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Create your own profile (which seems to be based on the Audioscrobbler system).. then listen to personal streaming radio based on your preferences.

You can say whether you like or hate a particular track it's playing and it'll record your preferences and send you music that other people who have similar tastes to yours like...

Wish we had a decent broadband service in NZ. You pay through the nose for international traffic.

damian_nz (damian_nz), Thursday, 27 May 2004 21:20 (twenty years ago) link

i used this for a while but got ditracted by download sites - it is good though - i must check it out again. very diverse and often surprising selections.

jed_ (jed), Thursday, 27 May 2004 23:01 (twenty years ago) link

I've only been on for about 30 minutes now, but I'm definitely enjoying it. I'm curious to hear how the selection will be once I've added more songs to my profile.

JC-L (JC-L), Friday, 28 May 2004 13:55 (twenty years ago) link

two years pass...
not convinced that there's much to it beyond the initial novelty, but initial novelty will do for now - http://www.last.fm/user/lexpretend/

lex pretend, Thursday, 22 February 2007 16:33 (seventeen years ago) link

You're not beholden to listening to your own profile radio. You can pick other users or customize by clicking 'find a station' and entering a list of artists.

Mike Dixn, Thursday, 22 February 2007 16:53 (seventeen years ago) link

There's another thread somewhere. And an ILx group: ilx0r

emil.y, Thursday, 22 February 2007 17:07 (seventeen years ago) link

lex you can also listen to "neighbours" and "friendslist" radios. you've only been on a few days so it may not have had time to correlate yr neighbours (ppl with matching interests), but with that and general clicking around and preview listening i've found a few artists here and there with last.fm, not to mention ppl who you can then P2P with :-)

Alan, Thursday, 22 February 2007 17:31 (seventeen years ago) link

To listen to personal radio you have to donate. Unless they still do the free personal radio for the 1st month you sign up.

Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 22 February 2007 17:51 (seventeen years ago) link

So far it seems much better at dealing w/more obscure stuff, as compared w/pandora...not sure if that's just my experience as I haven't been using either for *that* long.

dlp9001, Thursday, 22 February 2007 17:51 (seventeen years ago) link

i haven't got any neighbours yet but i will keep trying!

it's not really a great reflection of what i actually listen to, maybe when i hook comp up to proper speakers i'll actually listen to most of my music on it. also look at my weekly artsts for last week and guess what i had to review innit

lex pretend, Thursday, 22 February 2007 17:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Someone critique my musical tastes:

http://www.last.fm/user/magogo

Tell me what I should be listening to.

MaGoGo, Thursday, 22 February 2007 18:00 (seventeen years ago) link

How many tracks do you need to play now before it calculates neighbours? It used to be 200.

Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 22 February 2007 18:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Judging from that list I'd say you might find Neu! and Cluster interesting.

Noodle Vague, Thursday, 22 February 2007 18:04 (seventeen years ago) link

old thread is http://www.ilxor.com:8080/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&threadid=18146; might be best to use it instead of this one 'cos it's a handy single resource for ppl's links.

i'm still pretty new to the whole thing but i think it fucking rocks.

grimly fiendish, Thursday, 22 February 2007 18:12 (seventeen years ago) link

FUCK THIS PRETEND-HTML BOLLOCKS; that link's fucked.

the old thread is here

grimly fiendish, Thursday, 22 February 2007 18:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Mine

Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 22 February 2007 19:14 (seventeen years ago) link

I do have another account actually that records all my soul,funk,jazz etc . It's linked on my main profile page.

Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 22 February 2007 19:27 (seventeen years ago) link

i can't get this radio thing to work :(

lex pretend, Thursday, 22 February 2007 20:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Did you download the LAST FM player? I'm pretty sure you need to be a subscriber to listen to personal radio. And obviously you don't have any neighbours yet to use that radio.
Just go to a random page and try listening to that persons radio (I don't recommend mine as I'm sure you would hate it). All you should need to do is click on where it says PLAY "insert name"'s Radio Station. See if that works.

