Rolling last.fm thread 2009 no haters!

Was there a bowie poll last week or a new album or something?

9
HI DERE – Moment of Surrender

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9
aleXTC – I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight

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9 Play
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – Come Saturday

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13
Snoball – Get On Your Boots

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13
Elvis Telecom – White As Snow

heheheh...i admit to being one of the listeners.

What is this?

this is not "No Line on the Horizon" by U2

Ahh

Oh my. My overall albums collage has finally changed since the 1st time I got it
http://lastfm.obsessive-media.de/6x5/trailofgybe.jpeg
I do not believe I have played Pink more than the other Boris albums. No way.

Neko Case finally overtook Laura Marling for my #1 listened artist ever.

Wow, "My Girls" has been #1 on the ILXOR tracks chart every week this year except for one in mid-February, when the Juan MacLean record leaked and "One Day" rose to the top.

http://i42.tinypic.com/1q6gow.jpg

While im listening to jazz on Spotify i'm using http://www.last.fm/user/pfunkboy account

pfunkboy with neil
Your musical compatibility with nstewart is Low

Music you have in common includes The Meters.

Are you all low with http://www.last.fm/user/pfunkboy ?

Your musical compatibility with pfunkboy is VERY LOW
Music you have in common includes Cymande, Pharoah Sanders, Mandrill, Sun Ra and James Brown.

dude, do you even need to ask?

Your musical compatibility with pfunkboy is Very High

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

yeah with your other account!

Your musical compatibility with pfunkboy is Super

Music you have in common includes Sly & The Family Stone, Stevie Wonder, Funkadelic, James Brown and John Coltrane.

I don't understand why you need a separate account for listening to funk music. Do you wear a funk hat while doing it?

no, its explained on my profile why

Pfunkboy in his funk hat, yesterday:

http://hollywoodcostumesandparty.com/Graphics3/lilshafthat.jpg

that looks more like grimly

lol

Pair o' gits :)

(Although something like that could rather suit me ... no, no, I joke. OR DO I?)

it does suit you

charts up early this week

ILXor charts
Albums http://www.last.fm/group/ilXor/charts?charttype=weekly&subtype=album&range=219
Artists http://www.last.fm/group/ilXor/charts
Tracs http://www.last.fm/group/ilXor/charts?charttype=weekly&subtype=track&range=219

damn got it wrong again. Need to stop copy and pasting the previous weeks.
Albums http://www.last.fm/group/ilXor/charts?charttype=weekly&subtype=album&range=220
Artists http://www.last.fm/group/ilXor/charts
Tracks http://www.last.fm/group/ilXor/charts?charttype=weekly&subtype=track&range=220

I wish they had the "Unique to this Group" functionality for users as well.

it's been refusing to scrobble from my ipod for the last few days. any suggestions?

reinstall the program?

still not working :(

I've kinda got an itch for last fm again. Lately I've just been scrobbling things from my iPod without logging in, but I'm in the mood for this today. It bugs me that my radio songs haven't changed and my bands haven't changed either.

No one cares, but I'm on a Can trip at the moment, and it's about time. I really should play them more.

why are new order top again in the last.fm chart? There's no new remastered cd's or anything out are there? Seems strange.

Artists http://www.last.fm/group/ilXor/charts
Albums http://www.last.fm/group/ilXor/charts?charttype=weekly&subtype=album&range=221
Tracks http://www.last.fm/group/ilXor/charts?charttype=weekly&subtype=track&range=221

Maybe someone saw someone else was listening to New Order and thought they'd do likewise. That's part of the point of last.fm, isn't it?

This blog post is a bit on the hyperbolic side, but it does sum up well the problems of last.fm's recent "service changes":

http://xrrf.blogspot.com/2009/03/last-fm-summons-whine-switches-off.html

Any non- UK/US/Germany posters with an opinion on this?

