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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?
The last time it was mentioned here, perhaps a couple of weeks ago, I tried to warm up my old last.fm account. I once used it for a long time, but that time was maybe 20 years ago now. I wasn't even sure what my username, password, or email address would have been -- but I had some guesses. So I guessed a few times. I guessed wrong. The wrong guesses apparently blocked me, since the sign-up page now always goes 403 f…
The last time it was mentioned here, perhaps a couple of weeks ago, I tried to warm up my old last.fm account. I once used it for a long time, but that time was maybe 20 years ago now. I wasn't even sure what my username, password, or email address would have been -- but I had some guesses. So I guessed a few times. I guessed wrong. The wrong guesses apparently blocked me, since the sign-up page now always goes 403 f…
Get in touch with LFM support, it's good. I hadn't used my LFM since 2011, but I remembered my old email address that was likely used with the account. I emailed support asking them kindly to reset my password to my new email, and they obliged.
The last time it was mentioned here, perhaps a couple of weeks ago, I tried to warm up my old last.fm account. I once used it for a long time, but that time was maybe 20 years ago now. I wasn't even sure what my username, password, or email address would have been -- but I had some guesses. So I guessed a few times. I guessed wrong. The wrong guesses apparently blocked me, since the sign-up page now always goes 403 f…
Get in touch with LFM support, it's good. I hadn't used my LFM since 2011, but I remembered my old email address that was likely used with the account. I emailed support asking them kindly to reset my password to my new email, and they obliged.
I looked for contact info, but https://www.last.fm/about/contact only lists one email address and says not to use that for tech support. It says to use support.lastfm.com -- a forum -- for technical questions.
But I'm pretty unwilling to throw a bunch account data, even if it's already public and already very old, into one place for the bots to hoover up, ruminate upon, correlate, and then keep track of until the earth cools.
Any tips on proceeding?
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Get in touch with LFM support, it's good. I hadn't used my LFM since 2011, but I remembered my old email address that was likely used with the account. I emailed support asking them kindly to reset my password to my new email, and they obliged.
Sorry to reply twice. My previous reply is too old to edit. I looked for contact info, but https://www.last.fm/about/contact only lists one email address and says not to use that for tech support. It says to use support.lastfm.com -- a forum -- for technical questions. But I'm pretty unwilling to throw a bunch account data, even if it's already public and already very old, into one place for the bots to hoover up, ru…
https://github.com/lordfeck/last.played/
If any of the team wants to reach me, my email is in my profile.
last.fm is one of my very favorite services. It's rough around the edges in some parts, but I've gotten incredible value from it. A couple of websites built on it that I check out from time to time: - https://lastfmviz.netlify.app/ - shows what you've been listening to as a grid of album covers. You can scroll down as long as you want. It's cool to look back and remember where I was when listening to specific music.…
The middle one is fascinating. The first track I ever scrobbled is by an artist I have yet to listen to again in 22 years. Much of the longest gaps is taken up by bands I found or started to like due to Rock Band which came out around that time. Man I miss that too, we had 30 or 40 people over right after it came out and turned the house into a karaoke dive, right down to having to kick them off the couch the next mo…
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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…
Just this weekend I generated a really detailed breakdown from my Spotify dump, it's unfortunate they hide so much of the interesting stuff in a dump that takes a week+ to get access to: https://6fce3ff2.spotifyguy94-dashboard.pages.dev 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 fo…
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Sorry to reply twice. My previous reply is too old to edit. I looked for contact info, but https://www.last.fm/about/contact only lists one email address and says not to use that for tech support. It says to use support.lastfm.com -- a forum -- for technical questions. But I'm pretty unwilling to throw a bunch account data, even if it's already public and already very old, into one place for the bots to hoover up, ru…
I've found the support email address. It might still be open for support queries. If you send me an email I'll send you what I know. My email address is in my profile.
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Cannot call lastfm algorithm advanced in any sense. Just opened Amon Tobin page: "similar artists: Kid Koala and DJ Kush", which is an impressively shallow understanding of the last 20 (!!) years of his life, and this happened with almost every artist on the platform, because the average sum of tastes of every listener does not exist in reality. E.g. in the case of Amon Tobin, Kid Koala is the average of similarities…
do you know of a better recommendation algorithm?