Last.fm?

[Some Random]

how many people here use last.fm? have you actually discovered any new music from the recommendations it makes?

[matrix]

No. I just like it so everyone can see what I'm listening to. I think the recommendations suck.

[CaptainRocket]

The recommendations are a great feature. If you are ever bored with your music collection, it's a great way to find a new band. I really like the Velvet Underground, and it linked me up with a few other bands I wasn't familiar with and enjoy a lot now, like the Magnetic Fields.

[Shiri]

I have been using it for a year and I think it's great.

[Some Random]

i dunno...i use it cuz it's built into amarok. i guess i like 'representin' my music too. i've found that most of the recommendations have been bands i already have stuff by and just haven't listened to since i started using it, or bands i have heard and detest. i sift through my neighbors stuff too once in a while too looking for hidden gems. i'm more apt to find new stuff that way i think, cuz a computer program is gonna have a hell of a time figuring out my taste.

[borntohula]

i love it. a lot of the recommendations it makes are bands that i've heard and dont listen to for a reason, but there are also quite a few recommendations that it makes that i am quite thankful for.

 

i also just like knowing who i listen to and how often. it helps me keep from listenning to too much of the same.

[Some Random]

you aren't by any chance also borntohula on last.fm? if you are you're one of my neighbour folk.

[soundless_space]

I've got an account there, but I don't get how it's supposed to be used? Maybe I'm stupid, but when I search an artist I like, it always says their music isn't available on Last.fm yet. I don't know, I joined once on a whim and I didn't really spend a lot of time figuring it out, so maybe I'll have to go back and try it again.

[Some Random]

I've got an account there, but I don't get how it's supposed to be used? Maybe I'm stupid, but when I search an artist I like, it always says their music isn't available on Last.fm yet.

take that as a compliment. it means your taste is too hip for the masses. probably has more to do with record companies or something, but that's what i like to think. i noticed matthew good isn't available on last.fm.

[borntohula]

you aren't by any chance also borntohula on last.fm? if you are you're one of my neighbour folk.

i am indeed. dancing hitler and everything.

[Shiri]

Yeah, it has to do with record companies making their artists' songs available.

[Some Random]

you aren't by any chance also borntohula on last.fm? if you are you're one of my neighbour folk.

i am indeed. dancing hitler and everything.

it's good to see hitler cuttin loose like that, cuz man...what an uptight prick.

[mrs jesus]

i use it but i don't usually pay attention to my recommendations because most of it is stuff i already listen to or don't like.

[Audio of Being]

I just started using last.fm and I really like it. It gave me a broader range of music that I though I would never like or listen to.

 

i am SonicReducer76 there as well.

[Hyphnip]

Could someone please explain to me how Last.fm works? I'm not really sure what it is

[Some Random]

Could someone please explain to me how Last.fm works? I'm not really sure what it is

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last.fm

[Hyphnip]

thank you, that sheds some light

[Hyphnip]

yay last.fm thingie! now everyone can know what I listen to

 

 

edit: does it auto update your played songs? because it doesn't seem to be.

Edited October 15, 2006 by Hyphnip

[Shiri]

Sometimes it's a little buggy. But it's supposed to update automatically.

[Hyphnip]

yeah, I see now that it updated. now if only I could figure out how to set it to my time zone instead of it being 4 or 5 hours off.

[Some Random]

i was wondering that too. maybe it's GMT for everybody.

[Hyphnip]

see, it's the little shit details like that that will irritate me the most... then I know that it's not right

[Some Random]

and you scored a low on 'obsesive-compulsive' on that mental test?

[Hyphnip]

apparently... thats weird. I think I am pretty O/C, I get pissed off when things are put in the wrong place at work, my CD's and DVD's are all ALWAYS in alphabetical order, my MP3's all have to have a "artist- trackname" set up with proper spelling, punctuation and capitalization... I'm nuts

[Shiri]

You can change it in the settings, look for it there