I think you're on a mac though but I don't think that should make a difference.
I'm not sure if you can use TAG radio without subscribing. You can always just do a search for some act you like and select their radio

Try this Similar Artists To Ciara
Hopefully that will work.


Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 22 February 2007 20:55 (seventeen years ago) link

haaa i just realised why it didn't work, i automatically cancelled the box which pops up and which is the box that launches it. (i am v distrustful of boxes-which-pop-up, they alarm me)

lex pretend, Thursday, 22 February 2007 21:10 (seventeen years ago) link

it plays usher :D

lex pretend, Thursday, 22 February 2007 21:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, I'll put a link to mine on, too. missekawasaki. Don't listen to that much music on my computer, though.

emil.y, Thursday, 22 February 2007 23:40 (seventeen years ago) link

I quite like my personal radio player. It blows Pandora out of the water IMO. I'm quite the Last.fm junkie actually.
[link Chantilly Bass]http://www.last.fm/user/chantillybass[link]

Chantilly Bass, Thursday, 22 February 2007 23:45 (seventeen years ago) link

can't find you!

lol @ trusting ilx instructions

tremendoid, Thursday, 22 February 2007 23:50 (seventeen years ago) link

I tried to use this, but for some reason, my connection won't smoothly stream songs from last.fm. However, I can play songs from Pandora, no problem, no skips.

Z S, Friday, 23 February 2007 01:04 (seventeen years ago) link

I have never tried this Pandora.

Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 23 February 2007 17:37 (seventeen years ago) link

three years pass...

VERY late to the party, but if anyone's interested in adding me, I just joined the last.fm revolution! http://www.last.fm/user/charlieframe

Bernard V. O'Hare (dog latin), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 23:14 (thirteen years ago) link

Hey DL, Mount_Analogue is me fwiw.

seminal fuiud (NickB), Thursday, 13 January 2011 07:44 (thirteen years ago) link

one month passes...

surely this must have been addressed in one of the last.fm threads, but currently listening to a ton of ella fitzgerald, and have to cop to worrying how it will skew my last.fm stats. that's insane, right? i'm part of the problem, right?

Dominique, Thursday, 24 February 2011 17:27 (thirteen years ago) link

Um, yes.

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 24 February 2011 17:27 (thirteen years ago) link

Just listen to what you like!

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 24 February 2011 17:27 (thirteen years ago) link

I mean surely you're not worried there's a mob out there thinking "Oh great, not only does this bastard lie about him being a woman but he listens to ELLA all day!"

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 24 February 2011 17:28 (thirteen years ago) link

when i cared more about last.fm this same thing used to cause me angst when i'd listen to mixtapes i had tagged as "lil wayne & dj drama" or w/e

pop the s1ock (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 24 February 2011 17:29 (thirteen years ago) link

no, more like, if I listen to 250 tracks by her in the next week, that's totally going to SKEW MY STATS! probably put her in my top 10-- is she really one of my top ten artists? probably not. god, I need some serious help

Dominique, Thursday, 24 February 2011 17:30 (thirteen years ago) link

xpost

Dominique, Thursday, 24 February 2011 17:30 (thirteen years ago) link

if she's not in ur top 10 how do u explain listening to her a ton

Dr Frogbs (am0n), Thursday, 24 February 2011 17:40 (thirteen years ago) link

dig it; my top ten:

1. Denki Groove
2. P-Model
3. Ween
4. They Might Be Giants
5. Underworld
6. Scooter
7. Yellow Magic Orchestra
8. Happy Mondays
9. Ryuichi Sakamoto
10. The Bran Flakes

kinda surprised by this list, I guess TMBG and the Bran Flakes do put like 20-30 songs on their albums, just surprised Sakamoto ranked so high too

I'm guessing The Fall will be #1 all time at some point. It's unavoidable

frogbs, Thursday, 24 February 2011 17:48 (thirteen years ago) link

if she's not in ur top 10 how do u explain listening to her a ton

it's insanity. but I guess I just don't consider her one of my top 10 favorite artists. when i go through big phases like this, it charts certain artists really high on my last.fm.

first and foremost, it's manic obsessiveness

Dominique, Thursday, 24 February 2011 17:53 (thirteen years ago) link

my top tracks is compiled almost entirely of things i've listened to consistently over a period of years, but in the past few weeks there's one song that's beginning to creep up there even though i've only known it for that period of time. is that right? does it really deserve to be there??? (i've so far managed to resist the temptation to not listen to it and so keep the figures stable. just about.)

Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Thursday, 24 February 2011 17:57 (thirteen years ago) link

Dom, don't you know you can just turn the scrobbler off? It's usually in your task-bar... right click, exit. Turn it back on when you'd like to scrobble something "less embarassing".

I've only done this in regards of Oasis, when I had this really bizarre urge to to listen to Be Here Now and didn't want them fucking up my e-representation of myself.

mamma mia pizzeroni (kelpolaris), Thursday, 24 February 2011 20:36 (thirteen years ago) link

It is craziness! I suffer from this crazy, too. P sure no one even looks at my last.fm (except Algerian Goalie).

wizards of wonder are the keepers of knowledge (Abbbottt), Friday, 25 February 2011 14:49 (thirteen years ago) link

I have a playlist of motivational German-language songs to put on when I ought to be doing my German homework. I've often considered turning scrobbling off for them, because they are not really my favourite songs in the world ever and I don't want my entire last.fm top 20 to be made up of them. Haven't bothered yet though.

(On the other hand, I put the playlist on every couple of weeks and I'm not completely sick of them yet, so I guess that says something for them.)

dimension hatris (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 25 February 2011 16:40 (thirteen years ago) link

http://lastfm.obsessive-media.de/weekly/6x5/algerian_goalie.jpeg

Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 25 February 2011 16:51 (thirteen years ago) link

i made a "bert jansch" station and it's awesome

he do the waka lyfe (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 25 February 2011 17:18 (thirteen years ago) link

eleven months pass...

If, when I did my initial setup, I only selected iTunes as an import source for plays, is there a way to also add my Winamp history? 'Cause the resulting profile is all kinds of skewed.

Simon H., Saturday, 28 January 2012 18:05 (twelve years ago) link

two years pass...

last.fm should add badges + achievements and totally gamify

Mordy , Monday, 17 February 2014 01:06 (ten years ago) link

or shut down

markers, Monday, 17 February 2014 03:32 (ten years ago) link

ten months pass...

deadpool 2015

the most painstaking, humorless people in the world (lukas), Tuesday, 6 January 2015 21:03 (nine years ago) link

that would be a shame as i still use it all the time but i am wondering what is keeping it open tbh

don't ask me why i posted this (electricsound), Tuesday, 6 January 2015 21:12 (nine years ago) link

I've heard about last.fm pulling the plug for a while but last time I checked they were gaining users at a high rate so I don't know about that happening soon

Dinsdale, Tuesday, 6 January 2015 21:18 (nine years ago) link

Your compatibility with El_Zanahoria is Very High.

You both listen to Fishmans, Slowdive and King Krule.

the adventures of Yari and ixa. (Austin), Thursday, 14 September 2023 22:02 (one year ago) link

three weeks pass...

Odd one, all my listening is scrobbling ok. However albums listened to in past 7 days isn’t updating or only doing so after several hours.

Dan Worsley, Saturday, 7 October 2023 07:30 (one year ago) link

they posted yesterday that they had problems with scrobbling

Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Saturday, 7 October 2023 08:21 (one year ago) link

Ah, ok didn’t see that. Thanks.

Dan Worsley, Saturday, 7 October 2023 08:25 (one year ago) link

Aye, I saw it on Twitter.

Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Saturday, 7 October 2023 08:39 (one year ago) link

We're currently investigating a possible lag issue with scrobbling, which started approximately 2pm BST (30 mins ago). Scrobbles should come through, but may be slightly delayed. Sorry for any inconvenience caused by this.

