LAST FM

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

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

[credoimprobus]

Mentalist = YES. I have also been known to build up playlists purely for the purpose of feeding stuff I've been listening to off the computer to the plugin, to make my weekly charts more representative of The Truth (most famously, in a variation on this theme, when I was living elsewhere and internetless for four months last summer I would bring my scrobbler cache files home on the weekends to feed to the servers ha ha). Plus, when I'm doing something that'd skew my stats such as making a mix, I'll turn the plugin off, and my newly-downloaded-and-unlistened-to folder is set to exclude. *GIANT TOOL*

I really only use it for nerdy stats purposes (that and keeping up w/ what the frens are listening to, obv) since am on dial-up, and occasionally I'll eye over the recs though mostly they're pretty useless at suggesting me things I don't already know and have an opinion on. (Surfing the 'similar artists' sidebars on the artist pages tends to be much more useful, especially when there are free track downloads that'll let me actually give stuff a listen.)

My charts are definitely pretty representative, since the vast majority of my music collection is on my computer -- I've got like 80% of my cd collection ripped -- and I barely ever listen to anything on a regular cd player anymore. Although between my recently getting an mp3 player and the fact that I haven't been arsed to hook up any speakers to my computer since the last move, the percentage of my home listening done on the computer has been going down recently...