Best Ever Albums

Re: Last.fm Was the Only Music Social Network That Made Sense

craola — Thu, 28 Mar 2019 01:48:39 GMT

Author: craola

Posted: 03/28/2019 05:48

sethmadsen wrote:

Small beef I do have is that I think the Top Albums stat only works for traditional albums. In theory the math works like this - average album is 10 songs or whatever, but let's say you listen to longer works - that makes it so a 10 song album has less of a chance... you gotta listen to that 7 times before 69 love songs matches as a single listen.

Anyway, a bit of a completionist, but would prefer the full album listened to as a single count instead of basically how many tracks are on an album, and if it is longer, that's your "top album"... lazy math say I... the dude complaining about a site that apparently is now defunct.

yeah, i agree with that. i think the better solution would be to count an entire album listen (basically go by the lowest play count on the record) rather than by each track. but then a lot of people don't listen to albums, so the site caters to that....

Re: Last.fm Was the Only Music Social Network That Made Sense

RoundTheBend — Wed, 27 Mar 2019 23:18:22 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 03/28/2019 03:18

Small beef I do have is that I think the Top Albums stat only works for traditional albums. In theory the math works like this - average album is 10 songs or whatever, but let's say you listen to longer works - that makes it so a 10 song album has less of a chance... you gotta listen to that 7 times before 69 love songs matches as a single listen.

Anyway, a bit of a completionist, but would prefer the full album listened to as a single count instead of basically how many tracks are on an album, and if it is longer, that's your "top album"... lazy math say I... the dude complaining about a site that apparently is now defunct.

Re: Last.fm Was the Only Music Social Network That Made Sense

RoundTheBend — Sat, 23 Mar 2019 09:32:18 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 03/23/2019 13:32

baystateoftheart wrote:

sethmadsen wrote:

Well I guess sold is a strong word.

What glitches if I may ask?

Albums I've downloaded getting split apart with the songs suddenly assigned to different releases like singles, comps, etc. Has been happening to a few albums every month and then I have to put them back together.

That is my biggest headache/why I stopped using my iTunes library... the "management" of it was already taken care of it for me when I use Spotify.

I do feel like it sounds way better than Spotify though. Less dynamic albums I can't really tell the difference, but others I'm wowed by the sound improvement.

Re: Last.fm Was the Only Music Social Network That Made Sense

baystateoftheart — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 22:57:06 GMT

Author: baystateoftheart

Posted: 03/23/2019 02:57

sethmadsen wrote:

Well I guess sold is a strong word.

What glitches if I may ask?

Re: Last.fm Was the Only Music Social Network That Made Sense

RoundTheBend — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 21:08:56 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 03/23/2019 01:08

Well I guess sold is a strong word.

What glitches if I may ask?

Re: Last.fm Was the Only Music Social Network That Made Sense

baystateoftheart — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 20:53:21 GMT

Author: baystateoftheart

Posted: 03/23/2019 00:53

sethmadsen wrote:

Well ho diddly ho. You've nearly sold me. Like seriously. I'm currently listening to my iTunes library again... for the first time since 2011-2012 (about the time I joined this site).

Haha I wasn't meaning to sell you on Apple Music. I'm not very sold myself. I think Spotify is better at a lot of things, especially showing people new music. The two things keeping me with Apple Music are not wanting to abandon my huge iTunes library of eight years and having a large hoarded gift card balance that makes it free for years to come.

I was kind of trying to sell people on it in an earlier thread, but since then some technical glitches have irritated me.

Re: Last.fm Was the Only Music Social Network That Made Sense

RoundTheBend — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 20:16:50 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 03/23/2019 00:16

baystateoftheart wrote:

It's a very new feature on RYM and users have to add all of the links. Spotify is more popular among RYM superusers. That's all the disparity indicates. In reality, Apple Music has several million more songs in its catalogue, including several artists who aren't on Spotify.

Well ho diddly ho. You've nearly sold me. Like seriously. I'm currently listening to my iTunes library again... for the first time since 2011-2012 (about the time I joined this site).

