Some people here have been familiar with this for quite a while, while others are not in the know, so here goes...
Basically, www.last.fm is a database which writes down all the tracks you listen to, and then creates neat charts like this one:
(http://imagegen.last.fm/basic10/artists/VelBG.gif) (http://www.last.fm/user/VelBG/?chartstyle=basic10)
It then uses these charts to find people with similar tastes to yours, you can listen to radio stations similar to your or anyone else's tastes and much much more. So try it out, and join the AGS group (http://www.last.fm/group/AGS) there.
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(http://imagegen.last.fm/basic10/oartists/Tuomu.gif) (http://www.last.fm/user/Tuomu/?chartstyle=basic10)
I was there before Vel... I bet a lot of poeple were before me. THe only thing, it doesn't work on Quintessential player. Oh, and once you convert songs to mp3, do it lame, that way it will surely work.
EDIT: Lies a bit though the list, doesn't have my fav bands as I have them on cds, these are the ones from my computer. Oh, and I did this playlist challenge listenin through all the mp3s I have, so that's why...
(http://imagegen.last.fm/basic10/oartists/dasjoe.gif)
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I usually listen to my song list on random, and skip through the ones I'm not in the mood for currently. So far random is not random enough, and my PC/iPod seem to have collected a list of "favourites" which are all messed up. How exactly would one listen to huge collections of music except on random?
This sounds neet! I'm going to try this out! But can I play my music still with Winamp, or should I play it with last.fm player?
You can play it with winamp or whatever common player you are using, it just installs the needed plugin.
I just noticed! Thanks... I just started scrobbing... I'll probably soon be able to show my top 10 :p hehe! I like this!
Indeed I am familiar with it. Quite a handy tool when it comes to discovering new music, methinks.
(http://imagegen.last.fm/basic10/oartists/Supertzar.gif) (http://www.last.fm/user/Supertzar/?chartstyle=basic10)
Hello.
(http://imagegen.last.fm/basic10/oartists/Al_Ninio.gif)
go maudlin of the Well
Aparently my band have been played on last.fm at some point.
I've been on last.fm for a while. It's cool to see what bands you listen to alot and which songs you play the most. When I joined, I was really into Marillions's album Marbles, so that dominates all my charts.
(http://imagegen.last.fm/LastfmLiveJournal/oartists/auhsor.gif) (http://www.last.fm/user/auhsor/?chartstyle=LastfmLiveJournal)
And finally someone has a Finnish band that I know \o/
I decided to join, and I added the AGS group a week a few days ago and I'm still a "pending member"! Who runs that, Hajo? Tell them to add me already please!
(http://imagegen.last.fm/basic10/artists/ManicMatt.gif) (http://www.last.fm/user/ManicMatt/?chartstyle=basic10)
I just signed up but i can't figure out how to get the url for my chart of music played?
There's a link under the chart staing "Put this on your website/blog". click it and you'll get the url.
How to i get to my chart though?
Oh oh, should be there when you listen to music and get it scrobbled and then log on to your account or what's it. If it's not there choose overview from the top and it should show everything.
Basically anyone can approve a new member, so I did that now, ManicMatt.
Ahh thankyou Vel!
Chicky, just to clarify what they said, make sure you've listened to enough music first otherwise it won't have enough data to make a chart.
Then what I did was click on "tools" and then the option is staring right at you.
thought that might be the problem, that's why i've listened to 8 albums today!
I hope it logged it! Bloody thing fucked up on me! All of my today's plays were lost I think! It was "scrobbling" them and then it had an "error" when I was listening to Thom Yorke.
So now I won't listen to what i did for a few weeks and it will make them seem unpopular with me, mis-representative!!!! >:(
I just registered to AGS too ;) I'm a pending member now :)
I'd like to say "Dance to the music!!" ;D AGS R0cks my s0cks 0ff! <- sorry for the l33t h4x0r words, haha :p im so in trouble now! :)
Oh it did work after all! I guess it was slow on the uptake. (Slower than usual)
and there was that error message, in my defence.
I'll go add ya Minimi, one good turn deserves another, or something like that.
EDIT: erh.. I can't find an "approve member" button or anything.
When you have no or bad connection it stores the information in the buffer and scrobbles the tracks when your connection improves.
You have to click 'show details' and then accept, Matt. I'll do that myself now actually.
Auhsor: hey, I'm a Marillion fan too, haven't listened to marbles yet, but Misplaced Childhood, Brave and Clutching at Straws are all great records. Especially the first, it's magnificent and just gets better with each listen.
Oh I see! Yeah the site has been slow at loading anyway today! I'm eager to blame NTL.. my web provider as they suck. (But it's cheaper for me!)
I always wonder why sometimes THIS website becomes awfully slow at coming up "waiting for www...." and then i go somewhere intense like myspace and it's super quick! What's that
all about, anyway? It can't be the amount of actual downloading info.. can it? A connection issue then? Would yee know, kind sir?
I don't know it works pretty fine for me... sometimes it's overloaded and it goes down for like, 15 minutes. That happens quite seldom, though.
