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Last.fm turns 20

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Re: Last.fm turns 20

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Post by moolcool »

lzooz wrote: post #8

Last.fm was cool and had huge community but cbs bought it and rewrote it making it slower, clunkier and removing features, essentially destroying it. Back in the day practically all players (including spotify) had scrobbling support.

Spotify is still scrobbling!

Re: Last.fm turns 20

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Post by moolcool »

politelemon wrote: post #2

Last.fm was fantastic when it first came out, it was one of the few instances where I felt that I actually 'owned' the data I was sending to it. I discovered many new artists through it. I think its decline will probably correlate with people's transition from MP3s to streaming services. It was pretty sad when that breach happened, as that felt like a nail in the coffin. https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/01/43-million-p…

Last.fm is still fantastic! Spotify natively supports it, and I've never stopped scrobbling.

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Post by rcarr »

I used to be obsessed with Last fm when I was a teenager and was similarly obsessed with music in general. I think I moved away from it probably before my interest in music waned, if I remember right it was because something about the whole “quantify self” movement became off-putting to me. There was something weird about looking at the charts and who your top artists were the same kind of way having a top 8 friends on MySpace was a bit weird - I didn’t need or want to have these things explicitly ranked. I didn’t want to log on to Last Fm and view bands I’d been listening to like they were a sports league table.

It just wasn’t for me in the end but I can see how it’s appealing for other people. For me it will always be a nice little reminder of the mid 00s along with stuff like indie music and the mighty boosh.

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Post by smoldesu »

paulryanrogers wrote: post #9
lzooz wrote: post #8

Last.fm was cool and had huge community but cbs bought it and rewrote it making it slower, clunkier and removing features, essentially destroying it. Back in the day practically all players (including spotify) had scrobbling support.

Anyone found a better scrobbling service? Preferably that one can self host?

I believe FunkWhale is attempting something along these lines: https://fediverse.party/en/funkwhale/

Re: Last.fm turns 20

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Post by calvinmorrison »

I typically check in on my last.fm scrobble history every 6 months or so... and I just checked in and found that spotify has stopped working. This is truly a disaster for me and my heart is broken.

Does Spotify to Last.fm still work for anyone?

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Post by haroldp »

paulryanrogers wrote: post #9
lzooz wrote: post #8

Last.fm was cool and had huge community but cbs bought it and rewrote it making it slower, clunkier and removing features, essentially destroying it. Back in the day practically all players (including spotify) had scrobbling support.

Anyone found a better scrobbling service? Preferably that one can self host?

https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/eo77m1/is_there...

Re: Last.fm turns 20

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Post by dividefuel »

sandrob57 wrote: post #6

I hope Last.FM never goes away; I've been tracking my scrobbles since 2005

Me too! 480,000 scrobbles and still going. I recently downloaded all of my scrobbles so that at least I'd have the listening data in case the service ever goes down.

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Post by warp »

paulryanrogers wrote: post #9
lzooz wrote: post #8

Last.fm was cool and had huge community but cbs bought it and rewrote it making it slower, clunkier and removing features, essentially destroying it. Back in the day practically all players (including spotify) had scrobbling support.

Anyone found a better scrobbling service? Preferably that one can self host?

https://listenbrainz.org/ is open source (from the MusicBrainz ppl), though not really intended for self-hosting.

Re: Last.fm turns 20

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Post by arthurmorgan »

calvinmorrison wrote: post #15

I typically check in on my last.fm scrobble history every 6 months or so... and I just checked in and found that spotify has stopped working. This is truly a disaster for me and my heart is broken. Does Spotify to Last.fm still work for anyone?

Try removing and re-adding the connection. This occasionally happens to me too.

Re: Last.fm turns 20

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Post by calvinmorrison »

arthurmorgan wrote: post #19
calvinmorrison wrote: post #15

I typically check in on my last.fm scrobble history every 6 months or so... and I just checked in and found that spotify has stopped working. This is truly a disaster for me and my heart is broken. Does Spotify to Last.fm still work for anyone?

Try removing and re-adding the connection. This occasionally happens to me too.

Well, I am glad it's working again... whew
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