things like that. I'd hate people reading this thread to think it's full of nerds..

Okay, I logged out and in and now the new calibrations work.

Your musical compatibility with reverenddollars is Very Low

Music you have in common includes The Bug, Matmos, Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis and Liquid Liquid.

Adam is the columbian still your neighbour?

I don't think so.

http://www.last.fm/forum/21713/_/434268/5#f8228662