Comments on: Last.FM ~ a couple of brief criticisms

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Last.FM: a couple of small criticisms « Music Interfaces — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:55:32 +0000

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By: Stuart

Stuart — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 12:37:24 +0000

I'm actually a big fan of Last.fm, it's definately the wikipedia of the electronic music world however they have a bit of a problem with copyrighted & leaked music at the moment :-/ Stuart Electronic Music Forums Electronic Music Blog

By: ResDog

ResDog — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 23:05:13 +0000

the audioscrobbler plugin actually captures the album title, however they still haven’t (will they ever?) implement it into their statistics base because it appears to be more complicated than they thought.
all in all, i do find lastfm to be very satisfactory, surely way no comparison do that overhyped pandora thing. music by the masses, not by the classes

By: 11V

11V — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 23:13:46 +0000

Heh heh, I know that frustration of seeing things you don’t like or pay much regard to sticking around in the higher reaches of the chart. Did you maybe leave Chin Chin (er, great name…) playing on loop while you went out for the afternoon? Do you have that recent Cocteau Twins release, Lullabies to Violaine? I’m not a huge fan, but am finding it rather toothsome. I wonder whether Last.FM have been capturing album or track duration. If not, I guess it’s too late to start now, but if they have they could always implement changes to the system and backdate the data. It would be more accurate, but might ruffle a few feathers though.

By: themilkman

themilkman — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 07:01:58 +0000

Some valid points in there, the track-length ‘issue’ being the most annoying at times.

I, like you, go through a considerable amount of music, and looking at my list of most played artists, it doesn’t quite reflect my real listening. There are some strange things appearing quite high, simply because I’ve listened to a 22-track album four times, while some of my more cherrished artists appear lower because they were careless enough to release a four-track album (the philistines) which I might have played ten times….

The all thing sometimes make me realise how much I’ve been listening to something without even noticing it, yet there seem to be some incoherences on there too which go beyond the track-lenght issue. For instance, while it seems very likely that Broadcast would sit at the top of my most played artists list, and that I would also find CocoRosie, Animal Collective, Kraftwerk, Autechre or The Black Dog near the top, I still cannot fathom why Chin Chin have been in my top 10 for months, and are still at number 14 now. There album (12 tracks) was OK, but not THAT OK that I would have played 119 tracks of theirs in total.

Equally, although I’ve played Devendra Banhart of Sufjan Stevens (two artists guilty of spamming my most played artists list by regularly putting out albums that have 22 tracks – is there something about the number 22?), and really do appreciate their work, it seems somehow unfair that they are found above the Cocteau Twins.