# last.fm **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 8, 2007, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-fm/387115 "2007-01-08T03:39:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2007, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-fm/387115/1 "2007-01-08T03:39:28Z")
Who else is a member? What’s your username? Share a link to your profile? Or, if you don’t want to do that for whatever reason, what’re your ten most recent tracks, weekly top artists, and/or your overall most played artists and songs? In the interest of full disclosure, I’m Aesiron there (as I am practically everywhere), my profile, naturally, is [http://www.last.fm/user/Aesiron/](http://www.last.fm/user/Aesiron/) and, as of this posting, my ten most recent tracks are… 1. Songs: Ohia – Tigress 2. Travis Tritt – Foolish Pride 3. K’s Choice – Not an Addict (Acoustic) 4. Concrete Blonde – Joey 5. Beborn Beton – Spawn 6. Bruce Springsteen – Streets of Philadelphia 7. Wolfsheim – Twelve 8. Neil Young – Heart of Gold 9. K’s Choice & Indigo Girls – Rockin’ In The Free World 10. Neil Young – Rockin’ in the Free World …whereas my weekly top artists as of this week are… 1 K’s Choice 2 Charlotte Martin 3 Regina Spektor 4 Wolfsheim 5 Vienna Teng 6 Sarah Fimm 7 Mirah 7 Tool 7 The Beatles 10 Nirvana …my top ten overall artists are… 1. Sarah Fimm 2. K’s Choice 3. Charlotte Martin 4. Mirah 5. VAST 6. Tegan and Sara 7. Regina Spektor 8. Vienna Teng 9. Sarah McLachlan 10. Ani DiFranco …and my top [strike]ten[/strike] eighteen overall tracks are… 1. Charlotte Martin – Veins 2. Tegan and Sara – Walking With The Ghost 3. Sarah Fimm – Virus 4. K’s Choice – Tired 5. K’s Choice & Indigo Girls – Rockin’ In The Free World 6. Stromkern – Stand Up 7. K’s Choice – Shadowman 8. VAST – Falling From the Sky 9. K’s Choice – Paradise in Me 10. Sarah Fimm – Bombay Cafe 11. Puracane – 100 of Me 12. Nine Inch Nails – Every Day Is Exactly the Same 13. Tegan and Sara – i know, i know, i know 14. She Wants Revenge – Sister 15. Sarah Fimm – Smoke 16. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Supernaturally 17. VAST – Touched 18. Sarah McLachlan – Full of Grace I have a bit of a thing for the lady rockers, obviously. And you? ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2007, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-fm/387115/2 "2007-01-08T03:52:07Z")
We have a SDMB group on there. Alas, Last is blocked from work and I can’t remember the link - but it’s one of my groups if you take a look at my profile [http://www.last.fm/user/tarzybug](http://www.last.fm/user/tarzybug) ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2007, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-fm/387115/3 "2007-01-08T03:56:00Z")
[My profile](http://www.last.fm/user/ultrafilter/). ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2007, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-fm/387115/4 "2007-01-08T04:07:14Z")
[Mine.](http://www.last.fm/user/tuckerfan) ---
**Author:** ![Lisa-go-Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Lisa-go-Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa-go-Blind)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2007, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-fm/387115/5 "2007-01-08T04:10:07Z")
[My profile](http://www.last.fm/user/lisa_go_blind/) Recent Tracks (I’m currently listening to a best of 2006 mix I made): 1. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - “Turn Into” 2. Lily Allen - “Knock 'Em Out” 3. Belle & Sebastian - “Funny Little Frog” 4. The Fratellis - “Chelsea Dagger” 5. Jarvis Cocker - “Running The World” 6. Tapes 'n Tapes - “Insistor” 7. The Kooks - “Naive” 8. Jamelia - “Beware Of The Dog” 9. The Divine Comedy - “To Die A Virgin” 10. Arctic Monkeys - “From The Ritz To The Rubble” Weekly Top Artists: 1. Pulp 2. Kaiser Chiefs 3. Sons And Daughters 4. The Kooks 5. Jamelia 6. Sparks 7. The Fratellis 8. The Divine Comedy 9. Kelis 10. Lily Allen Overall Top Artists: 1. The Magnetic Fields 2. Throwing Muses 3. Pulp 4. Barbara Manning 5. Belle & Sebastian 6. Franz Ferdinand 7. Teenage Fanclub 8. Kristin Hersh 9. Blur 10. Wire Overall Top Tracks: 1. Marianne Faithfull - “The Sha La La Song” 2. The Stone Roses - “Fools Gold” 3. Interpol - “Slow Hands” 4. Mo-Dettes - “Masochistic Opposite” 5. Orange Juice - “Rip It Up” 6. The Magnetic Fields - “Smoke And Mirrors” 7. The Clean - “Hold Onto The Rail” 8. The Bodines - “Therese” 9. Franz Ferdinand - “Shopping For Blood” 10. Barbara Manning - “The Sha La La Song” ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2007, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-fm/387115/6 "2007-01-08T04:19:15Z")