Re: Last.fm Was the Only Music Social Network That Made Sense

baystateoftheart — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 19:18:19 GMT

Author: baystateoftheart

Posted: 03/22/2019 23:18

sethmadsen wrote:

Re: Last.fm Was the Only Music Social Network That Made Sense

RoundTheBend — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 19:06:32 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 03/22/2019 23:06

craola wrote:

except it's a constant let-down in that department as well. when i'm not on wifi, it doesn't track. when i'm on bandcamp, it doesn't track. when i do the "scan" sync thing, it assumes fresh listens or something cause janelle over a couple syncs went from like 130 listens to 3000, and i know i didn't listen to her that much in between scans. i mean, it's cool that they try to track listens across devices and players and whatnot, but in practice, my last.fm is screwball. and along those lines... why doesn't spotify let you see your playcount? what'supwiththat?

Also I don't have these issues... not sure what we are doing differently.

The only time I had issues is when I had both the spotify app and the last.fm app on my phone recording what I was listening to. It double dipped. But once I saw in the last.fm app how to disable that, stuff with words and fish happened.

Re: Last.fm Was the Only Music Social Network That Made Sense

RoundTheBend — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 17:17:58 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 03/22/2019 21:17

craola wrote:

and along those lines... why doesn't spotify let you see your playcount? what'supwiththat?

I do like iTunes the most for this reason. I nearly would go to Apple Music right now if it weren't for the availability of music factor (it feels like Spotify has the most... as confirmed by the RYM plugin) and my "history" with spotify (just how many playlists I've created/habits I have with it), then I'd move over now because iTunes/Apple Music apparently has way more features in this department.

I am frustrated they got rid of the way album art is presented though... I really liked the feature where you could make album art almost full screen and then you can flip through your albums almost like a physical presence.

Re: Last.fm Was the Only Music Social Network That Made Sense

mickilennial — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 05:34:53 GMT

Author: mickilennial

Posted: 03/22/2019 09:34

Last.fm is a mess. More expectedly unshocking news at 11.

Re: Last.fm Was the Only Music Social Network That Made Sense

craola — Thu, 21 Mar 2019 19:55:15 GMT

Author: craola

Posted: 03/21/2019 23:55

Mythtall wrote:

Today I can't see a vocal reaction to anything as long as people can see the number of times they listened to a song or aritst.

Re: Last.fm Was the Only Music Social Network That Made Sense

mickilennial — Thu, 21 Mar 2019 19:36:41 GMT

Author: mickilennial

Posted: 03/21/2019 23:36

Mythtall wrote:

It really is a shame. You could talk to so much people on that website about music and have your mini blog sort of thing on the journals. While the last sentance could also describe BEA and the BEA Music diaries, it did function differently.

I remember sometime in 2007-2008 where they changed the format and lots of users went completely mad over it. Today I can't see a vocal reaction to anything as long as people can see the number of times they listened to a song or aritst.

There's a lot of people mad on reddit, but yeah 2007-2008 is when CBS bought Last.fm and well it was all downhill from there.

Re: Last.fm Was the Only Music Social Network That Made Sense

Anonymous — Thu, 21 Mar 2019 19:19:43 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 03/21/2019 23:19

It really is a shame. You could talk to so much people on that website about music and have your mini blog sort of thing on the journals. While the last sentance could also describe BEA and the BEA Music diaries, it did function differently.

I remember sometime in 2007-2008 where they changed the format and lots of users went completely mad over it. Today I can't see a vocal reaction to anything as long as people can see the number of times they listened to a song or aritst.

Re: Last.fm Was the Only Music Social Network That Made Sense

mickilennial — Thu, 21 Mar 2019 01:18:43 GMT

Author: mickilennial

Posted: 03/21/2019 05:18

As a reminder to Last.fm's decision to destroy their social networking functionality, this has happened in the last year.

https://getsatisfaction.com/lastfm/topics/closure-of-legacy-last-fm-site-pages

Quote:

Closure of Legacy Last.fm site pages

Last.fm takes the privacy of its users very seriously and towards the end of the month we will be introducing improvements to how we handle your personal information. More details about this will be posted nearer the time.

