Rolling last.fm thread 2009 no haters!

Quite surprised by this, thought it would be medium at least.

Your musical compatibility with NedRaggett is Low

Music you have in common includes New Kingdom, Working For A Nuclear Free City, The Associates, The Cure and Cocteau Twins.

Simply because everyone else is doing it ...

Your musical compatibility with NedRaggett is MEDIUM
Music you have in common includes Disco Inferno, Low, The Chameleons, Ulrich Schnauss and Stars of the Lid.

xp yeah i expected to have 'very high' with Ned

although his top 5 artists are a bit ... surprising:

1 VNV Nation

2 Radiohead

3 Play
Paul Stanley

4 Sparks

5 Vangelis

I get the impression from a quick swatch at Ned's play count and top tracks/artists that his scrobbles aren't particularly representative of his general musical tastes, or of how much he actually listens to.

Which raises an intere ... er, a question. How obsessive are you about documenting your listening with last.fm? Me: absolutely and absurdly so. I get disproportionately pissed off if, say, I forget to scrobble plays from my iPod or phone, and would dearly love some kind of plugin for YouTube, MySpace etc so music I watch/listen to there is counted.

Yeah a way of scrobbling Youtube and Myspace would be great, and would mean I would use those services a lot more to listen to music!

And I too am super-obsessive, I get upset (upset!) when my iPod fails to scrobble a day's worth of listening.

Aspiest thread of 2009!

idk i'm obsessive enough about last.fm but it all seems to work itself out these days - ipod scrobbling sometimes inexplicably misses tracks out (i think when i don't play them to the end) but not enough to annoy. i mostly use youuuutuuuube and myspazz for evaluative purposes so it's actually a good thing that they don't show up.

Yeah, part of me wants everything I ever play to be on last.fm, but in practice it's very little. I used to play 99% of music through my computer and stereo, but now the stereo's in the other room, and also I lost a 200GB hard drive full of music so now I've only got about 10GB to play with. Looking at my neighbours since they've changed the thing I've got loads where the bands in common are mainly twee jangly stuff that I just don't listen to these days, but probably makes up most of the plays on the account.
I probably listen to music the most on my mp3 player, but that won't keep playlist data so that doesn't get anywhere. Sometimes I play a CD on the stereo, then put that on the computer to scrobble while I actually listen to something else. What the fuck am I actually doing with my life?

Lex- if you use an iPod, it will only scrobble tracks you have played in full, rather than the default last.fm radio threshold of 50%.

Sometimes I play a CD on the stereo, then put that on the computer to scrobble while I actually listen to something else. What the fuck am I actually doing with my life?

Yeh, I mean ... who on earth would do something like that? <Tiptoes quietly away from thread, blushing>

And my compatibility with Dom is very high, which is even more surprising than my compatibility with Ned:

Your musical compatibility with Juror8 is Very High

Music you have in common includes Half Man Half Biscuit, The Long Blondes, Dead Kennedys, De La Soul and The Smiths.

Only music I listen to on my laptop gets scrobbled. I still listen to a lot of CDs & vinyl on my stereo, which obv don't get scrobbled. I haven't bothered to try and scrobble from my ipod. Can't be arsed really. So the music on my last.fm while roughly indicative of my music taste also includes a fair amount of music I've been checking out and don't actually like much.

Your musical compatibility with backslider is High

Music you have in common includes Swans, Sparks, Low, Minutemen and This Heat.

Your musical compatibility with big_perm is High

Music you have in common includes Current 93, Low, Minutemen, Tom Waits and Palace Music.

Your musical compatibility with Juror8 is Medium

Music you have in common includes Sparks, Nellie McKay, Tom Lehrer, Eels and The Hold Steady.

Your musical compatibility with NedRaggett is Medium

Music you have in common includes Sparks, Low, This Mortal Coil, Yellow Magic Orchestra and John Fahey.

what Colonel Poo said. i scrobble everything i play on the computer but otherwise just cannot be bothered with mp3 player/CDs in the car/stereo.

if you want to scrobble youtube plays get greasemonkey then get the youtube script from http://userscripts.org/scripts/search?q=last.fm

despite not listening to any Cure...

