Everyone's favorite band sucks. December 23, 2011 12:41 PM Subscribe
We've had roll calls for a bunch of other social networking sites, and now it is last.fm's turn. So tell me, who are you? (Who who? Who who?)
Naturally, I am griphus.
Naturally, I am griphus.
In the general case, you can pick a social thingy from this page. Which, I don't think is linked to from anywhere on mefi proper (although it is probably on the wiki). Which is why I have a link to it in my profile because I can't be bothered to bookmark/favourite it.
posted by juv3nal at 12:58 PM on December 23, 2011 [3 favorites]
posted by juv3nal at 12:58 PM on December 23, 2011 [3 favorites]
Oh wow. I had no idea that thing existed!
Oh, wow! Me neither. Although I might have to start smushing personae together...
posted by running order squabble fest at 1:28 PM on December 23, 2011
Oh, wow! Me neither. Although I might have to start smushing personae together...
posted by running order squabble fest at 1:28 PM on December 23, 2011
nomadicink
Your musical compatibility with griphus is LOW.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 1:28 PM on December 23, 2011
Your musical compatibility with griphus is LOW.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 1:28 PM on December 23, 2011
oh man, last.fm. I stopped using that when people starting using it to stalk when I was on the computer but not responding to gtalk or emails.
CREEPERS RUIN EVERYTHING.
posted by elizardbits at 1:32 PM on December 23, 2011 [6 favorites]
CREEPERS RUIN EVERYTHING.
posted by elizardbits at 1:32 PM on December 23, 2011 [6 favorites]
My sproggling thing stopped syncing iPod plays with my last.fm account, and trying to figure out a solution was so annoying that I stopped using it. Which is too bad, because tracking my music habits really appealed to the info-nerd in me.
posted by joelhunt at 1:38 PM on December 23, 2011
posted by joelhunt at 1:38 PM on December 23, 2011
That's why I stopped too, joelhunt, but I started using it again a few weeks ago and it's working again. Except it used to not scrobble podcasts, but now it does.
posted by Kattullus at 1:44 PM on December 23, 2011
posted by Kattullus at 1:44 PM on December 23, 2011
I never got into scrobbling because I realized I didn't need to point out to the whole internet that I listen to the same albums over and over and over again most of the time.
posted by cortex (staff) at 1:48 PM on December 23, 2011 [7 favorites]
posted by cortex (staff) at 1:48 PM on December 23, 2011 [7 favorites]
What do you use, Kattullus? Is it an app or something? I've moved to an iPod Touch since the last time I sproggled.
posted by joelhunt at 1:48 PM on December 23, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by joelhunt at 1:48 PM on December 23, 2011 [1 favorite]
scrobbled, not sproggled
posted by John Cohen at 1:56 PM on December 23, 2011
posted by John Cohen at 1:56 PM on December 23, 2011
Sproggle!!!
posted by mannequito at 2:02 PM on December 23, 2011
posted by mannequito at 2:02 PM on December 23, 2011
Stroggos?
posted by cortex (staff) at 2:05 PM on December 23, 2011 [2 favorites]
posted by cortex (staff) at 2:05 PM on December 23, 2011 [2 favorites]
I ended up buying cloudScrob for 99c when iOS 5 broke iSproggler. Works like a charm!
posted by griphus at 2:07 PM on December 23, 2011
posted by griphus at 2:07 PM on December 23, 2011
I was unable to scrobble without jailbreaking my iPhone. Lame :(
posted by mkb at 2:08 PM on December 23, 2011
posted by mkb at 2:08 PM on December 23, 2011
oh yeah, this is me. I hadn't scroggled (that is so what we're calling it around here from now on!) in over a month but this thread just motivated me to finally set up Clementine properly. Super high compatibility with griphus, high with infinite jest, medium with nomadic ink.
posted by mannequito at 2:12 PM on December 23, 2011
posted by mannequito at 2:12 PM on December 23, 2011
I just wanted to point out that "scrobbling" is a word coined by John Masefield for his classic Christmas children's book The Box of Delights, where it means kidnapping (several clergymen and other characters, including the several-hundred-year-old punch and judy man Cole Hawlings) are scrobbled by the villain Abner Brown during the course of the book.
It's one of the great children's fantasy books and one of the great Christmas books and of no relevance at all to this thread other than the scrobbling thing.
posted by Grangousier at 2:23 PM on December 23, 2011 [3 favorites]
It's one of the great children's fantasy books and one of the great Christmas books and of no relevance at all to this thread other than the scrobbling thing.
posted by Grangousier at 2:23 PM on December 23, 2011 [3 favorites]
I'm on there, same name as here, link in profile. Compatibility with griphus = very high.
posted by LionIndex at 2:27 PM on December 23, 2011
posted by LionIndex at 2:27 PM on December 23, 2011
cortex: "I never got into scrobbling because I realized I didn't need to point out to the whole internet that I listen to the same albums over and over and over again most of the time."
