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Last.fm
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 11:13 am
by Jim of Seattle
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.
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 11:26 am
by ken
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
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 2:51 pm
by Caravan Ray
Heh! Apparantly Caravan Ray has 12 fans!
(Or 'Apostles', as I like to think of them)
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 2:59 pm
by roymond
AudioScrobbler. And they use
MusicBrainz on the backend...
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 3:05 pm
by fodroy
i'm 15 fans closer to global domination. now i don't have to try anymore. i can officially go back to sucking.
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 3:12 pm
by stueym
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 3:18 pm
by boltoph
For some reason
mine stopped working...may be something to do with work computer / firewall though...
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 3:26 pm
by Spud
Wow. We have 76 fans. Oddly, 38 of them have listened to "The Sound of Music".
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 4:00 pm
by roymond
stueym wrote:
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.
Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 10:25 am
by ken
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
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 10:49 am
by GlennCase
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 10:46 pm
by rone rivendale
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.
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 11:38 pm
by sausage boy
Odd, even
Sausage Boy is on there. One fan behind Caravan Ray!
Good to see my only win at anything, Constantinople, is number 1.
Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 5:30 am
by j$
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$
Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 8:59 am
by Kamakura
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.
Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 12:21 pm
by Andy Balham
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
