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
― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 27 May 2004 23:01 (twenty years ago) link
― JC-L (JC-L), Friday, 28 May 2004 13:55 (twenty years ago) link
― lex pretend, Thursday, 22 February 2007 16:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mike Dixn, Thursday, 22 February 2007 16:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― emil.y, Thursday, 22 February 2007 17:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alan, Thursday, 22 February 2007 17:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 22 February 2007 17:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― dlp9001, Thursday, 22 February 2007 17:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― lex pretend, Thursday, 22 February 2007 17:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― MaGoGo, Thursday, 22 February 2007 18:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 22 February 2007 18:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― Noodle Vague, Thursday, 22 February 2007 18:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― grimly fiendish, Thursday, 22 February 2007 18:12 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 22 February 2007 19:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 22 February 2007 19:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― lex pretend, Thursday, 22 February 2007 20:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 22 February 2007 20:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― lex pretend, Thursday, 22 February 2007 21:10 (seventeen years ago) link
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― emil.y, Thursday, 22 February 2007 23:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― Chantilly Bass, Thursday, 22 February 2007 23:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― tremendoid, Thursday, 22 February 2007 23:50 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 23 February 2007 17:37 (seventeen years ago) link
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
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!
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
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 Groove2. P-Model3. Ween4. They Might Be Giants5. Underworld6. Scooter7. Yellow Magic Orchestra8. Happy Mondays9. Ryuichi Sakamoto10. 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
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
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
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
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
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
19 years today
294,477 tracks19,637 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—SCROBBLES297,208
ARTISTS5,039
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 tracks13,452 artists.
Also pretty old.
― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Saturday, 25 November 2023 18:38 (one year ago) link
17 Years, 9 months203,748 scrobbles5718 artists
― treefell, Saturday, 25 November 2023 20:23 (one year ago) link
18 Years, 4 Months92,224 scrobbles14,323 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 scrobbles6,921 artists9,953 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 scrobbles6,158 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 scrobbles2,012 artists3,265 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 scrobbles9,136 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 scrobbles18,104 artists37,701 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 month597,714 scrobbles19,058 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 ClienteleThin LizzyThe Reds, Pinks and PurplesFontaines DC
― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Sunday, 26 November 2023 13:08 (one year ago) link
since 10 Oct 2005153,076 tracks12,213 artists16 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
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
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 1,179scrobbling 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
https://i.postimg.cc/CxwkWGgk/Screenshot-20240601-191439-Firefox.jpg
nice.
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Sunday, 2 June 2024 02:18 (six months ago) link
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
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
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: 253,587Artists: 23,420Loved 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 ScrobblesUnited States 24085United Kingdom 10325Japan 2264Germany 1741Brazil 1323Ireland 969France 819New Zealand 794Canada 703Jamaica 558Australia 497South Korea 297South Africa 210Philippines 161Belgium 147Singapore 139Italy 131Niger 117Czech Republic 106Barbados 101Zimbabwe 101Nigeria 91Denmark 90Sweden 89Vietnam 87Country Number of artistsUnited States 975United Kingdom 307Japan 110Jamaica 88Brazil 77Germany 69Canada 45France 41New Zealand 38Australia 26Sweden 21South Africa 15Italy 14Ireland 10India 10Belgium 9South Korea 8Cambodia 7Singapore 6Nigeria 5Vietnam 5Chile 5Indonesia 4Portugal 4Mali 4
Country Number of artistsUnited States 975United Kingdom 307Japan 110Jamaica 88Brazil 77Germany 69Canada 45France 41New Zealand 38Australia 26Sweden 21South Africa 15Italy 14Ireland 10India 10Belgium 9South Korea 8Cambodia 7Singapore 6Nigeria 5Vietnam 5Chile 5Indonesia 4Portugal 4Mali 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 ArtistsUSA 4547United Kingdom 3072Germany 413France 351Canada 320Australia 205Jamaica 195Sweden 188Italy 155Japan 152Ireland 115Brazil 104Norway 101Netherlands 95Denmark 84Belgium 82South Africa 71Greece 68Spain 59Nigeria 58New Zealand 49Austria 48India 48Finland 44Switzerland 41
and by scrobbles
Country Artists ScrobblesUSA 75430United Kingdom 74494Canada 5524Germany 4229France 3544Sweden 2495Australia 2336Japan 1742Ireland 1737Norway 1596Jamaica 1408Denmark 957Iceland 884Italy 864New Zealand 803Mali 787Belgium 695Nigeria 643Brazil 603South Africa 498Greece 464Austria 463Netherlands 418Colombia 345Spain 340
I worked out which countries have the highest ratio of tracks to artists, results are much more varied.
Saint Kitts and Nevis 75Benin 37Venezuela 33.5Mali 25.3870967742United Kingdom 24.2493489583Iceland 23.2631578947Zambia 21.3333333333Colombia 20.2941176471Guatemala 19.3333333333Malawi 19.25Canada 17.2625USA 16.5889597537New Zealand 16.387755102Malta 16Norway 15.801980198Ireland 15.1043478261Cameroon 14.75Cebtral African Rep 14Sweden 13.2712765957Pakistan 12.4Ghana 12.125Barbados 12Lebanon 12Albania 12Niger 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