Well, it's great for helping me remember what music I liked three years ago. I have a terrible memory for that sort of thing.
In that vein, LastGraph is really neat if you want to sort your music High Fidelity-style. You know: autobiographically.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 2:31 PM on December 23, 2011 [1 favorite]
Well, it's great for helping me remember what music I liked three years ago. I have a terrible memory for that sort of thing.
In that vein, LastGraph is really neat if you want to sort your music High Fidelity-style. You know: autobiographically.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 2:31 PM on December 23, 2011 [1 favorite]
joelhunt: What do you use, Kattullus? Is it an app or something? I've moved to an iPod Touch since the last time I sproggled.
No. Same computer and same iPod. It just worked. I assume they patched the program and fixed whatever the issue was for me.
posted by Kattullus at 2:35 PM on December 23, 2011
No. Same computer and same iPod. It just worked. I assume they patched the program and fixed whatever the issue was for me.
posted by Kattullus at 2:35 PM on December 23, 2011
Your musical compatibility with griphus is High
posted by Kafkaesque at 2:36 PM on December 23, 2011
posted by Kafkaesque at 2:36 PM on December 23, 2011
Here's me. I guess I have to figure out how to set it up again, it's been a while.
posted by iconomy at 2:39 PM on December 23, 2011
posted by iconomy at 2:39 PM on December 23, 2011
There's also a metafilter scrobblers group over there if you want a bunch of mefites pre-selected for you.
posted by LionIndex at 2:44 PM on December 23, 2011
posted by LionIndex at 2:44 PM on December 23, 2011
Yeah, I sorta figured that out halfway through our date. It was nice of you to pay, though.
posted by griphus at 3:04 PM on December 23, 2011
posted by griphus at 3:04 PM on December 23, 2011
Well this is me. Apparently I was mad a few years ago.
posted by Sailormom at 3:05 PM on December 23, 2011
posted by Sailormom at 3:05 PM on December 23, 2011
I'm karaite and I don't really just listen to the same three Wayne Shorter albums over and over again, but it does pretty much look that way over there.
posted by motty at 3:20 PM on December 23, 2011
posted by motty at 3:20 PM on December 23, 2011
I'm aworldgoesnova. And griphus, we have a VERY HIGH music compatibility. Go us!
posted by two lights above the sea at 3:40 PM on December 23, 2011
posted by two lights above the sea at 3:40 PM on December 23, 2011
I'm Evyllity. Infinite Jest, VERY HIGH, which is interesting because I just started scraboppling, and have only 238 sciptoddies. Everyone else is low or very low.
I have one concern about this whole thing. I listen to music that I don't like sometimes, because I have to listen to new music before I find out if I don't like it. Like, I'm told that I have Jay-Z in common with people because I gave that new album a chance, but still don't like him. WHAT IF SOMEBODY THINKS THAT I DO?
posted by cmoj at 3:48 PM on December 23, 2011
I have one concern about this whole thing. I listen to music that I don't like sometimes, because I have to listen to new music before I find out if I don't like it. Like, I'm told that I have Jay-Z in common with people because I gave that new album a chance, but still don't like him. WHAT IF SOMEBODY THINKS THAT I DO?
posted by cmoj at 3:48 PM on December 23, 2011
I have always considered "fuck 'em" the optimal approach to that kind of dilemma, cmoj. It's very liberating to let go of the concern, whenever possible, that someone, somewhere might be misapprehending my state of mind.
posted by cortex (staff) at 3:52 PM on December 23, 2011 [4 favorites]
posted by cortex (staff) at 3:52 PM on December 23, 2011 [4 favorites]
cmoj, I do the same thing with colors. When I see somebody wearing something with a hint of orange, I think to myself, "THEY LOVE ORANGE LIKE I LOVE ORANGE AND WE SHOULD BE BFFS FOREVAR!"
I also assume that they don't wear orange as much as I do because they know how special that color is. And how to show restraint*.
*which I don't.
posted by iamkimiam at 4:24 PM on December 23, 2011 [1 favorite]
I also assume that they don't wear orange as much as I do because they know how special that color is. And how to show restraint*.
*which I don't.
posted by iamkimiam at 4:24 PM on December 23, 2011 [1 favorite]
For some reason I get great joy voyeuring what other people are listening to. Looking forward to adding some more mefites. I'm slack-a-gogo over there - most of my recent plays are 2011 releases while I finished up my year end top 30.
posted by Slack-a-gogo at 4:33 PM on December 23, 2011
posted by Slack-a-gogo at 4:33 PM on December 23, 2011
About a year ago I wound up on someone's Metafilter profile and took a look at their recent Last.fm tracks. They had a totally random mix there, say old obscure bluegrass, crunk hip hop, death metal etc ... but all of the artists were in my personal collection, which I thought was crazy synchronicity, so I wrote them a memail about it. Turned out they had wound up on my profile page the day before, clicked through to my Last.fm page, got intrigued and started listening to my 'radio' station or whatever its called.
