last.fm and playing music in general

October 5th was my 5 year anniversary on Last.FM.  I have 131,396 plays, which translates to about 71 plays per day.  Of course it helps that I sit here at work and listen to music at least 5 days a week.

It is kind of a sad obsession with me, but I really love being able to maintain a record of just about everything that I listen to.  I've said it before, but I would love to be able to hook up electrodes to my brain so that I could somehow or another scrobble everything that I listened to pre-Last.FM.  I just think it would be totally amazing to see how different my top 500 bands would be if all of the pre-listens came into play.  Rush might still be number 1, but I think Van Halen, Def Leppard, Motley Crue, Led Zeppelin, and the like would all be much much higher up on my list.

I don't know how much "downright embarrassing" the listens might be, but I suppose that all of the years of hearing the same Christmas songs year after year after year would probably build up and make them appear much higher on the list than I might otherwise like to see them.

Colt wrote: Today is my fourth anniversary of using last.fm. In that time it has registered 29542 plays which is the equivalent to over 20 per day on average. How does this compare to your listening experience? I might add that I feel I have hardly touched the surface of all the material that has ever been released and the rate of my listening to music has not changed in 40 years.  Not a week goes by without playing a newly found album by an existing or new artist. Is it just me or are there other "musicheads" out there?

I signed up in July 2008 and have since scrobbled 82159 tracks, 48 per day. I have rather obsessively tried to make sure that every single track I listen to makes it onto my last.fm (if I put on a CD, I'll have to put the same album on in iTunes as well), but somewhere around 2009 there was a gap of about six months when my computer broke down and I couldn't scrobble. 

I'm glad I'm not the only one who does that.

I had a last.fm and used it a lot about a year and a half ago, but I ended up deleting it. I got too obsessed with it, and it always bothered me when I would listen to a CD or LP album that I didn't scrobble. It just seemed like too much work for really no reward. I post what I listen to in the thread on MMA instead.