and album plays means each individual played 1 track from that album
grimly get a new account
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 29 June 2009 23:06 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.last.fm/user/rinsemusic
revitalised my usage this year, and desperately trying to rectify the statistical anomoly that indicates I have listened to Annie "Heartbeat" 118 times since December 2004. Especially sinced I hadn't logged back in for at least 3 years.
so much better with spotify scrobbling
― Tannenbaum Schmidt, Monday, 29 June 2009 23:06 (fifteen years ago) link
alright here's me, then http://www.last.fm/user/beefandrootbeer
i have the double-scrobble ipod thing happen as well every now and then. lastfm does not like manually managed ipods
― winston, Monday, 29 June 2009 23:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Your musical compatibility with beefandrootbeer is High
Music you have in common includes Gas, Luciano, D. Lissvik, lindstrom and prins thomas and Gilberto Gil.
Your musical compatibility with rinsemusic is High
Music you have in common includes Miles Davis, Edan, Closer Musik, Alex Under and Fleetwood Mac.
― the shock will be coupled with the need to dance (jim), Monday, 29 June 2009 23:14 (fifteen years ago) link
the shock will be coupled with the need to dance
― Tannenbaum Schmidt, Monday, 29 June 2009 23:18 (fifteen years ago) link
^ that was celebratory btw
― Tannenbaum Schmidt, Monday, 29 June 2009 23:21 (fifteen years ago) link
Your musical compatibility with beefandrootbeer is Very High
Music you have in common includes Expo '70, Force of Nature, D. Lissvik, Basic Channel and Aeroplane.
Music you have in common includes Rhythm & Sound, Aeroplane, Ame, Black Meteoric Star and Chromatics.
― these strawmen do exist outside my brain (I am using your worlds), Monday, 29 June 2009 23:26 (fifteen years ago) link
High fives all round.
― the shock will be coupled with the need to dance (jim), Monday, 29 June 2009 23:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Your musical compatibility with rinsemusic is Low
Music you have in common includes Michael Jackson, Annie, Commodores, Grace Jones and Hot Chip.
Your musical compatibility with beefandrootbeer is Very Low
Music you have in common includes The Rolling Stones, Yello, Iggy Pop and Bob Dylan.
― master of karate and friendship for everyone (musically), Monday, 29 June 2009 23:38 (fifteen years ago) link
:(
― winston, Tuesday, 30 June 2009 04:14 (fifteen years ago) link
Music you have in common includes Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, Grouper, Steve Reich, Brian Eno and Brian Eno & David Byrne.
Your musical compatibility with beefandrootbeer is Low
Music you have in common includes The Advisory Circle, Brian Eno, Midlake, Tortoise and Gas.
― Gerard (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 30 June 2009 07:07 (fifteen years ago) link
Your musical compatibility with beefandrootbeer is Medium
Music you have in common includes kuniyuki takahashi, Guido, Cooly G, D. Lissvik and Aeroplane.
Music you have in common includes Luomo, Ada, Grace Jones, DJ Sprinkles and Faze Action.
^^what awesome artists for both
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 30 June 2009 07:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Music you have in common includes Grouper, Charles Mingus, Miles Davis, Kraftwerk and Aphex Twin.
Music you have in common includes Herbie Hancock, Kraftwerk, Aphex Twin, Tortoise and Joe Henderson.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 30 June 2009 07:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Your musical compatibility with rinsemusic is LOWMusic you have in common includes Miles Davis, Bruce Springsteen, Michael Jackson, Fleetwood Mac and Talking Heads.
Your musical compatibility with beefandrootbeer is VERY LOWMusic you have in common includes Bob Dylan, Talking Heads, Blondie and The Rolling Stones.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 30 June 2009 07:56 (fifteen years ago) link
why not:
Music you have in common includes Mos Def, Kraftwerk, Charles Mingus, Michael Jackson and Miles Davis.
Music you have in common includes Sa-Ra, lindstrom and prins thomas, Mark E, Kraftwerk and Moodymann.
― thousands of bears are distraught (The Reverend), Tuesday, 30 June 2009 08:05 (fifteen years ago) link
lastfm does not like manually managed ipods
Ach, it just doesn't like iPods very much. And iPhones seem to be a source of endless confusion for it.