Well, to me that really is the main problem with this. Why give UK/US/Germany scrobblers a pass? On their blog they only came up with this answer:

"These are the countries in which we have the most resources to support an ad sales organization, which is how we earn money to pay artists and labels for their music. We are focused on the US, UK, and Germany as key markets, with the help of the CBS Interactive salesforce and our own sales team here in London. Our headquarters are in the UK and we’ve always had a strong presence in DE.

And so we’ve made the decision to focus on these markets for free streaming radio. We are still available worldwide and while listening is subscription, all the other rich content on the site is still free."

So much for the global economy right?

I'm a subscriber. I'm confused about if subscribers also have to cough up to use the radio. But the whole thing stinks because it's directed at certain regions, whereas other regions are left alone. Why not charge $0.50 in all countries instead?

I'm Dutch, but UK/US/Germany-users, like yourself, can have a opinion about this as well. What say you?

Oh yeah, and the glorification of "the help" they receive from CBS is really uncalled for. It's CBS whose doing this in the first place!

I've only streamed a couple of songs ever, so this doesn't affect me personally at all. But wasn't last.fm going to allow people to pay for all-you-can-stream? Whatever happened to that?

Yeah it totally sucks I think, and it's pretty weak to use the "key markets" excuse. As that blog post says, there's no reason why European users shouldn't move over to Spotify wholesale now, which I must admit I have done now.

If you're in the US, you don't have that option, though.

we americans are always discriminated against

good luck USA!

Actually there were recent New Order remasters, Pfunk. A lot of people complained about their quality, though, so they're re-releasing them sometime next month.

yeah i remember reading that thread about them a while ago

I'm Dutch, but UK/US/Germany-users, like yourself, can have a opinion about this as well. What say you?

I'm in the UK, and my opinion is: hah, fuck off everyone who isn't the UK/US/Germany. We're all right, Jack! Quick, pull up the ladders behind you! Etc.

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No, of course it fucking isn't. This is a crazy move and one I imagine paves the way for UK/US/German users to end up shelling out at some point further down the line, too (my views on the sustainability of free content have been aired elsewhere, mostly on newspaper-related threads). Fundamentally, this:

Why not charge $0.50 in all countries instead?

is the million-dollar (or even fifty-cent) question.

because these are the 3 big markets and they know no-one will pay.

I can't believe that to be true Pfunk. The willingness of people to pay for something they got attached too is enormous. As a matter of fact, I don't know why the brilliant people at CBS didn't think of it! Say 30 percent would shell out a measely $0.50 per month to enjoy their radio, it's still 100% more than last.fm rakes in now for that service (which is precisely nothing). Of the people who don't want to pay at first, a fair amount will eventually turn around and pay up. I don't believe a large number of users will leave last.fm for this. Which is - seen from the user point of view - quite tragic. But the truth is that most people - especially having gotten used to a service like this - will eventually turn around.

By god, last.fm could've avoided all this commotion by simply upping the subscription price with $0.50. Explain these are hard times, and no-one would've complained. But giving three countries a pass, and letting the rest of the countries pay for the service to be up is ridiculous. Which is exactly what can be expected from a company like CBS.

Last.fm is still better for less mainstream music but spotify is much easier to use. I think most last.fm users however dont listen to music and just use it for scrobbling and social interaction. So they wont be interested much in paying.

Spotify will have to A) drop prices and B) Get a lot more labels on board that I like than they currently have and C) have better search by genre/labels function before I even consider subscribing. I'm happy to use it as it means artists are getting money, but I will not pay £10 a month for it as it currently stands. £5 I would.

http://www.last.fm/forum/21717/_/517178

Subscriptions have went up, it's now €3/$3/£3 , a 100% rise.

I've went for a 6 month subscription for £9. As from Monday it will now be £3 a month.

Hmm, i only ever subscribed for one month, but it still says i'm subscribing. maybe this'll be the turning point.

if you want to subscribe again you better do it quick to get it at the old price.