It's stuck very often. Sometimes the pages don't even load completely. My guess it has something to do with thousands of people sending information about scrobbled files at the same time-_-
Vel: Hey that's cool. I'm a pretty new Marillion fan, so I've been more into Marbles. I have listened to the older albums a bit, and I enjoy them. I think I'll listen to some tonight. I do really recommend Marbles though - I would put it in my top 5 albums. A lot of reviews I read say its a return to form after a string of slightly disappointing albums. Oh and there will be a new album coming out at the start of next year sometime.
And also, we need a logo for the group. I'm guessing a blue cup will suffice.
Weekly (I've been away, hence the few artists):
(http://imagegen.last.fm/basic10/artists/agagames.gif) (http://www.last.fm/user/agagames/?chartstyle=basic10)
All-time:
(http://imagegen.last.fm/basic10/oartists/agagames.gif) (http://www.last.fm/user/agagames/?chartstyle=basic10)
Also, I'm an old-skool Audioscrobbler, not a n00b Last.fmer! ;)
Auhsor, I haven't listened to post-fish marillion much, only afraid of sunlight and brave. I wasn't too impressed with the former, but the latter is almost as good as misplaced childhood, which I consider to be one of the very best conceptual albums of all time. I'll give marbles a listen soon, I think.
Since other people posted their weekly charts too, here's mine:
(http://imagegen.last.fm/basic10/artists/Tuomu.gif) (http://www.last.fm/user/Tuomu/?chartstyle=basic10)
Yeah, I am out of my head.
Anyway, let's not turn this to a Marillion fanboy thread even though I do have their Fish-era albums and Season's End and Marbles and some random albums and one Fish solo album, and they're all awesome.
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NO! It's time to resurrect this one and get the rest of you to get last.fm and join the ever growing AGS group.
http://www.rlslog.net/lastfm-stumbleupon-photobucket-sold/
...and another statistic regarding you and your habits falls into the hands of an even bigger corporation possibly capable and intent to understand and manipulate you.
Ehm, Ok, I subscribed and download some kind of plugin where I can play music. While installing it, it downloaded some winamp plugin too, does that mean i can listen with winamp and it logs all my tracks to the Internet??? While listening to winamp, there is no extra window or plugin running, everyhting is as it was before... So whats the deal, it works only via browser?
I'm no photoshopper (I prefer to shop for food), but imagine this vague chuckle inducing joke:
Tiny Tim 6748
Hanson 2402
Fifty Cent 2101
Rancid 402
Sharon, Lois 402
and Bram
Hitler 23
Oh, I'm so alsmost amusing.
And lazy.
@ radiowaves. I suggest you go to winamp, open options - preferences - plug-ins and there's the media library section where you should have the Winamp audioscrobbler, all you need to do is select that and press configure.
Bump!
Hey what the hell is that? Who's responsible of hanging this too low for bicyclers to ride under? I'm going to call the police to come and take it away!
Anyway, there hasn't really been new people joining lately, and I reckon some might have started using this meanwhile, so I'd remind, that we have our own hole int here.
Plus, I was starting another "playlist challenge" today, and I'd like to challenge everyone to beat me. The point is the add all your music files into one playlist and play it from the beginnign to the end with no shuffle and no skipping.
Personally I just reached 3600 files altogether, a bit over, but hey. So I thought 60 hours of music would be it again. Especially, when I usualyl just skip most tracks when they would deserve to be listened. So now i'm ensuring, that everyone and everything gets listened... to... Atm I'm playing Ace of Base, and the next thing in line seems to be After Crying, which is an interesting prog band from Hungary. Join me or fail!
I get so, so upset when I listen to something and it doesn't get 'scrobbled'
This week:
(http://imagegen.last.fm/basic10/artists/EHCB.gif) (http://www.last.fm/user/EHCB/?chartstyle=basic10)
All Time:
(http://imagegen.last.fm/basic10/oartists/EHCB.gif) (http://www.last.fm/user/EHCB/?chartstyle=basic10)
Usually tagging it correctly and well helps a lot. That is, if your plugin is active. Everything should get scrobbled if they're correctly tagged. Winamp does this pretty well for you, with tha autotag function.
I mean if I hear it on Myspace or the ipod scrobbling software doesn't work or (happening a lot lately) my internet suddenly disconnects and doesn't tell me about it.
I ALWAYS tag things properly. Last.Fm has made me obsessive about that.
Haha, ok, well, about the computer disconnecting, Last.fm does have a rather nice cache, so basically everything you listen to should be scrobbled and sent to the website once you get back online again. About the others, well, afaik in only supports iTunes, Winamp and WMP, once you get the plugin... :(
Overall:
(http://imagegen.last.fm/basic10/oartists/Tree-Fingers.gif) (http://www.last.fm/user/Tree-Fingers/?chartstyle=basic10)
Everyone is allowed to join our group, too. It was mentioned in the first post, yes, but I thought I'd mention it again in case people missed it.
http://www.last.fm/group/AGS
Quote from: Tuomas on Mon 14/07/2008 18:59:13
Haha, ok, well, about the computer disconnecting, Last.fm does have a rather nice cache, so basically everything you listen to should be scrobbled and sent to the website once you get back online again.
It does...
I've spent entire days not lisning to music because i didn't want it to go unscrobbled.
edit: Aright, last.fm's basic chart refuses to play nice. Grrr.