Last.fm

Jim of Seattle · Post by **Jim of Seattle** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 11:13 am

What is Last.fm?

I got an email from someone who had heard Welcome to Windows on there, and I checked it out, and they've got practically every song I've ever mp3 encoded hosted on there. A whole bunch of other Songfighters too. I poked around in there a little bit, but decided it would be more fun and more expedient to ask people here.

ken · Post by **ken** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 11:26 am

As far as I understand, it has something to do with an itunes plug in called Audioscrobbler which sends a list of what you play to last.fm. They keep track of it all and publish the results.

There are quite a few songfighters on there.

Ken

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 2:51 pm

Heh! Apparantly Caravan Ray has 12 fans!

(Or 'Apostles', as I like to think of them)

roymond · Post by **roymond** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 2:59 pm

AudioScrobbler. And they use MusicBrainz on the backend...

fodroy · Post by **fodroy** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 3:05 pm

i'm 15 fans closer to global domination. now i don't have to try anymore. i can officially go back to sucking.

stueym · Post by **stueym** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 3:12 pm

roymond wrote:AudioScrobbler. And they use MusicBrainz on the backend...

Is this a good thing?

boltoph · Post by **boltoph** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 3:18 pm

For some reason mine stopped working...may be something to do with work computer / firewall though...

Post by **Spud** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 3:26 pm

Wow. We have 76 fans. Oddly, 38 of them have listened to "The Sound of Music".

roymond · Post by **roymond** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 4:00 pm

stueym wrote:
roymond wrote:AudioScrobbler. And they use MusicBrainz on the backend...
Is this a good thing?

Yeah - we've batted around the worthiness of MusicBrainz. I haven't checked them out seriously since they re-launched as a non-profit entity. Has anyone kicked the tires recently? Last I saw it was a disjointed attempt at an open architected metadata project with less reliability than CDDB, though more soul. Perhaps they need a serious SourceForge-osity treatment.

ken · Post by **ken** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 10:25 am

Spud wrote:Wow. We have 76 fans. Oddly, 38 of them have listened to "The Sound of Music".

I'm in the same boat. My SoM track is my most played. Remember that it was very popular for a few days because of something.

Ken

GlennCase · Post by **GlennCase** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 10:49 am

As a result of this thread, I have now set up a <a href="http://www.last.fm/user/GlennCase/"targ ... k">User</a> for Last.fm

Then I uploaded songs to my <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Glenn+Case"tar ... ank">Music Profile</a> and created a <a href="http://www.last.fm/label/Glenn%20Case/" ... ">Label</a> too!

Great fun.

ROCK!

Glenn (DR FUNK)
http://glenncase.songhole.org

rone rivendale · Post by **rone rivendale** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 10:46 pm

Well look at that, even I am on there.

And it's not even for a song I did on songfight.

And the title of the song on there isn't even the title of the song anymore. Still cool though.

sausage boy · Post by **sausage boy** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 11:38 pm

Odd, even Sausage Boy is on there. One fan behind Caravan Ray!

Good to see my only win at anything, Constantinople, is number 1.

j$ · Post by j$ » Tue Jan 17, 2006 5:30 am

Now I have seen all this information before, exactly the same figures, same ratios, formats, etc, on a different site .... where was it?

Ah yes, I remember .. it was some Japanese 'web radio site' that turned up over on Remixfight. And also now I think of it, another site as well.

I am suspicious.

j$

Kamakura · Post by **Kamakura** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 8:59 am

j$ wrote:I am suspicious.

Me too. It's the paranoia of living in the 21st Century.

... Or is it?

Oh yeah. Lastfm.com.
Though it doesn't say what a fan is I seemingly have 9 of them. Which is nice.

Andy Balham · Post by **Andy Balham** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 12:21 pm

j$ wrote:I am suspicious.

I concur. I want my 5 'fans' named, shamed and punitively pilloried in public.

Nice to see the Turin Brakes naming an album after my meeting with Roymond though