LAST FM

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Because I have been working at home today I have been absolutely CANING last.fm (under my cunning disguise of freakytrigger), obsessively hitting REFRESH on the 'dashboard' so's I can taste-stalk my 'friends'. Unsurprisingly since the heart of LFM is big graphs of stuff I am a monster nerd for it, however not as much as some who have multiple accounts enabled for multiple genres wtf wtf.

So my question is - if you have it, do you find it affects how you listen, do you keep one eye on the minute hand when a shite track is playing, are you afeard to leave the itunes on "random", does it recommend you good stuff, do you think your charts are an accurate representation of you or not, are you the kind of MENTALIST who would choose to play one thing rather than another simply because you want it to be higher on your charts (btw I AM THIS PERSON :(:(:(:(_)

And if you don't have it is this any kind of principled decision?

And what do the top tracks/artists say about the Internet Nation???

JUST TALK ABOUT IT BASICALLY

(I have found myself thinking incidentally that a better way to do CANONS wd be to pick the top 30 all time tracks on Last FM)

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I, on the other hand, love the radio bit. I think it's particularly useful for me on the grounds that I have always had a vast knowledge of music but been too tight to buy everything I liked (and even too lazy to take promos to M&VE and replace them with better stuff), and too hung up/technophobic for the free download era. So the personalised radio thing gets me to stuff I like but don't own, as well as playing stuff I do own but might not have got round to hearing. Meanwhile, I've never got the scrobbler thing to work with my ITunes, so it solely picks up what I've listened to on the radio. From a very sceptical starting point (I think the idea of customised consumption of TV/newspapers/etc would leave us underexposed to stuff we didn't know we'd like), I've come to like it a lot, and discovered a reasonable amount of songs I'd never heard before...
Mark M