Last.fm

“Using a platform like last.fm where it’s clearer that recommendations are based on genres and similar listeners is still ok and encouraged”

“algorithms (going back to last.fm) have make me discover so much music that it's not even funny”

“It stripped so much functionality that the site became useless except for merely tracking one's own listens”

“How is it possible that two almost identical endpoints have the key names differ on several spots or complete absent.”

“everything is still connected with last.fm too, so once a while I'll also take a look at my neighbours there”

“Glad they're not changing the API! I'm hopeful things will get better with them regaining their independence.”

“I'm still using it, connected through Spotify! 23 years and counting, and it pretty much captured 100% of my listening activity.”

“I still use it to scrobble. I hope it goes back to the more open api”

“The wrong guesses apparently blocked me, since the sign-up page now always goes 403 for me.”

“all I've gotta do is navigate to my profile and the song I'm _currently_ playing on Spotify is right at the top”

“I've become much more wary of being tracked and have no desire to give them information for free, much less pay for the privilege!”

“I really enjoy having almost 2 decades of my music listening history to play with”

“The problem will be recovering from algorithmic poisoning from folks just scrobbling from spotify”

“Last.fm, on the other hand, seemed to have some way of towing a line of different enough without going too far.”

“A lot of respect to the guys and girls still working on Last and I'm very excited to see where it goes from here.”

“I love clicking on a random person's profile and seeing that they're actively using the account”

“they have recently taken a rather drastic step towards undermining this community aspect of the site by gating the comment”

“am able to generate recommendations via their API just fine and without being a pro subscriber”

“It worked as well as it did because they had a user base of music fans with a wide variety of tastes.”

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“a human recommendation based on careful analysis of your last.fm scrobbles was infinitely more useful and accurate”

“unable to create an account on my laptop (WiFi) or phone (Verizon) - even in incognito.”

“it's the best service (in my opinion) for simply tracking everything you listen to”

“I've felt a serious reduction in quality of recommendations from spotify the past couple years”

“one of my very favorite services. It's rough around the edges in some parts, but I've gotten incredible value from it.”

“Always fun to poke through and see changes from one year or life phase to the next.”

“I use it with Spotify to track my listens and sort by artist, album and the like.”

“I've cooled on Last.fm in recent years because I've realized that it's a very good, public indicator of when I'm at my desk.”

“it's the perfect recommendation model and still the best social music platform”

“lastfm is still a great way to discover music, countless times I've gotten great recs from a music neighbor.”

“I still scrobble to Last.fm from Spotify (and other media players). I rarely use it for discovery anymore, but it's occasionally interesting to look at my historical listening trends.”

“Last.fm's old algorithm did a great job of recommending new tracks with zero AI.”

“Last.fm is great! I do like the breakdowns you can do there, especially the query for the top songs/artists of the last 30 days, year & all time.”

“It's really cool seeing how my music taste has changed, and seeing what I've come back to over and over again.”

“I would say my current music taste is largely thanks to Last.fm and its compatibility and "Similar Artists" features.”

“Last.fm was great -- I never used it that much for discovery, but rather to get insight into what I was listening to.”

“They turned off their music player, disabled all the profile customization, alternative services quit having built in scrobbling to it.”

“The best "algorithm" for discovering new music was digging through profiles on last.fm”

“The API hasn't really changed in 15 years, which makes it easy to build tools where a username alone is enough.”

“My 16yo son discovered Last.fm and scrobblibg and got me to install the Jellyfin scrobbler plugin.”