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Last.fm turns 20

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Post by emodendroket »

majormajor wrote: post #168
emodendroket wrote: post #137

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I mean, maybe it's not worse though. Maybe others would find what the other guy wants too narrow. There's a tension between only playing stuff you are 100% going to like and actually introducing you to stuff you haven't listened to.

> Maybe others would find what the other guy wants too narrow. That's exactly what makes it worse, though. They currently have to choose more globally, it's not that personalized. in the human-curated world others would get different things. I know they don't like Slipknot, I know you do, I give you each different recommendations. Spotify's code hasn't shown the ability to learn "me" vs it's view of what the "average…

Can't you refine your results by telling it to stop recommending an artist?

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Post by achairapart »

CrypticShift wrote: post #170
achairapart wrote: post #169

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Maybe related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29408761

I have some Spotify suggestions for you, if you don't know them already. > all the album by this label label:[label name] is helpful. There are better options. this one comes to mind https://www.lbl.fm/ > all the songs produced by X If you open the credits of a track, you will find that some writers (no producers) are hyperlinked to a page where you can listen to all their songs as a playlist. > all the songs where i…

These are great suggestions, thanks!

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Post by eythian »

carl_dr wrote: post #97
xn wrote: post #89

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I've got high compatibility with carldr. https://www.last.fm/user/xn

You signed up to last.fm (well, audioscrobbler) two days after I did in 2005. I’ve followed you there, I’ll trawl through your top tracks tomorrow. I’m surprised/happy to see iLiKETRAINS as your top track.

Good band! Saw them perform live a few weeks back.

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Post by carl_dr »

eythian wrote: post #174
xn wrote: post #89

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I've got high compatibility with carldr. https://www.last.fm/user/xn

Only high? I have super with you :)

If you are shrikemen, Teenage Fanclub are the first band I saw live. Looking through your profile, I’m surprised we are only Medium.

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Post by kixiQu »

CrypticShift wrote: post #157
kixiQu wrote: post #134

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How do you find the https://everynoise.com/ categories to fare at this?

This is Spotify’s list of "genres". To be fair (and more exact) Spotify data scientists detect patterns in the audio spectral features and use them to manually create/add new genres. The "collective wisdom" nature of last.fm and RYM will often give better results/phraseology. You could say that Spotify could also be data mining these Music Social Media sites! My own research does not show this to be true (at a large…

I mean, I'm pretty sure it is not just audio spectral features used, though I can't find a citation either way. (I am sure because the language distinctions make clear that we are at least making heavy use of metadata if not actual social patterns in listening, but the latter is explicitly heavily used elsewhere on the site, so...)

Also, if we're being exact, it's the work of Glenn McDonald under the auspices the Echo Nest, which is now owned by Spotify, but it isn't the be-all-end-all of how Spotify models genres under the hood.

What I was curious about is how /u/beezlebroxxxxxx perceived it to do at the metal genres, simply because Glenn McDonald is himself a metal genre fan (https://www.furia.com/), so I'd've expected that to work decently well.

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Post by mattl »

mattl wrote: post #164
chunk_waffle wrote: post #131

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Is libre.fm still stuck on PHP 5 or are the docs just out dated? https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/librefm.git/tree/gnufm_ins...

Nah it’s on PHP 7.x those are just very old docs. I’m no longer involved with the GNU project so the site is in a weird state where the GNU docs are stuck in time. I do need to do a better job of pointing people to what’s out there though. I am considering a rewrite in modern PHP.

http://fedi.network — rewrite is happening

Re: Last.fm turns 20

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Post by fetzu »

kirenida wrote: post #110
fetzu wrote: post #95

Last.fm (and the sadly defunct what.cd) have shaped my taste in music beyond what I could ever imagine: I have discovered a massive amount of amazing musicians through these recommendations; something I feel Spotify has never really been able to achieve, even after a decade+ of use. Scrobbling has almost become a religion to me, to the point I found solutions to scrobble my Vinyl listening and consider scrobbling cap…

I wanted to write exactly the same things you wrote, except I have only been on Spotify for 3 years now. I assume you use the Discogs app for scrobbling your vinyl? I was really pleasantly surprised when I found that feature :)

Sorry for replying this late !

I actually didn’t know the Discogs app supported scrobbling, I currently use an open source app called “Finale”[1] that does the job pretty well. As soon as I can get my hands on a RaspberryPi, I have plans to make the whole process automatic.

[1] https://github.com/nrubin29/finale

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