last.fm and playing music in general
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Topic: last.fm and playing music in general
Posted By: Colt
Subject: last.fm and playing music in general
Date Posted: 01 Nov 2012 at 8:30am
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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? ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/colt2112" rel="nofollow - http://www.last.fm/user/colt2112 
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Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: 01 Nov 2012 at 8:57am
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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. ------------- 
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Posted By: Colt
Date Posted: 01 Nov 2012 at 8:59am
 I was genuinely looking forward to seeing your stats Scott!  ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/colt2112" rel="nofollow - http://www.last.fm/user/colt2112
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rushfan4 wrote:Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: 01 Nov 2012 at 9:10am
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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. -------------
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Posted By: adg211288
Date Posted: 01 Nov 2012 at 9:11am
This. There are many bands that would hell of a lot more plays registered to my account if I could that. some would be downright embarrassing ------------- Earn Money Online (NOT a scam): https://premium.gg2u.org?referrer=adg211288" rel="nofollow - GG2U https://adamsfilmcorner.quora.com/" rel="nofollow - Adam's Film Corner on Quora |
Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: 01 Nov 2012 at 10:24am
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.  -------------
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Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: 01 Nov 2012 at 11:08pm
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I barely scrobble anymore, because 99% of my listening is on my ipod which I don't have set up to do that I'm at 3 years and 3 months, 35245 plays. What's that, just under 35 a day? Obviously I used to listen a lot more at home, but while I'm in school I don't much, not even in the evenings. |
Posted By: Stooge
Date Posted: 01 Nov 2012 at 11:15pm
I registered around 2 1/2 years ago, and have 14607 plays. Like Colin, most of my listening over the past year or so has been using my MP3 player, which I do not scrobble with. With the plays I have, I always check last.fm recommendations every few months to see if it refers me to artists I have not heard of. ------------- https://armchairmaestro.com/" rel="nofollow - My Music Blog |
Posted By: Stooge
Date Posted: 01 Nov 2012 at 11:19pm
My number one song is titled "Steve Coogan - The Paul and Pauline Calf Audio Experience". It has a commanding lead, but every track on the album (a comedy recording) had been given the exact same title. ------------- https://armchairmaestro.com/" rel="nofollow - My Music Blog |
Posted By: Pekka
Date Posted: 02 Nov 2012 at 3:18am
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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. Another more curious thing has bloated the stats of a couple of bands up high in the alphabet, Absoluuttinen Nollapiste and AC/DC most of all: When I leave home I always put on some music for the dogs so that outside noise doesn't bother them. Sometimes I forget to close down the Last.fm program, so I've had countless hours of dog entertainment scrobbled. Right now I put some Iced Earth on in Spotify, sound off, because I listened to them at work and of course I have to scrobble it.  My music listening has gone way down in the last two years, before that I worked a warehouse job where on good days I could listen to music eight hours straight plus the commute in and out of work. Nowadays it's just the commute and one meager album at work if I'm lucky. ------------- http://iamthreepeople.bandcamp.com" rel="nofollow">  <- Click on this!
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Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: 02 Nov 2012 at 8:29am
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That is part of my obsession as well. I tend to listen to CDs while I am driving in the car or listening to music on my stereo at home, so I generally have to run them in iTunes on my computer as well in order to scrobble them. I am sure that it sometimes crosses the border into a compulsive obsessive disorder. -------------
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Posted By: adg211288
Date Posted: 02 Nov 2012 at 8:34am
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I'm glad I'm not the only one who does that. ------------- Earn Money Online (NOT a scam): https://premium.gg2u.org?referrer=adg211288" rel="nofollow - GG2U https://adamsfilmcorner.quora.com/" rel="nofollow - Adam's Film Corner on Quora |
Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: 02 Nov 2012 at 8:43am
This and concert recommendations are the things I use last.fm for most often |
Posted By: J-Man
Date Posted: 02 Nov 2012 at 9:54am
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. 
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Posted By: Kingcrimsonprog
Date Posted: 09 Nov 2012 at 5:11am
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I love last fm. I too wish I had it from birth so I could see everything ever. I've been on it about 2 1/2 years, and I've got about 50,500 scrobbles. Works out around 436 songs a week, or 62 a day. I can't say I hear a new album every week, but definitely every four weeks. Whenever I hear something I cant scrobble (in the car or a friends house or whatever) I make a playlist of it on iTunes and leave that playing on mute while I sleep, so it gets scrobbled. -------------  My Blog: http://kingcrimsonprog.wordpress.com/ |