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I hope this is a good change for last.fm! I love the service but it's been trickier to use since I switched from Spotify to Apple Music. Does anyone have a setup they're happy with for scrobbling from Apple Music across different types of devices?
I haven't found anything reliable for iOS, however.
Man i love last.fm even though it's been technically superseded (for most people) by Spotify's recommendation features. It just fit so well in the zeitgeist of 2000's indie scene, microblogs, early social media.
Man i love last.fm even though it's been technically superseded (for most people) by Spotify's recommendation features. It just fit so well in the zeitgeist of 2000's indie scene, microblogs, early social media.
I've felt a serious reduction in quality of recommendations from spotify the past couple years. Maybe I'll try last.fm
AFAIK, the playlist is only generated from artists that you've followed. It will pull in tracks from different artists that feature your followed artists as well, so you get some occasional drift, which I consider a positive.
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That's because the recommendation engine that Last.fm used back in the day was made the incredibly expensive way: the entire corpus was hand-tagged and cross-linked by humans atop an enormous CDDB. Last.fm, Audioscrobbler, and MusicBrainz (the association engine) were all linked together.
I think pandora had the best recommendations - because it was based on real human input, not AI and not even "group think". Sadly many years ago pandora bacame US only, so I couldnt use it (did not bother with VPN).
the previous owner doesnt appear to be mentioned in the post (or, at least, not easily found). CBS Coporation (owned by Paramount) bought last.fm in 2007
Purchased and then completely ignored. The only consequence from an insiders point of view is we suddenly needed training on the "Foreign Corrupt Practices Act" since last.fm was a UK company.
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> shows your listening rankings by hours, minutes instead of just scrobble count I've wanted to build something like this for a long time, cool (and unsurprising, really) to see it's already done! Swans is my number 30 by scrobbles but 4 by playtime, which makes total sense.
If you're a Spotify user, you can get even more precise data by downloading your listening data. The website I linked gets data from MusicBrainz and tries to fill in the gaps with an average, but even then it gets some things wrong. E.g. Fishmans - Long Season is a 40 minute song, but the website's considers it as divided into 4-5 parts. And you don't have to listen to the full song to get a scrobble. In the Spotify…
The advertising profile was especially interesting since a) I don't think the brands expected anyone outside of their marketing teams to see some of these names b) I've had premium for most of the time I've used Spotify, but they're still putting in full effort on generating an ad profile in case that ever changes
So CBS spun them back out as their own corp or did the employee's or someone else buy it from CBS? Just declaring themselves independent without details doesn't provide much context. I feel like Michael Scott just declared bankruptcy.
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> shows your listening rankings by hours, minutes instead of just scrobble count I've wanted to build something like this for a long time, cool (and unsurprising, really) to see it's already done! Swans is my number 30 by scrobbles but 4 by playtime, which makes total sense.
If you're a Spotify user, you can get even more precise data by downloading your listening data. The website I linked gets data from MusicBrainz and tries to fill in the gaps with an average, but even then it gets some things wrong. E.g. Fishmans - Long Season is a 40 minute song, but the website's considers it as divided into 4-5 parts. And you don't have to listen to the full song to get a scrobble. In the Spotify…