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Soulseek is still going? I discovered so many artists, international variations of albums, live sessions and bootlegs from that app, it changed my relationship with music. I have to go back and check it out.
There's even a FOSS client now https://github.com/nicotine-plus/nicotine-plus
Earlier this year I decided to move away from streaming platforms and rebuild my local music collection and serve it out over Plex. Plex supports last.fm so everything gets recorded there. I also use the following docker containers on my home server: Multi-Scrobbler: https://hub.docker.com/r/foxxmd/multi-scrobbler Koito: https://koito.io/guides/installation/ This allows me to share my last.fm input to both a local sc…
Last.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…
Also thanks for your work, while I dislike the spammyness of it, that's on the server owners (main server I'm on limits it to one bot channel)
I love last.fm with all my being. I recently created a ListenBrainz (same org as MusicBrainz) account which is an open source alternative that you don’t have to host yourself. I’m scrobbling to both places now just in case. Check out tapmusic.net too to make cool diagrams out of your scrobbled music.
Maybe not super useful, but fun ;) when at home, I scrobble to MS which distributes the data, when I have no VPN active on the go, I scrobble to last.fm only, which then gets used as source by MS as well, to redistribute it to the others.
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Good lord, Oink was only around for 4 years? I was one of the earlier signups and it felt more like 10 years.
Maybe because what.cd picked up the torch and carried on for another few years? For me there was some sense of continuity between the two.
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Leading on start (15 Jan 2004) but woeful in the scrobbles (55164). In my defence, it was only recently that you could sensibly scrobble from iOS with Marvis and I gave up on Spotify countless years ago.
What is Marvis? I'm transitioning from Spotify to Apple Music and Last.fm doesn't have integration. Does Marvis solves this problem?
I initially moved to it because Shortcuts broke my "generate 2h of music I rarely listen to" shortcut (it stopped being able to add music to playlists - hilarious for an in-house app talking to an in-house app!) and someone suggested Marvis because it has a "dynamic smart playlist" and it also has integrated scrobbling.
You can pretty much replace the Apple Music frontend with Marvis (at least on iOS) and everything works the same (because it's still using Music as its backend.)
Last.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…
Could you use your fame to get last.fm to extend their API to allow listening number checks so it's not only people who registered with your bot? ;) Also thanks for your work, while I dislike the spammyness of it, that's on the server owners (main server I'm on limits it to one bot channel)
The best ”algorithm” for discovering new music was digging through profiles on last.fm back when the social functions of the site were still active. Sure, it was a lot of manual work, but the results were amazing. It wasn't completely blind, I found that people I had high similarity with, it was more likely I'll like what they like, even across different genres. Sometimes people were nice and took the effort to recom…
In my experience Spotify's song/playlist recommendations are not great, but the album recommendations have a pretty high hit rate. I'm not sure why this would be.