— Last.fm Status (@lastfmstatus) October 6, 2023

Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Saturday, 7 October 2023 08:44 (one year ago) link

one month passes...

19 years today

294,477 tracks
19,637 artists

also i'm pretty old now

mookieproof, Saturday, 25 November 2023 07:58 (one year ago) link

dang. 20,000 artists!!?!?

i just had my 14th last.fm bday last month and mine looks like—
SCROBBLES
297,208

ARTISTS
5,039

i need to work on my diversity, sheesh.

"another slice of death, please." (Austin), Saturday, 25 November 2023 17:11 (one year ago) link

I'm 17 years and 6 months.

216,238 tracks
13,452 artists.

Also pretty old.

I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Saturday, 25 November 2023 18:38 (one year ago) link

17 Years, 9 months
203,748 scrobbles
5718 artists

treefell, Saturday, 25 November 2023 20:23 (one year ago) link

18 Years, 4 Months
92,224 scrobbles
14,323 artists

I have gone through long periods of not using it / it not working for one reason or another, so my page is kind of odd.

the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 25 November 2023 20:32 (one year ago) link

my original account sat dormant for a long time & I switched from it to a new one in 2017 but sometimes I end up logged into the wrong one, there's a lot of Sonos-related "this didn't scrobble" stuff but the stats since 21 May 2017 say:

47.,443 scrobbles
6,921 artists
9,953 albums scrobbled

J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Saturday, 25 November 2023 20:57 (one year ago) link

I've only been using it consistently since 2020 tbh

36,092 scrobbles
6,158 artists

Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Saturday, 25 November 2023 23:47 (one year ago) link

made my new account in april 2022:

36,438 scrobbles
2,012 artists
3,265 albums

ivy., Sunday, 26 November 2023 00:08 (one year ago) link

tracks from 37,812 albums in my 19 years

top album has 775 scrobbles; seven others are over 400

mookieproof, Sunday, 26 November 2023 00:31 (one year ago) link

Yikes. Coming up on 20 years in 5 months! I’m amazed it’s still around — and even more amazed it seems to be gaining traction with Gen Z (observation based on tiny sample, granted)

798,925 scrobbles
9,136 artists

Xgau Murder Spa (nikola), Sunday, 26 November 2023 01:50 (one year ago) link

I hadn't looked at Last.fm in years, but had to check to see if I had still been scrobbling all this time in the background. No, apparently I stopped. Active 2006-2016; 85,057 scrobbles from 16,362.

glenn mcdonald, Sunday, 26 November 2023 03:37 (one year ago) link

Since December, 2005 (across MediaMonkey, iTunes, iPod, lala, rdio and now Spotify)

223,599 scrobbles
18,104 artists
37,701 albums

My first two tracks were Philip Glass and John Cage and both remain my most played artists (5077 and 3961 scrobbles respectively) followed by Domenico Scarlatti, John Fahey and the Black Angels. Better Luck Next Time by Royal Baths is my third most scrobbled album and probably my favorite.

aworks, Sunday, 26 November 2023 05:14 (one year ago) link

18 years one month

597,714 scrobbles
19,058 artists

groovypanda, Sunday, 26 November 2023 08:50 (one year ago) link

Coming up to 19 years on 23rd December.

180,350 scrobbles
14,923 artists
29,612 albums

Saint Etienne top with 868, Bowie close by with 861 then a gap to Pet Shop Boys on 789.

Dan Worsley, Sunday, 26 November 2023 09:10 (one year ago) link

since 20 Apr 2004, 132,555 scrobbles from 11,621 artists

Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 26 November 2023 12:49 (one year ago) link

My most listened to acts

The Clientele
Thin Lizzy
The Reds, Pinks and Purples
Fontaines DC

Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Sunday, 26 November 2023 13:08 (one year ago) link

since 10 Oct 2005
153,076 tracks
12,213 artists
16 loved tracks

silverfish, Sunday, 26 November 2023 14:33 (one year ago) link

Since 2007.