― a tiny, faltering megaphone (grimly fiendish), Tuesday, 30 June 2009 09:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Everyone loves Kraftwerk!
Music you have in common includes Hatchback, Basic Channel, Kraftwerk, Brian Eno and Flying Lotus.
Your musical compatibility with rinsemusic is Medium
Music you have in common includes Daniel Wang, Kraftwerk, Brian Eno, Metro Area and Phuture.
― Achtung Blobby (Neil S), Tuesday, 30 June 2009 09:15 (fifteen years ago) link
I haven't had too much trouble with scrobbling from my ipod. It occasionally claims there are no scrobbles, but it just picks them up the next time I plug it in. Never had any doubles of anything.
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 30 June 2009 09:21 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeh, that's the weird thing: it seems to affect a random selection of people using a wide range of systems; the fact there've been people whacking on about it on the Last.fm forums since October 2008 (at least) yet they've not had any proper acknowledgement, let alone help, was a major factor in making me think: "Fuck this."
I could have just about lived with double scrobbling if I'd been able to remove the duplicate tracks: delete one, though, and they both go. That's what led me to think it had to be something at the server end rather than my end; once again, all roads led to "fuck this".
― a tiny, faltering megaphone (grimly fiendish), Tuesday, 30 June 2009 09:29 (fifteen years ago) link
^^ditto. if even i can manage it...
(xp!)
sometimes it looks like it's scrobbling doubles, but this is only when i've listened to a song twice separately in between ipod syncs - it'll scrobble them at the same time.
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 30 June 2009 09:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Music you have in common includes Aeroplane, Justus Köhncke, Daniel Wang, Alice Coltrane and Chromatics.
Music you have in common includes D. Lissvik, Aeroplane, Gilberto Gil, Hatchback and Aphex Twin.
― Roz, Tuesday, 30 June 2009 10:49 (fifteen years ago) link
the lex with the answer right there! it must scrobble in alphabetical order!
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 30 June 2009 12:27 (fifteen years ago) link
lol 13-year-old argentinian girls messaging me asking for the new shakira single after seeing it on my page!
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 30 June 2009 13:06 (fifteen years ago) link
how are you scrobbling your iPod? I have a manually managed iPod and I use iSproggler, a third-party app, and it works well.
― master of karate and friendship for everyone (musically), Tuesday, 30 June 2009 14:44 (fifteen years ago) link
his answer badly
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 30 June 2009 14:45 (fifteen years ago) link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CQ2qS6uG3hA/R6bp1XxmQnI/AAAAAAAABjc/4K6ndHZppkc/s320/pram.jpg
hehe
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 30 June 2009 14:46 (fifteen years ago) link
how are you scrobbling your iPod?
I was using iScrobbler on OS X but it had a couple of irritating and persistent flaws that made me think, sod it, I'll try the new version of the official Last.fm app (I'd given up on that heap of shit after about two seconds when I signed up at the end of 2006). And it was still bollocks: painfully so, in fact.
But let's get things into perspective here. I shitcanned Last.fm not just because scrobbling from my phone was a needlessly fiddly and unreliable affair but also because:
* Their customer service is woeful: flat-out ignoring users who complain simply because they're a small minority, which seems to be what they're doing, is tantamount to waving a big flag saying "FUCK YOU" in my book. (eMusic are even more guilty of this, but I find them much more useful so I'm willing to grin and bear it ... for now.)
* Since Spotify came along, I'd stopped using the radio side of things and was really just using Last.fm as a glorified way of a) being anal about my listening and b) very occasionally sparking a music-related chat, either on Last.fm itself or on Facebook. If I'm missing anything, it's the former: but when I ask myself why I wanted to know exactly when I last listened to On Me Not In Me, or how many times I'd played Second Class War, I can't really give myself a reasonable answer. As for the latter: there are myriad other, better ways to go about that ... this place being a fine one.
* Call me paranoid, but see this whole founders-leaving, did-they-or-didn't-they-leak-to-the-RIAA, CBS-related bullshit? I'm not such a fan of that. I accept that their response to it all was reasonably sound, and TechCrunch looked like total bell-ends, but the shadow of The Man looms ever so slightly larger than I'd like now. (The same goes for Spotify, right enough, but ... well, like eMusic, it's just much more useful.)
