Someone clue me in: Why would I want to get an Audioscrobbler?

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Or Last.fm, whatever. Are there some hidden benefits that I've never figured out?

― Steev (Steev), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)

i like it because it's sorta interesting (in a music geek way) to see the tallied up stats of my listening.

but it's not gonna save you money or raise your IQ or anything

― rentboy (rentboy), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

I mean, I'm a huge music geek, but I feel like I'm somehow missing the allure.

― Steev (Steev), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 16:34 (twenty years ago)

Is there a way to keep Audioscrobbler from keeping track of the anime music and Linkin Park crap that my brother listens to on this computer?

― Ian Riese-Moraine: a casualty of social estrangement. (Eastern Mantra), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 16:39 (twenty years ago)

Ian - the new version lets you remove artists or songs in that profile editor thingy. Their FAQ has that very question!

I like that it's telling me that several ilx0rs are my neighbors. In last.fm/audioscrobbler world I live close to s1ocki!

― mike h. (mike h.), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 16:41 (twenty years ago)

Give your brother a seperate account on your computer?

last.fm is the best part of it. You can listen to an online radio station full of... err, the stuff people in the ILX group listen to. It's fun, honest. Also, the geek stats thing.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 16:42 (twenty years ago)

I think it's useful! If there's a new artist i want to listen to, i'll go on there to see what their most listened to (ie best?) songs are, and download a couple. I have rss feeds of my friends audioscrobbler so i can see what they're listening to, and they can see mine.

And the reccomendations feature isn't perfect, but it's pointed me towards lots of new stuff. I don't have mtv and there aren't any music magazines that i particulary like, so audioscrobbler's one of my main sources for discovering new music.

oh and if someone online asks me what music i like i can just link them to my page rather than telling them (best use of it i think)

― Slumpman (Slump Man), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 16:46 (twenty years ago)

though i've never actually used the last.fm part of it. i'll try it now i think
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― Slumpman (Slump Man), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 16:48 (twenty years ago)

I used to use LAUNCH. It took years of track-by-track ratings to train it to actually pitch me music I liked. (Though once I did, it was great).

Since Last.FM runs off of what you actually listen to, it only takes about a week to start introducing you to good stuff you might not have yet.

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:02 (twenty years ago)

ILX's very own Adamrl once told me that Audioscrobbler brings together his four passions in life: music, the Internet, voyeurism, and meaningless statistics.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:14 (twenty years ago)

Am I the only one who hardly ever listens to music on a computer?

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:17 (twenty years ago)

Ian - the new version lets you remove artists or songs in that profile editor thingy. Their FAQ has that very question!

Sweet, good to know. I'll take it! I'll take 12! Drive one home today!

― Ian Riese-Moraine: a casualty of social estrangement. (Eastern Mantra), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:22 (twenty years ago)

Humph - the last.fm radio thing now requires a download of a special player, and the Mac one isn't ready yet.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

Am I the only one who hardly ever listens to music on a computer?

You're not alone...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)

The only time I don't listen to music on a computer or iPod is if I'm a) falling asleep to something in bed or b) listening to something while in the shower.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:29 (twenty years ago)

Because I've never been able to get the iPod to sync up with Audioscrobbler, though (sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't), my Audioscrobbler stats only report what I listen to at home, rather than at work. For whatever reason, I tend to listen to full albums way more often at work than at home (at home, I skip around a lot), so that's why my most played artist has only 71 plays, even though I've listened to 5,000+ songs.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:32 (twenty years ago)

Humph - the last.fm radio thing now requires a download of a special player, and the Mac one isn't ready yet.

Color me bitter. Are they still struggling with ipod updating for windows machines, too? If it didn't sync with my ipod I think I'd find it a whole lot less worthwhile.

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:43 (twenty years ago)

Okay, I downloaded the plugin, but it's not showing anything I've been listening to. What did I do wrong?

― Ian Riese-Moraine: a casualty of social estrangement. (Eastern Mantra), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 18:03 (twenty years ago)

Oh, I need to find the plug-in properties -- but where?

― Ian Riese-Moraine: a casualty of social estrangement. (Eastern Mantra), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 18:15 (twenty years ago)

The FAQ's no help to me. Apparently I'm supposed to find the plug-in properties "so that you can enter your username and password into the plugin." But HOW? And WHERE?