528,443 tracks.
29,942 artists.
0 loved tracks.

Friend me up, creeps.

Smith, Sunday, 26 November 2023 15:56 (one year ago) link

two months pass...

will presumably hit 300,000 this week

https://i.imgur.com/RMa5maE.jpeg

too lazy to actually bother, but let's just say this song will turn the scrobometer over

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckpf0aglO7U

mookieproof, Monday, 12 February 2024 05:04 (ten months ago) link

two months pass...

lol last.fm know-it-all ass bitch...
https://i.imgur.com/Uj0XFhu.jpeg

tesia is NOT a typo lol. the data is coming from straight from spotify. wtf is happening!?

(shoutout edge tho, good to see you around!)

interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Thursday, 18 April 2024 22:16 (eight months ago) link

also current stats-

Scrobbles

310,084
Artists

5,511
Loved tracks
1,179
scrobbling since 24 Oct 2009

haven't really kept up with the "loved tracks" thing in recent years. it would surely be twice that if i had.

interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Thursday, 18 April 2024 22:20 (eight months ago) link

I've been out scrobblin'

citation needed (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 18 April 2024 22:28 (eight months ago) link

one month passes...
four months pass...

Should such things matter to you, this site will sort your scrobbles by minutes listened rather than the number of scrobbles: https://timewhizzs.net/

I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Wednesday, 23 October 2024 20:39 (one month ago) link

https://i.imgur.com/wCuD8g4.png

500 hours of mbv 😵‍💫🫠😵‍💫🫠😵‍💫 in 18 years~~~

Mrs. Ippei (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 23 October 2024 20:47 (one month ago) link

***50*** hours lmao

Mrs. Ippei (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 23 October 2024 20:47 (one month ago) link

I couldn't get it to do all-time, but for the last year :

https://postimg.cc/3kj2ZCbn

silverfish, Wednesday, 23 October 2024 21:07 (one month ago) link

https://i.postimg.cc/T3FQftjM/image.png

silverfish, Wednesday, 23 October 2024 21:08 (one month ago) link

Yeah mine always freezes trying to do all time xp

groovypanda, Friday, 25 October 2024 05:38 (one month ago) link

probably because i've only had my current last fm for a few years but i was able to do overall... p interesting

https://i.imgur.com/H1FBHJ0.png

ivy., Friday, 25 October 2024 11:52 (one month ago) link

oh god i didn't know the image would download like that lmao

ivy., Friday, 25 October 2024 11:52 (one month ago) link

one month passes...

https://i.imgur.com/6HEv8B9.jpeg

mookieproof, Monday, 25 November 2024 23:23 (three weeks ago) link

Ha it was my own 20th anniversary two days ago (tho I think I had a few months before that with a different audioscrobbler account). Still love this thing.

Scrobbles: 253,587
Artists: 23,420
Loved tracks: 1,313

Top 5 artists: Saint Etienne, Broadcast, Pet Shop Boys, Underworld, The Knife

Top 5 tracks

1. Studio - Out There (56)
2. Broadcast - Black Cat (55)
3. Games - Strawberry Skies (54)
3. Propaganda - Dr. Mabuse (54)
5. Games - Shadows in Bloom (53)

nashwan, Tuesday, 26 November 2024 13:56 (three weeks ago) link

really feeling my last 7 days snapshot

https://i.postimg.cc/Dy40j135/Screenshot-2024-11-26-at-9-36-02-AM.png

J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 26 November 2024 14:39 (three weeks ago) link

joke's on me

https://i.imgur.com/V6LADtc.jpeg

mookieproof, Thursday, 5 December 2024 05:27 (two weeks ago) link

https://mold.github.io/explr/

https://i.imgur.com/rJvuj4a.png

No idea how accurate this data is but here's my top 25 countries by scrobbles/artists:

Country	Scrobbles
United States 24085
United Kingdom 10325
Japan 2264
Germany 1741
Brazil 1323
Ireland 969
France 819
New Zealand 794
Canada 703
Jamaica 558
Australia 497
South Korea 297
South Africa 210
Philippines 161
Belgium 147
Singapore 139
Italy 131
Niger 117
Czech Republic 106
Barbados 101
Zimbabwe 101
Nigeria 91
Denmark 90
Sweden 89
Vietnam 87

Country Number of artists
United States 975
United Kingdom 307
Japan 110
Jamaica 88
Brazil 77
Germany 69
Canada 45
France 41
New Zealand 38
Australia 26
Sweden 21
South Africa 15
Italy 14
Ireland 10
India 10
Belgium 9
South Korea 8
Cambodia 7
Singapore 6
Nigeria 5
Vietnam 5
Chile 5
Indonesia 4
Portugal 4
Mali 4

Mrs. Ippei (Steve Shasta), Monday, 16 December 2024 20:27 (six days ago) link

such as "Philippines 161"...

I'm struggling to think of where this is coming from? Slint/Papa M? Versus? Beabadoobee?

Mrs. Ippei (Steve Shasta), Monday, 16 December 2024 20:29 (six days ago) link

If you click on the country it'll list who you've scrobbled.

Dan Worsley, Monday, 16 December 2024 21:14 (six days ago) link

3 for the Phillipines for me; beabadoobee, Options, No Rome. Only one scrobble each for last two.

Dan Worsley, Monday, 16 December 2024 21:16 (six days ago) link

4 for me, the main one being Franco from, uh, DRC.

I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Monday, 16 December 2024 21:23 (six days ago) link

My top 25 Countries

Country Artists
USA 4547
United Kingdom 3072
Germany 413
France 351
Canada 320
Australia 205
Jamaica 195
Sweden 188
Italy 155
Japan 152
Ireland 115
Brazil 104
Norway 101
Netherlands 95
Denmark 84
Belgium 82
South Africa 71
Greece 68
Spain 59
Nigeria 58
New Zealand 49
Austria 48
India 48
Finland 44
Switzerland 41

and by scrobbles

Country Artists Scrobbles
USA 75430
United Kingdom 74494
Canada 5524
Germany 4229
France 3544
Sweden 2495
Australia 2336
Japan 1742
Ireland 1737
Norway 1596
Jamaica 1408
Denmark 957
Iceland 884
Italy 864
New Zealand 803
Mali 787
Belgium 695
Nigeria 643
Brazil 603
South Africa 498
Greece 464
Austria 463
Netherlands 418
Colombia 345
Spain 340

I worked out which countries have the highest ratio of tracks to artists, results are much more varied.

Saint Kitts and Nevis 75
Benin 37
Venezuela 33.5
Mali 25.3870967742
United Kingdom 24.2493489583
Iceland 23.2631578947
Zambia 21.3333333333
Colombia 20.2941176471
Guatemala 19.3333333333
Malawi 19.25
Canada 17.2625
USA 16.5889597537
New Zealand 16.387755102
Malta 16
Norway 15.801980198
Ireland 15.1043478261
Cameroon 14.75
Cebtral African Rep 14
Sweden 13.2712765957
Pakistan 12.4
Ghana 12.125
Barbados 12
Lebanon 12
Albania 12
Niger 11.6666666667

The artist from Saint Kitts and Nevis, Joan Armatrading.

Dan Worsley, Monday, 16 December 2024 21:42 (six days ago) link

Some of the labelling is a bit suss, The Tubs are my #1 act from Belgium for example.

Dan Worsley, Monday, 16 December 2024 21:46 (six days ago) link

i got 146 of 210 countries, but yeah i don't think it's terribly accurate. i'm sure there are a bunch of artists called 'alpha' but the one i've listened to is from bristol, not kazakhstan

mookieproof, Monday, 16 December 2024 22:36 (six days ago) link

https://qc-ckb.s3.amazonaws.com/ilx/explr-fm_qc.jpg

The detailed breakdown timed out on me - perhaps server overload or the 12,000 artists it's trying to slog through?

Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 17 December 2024 00:11 (five days ago) link


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