[chaztrip]

Just came across this site.....
Last.fm – The Social Music Revolution



seems OK. I have seen some of you on here use it.... Pro's Con's?? Do you like it? Use it much?

Thanks!!

[oompa]

aye been using it for some years, back then it was just called audioscrobbler. the problem is that you need to have your music tagged properly, and unless your a maniac audiphile perfectionist like me it might require a heavy one-time job with your music collection and a tag program. as i started out maybe 10% of my music was tagged so i probably lost some 30-50k songs or something there, but nowadays even the stuff you dl is tagged everywhere, so its less of an effort today.

as for pro's its easy to use, you get a plugin for winamp or foobar2k or whatever you use and set it to auto login and then you dont notice anything and you can check different stats on the page. its cool that you can find all kinds of groups for tagged genres and find new music. like if you find a dude with good compatibility and say.. you both listen to alot of alice in chains and soundgarden and you see that this guy also listens alot to this band stone temple pilots.. well you get the idea.

its interresting as well to me to see what i really listen to at home. i spend most of my day at work listening to music on a portable player, but there are addons to transfer stuff from portable players to last.fm as well. get an account and try it out, if you find out that you dont care after a few months then just uninstall it =)

[ukfswmart]

Use the search, foo'!

Like Oompa, I've been using this since the days of audioscrobbler; there have been some odd bugs along the way, but by and large it works great. I always used the iTunes plugin until they released the standalone app that automatically scrobbles your iTunes plays; that seems to work fine too. And tagging your music isn't an issue if you've bought it all

Now that the iPhone SDK's been released, I cannot wait for a Last.fm iPhone app that will run on a device that isn't Jailbroken. iPod play counts are scrobbled when you sync, but since the music on the iPhone has to be managed manually, the Last.fm app won't pick up on it, which sucks. But! Hopefully an iPhone version will be out not too long after June

[Michael]

I use it all the time.

Here's mine: Mawdyson’s Music Profile – Users at Last.fm

[ElRay]

If you like last.fm, check-out Pandora Radio - Listen to Free Internet Radio, Find New Music

Similar idea, but the catalog music based on what the call it's DNA (hence the original title of "The Music Genome Project". So, when it's picking songs, it picks ones that have a similar DNA to the ones you used to create the station.

Last.FM just matches what you listen to with what other folks listen to. So, if the only entries for "My Favorite Technical Metal Bad" are made by a guy who really, really likes Broadway Show Tunes, that's what you'll get as a recomendations based on what you listen to.

Ray

[chaztrip]

Originally Posted by ukfswmart

Use the search, foo'!

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Dude I did..... I looked for Last.fm, LastFM, Last and FM and nothing came up

Maybe it was down.... any way thanks much for the info... site looks cool.

[ElRay]

Originally Posted by chaztrip

Dude I did..... I looked for Last.fm, LastFM, Last and FM and nothing came up

I think it has something to do with the minimum search string length. I found the one old thread I knew about an added tags to it an this one.

Regarding Oompa's post about loading your profile, I made a smart play list in iTunes that selected all songs with more than 1 star, played it 24/7, changed it to more than two stars, player it, etc. so that all starred songs appeared in my profile the "correct" number of times.

Ray

[chaztrip]

Originally Posted by ElRay

I think it has something to do with the minimum search string length. I found the one old thread I knew about an added tags to it an this one.

Regarding Oompa's post about loading your profile, I made a smart play list in iTunes that selected all songs with more than 1 star, played it 24/7, changed it to more than two stars, player it, etc. so that all starred songs appeared in my profile the "correct" number of times.

Ray

Thanks Man!!!!