know, then, that it is the year 20'0'26, and i am inexplicably using last.fm again

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cropped screenshot: three MacOS notifications from Firefox, denoting that songs by Desaparecidos are being "scrobbled" from bandcamp to the last.fm service. the three songs listed, "Mañana", "Greater Omaha", and "Man and Wife, the Latter (Damaged Goods)" each display a thumbnail for the originating album, "Read Music/Speak Spanish"

for some reason, after literal years of not using it, i randomly opened the iOS app, sent a pile of scrobbles to my account, and just went rolling with it. the desktop app returned to service, and then a browser extension followed shortly thereafter.

maybe i've got some weird nostalgia going on in my brain. maybe i'll do this for a few days and then forget. or maybe i'll start using it regularly again. who knows!

the notifications are thanks to the web extension for firefox, which actually recognizes my bandcamp plays.

i'm here if you want to follow my dusty account:
https://www.last.fm/user...

6 hours ago

ufez

6 hours ago

On an internet that has had so many fun things ruined by selfish jerks, I love that last.fm has remained largely unchanged for like 20 years.

ffg

5 hours ago

@ufez I've been there forever, and yeah, it's largely the same site that it was in the early oughts.

nikkuneko

5 hours ago

@ufez @ffg huh, that's good to know.

i'm not a "nothing should ever change ever" person, but it's nice to have cases of a good thing that works not feeling the need to change for the sake of change.

(come to think of it, maybe that's why i came back to flickr, too. it really feels the way it did in 2006, in a good way.)

scruss

4 hours ago

I just checked last.fm, and I haven't scrobbled anything since 2018: https://www.last.fm/user...

I had this weird custom setup that would interrogate my Roku music server and send the playlists to last.fm. I had this running in 2009 on the grandparent of the Raspberry Pi, the SheevaPlug

ffg

4 hours ago

@scruss Webscrobbler will log things from most of the streaming audio websites (YT, Soundcloud, Mixcloud, Bandcamp) and then there are ways to scrobble almost all of the dedicated music streaming apps (Sporkify, Apple, Amazon, Tidal, etc)

3rdparty

3 hours ago

Viva last.fm! I was paying for it forever just to help keep the lights on. Still a very useful service.

I visited their London HQ in 2008 and ate sausages on the roof after pitching them on some musictech nonsense I was trying to cook up. Really nice folks. Kinda great that CBS bought them ages ago and maybe forgot about them?

scruss

3 hours ago

@ffg most of my listening is through VLC for Android, and it doesn't seem to have an option

nikkuneko

an hour ago

@3rdparty oh, that's a cool connection! i bet it was neat to meet them. and wow, i had kind of forgotten they were under the CBS umbrella still

know, then, that it is the year 20'0'26, and i am inexplicably using last.fm again

n. m. garcia

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