posted by mannequito at 4:52 PM on December 23, 2011 [3 favorites]
posted by mannequito at 4:52 PM on December 23, 2011 [3 favorites]
You guys know you can remove artists from your last.fm library? It's pretty awesome. You can do it track by track, or go to your library and when you hover over the artist picture, just click the little X in the upper right hand corner. Hope that helps!
posted by two lights above the sea at 5:00 PM on December 23, 2011
posted by two lights above the sea at 5:00 PM on December 23, 2011
Mine is linked in my profile, and I do indeed listen to Doris Day's "Whatever Will Be Will Be (Que Sera, Sera)" as often as it says. It's a good reminder.
posted by needs more cowbell at 5:16 PM on December 23, 2011
posted by needs more cowbell at 5:16 PM on December 23, 2011
I'm rhorsman, and I listen to far too much Kylie.
posted by Lentrohamsanin at 5:23 PM on December 23, 2011
posted by Lentrohamsanin at 5:23 PM on December 23, 2011
Oh snap, I never looked in the social networking apps. I am on librarything, one day when I get closer to adding all my books Ima link that shit to my account.
posted by Ad hominem at 5:41 PM on December 23, 2011
posted by Ad hominem at 5:41 PM on December 23, 2011
I do indeed listen to Doris Day's "Whatever Will Be Will Be (Que Sera, Sera)" as often as it says.
That scene at the climax of The Man Who Knew Too Much, where Doris Day is singing that song at the top of her lungs, running through the house, desperately trying to find her kidnapped child, and there's just an edge of panic and hysteria in her voice, which she is wielding like a weapon as she frantically searches for her endangered son?
That scene is pretty awesome.
posted by BitterOldPunk at 5:50 PM on December 23, 2011 [1 favorite]
That scene at the climax of The Man Who Knew Too Much, where Doris Day is singing that song at the top of her lungs, running through the house, desperately trying to find her kidnapped child, and there's just an edge of panic and hysteria in her voice, which she is wielding like a weapon as she frantically searches for her endangered son?
That scene is pretty awesome.
posted by BitterOldPunk at 5:50 PM on December 23, 2011 [1 favorite]
I...had no idea that was the context. That does sound pretty awesome. Now I have to watch the film!
posted by needs more cowbell at 6:15 PM on December 23, 2011
posted by needs more cowbell at 6:15 PM on December 23, 2011
I have VERY LOW compatibility with griphus. But also with everyone else, I bet. My most-listened track ever is Mannheim Steamroller – Carol Of The Bells, and my most-listened artist is The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (because the church's tech people kept sticking that in the "artist" slot instead of the performer's name for EVERYTHING for YEARS and I haven't finished cleaning it all up yet.)
I still feel sad that the list of what everyone from MetaFilter listened to for the last hour is gone. Because it was really amusing whenever I showed up.
posted by SMPA at 6:43 PM on December 23, 2011 [1 favorite]
I still feel sad that the list of what everyone from MetaFilter listened to for the last hour is gone. Because it was really amusing whenever I showed up.
posted by SMPA at 6:43 PM on December 23, 2011 [1 favorite]
My last.fm username is on my profile page. Check out my music taste!
posted by dunkadunc at 7:23 PM on December 23, 2011
posted by dunkadunc at 7:23 PM on December 23, 2011
I'm aworldgoesnova. And griphus, we have a VERY HIGH music compatibility. Go us!
posted by two lights above the sea
Last.fm tells me our compatibility is Low, two lights, but the artists we have in common are: Archers of Loaf, Mos Def, Ramones, Cannibal Ox and Johnny Cash. And that's a pretty damned awesome mix.
(if you don't bother to click through to the profile, I'm here)
posted by Ufez Jones at 7:52 PM on December 23, 2011
posted by two lights above the sea
Last.fm tells me our compatibility is Low, two lights, but the artists we have in common are: Archers of Loaf, Mos Def, Ramones, Cannibal Ox and Johnny Cash. And that's a pretty damned awesome mix.
(if you don't bother to click through to the profile, I'm here)
posted by Ufez Jones at 7:52 PM on December 23, 2011
If I'm compatible with any of you I'm going to come camp in your living room over New Years. Just a warning.
posted by subbes at 7:55 PM on December 23, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by subbes at 7:55 PM on December 23, 2011 [1 favorite]
oh, uh, griphus, you better get the guest towels ready.
posted by subbes at 7:57 PM on December 23, 2011
posted by subbes at 7:57 PM on December 23, 2011
I liked the last.fm widget thingie on our profile pages. I hope they fix their shit so we can have that back soon.
posted by BitterOldPunk at 8:05 PM on December 23, 2011
posted by BitterOldPunk at 8:05 PM on December 23, 2011
"Your musical compatibility with griphus is VERY HIGH"
It's kind of a bummer when you know someone and like them a lot and then see on last.fm that your musical compatibility is very low. (I'm kmellis on Last.fm, by the way, as I am on quite a few other places. I try to stake my claim to that username whenever possible.)
