Eh. Not much to love or hate there. I tend to be most interested in artists played in the last week/month, and to the extent that info is less easy to find, I like it less.
Ugh. Can't find anything. And I basically hate it when sites increasingly want to foreground making making me be interested in what most other people are listening to. It's so rare that I am.
Many many people were seeing scrobbling fully seize up with a "cached" status for nearly a week, but it seems to have finally been fixed. I noticed a bunch of new scrobbles on my profile just today. So, yay. (Even though I still dislike the redesign.)
The coverart jpeg database seems to be wiped out and it is no longer possible to see if any of my friends are aquainted with the artists I listen to. Two of the most important features, AFAIC.
- And according to the schrobbler, I have listened to no albums but plenty of tracks. That is ofcourse not true:
I was just going to whinge about the scrobbles the other day when they finally went through.
Unpleasantly surprised, from the next room, to hear a video ad start up, with volume turned up high, in Spanish (targeted to my Latin listening, I assume)
Just dropped back into Last.fm for the first time in a couple of thousand scrobbles. After various recent big box set finds I am finding the charts kind of annoying again. Got a huge Django Reinhardt collection recently, have listened to it once, about half of it twice, and it's already one of my top 5 all time albums, which is bunk. At this rate all my lists are soon going to be dominated by early-ish jazz musicians just because they have huge cheap sets available. This data would be so much more interesting if there was a way of dividing plays by album track count. Though I guess that would presuppose a world still interested in albums...
Doofy, I'm convinced that you would find, after non-negligible effort of course, deep satisfaction in retagging your box sets with their original album constituents (and related sessions).
Karg, you're not wrong, but it's that 'non-negligible effort' bit that slows me down. Of course that hasn't stopped me from tagging them with correct dates and, often, personnel.
I have not yet built a system for getting personnel into tags, but I do tend to retag boxed sets with original album titles, track lists, dates, and artwork.
Last night was a small milestone in my jazz listening. We had some music playing, a piano trio, and I did not know the personnel but turned to my wife and said "the bass sounds like it's Ron Carter". And I was right. I am sure Carter is not the hardest identification in jazz, but I think that is probably the first time I have been able to pick out one of the non-front-man personnel from listening.
I narrowly beat out Karg for most scrobbles. That day with the 300+ scrobbles, I think I left my Shuffle playing all night. I did in fact become infatuated with that Kirsty McColl/Billy Bragg song!
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Craig
This ^ is my favorite, so far. Hadn't looked at last,fm for a while - a few I was using on my profile no longer exist, or have been moved somewhere.
no chance for a rosati3, then!
Craig
Remove the last.fm Beta Website Design
Bring Old Last.fm Back
Craig
Karg, you're not wrong, but it's that 'non-negligible effort' bit that slows me down. Of course that hasn't stopped me from tagging them with correct dates and, often, personnel.
I am Doofy2u over there...
Doofy2u’s year in music
I narrowly beat out Karg for most scrobbles. That day with the 300+ scrobbles, I think I left my Shuffle playing all night. I did in fact become infatuated with that Kirsty McColl/Billy Bragg song!