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

[5500.livejournal.com]

my experience with the personal radio station is that once i start it playing, i really don't want to turn it off. after 56k+ scrobbles, last.fm knows me as well as it's going to, so its estimation of what i want to hear is pretty right on.

my primary frustration about the site these days is that we can't vote for 'correcting' artist tags. i am sorry, i'm not going to organise my library 'firstname surname' for individuals. once upon a time, users could have 'surname, firstname' tags redirect to the site's chosen format, but that's not available on new artists. no longer. now there's just that obnoxious graphic.