"Your musical compatibility with subbes is SUPER"
My couch is comfy. I don't think I've seen a "SUPER" compatibility rating before. Weird. But I've got about twice the number of artists and tracks than you do (should be a lot more, but my history of using scrobbling has been very erratic) and my tastes are pretty darn eclectic. I sense that there's not a lot of people who really like both Julia Stone and Pigface. Nevertheless, you might like the recent mix-cd I mentioned in a previous MeTa thread. Here's a link to a page with a track listing and liner notes, and links to the archived discs (there's two).
"(I have friends now)"
I just friended you. Also:
"Your musical compatibility with iconomy is HIGH"
I notice, though, that "HIGH" seems to correspond with a compatibility bar only halfway filled. That's an interesting interpretation of high. They seem to have adopted the fast-food drink cup philosophy of naming relative magnitudes.
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich at 8:59 PM on December 23, 2011
It's kind of a bummer when you know someone and like them a lot and then see on last.fm that your musical compatibility is very low. (I'm kmellis on Last.fm, by the way, as I am on quite a few other places. I try to stake my claim to that username whenever possible.)
"Your musical compatibility with subbes is SUPER"
My couch is comfy. I don't think I've seen a "SUPER" compatibility rating before. Weird. But I've got about twice the number of artists and tracks than you do (should be a lot more, but my history of using scrobbling has been very erratic) and my tastes are pretty darn eclectic. I sense that there's not a lot of people who really like both Julia Stone and Pigface. Nevertheless, you might like the recent mix-cd I mentioned in a previous MeTa thread. Here's a link to a page with a track listing and liner notes, and links to the archived discs (there's two).
"(I have friends now)"
I just friended you. Also:
"Your musical compatibility with iconomy is HIGH"
I notice, though, that "HIGH" seems to correspond with a compatibility bar only halfway filled. That's an interesting interpretation of high. They seem to have adopted the fast-food drink cup philosophy of naming relative magnitudes.
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich at 8:59 PM on December 23, 2011
I think it's all the Magnetic Fields we have in common.
(I once heard the Magnetic Fields described as "Grad Student music" which means it's probably also perfect MeFi music.)
posted by subbes at 9:05 PM on December 23, 2011
(I once heard the Magnetic Fields described as "Grad Student music" which means it's probably also perfect MeFi music.)
posted by subbes at 9:05 PM on December 23, 2011
My couch is comfy. I don't think I've seen a "SUPER" compatibility rating before.
I've seen a few, including you and subbes. If you go into your "neigborhood" tab on your profile, there'll be a bunch of people with similar tastes, although I think the compatibility score ranges a bit.
posted by LionIndex at 9:08 PM on December 23, 2011
I've seen a few, including you and subbes. If you go into your "neigborhood" tab on your profile, there'll be a bunch of people with similar tastes, although I think the compatibility score ranges a bit.
posted by LionIndex at 9:08 PM on December 23, 2011
In addition to the Magnetic Fields, we three also have neo psychedelia in common - BJM, BRMC, Dandy Warhols, etc.
posted by LionIndex at 9:13 PM on December 23, 2011
posted by LionIndex at 9:13 PM on December 23, 2011
"If you go into your "neigborhood" tab on your profile, there'll be a bunch of people with similar tastes, although I think the compatibility score ranges a bit."
I just did that—hadn't looked at neighborhood in a couple of years. Honestly, it freaks me the hell out. Not because someone has almost exactly my musical taste—I don't think that's happened. Well, actually, I think there was someone I once saw that was weirdly congruent.
But what unnerves me is that each of the women, pretty much without exception, seem exactly the kind of person I instantly develop intense crushes toward. I find this frustrating, actually. I'm trying to make this a joke, but it honestly bugs me a bit. I'm not sure why, though(1).
It's funny about music. I'm more intense about literature and film, but shared interests in those don't seem to correlate to pushing my buttons as much as it does with music. Is this true for other people?
There's a whole bunch of social identity and self-image wrapped up in taste in music. I have a sense that this has something to do with adolescence in a way that's not as true for literature and film and other, similar, things. And maybe it's especially true for people who are inclined to go off the beaten path. It's something that we internalize at that time and for many of us it stays with us. (By "it" I mean how especially important this is to identity.)
(1) Yes, I have been extremely single for the last twenty months. How did you guess?
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich at 10:13 PM on December 23, 2011 [2 favorites]
I just did that—hadn't looked at neighborhood in a couple of years. Honestly, it freaks me the hell out. Not because someone has almost exactly my musical taste—I don't think that's happened. Well, actually, I think there was someone I once saw that was weirdly congruent.
But what unnerves me is that each of the women, pretty much without exception, seem exactly the kind of person I instantly develop intense crushes toward. I find this frustrating, actually. I'm trying to make this a joke, but it honestly bugs me a bit. I'm not sure why, though(1).