― Ian Riese-Moraine: a casualty of social estrangement. (Eastern Mantra), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 18:30 (twenty years ago)

God, I'm so inept. It'll probably be something really obvious. I can never think of anything obvious.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: a casualty of social estrangement. (Eastern Mantra), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)

Fuck it, I give up. You'll never see my listening habits. Ever.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: a casualty of social estrangement. (Eastern Mantra), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

Because I've never been able to get the iPod to sync up with Audioscrobbler, though (sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't),

I agree that it's a bit temperamental, but it works 80% of the time with me. The main thing to remember is, when you return from listening to your iPod, don't listen to anything in iTunes until you've plugged your iPod in and got it to update. Otherwise I think audioscrobbler doesn't like the temporal non-sequentiality (!) of your submissions and thinks you might be "spamming" the site.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 18:41 (twenty years ago)

from the main page of the site...

What you get when you sign up:

Personal music profile
Your own music charts
Friends and neighbours
Audioscrobbler plugin
Discussion groups and forums
Thousands of radio tracks
Your own journal
Album art and artist information
A pony

excuse me, id like a shetland please. screw the friends and neighbors:

http://www.last.fm/user/theoreticalgirl/

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

what fascinates me is how many times i listen to certain bands, and i dont even realize it. like, how did i listen to 380+ os brazoes songs in one week? so weird.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

The main thing to remember is, when you return from listening to your iPod, don't listen to anything in iTunes until you've plugged your iPod in and got it to update.

Yeah, I can't be arsed to do this most of the time.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 18:57 (twenty years ago)

Fair play to you. My life is tragic enough that I can.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

what fascinates me is how many times i listen to certain bands, and i dont even realize it. like, how did i listen to 380+ os brazoes songs in one week? so weird.

Yeah, that sort of weird thing is why I'd want it. Do I unwittingly listen to the Chameleons and Ginette Garcin more than I listen to This Heat? Well, it looks like I won't get to find out.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: a casualty of social estrangement. (Eastern Mantra), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:03 (twenty years ago)

The FAQ's no help to me. Apparently I'm supposed to find the plug-in properties "so that you can enter your username and password into the plugin." But HOW? And WHERE?

I don't know about Windows, but on a Mac, when you run the iScrobbler plugin you get a little double crotchet musical note thing in the menu bar (guess it would be at the bottom in the System Tray with Windows?). Click, or maybe right click on that to get at the "properties" or "preferences". It's there that you enter your username and password.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

As long as we're complaining, somehow the iScrobbler plugin has mysteriously and suddenly disappeared from my computer! I'll just download it again, I suppose.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

Ahh, it won't work because I don't have the right version of Windows Media Player. Nevermind, then. I don't want to install another version of it.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: a casualty of social estrangement. (Eastern Mantra), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:45 (twenty years ago)

Who is still using Windows Media Player to listen to music? GET ONE ITUNES.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:55 (twenty years ago)

You have to use WMP to use Audioscrobbler. As for Itunes, I don't have control of this computer so I can't change it over to that from WMP. I don't even know if Itunes supports video files anyhow.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: a casualty of social estrangement. (Eastern Mantra), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:58 (twenty years ago)

Actually, wait, I forgot, I don't have to use WMP to use Audioscrobbler! Hmm...

― Ian Riese-Moraine: a casualty of social estrangement. (Eastern Mantra), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:59 (twenty years ago)

what fascinates me is how many times i listen to certain bands, and i dont even realize it.

I have noticed the opposite effect a lot as well. There are songs that I feel like I've listened to over and over again but I've really only played them 4 times. I've only been scrobblin for a few weeks now but I find the results very interesting and I'm curious to see what the statistics will look like after a year, two years, etc.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:59 (twenty years ago)

I don't even know if Itunes supports video files anyhow.

What would that have to do with audioscrobbler anyway?

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:59 (twenty years ago)

Fuck, I don't even think I have WinAmp on this computer.

It doesn't have anything to do with Audioscrobbler -- it has to do with WMP and why I have to keep it.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: a casualty of social estrangement. (Eastern Mantra), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 20:02 (twenty years ago)

Aren't you allowed to keep more than one program on the PC?

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 20:06 (twenty years ago)

Stop confusing him!

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 20:15 (twenty years ago)

Does anyone know if it can report plays from two different players? I use Winamp to listen to stuff, but all of my iPod plays probably go to iTunes. Thoughts?

― Steev (Steev), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

Steev, I bet that will work. I have it installed on my work and home computers, using two different players (mac and windows iTunes) and it is just fine unless I go to work while my home computer is still playing songs.

― subgenius (subgenius), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 21:15 (twenty years ago)

Ian -- if you (can) install iTunes, it will not take over your video playing. WMP will continue to do that. What's more, if you want to open an audio file in a different player, you can hold down shift, right-click the file, and choose "Open with". That'll give you the option to open that file with any program that it will work with!

― mike h. (mike h.), Thursday, 11 August 2005 02:38 (twenty years ago)

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