@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.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 12 January 2009 21:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Usually band names do merge but not track names
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 12 January 2009 21:39 (fifteen years ago) link
I've been having a problem with "Hercules & Love Affair" not merging with "Hercules and Love Affair"
― rev, Monday, 12 January 2009 22:17 (fifteen years ago) link
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. :-/
― 909090909 Rivethed Brikkchin Reverk now DANZ (Mackro Mackro), Monday, 12 January 2009 22:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, I notice for instance that everything tagged "Ghostface Killah" becomes "Ghostface"
― rev, Monday, 12 January 2009 22:41 (fifteen years ago) link
i think all the foetus stuff merges into just "foetus"
― R. L. Stinebeck (John Justen), Monday, 12 January 2009 22:43 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 12 January 2009 22:46 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― emil.y, Monday, 12 January 2009 22:58 (fifteen years ago) link
My oddball guess: conversions happen if the artist contacts last.fm -- otherwise last.fm leaves it be
― 909090909 Rivethed Brikkchin Reverk now DANZ (Mackro Mackro), Monday, 12 January 2009 23:01 (fifteen years ago) link
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.)
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 00:01 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 00:02 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― the chicano incarnation of benito juarez (primalfixations), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 00:27 (fifteen years ago) link
blah v blah <--> blah vs blah
― mark taylor, mark dickhead morelike (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 00:29 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― 909090909 Rivethed Brikkchin Reverk now DANZ (Mackro Mackro), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 00:38 (fifteen years ago) link
does last.fm no longer scrobble the stuff you've listened to on their radio stations?
― R. L. Stinebeck (John Justen), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 00:42 (fifteen years ago) link
It did for me yesterday. But not for bimble (he was playing goth radio but it didnt show up)
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 00:47 (fifteen years ago) link
It assumes the goths will have suicided by then.
― mark taylor, mark dickhead morelike (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 01:05 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm listening to radio. http://www.last.fm/user/trailofgybe is it showing up?
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 01:07 (fifteen years ago) link
yes
― miss precious perfect (musically), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 01:09 (fifteen years ago) link
huh. well that sucks for me then.
― R. L. Stinebeck (John Justen), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 01:11 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm on windows and using the official last fm client. Maybe you need to close down the player then start it.
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 01:12 (fifteen years ago) link
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. ;-)
― Too Into Dancing to Argue (ENBB), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 01:13 (fifteen years ago) link
now you can flag mistagged artists
how u do this?
― 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592 (The Reverend), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 01:44 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 02:19 (fifteen years ago) link
Rev did you get the funk comp?
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 02:42 (fifteen years ago) link
pfunkboy nagboy
― mark taylor, mark dickhead morelike (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 02:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Sir Adam D’Voidoffunk
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 03:47 (fifteen years ago) link
liago0sh
― mark taylor, mark dickhead morelike (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 11:45 (fifteen years ago) link
?
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 15:50 (fifteen years ago) link
Recent visitor to my profile, and presumbably AA's too.
― Beloved lightbulb (Neil S), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 15:57 (fifteen years ago) link
oh and mine it seems too
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 16:44 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 17:37 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 19:47 (fifteen years ago) link
aww man BT Express are awesome (and Brass Construction even better)
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 20:04 (fifteen years ago) link
the 1st Brass Construction album is one of my favourite albums. Real smokin' rockin' funk-disco.
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 20:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah I have a comp of them. They're really cool.
― gods jangle the key change (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 20:46 (fifteen years ago) link
It sounded like this.
― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 20:48 (fifteen years ago) link
xp
I need to rip the cd for my ipod.
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 21:40 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― miss precious perfect (musically), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 21:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Do It ('Til You're Satisfied)
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 21:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Brass Construction - Movin' (album version) should be on there too.
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 21:59 (fifteen years ago) link
lol @ bimbles most played artist/track
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 23:50 (fifteen years ago) link
OH HOLY SHIT IT'S THE FOLLOW THE LEADER BREAK THANK YOU PFUNKBOY
― my life is ronan! (The Reverend), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 00:06 (fifteen years ago) link
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 00:09 (fifteen years ago) link
― my life is ronan! (The Reverend), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 00:19 (fifteen years ago) link
embedding disabled by request
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 00:21 (fifteen years ago) link
you know you can double-click through those?
― my life is ronan! (The Reverend), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 00:25 (fifteen years ago) link
oh right
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 00:34 (fifteen years ago) link