It's funny about music. I'm more intense about literature and film, but shared interests in those don't seem to correlate to pushing my buttons as much as it does with music. Is this true for other people?
There's a whole bunch of social identity and self-image wrapped up in taste in music. I have a sense that this has something to do with adolescence in a way that's not as true for literature and film and other, similar, things. And maybe it's especially true for people who are inclined to go off the beaten path. It's something that we internalize at that time and for many of us it stays with us. (By "it" I mean how especially important this is to identity.)
(1) Yes, I have been extremely single for the last twenty months. How did you guess?
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich at 10:13 PM on December 23, 2011 [2 favorites]
Skygazer1
My Scroggle is about 80% accurate for what I was listening to 2 Years ago.
posted by Skygazer at 10:20 PM on December 23, 2011
My Scroggle is about 80% accurate for what I was listening to 2 Years ago.
posted by Skygazer at 10:20 PM on December 23, 2011
Tikko. Named after my now-deceased dog. In the interest of fairness, of course, now I have to link to the current dog.
I also scroogle my earworms, though it's a lot more work than the other thing.
posted by moonmilk at 10:41 PM on December 23, 2011
I also scroogle my earworms, though it's a lot more work than the other thing.
posted by moonmilk at 10:41 PM on December 23, 2011
Man, I should have updated my profile a while ago.
KChasm
I am not a clever man.
posted by KChasm at 1:36 AM on December 24, 2011
KChasm
I am not a clever man.
posted by KChasm at 1:36 AM on December 24, 2011
Mutayshun as someone had already grabbed Mutant.
I'm in the Metafilter scrobblers group as well but it doesn't seem to be very active.
posted by Mutant at 3:28 AM on December 24, 2011
I'm in the Metafilter scrobblers group as well but it doesn't seem to be very active.
posted by Mutant at 3:28 AM on December 24, 2011
I'm lisacarbide, SUPER compatible with Ufez Jones and VERY HIGH with LionIndex, Infinite Jest and Skygazer. MORE SHOUTING.
I quite like the nerd factor of seeing what I actually listen to, but it's less useful since I started writing about music (lots of listening to stuff I don't like, lots of repeatedly playing the thing I'm trying to write about) and also since my iPod stopped scrobbling consistently, instead spitting out one track when I sync it and then 803 tracks abruptly some months later. That, and the work project where Girl Talk was the only mutually acceptable music for 12 people, so I've days' worth of plays for it.
The friends thing is useful for stealing implicit recommendations, if the person's compatible.
posted by carbide at 3:55 AM on December 24, 2011
I quite like the nerd factor of seeing what I actually listen to, but it's less useful since I started writing about music (lots of listening to stuff I don't like, lots of repeatedly playing the thing I'm trying to write about) and also since my iPod stopped scrobbling consistently, instead spitting out one track when I sync it and then 803 tracks abruptly some months later. That, and the work project where Girl Talk was the only mutually acceptable music for 12 people, so I've days' worth of plays for it.
The friends thing is useful for stealing implicit recommendations, if the person's compatible.
posted by carbide at 3:55 AM on December 24, 2011
sirtaj, though I can't remember why I stopped scroggobbling.
Hi Skygazer, we were VERY HIGH two years ago.
posted by vanar sena at 5:16 AM on December 24, 2011 [1 favorite]
Hi Skygazer, we were VERY HIGH two years ago.
posted by vanar sena at 5:16 AM on December 24, 2011 [1 favorite]
Ahhhh, looking around last.fm always ends with me confused and going in circles. Is there a way to see what members in a specific group you have the highest musical compatibility with?
posted by KChasm at 5:22 AM on December 24, 2011
posted by KChasm at 5:22 AM on December 24, 2011
goodnewsfortheinsane: "In that vein, LastGraph is really neat if you want to sort your music High Fidelity-style. You know: autobiographically."
When I was scrobbling regularly I generated a ridiculously huge LastGraph PDF that made me deliriously happy. Charts! Graphs! Trends! MUSIC! It's been some years now and obviously the PDF is out of date, but I don't have the heart to throw it away. It's just too lovely.
posted by vanar sena at 5:50 AM on December 24, 2011 [2 favorites]
When I was scrobbling regularly I generated a ridiculously huge LastGraph PDF that made me deliriously happy. Charts! Graphs! Trends! MUSIC! It's been some years now and obviously the PDF is out of date, but I don't have the heart to throw it away. It's just too lovely.
posted by vanar sena at 5:50 AM on December 24, 2011 [2 favorites]
I never got into scrobbling because I realized I didn't need to point out to the whole internet that I listen to the same alb^H^H^ song over and over and over again most of the time. But I'm still using it sometimes anyhow.
ftfm
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 6:07 AM on December 24, 2011
ftfm
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 6:07 AM on December 24, 2011
My musical compatibility with griphus is SUPER. (last-fm name = MeFi name.)
