Last.fm turns 20 • Hacker News Board

Re: Last.fm turns 20

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Post by corobo » Wed, Nov 23, 2022, 8:23 PM UTC

Hah, I'm still scrobbling. Fair play to Spotify keeping that going.

Scrobbling since 31 Mar 2006, wow that's fair few music phases. 18-34.

Re: Last.fm turns 20

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Post by drawkbox » Wed, Nov 23, 2022, 8:23 PM UTC

sandrob57 wrote: post #6

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

Same here. I love Last.fm for the scrobbling and history of what I listen to. I also scrobble to Libre.FM and a custom one but Last.FM is still my favorite.

Currently at 94,000+ scrobbles since June 2007.

You can scrobble from almost anything including the Last.FM client, WebScrobbler [1] and some streaming apps have it built in like Spotify.

[1] https://web-scrobbler.com/

Re: Last.fm turns 20

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Post by eric8bits » Wed, Nov 23, 2022, 8:27 PM UTC

Still love it to this day. I have Roon and TIDAL connected for automatic scrobbling.

Re: Last.fm turns 20

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Post by lolive » Wed, Nov 23, 2022, 8:27 PM UTC

Wake me up when spotifynewmusic.com is resurrected. [the only music discovery service that really made me discover uncanny things]

Re: Last.fm turns 20

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Post by carl_dr » Wed, Nov 23, 2022, 8:28 PM UTC

dividefuel wrote: post #17

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.

I did the same recently after seeing it was possible. 150,000 scrobbles for me, which I thought was a lot until I saw your count!

https://www.last.fm/user/carldr

Re: Last.fm turns 20

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Post by nunez » Wed, Nov 23, 2022, 8:29 PM UTC

I've always seen last.fm but never actually decided to try it until today. I wish I used it back then. I agree with others here that the big streaming services generally suck at finding me new music based on songs I like (but are very good at recommending songs I've listened to hundreds of times)

Re: Last.fm turns 20

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Post by conradfr » Wed, Nov 23, 2022, 8:35 PM UTC

Oxidation wrote: post #23

unvs wrote: post #4

I discovered so much music through last.fm back in the day. There were so many obscure and weird bands to find in their «Related artists» and whole genres I feel I’d never have heard of if not for last.fm

Their recommendations that I got then seem leagues better than what the big modern streamers give now. For all their AI and ginourmous models, they mostly seem to be stuck on "what you listened to yesterday".

Google Play Music was pretty good, especially the auto-generated playlists (albeit a bit repetitive after a while), made me discover a lot of artists, so of course Google had to kill it.

Nowadays I use Deezer and it's definitively worse.

Re: Last.fm turns 20

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Post by lolive » Wed, Nov 23, 2022, 8:35 PM UTC

How can I listen to Last.fm recommendations on my smartphone? Their app is no longer in the App Store in Europe.

Re: Last.fm turns 20

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Post by jollyllama » Wed, Nov 23, 2022, 8:36 PM UTC

Ah yes, that thing that has a symbol in every media player ever that I never use. Not knocking it, I've just never used it.

Re: Last.fm turns 20

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Post by charlieegan3 » Wed, Nov 23, 2022, 8:37 PM UTC

halfmatthalfcat wrote: post #10

I'm curious how easy it would be to make a pure scrobbling service competitor to last.fm.

I have thought about this before too. last.fm is well supported by services and players. It’s often the only option when there’s no API to access now playing on the device.