Your musical compatibility with NedRaggett is High

Music you have in common includes The Associates, Bobb Trimble, This Mortal Coil, Gui Boratto and Modeselektor.

if you're too lazy to look through the list of useful scripts it is http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/34012

but check the 3 or 4 pages of last.fm scripts for some good stuff.

ones I use are
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/31560 (weekly charts actually on your page ie the one you see me take screenshots of <<<< DOWNLOAD THIS)
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/30191 (removes the annoying flash player)<<< Recommended
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/30628
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/32179
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/30870
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/30447

oh and http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/10171 which is the normalised chart (based on time of tracks played)

Herman wins the last.fm obsession prize :-)

greasemonkey https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748

I recommend you get all these scripts btw

Hey if you get these scripts that improve last fm you will see why, Neil!

is there a way to get compatibility with the ILX group?

Get them to play your radio? ;)

i have no idea what a script is or how you get it to work

xp
I meant compatibility level with ILX as a group

Hmm. I was going to say: "I'm not changing my browser of choice just to run some scripts" but apparently GreaseKit could help there. We'll see. Not something I'm obsessive enough to worry about right now, certainly :p

lex if you use firefox you download greasemonkey then you go to the pages i linked for the scripts and click install. once you have done that you restart firefox and everything will work.
And if you dislike a script you just uninstall it

or do what simon suggested if you're on a mac

"I'm not changing my browser of choice just to run some scripts" but apparently GreaseKit could help there. We'll see. Not something I'm obsessive enough to worry about right now, certainly

you still searched and found out about GreaseKit didn't you? :P

Damn.

Your musical compatibility with pfunkboy is Very High

Music you have in common includes Sly & The Family Stone, Parliament, Shuggie Otis, Funkadelic and Stevie Wonder.

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At work I plug my ipod into my computer so everything gets uploaded as I listen all day - I never have music actually on the computer, just on my ipod. The next day when I plug it in it wants to send the tracks I've listened to in the last whatever number of hours, which sadly includes all the stuff I listened to the day before at work, which was already scrobbled. Sure I can un-check stuff when the little dialog box pops up but it only lets you uncheck things one at a time so it's super annoying.

Seems like there has to be a way to deal with this?

hooray for that last.fm youtube scrobbling script! am now binging aon youtube videos

Everyone click on Neighbours tab and see what it says
http://www.last.fm/user/trailofgybe/neighbours

Vital Stats: (for 30) Female: 3; Male: 21; Average Age (of 19): 25.26 years

Nowt for me at the mo.

where tf does it say 'vital stats'?? did u average those yourself??

anyway my closest neighbors mostly live in poland lol

Only works if you're a suscriber I think

Seems like there has to be a way to deal with this?

If you're using a Mac, use iScrobbler as your client software? iSproggler for Windows also comes recommended, but I've no experience myself. I hated the official Last.fm client for the Mac and haven't ever gone back to it.

oh lord -- so herman PAYS to use last.fm?? lol no wonder hes so into it

Also, yeh: it's not showing any neighbours for me now. They've made a mild arse of this, haven't they?

oh lord -- so herman PAYS to use last.fm?? lol no wonder hes so into it

I subscribed for a while: I liked the additional radio options it gives you, and it's pretty cheap. Wonderfully, my subscription's lapsed but I'm still getting all the benefits.

NB to any passing Last.fm staff: remember, you work for THE MAN. Therefore, letting me have my free subscription is STRIKING A BLOW AGAINST THE MAN. Thank you.

Only works if you're a suscriber I think

neil subscribes

last fm made a load of staff redundant before xmas

Yes, I admit it. Worth it for £1.50 a month I would say.

I've just got a Spotify invite too, which is now scrobbling to last.fm!

Now it says

T-O-M: Super: 0, Very High: 11, High: 1, Medium: 0, Low: 0, Very Low: 0, Unknown: 18.
Average T-O-M value is 32.1%
Vital Stats: (for 30) Female: 3; Male: 21; Average Age (of 19): 25.26 years

you need to stay on the page for a minute before it shows

last fm made a load of staff redundant before xmas

Yeh, that's what I was getting at :(

Neighbours ... just says "Your neighbours are people with similar music taste to you. We’ll find some for you soon, but it may take a day or two. Keep listening!"

For lexpretend it says

Vital Stats: (for 30) Female: 4; Male: 18; Average Age (of 18): 22.00 years

I've just got a Spotify invite too, which is now scrobbling to last.fm!

Hmm. Can you hook me up with an invite, then? I ignored Spotify at first but I keep hearing reasonably good things about it and feel I should have a look ...

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25805 get that if you want tasteometer thingy on neighbours page