Rolling last.fm thread 2009 no haters!

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

liago0sh

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Recent visitor to my profile, and presumbably AA's too.

oh and mine it seems too

It's changed with Neil again

Your musical compatibility with nstewart is Very High

Music you have in common includes Harvey Milk, Minutemen, Neu!, The Jesus Lizard and Can.

Still listening to Herman's funk comp.

I'm about to get up from my desk, but I hate stopping a song before its finished (also anal about iTunes play count numbers.)

So "Men Are Getting Scarce" ends with that big OOOOOWWWWwwwwlllll..... Next song is BT Express with a kick bass drum, but I stop it right after that first beat. Sounded like Men Are Getting Scarce dude hitting the bottom after falling off the cliff.

ok i'm done.

aww man BT Express are awesome (and Brass Construction even better)

the 1st Brass Construction album is one of my favourite albums. Real smokin' rockin' funk-disco.

Yeah I have a comp of them. They're really cool.

It sounded like this.

xp

I need to rip the cd for my ipod.

The Tom Moulton mix of Peace Pipe is my jam.

which BT Express song is on the comp? I d/led it but haven't even opened it yet.

Do It ('Til You're Satisfied)

Brass Construction - Movin' (album version) should be on there too.

lol @ bimbles most played artist/track

OH HOLY SHIT IT'S THE FOLLOW THE LEADER BREAK THANK YOU PFUNKBOY

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