I love Last.fm, I've been scrobbling for over 20 years now.

It's amazing to me that they have managed to stick around like they have. They're very much an "old internet" site, and I hope they can stick around for many many more years.

I still use last.fm via Spotify. It is wild to see my entire listening history from 11th grade to present (20 years!). Always fun to poke through and see changes from one year or life phase to the next.

one of the very first programming projects I took on was to figure out how to scrobble the records that I was playing. It was my first exposure to so many things: Ruby, FFIs, audio processing, audio fingerprinting (I think I used echo nest ?). Ended up going to local meetups to ask for advice.

last.fm is one of those services that is from the pinnacle of the open web.

Another alternative is listenbrainz [0], which is also self-hostable [1]. A smaller, lightweight, single user selfhostable alternative, and more about just the stats is Koito [2], and finally because obviously you want to scrobble everywhere at once, you can self-host Multi Scrobbler to scrobble to and from multiple sources at once. Yes, I like scrobbling ;)

[0]: https://listenbrainz.org/

[1]: https://github.com/metabrainz/listenbrainz-server

[2]: https://github.com/gabehf/Koito/

[3]: https://github.com/FoxxMD/multi-scrobbler/

This seems like a positive step. It never made sense (to me at least) for CBS Paramount to own it.

Huge opportunity to allow folk to own their own (meta)data. /fingerscrossed

I'm mostly unfamiliar with the current offering of last.fm, but the name is familiar from way back. Glad to see something well-liked reclaim some independence.

At a glance, they're providing an interface to YT sourced content with some value adds around tracking or categorizing listening.

A quick question for users: can the site itself be configured as a listener without streaming / displaying the video? In general, YT has a lot of music, but the perf hit of streaming typically high-quality video as well is a blocker when doing dev work on my main machine.

There's still a ton of value in the historical recommendations on last.fm's site. What its future looks like, I'm not sure. I'd love to know who is going to operate it now that it is independent.

I'd recommend ListenBrainz for folks interested in similar tracking and some recommendations with clearer ownership.

For my own historical interests, I have a Navidrome plugin writing to my own API and surface charts across time periods by querying the postgres database it writes to.

Great news! Related[0]. The presentation video in the linked article from 2002 is a gem.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46266875

Looking forward to scrobbling again

Back in the day, was heavily influenced by last.fm for this BBC 6music GWAP mooso.fm

https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radiolabs/2009/12/mooso.shtml

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

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edit: maybe they saw my message or fixed a bug? signup now works everywhere for me.