posted by escabeche at 7:46 AM on December 24, 2011
posted by escabeche at 7:46 AM on December 24, 2011
In that vein, LastGraph is really neat if you want to sort your music High Fidelity-style. You know: autobiographically
This is seriously one of the coolest things I have every seen. I award you one internet favorite.
posted by inigo2 at 9:24 AM on December 24, 2011
This is seriously one of the coolest things I have every seen. I award you one internet favorite.
posted by inigo2 at 9:24 AM on December 24, 2011
I clicked all of you and my musical compatibility with everyone is LOW. Except kmellis and kchasm - it must be something about the K.
posted by moonmilk at 10:27 AM on December 24, 2011
posted by moonmilk at 10:27 AM on December 24, 2011
You guys know you can remove artists from your last.fm library? It's pretty awesome. You can do it track by track, or go to your library and when you hover over the artist picture, just click the little X in the upper right hand corner. Hope that helps!
Excellent. While it would be devastating if my friends thought they'd convinced me that Jay-Z is a good rapper, I'm more concerned with it generating good recommendations for me if it's going to.
posted by cmoj at 11:29 AM on December 24, 2011
Excellent. While it would be devastating if my friends thought they'd convinced me that Jay-Z is a good rapper, I'm more concerned with it generating good recommendations for me if it's going to.
posted by cmoj at 11:29 AM on December 24, 2011
phirephoenix, of course. I haven't gotten the scrobbling to work with my Android yet (read: I haven't bothered to try) so the music is a little out of date.
(Translation: Please don't judge me.)
posted by Phire at 12:52 PM on December 24, 2011
(Translation: Please don't judge me.)
posted by Phire at 12:52 PM on December 24, 2011
I am UniqPhreaq, and I also tend to listen to the same artists/albums/tracks constantly. I tend to forget to scrobble my iPod tracks, so the list isn't always up-to-date. ><
posted by uniq at 12:58 PM on December 24, 2011
posted by uniq at 12:58 PM on December 24, 2011
I wanted to see this LastGraph thing but clcking the link just gives me a weird error message I've never seen before - "Unhandled Exception - An unhandled exception was thrown by the application." Anyone know what's up with that? Using Chrome on Linux if it matters.
posted by mannequito at 1:06 PM on December 24, 2011
posted by mannequito at 1:06 PM on December 24, 2011
Hmmm...seems we all love the charts and graphs it's incredibly excellent to see such an important part of one's life, music, dissected and analyzed. At first I got all indignant about my musical listening be documented and was all like F U Last.fm SCROOGLLER!!!111!! I AM A FREE MAN!! ETC..... And now I want all my devices to be scroglodiddled...
Thing is the algorithm is so weird, I can't make sense of it, clicking through here, I'm SUPER with people I thought I should be LOW with and LOW with people who're SUPER because I'm SUPER with someone they're SUPER with....
Anyway, I moved a lot and got other devices and my Ipod is too new to know me and there's stuff that's got too much play from very recently and too much play from when I was different two years ago. As can be seen I went through a very intense Young Marble Giants and CAN phase round then, still LOVE both those groups.
posted by Skygazer at 1:17 PM on December 24, 2011
Thing is the algorithm is so weird, I can't make sense of it, clicking through here, I'm SUPER with people I thought I should be LOW with and LOW with people who're SUPER because I'm SUPER with someone they're SUPER with....
Anyway, I moved a lot and got other devices and my Ipod is too new to know me and there's stuff that's got too much play from very recently and too much play from when I was different two years ago. As can be seen I went through a very intense Young Marble Giants and CAN phase round then, still LOVE both those groups.
posted by Skygazer at 1:17 PM on December 24, 2011
I'm immlass and I'm going to have to go see "Christmas' greatest hits" aka the church service my niece and nephew sing in before I friend everyone in my Copious Spare Time.
posted by immlass at 1:45 PM on December 24, 2011
posted by immlass at 1:45 PM on December 24, 2011
Yay, I always miss these threads. I'm also clearlydemon there.
posted by clearlydemon at 2:56 PM on December 24, 2011
posted by clearlydemon at 2:56 PM on December 24, 2011
I've been putting this in my profile every year since I joined, but pretty much no one ever sees this, so... here's a Christmas music mix. I hope you enjoy it! Though maybe you should check my last.fm profile for musical compatibility first :) You'll also see what songs there are in the mix, since I'm listening to it right now. Merry Yule!
posted by Kattullus at 2:59 PM on December 24, 2011
posted by Kattullus at 2:59 PM on December 24, 2011
TBH, I've stopped scrobbling on Spotify (my main source of music) because I listen to, like, the same 5 Weird Al songs over and over and that's it.