* Ultimately, scrobbling to Last.fm had become a pointless habit for me, and when the double-scrobbling thing happened and it became obvious nobody at their end gave an iota of a shit, calling it a day seemed the obvious thing to do.
I can't fucking believe I just wrote all that. Why the hell am I justifying something that should merit a 0 on any properly calibrated care-o-meter? Anyway, there you go.
― a tiny, faltering megaphone (grimly fiendish), Tuesday, 30 June 2009 23:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Also: most of that wasn't really in reply to you, musically, but to pfunkboy; sorry if you thought I was being unnecessarily snippy.
― a tiny, faltering megaphone (grimly fiendish), Tuesday, 30 June 2009 23:28 (fifteen years ago) link
i didn't, even though i hadnt actually read it hehe. You know im only joking with you.But we both know you will sign up again within a month as spotify scrobbles and you will miss it even for the very discussions you mentioned...
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 30 June 2009 23:31 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.last.fm/join
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 30 June 2009 23:33 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.last.fm/swivel
― a tiny, faltering megaphone (grimly fiendish), Tuesday, 30 June 2009 23:34 (fifteen years ago) link
I love your posts, Grimly. They're funny! There's some good ideas for new screen names in there, too.
― I wonder who his history bitches are and if they approve (Bimble), Tuesday, 30 June 2009 23:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Your musical compatibility with swivel is Very low
Music you have in common includes New Order, Trans Am, Joy Division, Kraftwerk and Pig Destroyer
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 30 June 2009 23:38 (fifteen years ago) link
Music you have in common includes lindstrom and prins thomas, Guido, Bob Dylan, Flying Lotus and Blondie
Music you have in common includes Ducktails, Gang Gang Dance, Brian Eno & David Byrne, LCD Soundsystem and Mos Def
― ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 30 June 2009 23:52 (fifteen years ago) link
Music you have in common includes Saint Etienne, Brian Eno, Kraftwerk, Talking Heads and China Crisis.
Music you have in common includes Saint Etienne, Grace Jones, Orbital, Brian Eno and Kraftwerk.
Play #20,000 this afternoon - 'Feelin' Good' by Little Junior and the Blue Flames.
― DJ Angoreinhardt (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 1 July 2009 16:29 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.last.fm/group/ilXor/chartsMichael Jackson still no1
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 6 July 2009 12:50 (fifteen years ago) link
but New Order drops down a place!
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 6 July 2009 12:52 (fifteen years ago) link
haha if grimly hadn't quit they wouldve been 1 ahead of Sonic Youth
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 6 July 2009 12:53 (fifteen years ago) link
Join Songkick now. It’s ace!
Gah I'm wasting hours of my life on this!
― nate woolls, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 15:06 (fifteen years ago) link
what is songkick?
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 18:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Francis if you're reading this , here is mine http://www.last.fm/user/trailofgybe
We keep the last.fm chat in here as other ilxors might moan about it.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 18:37 (fifteen years ago) link
like your taste herman. keep up the good work.
― Francis, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 18:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Francis is http://www.last.fm/user/coco666
Your musical compatibility with coco666 is Very Low
Music you have in common includes OM, Eric Dolphy, Thelonious Monk, Mustafa Ozkent and Wipers.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 18:40 (fifteen years ago) link
oh well.
― Francis, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 18:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Music you have in common includes Mary Jane Girls and The Everly Brothers.
I think that's a record for incompatibility.
― master of karate and friendship for everyone (musically), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:03 (fifteen years ago) link
perversely adam will probably get a rating of super
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Did everyone see the pics of Lexie J Malmsteen?http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v424/runmdc/ilovethearcticmonkeys.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3114/3115340515_c03db2f70f.jpg
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 9 July 2009 10:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Music you have in common includes Mary Jane Girls.
musically, I gotcha beat! but how about the Mary Jane Girls?
― Sarges B. Mackin! (The Reverend), Friday, 10 July 2009 00:26 (fifteen years ago) link
got you both beat.
and then...NOT ONE ARTIST.
― lex pretend, Friday, 10 July 2009 00:33 (fifteen years ago) link
even though mary jane girls are actually in my library (only 1 play tho).
― lex pretend, Friday, 10 July 2009 00:34 (fifteen years ago) link