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

[pastels-badge.livejournal.com]

I do sometimes turn off the audioscrobbler when I'm listening to something for information purposes that I don't think I'm going to like (e.g. Voxtrot). Most of the time I leave it on, though, even if I'm just checking something out. Sometimes if I am listening to something on my ipod a lot and not on the computer (my computer is too old and slow to scrobble my ipod) I'll make a point of listening to it on the computer so it's in there. But I'm not too anal-retentive about all of that. I listened to a ton of the Shivers while working on a paper about them, so now they're my #1 artist and probably will be for a while. They'd be up there anyways, but not #1. The only time I've ever deleted stuff was when I accidentally left music playing while my volume was muted so that it just played all the L's and M's all night.