"Amish Paradise", "Confessions Part III", "Trapped in the Drive-thru", "Virus Alert", and "White & Nerdy". WEIRD AL IS A GENIUS.
posted by two lights above the sea at 4:00 PM on December 24, 2011
"Amish Paradise", "Confessions Part III", "Trapped in the Drive-thru", "Virus Alert", and "White & Nerdy". WEIRD AL IS A GENIUS.
posted by two lights above the sea at 4:00 PM on December 24, 2011
I realized recently last.fm is the social networking service I've used the longest consistently. It'll be seven years come February, which is unfortunate because some embarrassing choices from when I was 18 still rank pretty high in my overall charts. But I'm still scrobbling.
I'm also glad BitterOldPunk and carbide came into this thread because my compatibility wasn't so good with anyone else up thread, but I'm super with them!
posted by radiomayonnaise at 4:05 PM on December 24, 2011
I'm also glad BitterOldPunk and carbide came into this thread because my compatibility wasn't so good with anyone else up thread, but I'm super with them!
posted by radiomayonnaise at 4:05 PM on December 24, 2011
Radiomayonnaise, I'm in the same boat as you. I have very low music compatibility with almost everyone upthread but you and I have super! compatible tastes. RAINPERIMETER.
posted by rainperimeter at 4:53 PM on December 24, 2011
posted by rainperimeter at 4:53 PM on December 24, 2011
I wanted to see this LastGraph thing but clcking the link just gives me a weird error message I've never seen before - "Unhandled Exception - An unhandled exception was thrown by the application." Anyone know what's up with that?
I think the server may be a bit overloaded. It took me a few tries whenever I went to a non-static page.
posted by inigo2 at 5:56 PM on December 24, 2011
I think the server may be a bit overloaded. It took me a few tries whenever I went to a non-static page.
posted by inigo2 at 5:56 PM on December 24, 2011
How does compatibility effect your social connections anyway other than being told your low to super etc??
Also, is it possible to recalibrate song play count or band count? Perhaps in iTunes first?
posted by Skygazer at 7:24 PM on December 24, 2011
Also, is it possible to recalibrate song play count or band count? Perhaps in iTunes first?
posted by Skygazer at 7:24 PM on December 24, 2011
So, I just now looked more closely at the 50 people in my Last.FM neighborhood (which includes me), and I noticed something unusual—I'd be very interested to learn if this is true of the neighborhoods of other people here.
There are almost no Americans in my neighborhood. Of the 39 people who specified their nationality, only five of us are in the US. Eleven people didn't answer; and therefore a whopping 34 of the 50 of the people in my Last.FM musical "neighborhood" are non-Americans. But I don't listen to very much non-anglophone music, really.
(Specifically, it's BLR=02; BRA=03; CAN=01; HRV=01; CZE=01; FRA=03; DEU=03; HND=01; HUN=01; ISR=02; JPN=-01; NONE=11; NLD=03; NZL=01; POL=02; PRT=01; RUS=01; ESP=02; GBR=03; and USA=05.)
Thirteen of the fifty didn't specify their gender. In a few cases, as was true with nationality, it was possible to guess with some confidence; but I decided to not do this. Of the thirty-seven people who listed their gender, 21 are women and 16 are men, which is about what I expected.
The ages are about what I expected and for the some obvious reasons, we should expect this not to be a represeantive sample of all the people who like this sort of music because there's a correlation between youth and net usage of apps like this.
Even so, it's interesting. Thirty-two people listed their ages. Of those, there are only four who are nineteen years-old, or younger. Twenty-three people are in the inclusive range of 20-29; only four in their thirties. And then me, the geriatric, at 47, and older by ten years than the second-oldest person among the thirty-two people who listed their ages. The average age of those who listed them is 24.5.
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich at 9:03 PM on December 24, 2011
There are almost no Americans in my neighborhood. Of the 39 people who specified their nationality, only five of us are in the US. Eleven people didn't answer; and therefore a whopping 34 of the 50 of the people in my Last.FM musical "neighborhood" are non-Americans. But I don't listen to very much non-anglophone music, really.
(Specifically, it's BLR=02; BRA=03; CAN=01; HRV=01; CZE=01; FRA=03; DEU=03; HND=01; HUN=01; ISR=02; JPN=-01; NONE=11; NLD=03; NZL=01; POL=02; PRT=01; RUS=01; ESP=02; GBR=03; and USA=05.)
Thirteen of the fifty didn't specify their gender. In a few cases, as was true with nationality, it was possible to guess with some confidence; but I decided to not do this. Of the thirty-seven people who listed their gender, 21 are women and 16 are men, which is about what I expected.
The ages are about what I expected and for the some obvious reasons, we should expect this not to be a represeantive sample of all the people who like this sort of music because there's a correlation between youth and net usage of apps like this.
Even so, it's interesting. Thirty-two people listed their ages. Of those, there are only four who are nineteen years-old, or younger. Twenty-three people are in the inclusive range of 20-29; only four in their thirties. And then me, the geriatric, at 47, and older by ten years than the second-oldest person among the thirty-two people who listed their ages. The average age of those who listed them is 24.5.
