Rolling last.fm thread 2009 no haters!

LQQKIE visited me a while back too. they have...eclectic taste.

Your musical compatibility with missekawasaki is Very Low

Music you have in common includes Erykah Badu, Zomby and Marnie Stern.

Your musical compatibility with psherburne is Very High

Music you have in common includes Chloé, Ricardo Villalobos, Anja Schneider, Arthur Russell and dj sprinkles.

:D

How the FUCK did Katy Perry 'I Kissed a Girl' get in my playlist?? Seriously?? I don't even LIKE that song, much less have it on my fucking IPOD.

really enjoyed the funk compilation. Except being reminded of how awful Betty Davis is!

you mad she's great at least the couple of tracks on the compilation!

Betty Davis is terrific! (plus it didn't come from my comp Adam :P)

Weekly album chart pics are up. Post yours!
http://lastfm.obsessive-media.de/weekly/5x6/trailofgybe.jpeg

Your musical compatibility with missekawasaki is Medium

Music you have in common includes The Fugs, The Conet Project, This Heat, Von Südenfed and Devo.

Your musical compatibility with missekawasaki is Low

Music you have in common includes The Fugs, Jandek, Je suis Animal, Lee Hazlewood and CARAMBOLAGE.

I just did that too - woah someone else listens to Carambolage?

My first "Very High" ever

Your musical compatibility with tiledsink is Very High

Music you have in common includes Disco Inferno, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Polvo, Swell Maps and Amon Düül II.

(oh wait, i hope tiledsink posts here. oops. :/ )

tiledsink is an ilxor but hasn't posted on this thread but I know she reads it.

woah someone else listens to Carambolage?

Hells yeah. Think I found them on a blog a couple of years ago; love that record.

I've been looking for their 2nd album for ages.

can anyone guess all the albums in my weekly chart?
http://lastfm.obsessive-media.de/weekly/5x6/trailofgybe.jpeg

not all of them but i'm rubbish with record covers generally.

Your musical compatibility with missekawasaki is Low

Music you have in common includes Cloudland Canyon, Matmos, of Montreal, Paavoharju and OOIOO.

Your musical compatibility with Bimble7895 is Low

Music you have in common includes Cocteau Twins, Brian Eno, James Brown, The Durutti Column and Slowdive.

Yeah I'm rubbish with album covers too. Even ones that I played from.

Here is my last.fm dream: I would like the ability to merge songs. For example, I have a ton of plays of "Perfect Exceeder" and a few plays of "(Perfect) Exceeder". Since I am obsessed with my stats I want to be able to rename the latter to match the former so my starts accurately represent the number of times I listened to the song. of course, last.fm as always been restrictive on the ability to edit your stats, and I suppose some cheaters (I don't understand the compulsion to make up stats) will make it so that they have 1000000000000 plays of one song in particular or something. Anyway, I would love that.

or you could just tag properly ;)

Do any of you guys add parentheticals to live tracks? like, beyond the call of duty? (venue, city, date)

I add a "live" tag to the genre, and I put infos in the comment.

@musically: seconded! I have some 300 'Caretaker' tracks, but somehow they didn't merge with my 800 'The Caretaker' tracks. Shouldn't be that hard.

Usually band names do merge but not track names

I've been having a problem with "Hercules & Love Affair" not merging with "Hercules and Love Affair"

last.fm should allow some sort of community-based merge suggestion box... sorta like wiki for its music database, to fix things like band name merges, song name merges, etc. They wouldn't have to charge for it.

That said, last.fm does have rules for converting band names. I notice when I had Ringö Shéna as an artist, last.fm scrobbler would auto-convert it to 椎名 林檎. So you figure if they could do that with all of 椎名 林檎's alternate romaji, they could easily do a "Hercules & Love Affair" <--> "Hercules and Love Affair" type thing. :-/

Yeah, I notice for instance that everything tagged "Ghostface Killah" becomes "Ghostface"

i think all the foetus stuff merges into just "foetus"

Years ago you could mod artist names it was done via musicbrainz too as well I think. There was a vote thing for correct name that came in after that. But they got rid of it with the new site

Yeah, I just had this problem with Art Bears/The Art Bears - the CD info tags it automatically as the latter, even though the album artwork and usually accepted moniker is the former.

My oddball guess: conversions happen if the artist contacts last.fm -- otherwise last.fm leaves it be

or at least legal reps of the artist or a music contributor, if you will.

Here is my last.fm dream: I would like the ability to merge songs. For example, I have a ton of plays of "Perfect Exceeder" and a few plays of "(Perfect) Exceeder".

MUSICALLY SECONDED OMG. seriously i have so many incidences of this annoying me. it's mostly when a song leaks early and the title isn't set in stone - eg aly & aj's 'potential breakup song' was briefly titled 'the potential breakup song', and in that period i played it like 30 times. and now it just pisses me off. (the tag, not the song.)

artist syncing happens sometimes - eg noreaga syncs to n.o.r.e. and nearly god syncs to tricky - and now you can flag mistagged artists - but you can't do that w/songs yet.

That said, last.fm does have rules for converting band names. I notice when I had Ringö Shéna as an artist, last.fm scrobbler would auto-convert it to 椎名 林檎. So you figure if they could do that with all of 椎名 林檎's alternate romaji, they could easily do a "Hercules & Love Affair" <--> "Hercules and Love Affair" type thing. :-/

wonder how this would work with songs that have artists featured on them. e.g. you got m.i.a.'s "come around". that could be scrobbled as "come around feat. timbaland", "come around ft. timbaland", "come around (featuring timbaland)" and the list goes on. plus, the "feat." could be attached to the artist tag rather than the song.

just something I've always pondered.

blah v blah <--> blah vs blah

again, I think all these issues are resolved only if an artist and/or label and/or artist management rep works with last.fm and pays them $$$ -- otherwise

does last.fm no longer scrobble the stuff you've listened to on their radio stations?

It did for me yesterday. But not for bimble (he was playing goth radio but it didnt show up)

It assumes the goths will have suicided by then.

I'm listening to radio. http://www.last.fm/user/trailofgybe is it showing up?

yes

huh. well that sucks for me then.

I'm on windows and using the official last fm client. Maybe you need to close down the player then start it.

Ok I just friend requested a bunch of people randomly from here so if you see one from http://www.last.fm/user/enbb then that's me although you probably could have figured that one out. ;-)

now you can flag mistagged artists

how u do this?

mistagged stuff like http://www.last.fm/music/JJ+Fad or http://www.last.fm/music/Pussycat+Dolls - there's an option at the top of the page where you can flag the correct tag

Rev did you get the funk comp?

pfunkboy nagboy

Sir Adam D’Voidoffunk

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