One change is that we are going to have to remove all legacy pages of the old Last.fm as these pages are read-only snapshots (like cached pages on Google or the Wayback Machine) and are no longer wired to the main user database.

While we had always planned to decommission these pages eventually, we had hoped to keep them online until a suitable replacement had been built. Unfortunately, that is no longer possible, with some exceptions outlined below:

Journals
Past journal entries will be ported over to the new site, with bbcode formatting. However, shoutbox comments cannot be preserved.

The Last.fm public API documentation
We are planning to upgrade the API soon, however in the meantime the existing API documentation will be preserved for reference along with the ability to register API keys.

Groups, Forums, and Playlists
Unfortunately, the old Last.fm groups, forums, and user playlists will no longer be accessible. We are unable to bring these features back to the website at this time.

Miscellaneous pages:
Label pages, venue pages, and build will no longer be accessible.

We apologise for any inconvenience caused by this.

Re: Last.fm Was the Only Music Social Network That Made Sense

RoundTheBend — Sun, 17 Mar 2019 22:42:40 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 03/18/2019 02:42

Ha - I guess I'm rollin' in last.fm style now in 2019 with some friends to boot... 🤣

I find it funny I joined in 2013 and then bailed, but now I mostly like it for the visualization/stats of what I'm listening to.

Re: Last.fm Was the Only Music Social Network That Made Sense

RoundTheBend — Sun, 17 Mar 2019 22:36:05 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 03/18/2019 02:36

Gowi wrote:

Last.fm used to have a lot more intricate interaction in the era before streaming music was a huge acceptable thing. Before Pandora was a household name. It was THE music community and feature at the same time.

I still use last.fm’s scribbler feature but ever since they were bought by CBS their features were year-in year-out removed and scrapped. It used to have a radio feature that you could listen to by “similar artists”, “tag radio”, and so forth. In an era where sonicnet and yahoo’s music service were dead it was quite valuable to young, impressionable, and passionate music fanatics. I met a lot of friends and learned a lot about music through last.fm (one of which was the reason I joined BEA, by the way). It was a great site. Once.

It used to have an active community in the message boards, chatboxes, and such – but that’s but a distant memory now. In 2019 it is nothing but a shell of its former self. To know what last.fm was like you would've had to been on it during its peak. Around 2003-2008.

A good portion of those years on last.fm represent who I am musically and much more.

Gotcha - yeah that sounds like... crap it's been too long. I remember some online stuff in 2002/2003... and then I turned into a hermit, so totally missed that era. Thanks for the background info.

Re: Last.fm Was the Only Music Social Network That Made Sense

Purplepash — Sun, 17 Mar 2019 22:15:57 GMT

Author: Purplepash

Posted: 03/18/2019 02:15

I only found out about last.fm a couple of years ago through this site, but I love it just for the stats. Even if they are distorted by all the different things I listen to for various projects It's still interesting to me. I wish I had of known about it years ago.
Anyway I just now followed anyone who provided their UN or link. Mine is the same as here , Purplepash.

Re: Last.fm Was the Only Music Social Network That Made Sense

mickilennial — Sun, 17 Mar 2019 20:58:43 GMT

Author: mickilennial

Posted: 03/18/2019 00:58

Rhyner wrote:

I've been scrobbling to last.fm for a couple years now. Here is my account, if anyone cares. I don't care about social aspects of the site, I just think it's cool to have a history of everything I listen to.

Well, that's good because there are no social aspects of the site anymore.

Re: Last.fm Was the Only Music Social Network That Made Sense

Rhyner — Sun, 17 Mar 2019 20:57:46 GMT

Author: Rhyner

Posted: 03/18/2019 00:57

I've been scrobbling to last.fm for a couple years now. Here is my account, if anyone cares. I don't care about social aspects of the site, I just think it's cool to have a history of everything I listen to.