Thanks, **cazzle**. I actually realized right after posting that there was probably an SDMB community but hadn’t thought to check before now as I’m still pretty new, having only joined a month ago. ---
**Author:** ![Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f19dbf/32.png) [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Only_Mostly_Dead)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2007, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-fm/387115/7 "2007-01-08T04:20:46Z")
I’d missed out on last.fm before now. Downloaded the software, and this looks like fun. My results are going to be pretty skewed for a while. I just bought a new computer, and in so doing, I am undergoing ripping all my CDs to the computer, and rating all the songs in WMP. So, by and large, I’m playing all tracks on an album, even when I don’t like the songs so much, just to remind myself a bit. Same for playing entire albums (or artists) that I don’t normally listen to, but want to rip then rate so I can start getting some smart playlists going through WMP. ---
**Author:** ![psycat90](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@psycat90](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psycat90)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2007, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-fm/387115/8 "2007-01-08T04:57:42Z")
[My profile](http://www.last.fm/user/psycat_90/) I had to scratch my old name last year when the site upgraded, something wonky happened and I was never able to get the account going again. Lost a couple of years worth of scrobbling, but this one’s got about a year’s worth now. ---
**Author:** ![Foldup\_Rabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df788c/32.png) [@Foldup\_Rabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foldup_Rabbit)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2007, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-fm/387115/9 "2007-01-08T06:39:58Z")
Just the other day I was wondering to myself if there was a topic here about this. I love it and have gotten several of my friends addicted to it. A lot of my new music comes from the random mess that the site recommends. Anyway, I’m found [here.](http://www.last.fm/user/folduprabbit/) My overall top artists: 1:: The New Pornographers 2:: The Shins 3:: Neko Case 4:: Belle & Sebastian 5:: The Pipettes 6:: The Beatles 7:: Modest Mouse 8:: AC Newman 9:: The Flaming Lips 10:: Novillero My weekly top artists: 1:: The Replacements 2:: The New Pornographers 3:: Rilo Kiley 4:: New Order 5:: Nirvana 6:: Neko Case 7:: The La’s 8:: The Shins 9:: The Pipettes 10:: The Coral ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2007, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-fm/387115/10 "2007-01-08T13:01:09Z")
I’m [here](http://www.last.fm/user/StruanTheRuin/) , but I’ve not played with it much! Overall Top Artists 1 Hüsker Dü 2 Zero 7 3 Lemon Jelly 4 My Bloody Valentine 5 Portishead 6 Lamb 7 The Knife 8 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds 9 The Doors 10 Henryk Górecki 11 Boards of Canada 12 Suicide 13 Air 14 Bonobo 15 Cocteau Twins ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2007, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-fm/387115/11 "2007-01-08T20:20:31Z")
Ok, [here’s](http://www.last.fm/group/Straight+Dope+Message+Board) the link to the SDMB group on Last. The last five tracks I played: The Killers - Mr Brightside Pete Murray - Better Days The Dandy Warhols - Bohemian Like You Faith No More - A Small Victory matchbox twenty - If You’re Gone My top ten artists last week: The String Quartet Dido Norah Jones Coldplay Kings of Convenience Death Cab for Cutie Marcy Playground Front End Loader Nirvana Radiohead My top ten artists overall Radiohead Jack Johnson Kings of Convenience Pearl Jam The String Quartet Bernard Fanning Coldplay Stone Temple Pilots Dido Death Cab for Cutie My top ten (eleven) tracks Radiohead - Let Down Radiohead - Paranoid Android Radiohead - Just Pearl Jam - Black Death Cab for Cutie - I Will Follow You Into The Dark Radiohead - No Surprises Radiohead - High and Dry Radiohead - Karma Police Radiohead - Creep Bernard Fanning - Watch Over Me Stone Temple Pilots - Interstate Love Song Kings of Convenience, The String Quartet, Jack Johnson, and (to a lesser degree) Bernard Fanning, Dido and Death Cab for Cutie, are over represented on my list because of my habit of queueing up a playlist of their songs to play while I’m sleeping and leaving it repeating all night. ---
