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Posted by twistslider 5 hours ago

Last.fm is now independent(support.last.fm)
395 points | 122 commentspage 3
Thev00d00 3 hours ago|
I've moved over to ListenBrainz, it's quite nice and I like that the data is open and not trying to be monitized
spenjovewkwhalo 3 hours ago||
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

dfee 4 hours ago||
Unfortunately, unable to create an account on my laptop (WiFi) or phone (Verizon) - even in incognito.

> Your request was blocked

> To protect our website, our security firewall has flagged this request as potentially unsafe.

> Please try clearing your cookies and refreshing the page. > If the problem persists, try again later or on a different computer network.

> Error 406

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

_-_-__-_-_- 4 hours ago||
Listenbrainz has been an excellent alternative for me.
esskay 4 hours ago|
Downside of it is like all Metabrainz projects they seem to intentionally go and make everything as utterly ugly as possible. It feels like someone there intentionally thinks up ways to make the worst UX possible.
Semaphor 3 hours ago||
I don’t see how LB has a worse UX than LFM.
lolive 2 hours ago||
May be they will once again invest in their smartphone app.
bachmeier 2 hours ago||
No idea what last.fm is. Clicked the logo at the top of the forum, but that's one of those prank links that takes you to the page you're already on. Typed in last.fm manually and got

Your request was blocked

To protect our website, our security firewall has flagged this request as potentially unsafe.

kevinwang 4 hours ago||
I hope that means it will improve now. There's such a rich space of features that they could do. Had some hope with their experimental Labs but I remember being underwhelmed and not seeing anything about it recently.
nubinetwork 4 hours ago||
I don't know if I even have an account anymore, its been like 15 years since I last logged in...
beardyw 3 hours ago|
Me too. I tried loggin in, and after a forced password reset I am back, though back to 2018 it turns out.

On Spotify I made a playlist with over 4,000 songs from Last FM. I remember doing it but I couldn't say how I did it now. And also a "loved" playlist which I am revisiting now. First track Whitest Boy Alive: Golden Cage, a stonker.

attilagyorffy 4 hours ago||
This is very exciting. The music landscape is just as chaotic as it was back in 2007 (when CBS acquired Last.fm) if not even more complex these days. Can't wait to see what's next. <3
SoftTalker 3 hours ago|
I fear that what's next is AI slop music, pushed by record companies so that no performers or songwriters need to be paid.
zero_bias 3 hours ago||
So lastfm become relevant again because slop will not appear statistically in user scrobblings because of vast amount of "musicians" required to be profitable: if I listen to 1000 AI artists with one track produced and Linkin Park then my average will be Linkin Park
larrykubin 4 hours ago|
I have a history going back to 2012, which is great. I've always worried Spotify would stop working with last.fm, I wonder if this makes it more or less likely.
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