Huh, so Plong42 actually spends most of his time on lastFM listening to what, Justin Bieber and Rihanna? Or just Dylan and the Beach Boys? The badges make me curious about what the things are people have to listen to to get a low score. Presumably it's just an algorithm for whether other users played the things you played? So what is not obscure for last FM users?
I'm guessing it's just based on something close to artist-listeners/all-last-fm-listeners. Not very illuminating. I think my favorite playground item is the age-gender scatter-plot one linked above, that's pretty interesting.
This all makes the music nerd (qv.) in me want to join Last.fm just for the graphs. Not sure it fits in my habits though. I do have an account, I think, but have no idea what the username or password would be.
If it makes Germanprof feel better, I only got a 16.5% for overall obscurity, mostly because my top ten are all mainstream (Dylan, Dead, U2, Beatles, Mozart, etc.) I am trying to skew the system at the moment by listening to mid-70s Christian rock.
OK, I retreived an account last used for a day in 2009. I'm Earsmith. We'll see if I get into the habit this time. I've set up chrome to scrobble bandcamp, so that will help. (Imagine what gibberish that last sentence would have been until recently).
Since that statistic is based on listening to about 8 songs total, I would not set too much store by it. Anyway, I will never manage to keep up with your Ergo Phizmiz consumption :-)
Since you can only upload digital libraries to new accounts, I'd vote for a new account, Gp, unless there's a reason you don't want your library-listening publicized. I very much enjoy voyeurizing acquaintances' listening habits on last.fm, and would welcome everyone here keeping active scrobbling accounts. Unfortunately I can't force the issue.
Since you can only upload digital libraries to new accounts
I haven't got far enough in to figure out what that would entail...I've just figured out scrobbling. Why would I want to upload my library? Do past playcounts get uploaded?
Yes, Gp, for new accounts, you're given the chance to 'seed' your history with your current digital library file (xml version?). So all your past history (playcounts, dates) in the file goes into their db, and you get immediate stats. That seems to me a much better option than just waking up an old, mostly unused account. Then scrobbling carries it forward.
@kargatron, OK, decided to delete to two ghost accounts I unearthed, lose all three of my friends and start over. Sorry for the additional friend requests this will occasion.
Argh, need another username. The trouble with being called Smith is that on any site of any popularity just about every username remotely related to my name is already taken...back to the increasingly inaccurate Germanprof maybe, for lack of imagination.
OK, instant 39,000 scrobbles. I'm germanprof now.
ETA, my real obscurometer score is 89.1%. U2 and Louis Armstrong are clearly bringing the average down.
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- What puzzles me is what goes on in the mind of the creator.
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I mean, Coleman Hawkins, Duke Ellington, who ever heard of 'em.
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Most disturbing :-)
Argh, need another username. The trouble with being called Smith is that on any site of any popularity just about every username remotely related to my name is already taken...back to the increasingly inaccurate Germanprof maybe, for lack of imagination.
Here's me:
Also, lots of Danes. What's with you Danes?
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ETA, my real obscurometer score is 89.1%. U2 and Louis Armstrong are clearly bringing the average down.