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Last.fm turns 20

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Re: Last.fm turns 20

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Post by camel-cdr »

AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #21

Still use last.fm. Most "You might like this" algorithms go straight for the low-hanging fruit, and often fail to take any kind of nuance into account. I can't tell you how many of the streaming services will see my Black Sabbath play history and immediately recommend, "If you like Black Sabbath, you should love...Slipknot!" But I've never had a real person make that mistake, because a real person who looks at my las…

The only site that finds better similar artist matches for me is https://www.metal-archives.com.

Re: Last.fm turns 20

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Post by toofy »

gtirloni wrote: post #74

I don't understand why Spotify or some music streaming service doesn't buy Last.fm already. It's a pretty useful service that nobody is going to pay for unless it comes included in a streaming service already.

i genuinely hope they dont.

if spotify bought it, they would almost certainly kill off scrobbles from outside music sources. of course they would promise this wouldn't happen, but we all know from repeated experience, over time the api would slowly be closed off.

Re: Last.fm turns 20

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Post by fetzu »

dividefuel wrote: post #17
sandrob57 wrote: post #6

I hope Last.FM never goes away; I've been tracking my scrobbles since 2005

Me too! 480,000 scrobbles and still going. I recently downloaded all of my scrobbles so that at least I'd have the listening data in case the service ever goes down.

That’s the pro-tip of the day folks! Last.fm is actually at the top of my “things to backup at the beginning of each year” list, there are quite a few website that allow you to generate a CSV in minutes, and even some pretty decent CLI tools.

Re: Last.fm turns 20

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Post by fetzu »

djhworld wrote: post #54

Last.fm died (as in for me personally) when I stopped cultivating my own music library. I used to have gigabytes of MP3s and FLACs, all neatly organised into folders, usually by artist/album, and meticulously maintained ID3 tags. All played through software like Winamp with the audioscrobbler plugin, or iTunes when I had my beloved iPod classic. All of that drifted away as I got older, and the dawn of streaming servi…

Consider yourself lucky, Spotify scrobbling used to break for me almost weekly a few years back (but it has gotten way better, rarely an issue these days) !

Re: Last.fm turns 20

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Post by fetzu »

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 capability in a player as a make-or-break feature !

Re: Last.fm turns 20

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Post by carl_dr »

xn wrote: post #89
punchclockhero wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Aw shucks,low compatibility. https://www.last.fm/user/unspotted

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.

Re: Last.fm turns 20

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Post by yarg »

sandrob57 wrote: post #6

I hope Last.FM never goes away; I've been tracking my scrobbles since 2005

I really liked AudioScrobbler as a name, the site felt like it lost a piece of its personality when it changed.

Re: Last.fm turns 20

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Post by bromuro »

230k scrobbles since 2006.

I love last.fm, it still has the vibe of the healthy internet. It is cool to dig into my listening history. Last fm suggestions and recs are still the best. The wikis are great for fans.

I miss the times where i was finding friends by shouting to strangers profiles. Just in the love of music.

Long live last.fm!!

Re: Last.fm turns 20

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Post by dougSF70 »

ep103 wrote: post #61
SimonPStevens wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had always assumed that recommendation algorithms didn't work on genres, but instead did a lookup based on something like: "You like X" "Person Y also likes X" "Person Y also likes Z" "I should recommended Z to you" (proportional to the number of people there are who liked X and Z, compared to other options) If this is the case (and perhaps I'm wrong), it's nothing to do with the algorithm not understanding the sub…

That's the way music-map.com works, and it is absolutely fantastic. But no, that is NOT the way these other services recommend things. Spotify, for example, recommends music that it thinks is related, but not necessarily liked by both groups of people. For example, a person who likes Black Sabbath, and really technical instrumental metal, probably doesn't like the comparatively simpler slipknot. While some people who…

Spotify recommends me tracks that I have already added to my playlists. It knows me really well.
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