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich at 9:03 PM on December 24, 2011
I'm safetyfork there. And I also used to scrobble under a different name while at work. I opened up these accounts... All these separate accounts...
posted by safetyfork at 9:18 PM on December 24, 2011
posted by safetyfork at 9:18 PM on December 24, 2011
I'm magfar over there. I listen to a lot of Loggins...you've been warned.
posted by fluffy battle kitten at 9:32 PM on December 24, 2011
posted by fluffy battle kitten at 9:32 PM on December 24, 2011
Aha! High compatibility with safetyfork, which has a k in it, and low compatibility with your alternate account, which has no k. My theory is confirmed!
posted by moonmilk at 10:16 PM on December 24, 2011
posted by moonmilk at 10:16 PM on December 24, 2011
Wasn't creative on the day I logged in there, and just used my name.
posted by vagabond at 11:02 PM on December 24, 2011
posted by vagabond at 11:02 PM on December 24, 2011
Do you really wanna know? O-o-oh?
posted by The Confessor at 10:34 AM on December 25, 2011
posted by The Confessor at 10:34 AM on December 25, 2011
I am seriously on LastFM. Let's be friends?
posted by defenestration at 10:43 AM on December 25, 2011
posted by defenestration at 10:43 AM on December 25, 2011
"I've been putting this in my profile every year since I joined, but pretty much no one ever sees this, so... here's a Christmas music mix."
Kattullus, I'm listening to it right now and it's pretty great. But I'm disappointed that you didn't include Jingle Rock Bell. :)
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich at 10:55 AM on December 25, 2011 [1 favorite]
Kattullus, I'm listening to it right now and it's pretty great. But I'm disappointed that you didn't include Jingle Rock Bell. :)
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich at 10:55 AM on December 25, 2011 [1 favorite]
"Yay, I always miss these threads. I'm also clearlydemon there."
We're SUPER compatible, there, I see...but, in addition to that, I especially like your top artists.
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich at 10:58 AM on December 25, 2011
We're SUPER compatible, there, I see...but, in addition to that, I especially like your top artists.
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich at 10:58 AM on December 25, 2011
Jingle Rock Bell lives in all our hearts (I've put it on a previous Wintry mix... I try not to repeat myself).
posted by Kattullus at 11:10 AM on December 25, 2011
posted by Kattullus at 11:10 AM on December 25, 2011
Okay I'm scribblybobbling again how did that happen look what you did
posted by vanar sena at 11:16 AM on December 25, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by vanar sena at 11:16 AM on December 25, 2011 [1 favorite]
Last.fm has always been hampered by two very weak links in the system: iPod/iTunes doesn't correctly log all the songs you've listened to (f'rinstance, I know I listened to all of Richard Harvey's A New Way of Seeing last week, but it shows only two tracks), and the Scrobbler doesn't log all of the tracks you've played. I've found that less than half of what I actually listen to gets through.
If anyone's musical compatibility with me is anything other than low, worry.
posted by scruss at 5:50 AM on December 26, 2011
If anyone's musical compatibility with me is anything other than low, worry.
posted by scruss at 5:50 AM on December 26, 2011
We're very high, scruss. How worried should I be?
posted by two lights above the sea at 6:38 AM on December 26, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by two lights above the sea at 6:38 AM on December 26, 2011 [1 favorite]
also Very High with scruss. Perhaps we should order a pizza.
posted by mannequito at 12:29 PM on December 26, 2011
posted by mannequito at 12:29 PM on December 26, 2011
3rd times the charm - that lastgraph site is finally working for me (apparently I'm #5 in the queue). Looking forward.
posted by mannequito at 1:23 PM on December 26, 2011
posted by mannequito at 1:23 PM on December 26, 2011
I'm andrewt over there.
Oooh...I remember making a lastgraph years ago. Might have to give this a try again...
posted by anthom at 6:40 AM on December 28, 2011
Oooh...I remember making a lastgraph years ago. Might have to give this a try again...
posted by anthom at 6:40 AM on December 28, 2011
"Yeah, I sorta figured that out halfway through our date. It was nice of you to pay, though."
We probably shouldn't've had all those children together, huh?
posted by Eideteker at 8:13 AM on December 28, 2011
We probably shouldn't've had all those children together, huh?
posted by Eideteker at 8:13 AM on December 28, 2011
scruss, I'm SUPER compatible with you.
Apparently I've been scrobbling off and on for 7 1/2 years now and have more than a quarter million tracks scrobbled. It's amazing what longevity will get you.
posted by immlass at 3:35 PM on December 28, 2011
Apparently I've been scrobbling off and on for 7 1/2 years now and have more than a quarter million tracks scrobbled. It's amazing what longevity will get you.
posted by immlass at 3:35 PM on December 28, 2011
Maybe instead of staying on the couches of those I'm compatible with, I should sleep on the couches of those I'm not. Widen my musical horizons a little.
posted by subbes at 4:23 PM on December 28, 2011
posted by subbes at 4:23 PM on December 28, 2011
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