**Author:** ![nashiitashii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7c8e57/32.png) [@nashiitashii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nashiitashii)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2007, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-fm/387115/12 "2007-01-08T21:00:31Z")
[my last.fm profile](http://www.last.fm/user/nashiitashii/) My last 10 tracks: Tom Waits – Hang Down Your Head The Smashing Pumpkins – Stumbleine Nancy-Ajram – Ya-Salam Type O Negative – The Glorious Libaration Of The Ace of Base – Love is a flower The Gossip – Yesterday’s News The Gossip – Gone The Gossip – Don’t Make Waves The Gossip – No No No The Gossip – Jason’s Basement My overall most played artists: 1 Queen 2 Tom Waits 2 Iced Earth 4 The Cranberries 5 Björk 6 David Bowie 6 Marilyn Manson 8 The Smashing Pumpkins 9 Alanis Morissette 10 Tricky My results are a little skewed on this, as, well, last.fm scrobbled anything that played while I uploaded music onto the hard drive. I like the newer version, which isn’t embedded into any of my music playing programs, and can be turned on or off as I please. Saves a bit of hassle, but sadly, you can tell which stuff I have the most music for… well, sort of. I have 120 tracks for Queen, several albums of Tom Waits, a few different ones for Iced Earth, The Cranberries, Bjork, and Marilyn Manson. I think the other ones are flukes based on the nature of iTunes’ shuffle function. My weekly top artists: 1 Flogging Molly 2 Einstürzende Neubauten 3 The Gossip 4 Zulya 4 Eivor Palsdottir 4 Marta Gomez 4 Samite 4 Ace of Base 4 Beethova Obas 4 Nancy-Ajram I haven’t been listening to a lot of music lately. 1. I’ve been sick. 2. I haven’t been home during the holidays. 3. The external hard drive that holds all my music electronically wasn’t connected to my computer. ---
**Author:** ![Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f19dbf/32.png) [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Only_Mostly_Dead)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2007, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-fm/387115/13 "2007-01-08T21:12:03Z")
[QUOTE=cazzle] Kings of Convenience [/QUOTE] Hooray. That is all. ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Macphisto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@Ms\_Macphisto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Macphisto)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2007, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-fm/387115/14 "2007-01-08T23:45:19Z")
[My profile.](http://www.last.fm/user/jools78/) My 10 most recent tracks: Benny Goodman – Stompin’ at the Savoy Benny Goodman – China Boy Benny Goodman – Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen Benny Goodman – Swingtime in the Rockies Benny Goodman – Blue Room Benny Goodman – Loch Lomond Benny Goodman – Blue Skies Benny Goodman – I Got Rhythm Benny Goodman – The Man I Love Benny Goodman – Avalon (I’m listening to the 1938 Carnegie Hall Concert at the moment) Weekly Top 10 (from the week before Christmas, since I’ve been away from home since then) 1. U2 2. Delays 3. Duke Ellington 4. Count Basie 5. Starsailor 6. Benny Goodman 7. Squirrel Nut Zippers 8. Idlewild 9. Bloc Party 10. Depeche Mode Overall Top 10 1. U2 2. Franz Ferdinand 3. Bloc Party 4. Starsailor 5. Idlewild 6. Travis 7. Coldplay 8. Depeche Mode 9. Squirrel Nut Zippers 10. Count Basie That seems to be a pretty good representation of my musical tastes and listening habits. I’ve been shifting more towards big band and away from mopey British groups in recent months, and my overall charts are starting to reflect that. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2007, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-fm/387115/15 "2007-01-09T00:18:07Z")
