Still scrobbling since 2008. A lot of smaller artists used to upload their music to last.fm, and I found a lot of gems there (specifically in the swedish bitpop scene).
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Re: 2002: Last.fm and Audioscrobbler Herald the Social Web
#22Part of the quantified self movement. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantified_self
The thing with data is that you have to act on it for it to be useful, and this data is useful only to recommendation engineers. Spotify's end-of-year summary is more than enough to satisfy my curiosity.
Re: 2002: Last.fm and Audioscrobbler Herald the Social Web
#23Last.fm is still used quite a bit, mainly as a listening history tracker rather than a radio or recommendation engine. Spotify is still the only big streaming service with native platform-level scrobbling. For everything else it's a lot more DIY, usually with third party tools at the device level. A big reason it’s still relevant is the ecosystem around it. The API hasn't really changed in 15 years, which makes it ea…
> Spotify is still the only big streaming service with native platform-level scrobbling.
That's not true. It's missing from Apple Music but present in Tidal, Deezer, and Quobuz. It also works well with Plex.
A large list from them: https://support.last.fm/t/more-ways-to-scrobble/192
Re: 2002: Last.fm and Audioscrobbler Herald the Social Web
#24Richard Jones is still alive and kicking https://x.com/metabrew
^ protected tweets. But he's also on Bsky:
Re: 2002: Last.fm and Audioscrobbler Herald the Social Web
#25I'm still scrobbling after all these years.
I left Spotify when their CEO made a military investment.
Breaking free from their recommendation algorithm and dedicating time to discovering music has been a transformative experience.
I am delighted that numerous tools still utilize scrobbling. My favorite recent discovery is Tapmusic. [0]
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#27I'm a big fan of last.fm. If you use Spotify, you can download your full listening history here: https://www.spotify.com/us/account/privacy/ . You get it in a pretty convenient JSON format and with a little bit of code it's pretty easy to create some visualizations. There are also websites for visualizing this data. I'm quite fond of this one: https://explorify.link/ . It allows you to do some custom queries.
I build a web app years ago with Spotify SDK to display top artists, songs, recents, also with a Discovery section that generates new music based on your history. You can create playlists from all sections. free @ https://echoesapp.io
Tried it out now, pretty nice.
Note that apps built from the SDK don't have access to the full history, only up to some cutoff. I tried a couple over the years and wrongly concluded Spotify deleted your history after some time.
The data download does contain everything, which was a very pleasant surprise. I didn't think I'd ever see the data from the couple years gap in my last.fm.
Re: 2002: Last.fm and Audioscrobbler Herald the Social Web
#28Last.fm is still used quite a bit, mainly as a listening history tracker rather than a radio or recommendation engine. Spotify is still the only big streaming service with native platform-level scrobbling. For everything else it's a lot more DIY, usually with third party tools at the device level. A big reason it’s still relevant is the ecosystem around it. The API hasn't really changed in 15 years, which makes it ea…
> Spotify is still the only big streaming service with native platform-level scrobbling. That's not true. It's missing from Apple Music but present in Tidal, Deezer, and Quobuz. It also works well with Plex. A large list from them: https://support.last.fm/t/more-ways-to-scrobble/192
These integrations are lacking compared to Spotify. For example in Tidal you have to set it for each device where you install the app, and it doesn't work with things like casting. It's easy to forget to set it up which can cause gaps in your history.
The Plex integration gets pretty close to native, but it only scrobbles after a track is done, it doesn't have 'Now Playing' support.
As for Deezer and Quobuz I'm not sure. Afaik Spotify still stands alone by being set-and-forget, working on any device and having full feature support.
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Checking mine, scrobbling since 9 Oct 2006 with 297,127 scrobbles myself.
Sep 23, 2004 here! 285k scrobbles. Always been a loyal user. My use goes back far enough that I would have scrobbles queued up for when my dialup connection came online to push the days’ missed scrobbles up.
Jun 8th ‘07, 535,618k scrobbles.
My usage went way up once I was able to properly scrobble listens played via my hifi.
Re: 2002: Last.fm and Audioscrobbler Herald the Social Web
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Spotify is still the only big streaming service with native platform-level scrobbling. That's not true. It's missing from Apple Music but present in Tidal, Deezer, and Quobuz. It also works well with Plex. A large list from them: https://support.last.fm/t/more-ways-to-scrobble/192
These integrations are lacking compared to Spotify. For example in Tidal you have to set it for each device where you install the app, and it doesn't work with things like casting. It's easy to forget to set it up which can cause gaps in your history. The Plex integration gets pretty close to native, but it only scrobbles after a track is done, it doesn't have 'Now Playing' support. As for Deezer and Quobuz I'm not s…
Qobuz works the same way. Set and forget. Don’t know about deezer.