[My profile](http://www.last.fm/user/Kamino_Neko/) Weekly Top Artists: Yifei Nana Kitada Lordi HALCALI °C-ute Sarah Brightman melody Oingo Boingo Jellyfish Puffy Overall Top Artists: MiniMoni UNDER17 Oingo Boingo Yifei Puffy HALCALI Lordi Ramones ‘Josie and the Pussycats’ (The soundtrack album from the movie, that is.) Tommy february6 ---
**Author:** ![Foldup\_Rabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df788c/32.png) [@Foldup\_Rabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foldup_Rabbit)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2007, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-fm/387115/16 "2007-01-09T00:29:24Z")
That’s what I loved about it for the first little while - its ability to track what I was listening to and show me how my tastes were evolving. I also dig the little feature that lets you tailor your recommendations by obscurity. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2007, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-fm/387115/17 "2007-01-10T01:58:18Z")
I’ve got myself setup, and I’ve asked to be a friend of everyone on this thread (I think) and thank you. I’ve been on it since the beginning of December, but have hardly used the service. Yesterday I realised that I should just let the last.fm application fire up whenever Winamp is running - all well and good. Then I discovered that a lot off my stuff was generating errors at last.fm due to badly formed tags, so I downloaded Musicbrainz, and tagged everything I’ve got that is even remotely legit. I’ve got two questions: 1. Is it worth my while just letting my music play for the next month or so (that’s what I’ve got) to build up a representative profile, or does it not matter, 2. does anyone know of a good ID3 tagging site for classical music. Musicbrainz is great for rock’n’pop but less so for earlier stuff; 3. is it worth paying for a personalised radio station? Ok so that’s three questions 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2007, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-fm/387115/18 "2007-01-10T02:00:57Z")
Oh, and another question. How often does it update the top artists and songs lists? ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2007, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-fm/387115/19 "2007-01-10T02:22:28Z")
[QUOTE=Struan] 1. Is it worth my while just letting my music play for the next month or so (that’s what I’ve got) to build up a representative profile, or does it not matter, [/QUOTE] Yes. Once you’ve got a few hundred tracks played, it can start building your neighbours list, and recommendations. Then you can use Neighbour and recommended radio to discover new artists. (My favourite part of the service.) ---
**Author:** ![nashiitashii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7c8e57/32.png) [@nashiitashii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nashiitashii)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2007, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-fm/387115/20 "2007-01-10T02:23:34Z")
[QUOTE=Struan] I’ve got two questions: 1. Is it worth my while just letting my music play for the next month or so (that’s what I’ve got) to build up a representative profile, or does it not matter, 2. does anyone know of a good ID3 tagging site for classical music. Musicbrainz is great for rock’n’pop but less so for earlier stuff; 3. is it worth paying for a personalised radio station? Ok so that’s three questions 🙂 [/QUOTE] 1. Play what you’re in the mood for when you’re in the mood for it. Make use of the tag feature, and within a few weeks (if you play music every day) it should be able to give you a reasonable profile. The longer you scrobble tracks, the more interesting your profile will be. Just don’t force it to think you’re listening to stuff you’re not, as that won’t be too accurate. 2. No clue on this one. I’ve got issues with some of my foreign stuff, but that’s an issue of not being able to find any info outside of the CD itself on the tracks. 3. I wouldn’t think so. I haven’t paid for one. Also, top artists and top songs are updated weekly. Each week is marked, and then once you get over a month, they do stats based on monthly stuff as well. I haven’t been on long enough, but I’m sure yearly usage is also tracked. Just listen to music, let it scrobble, and in time you’ll see how it works. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-fm/387115.md?page=2)