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20 June 2010

If you're a member of Last.fm, I hope you've joined the MetaChat group. It's fascinating to see what your fellow MeChazens are listening to.

post by: BoringPostcards at: 00:28 | 12 comments

I've been a member for a while but haven't been contributing for the last few weeks since I uninstalled the LastFM app for Android. Something was making the music player skip and I deleted a bunch of background apps trying to figure out what was causing that. Didn't really figure it out.

posted by octothorpe 20 June | 05:51

Thanks, BP! I haven't done anything with the group in some time.
And I see it's almost five
*feels old*

posted by dhartung 20 June | 11:19

(Are there any more artists I should connect? I just added Cortex)

posted by dhartung 20 June | 11:22

I joined it, but I only use it when I'm at work since I could never get it to cooperate with iTunes and scrobble off iRock.

posted by sperose 20 June | 11:34

I was on lastFM at some point but I totally lost my account info. I'll set up again and join the MetaChat group. I could go for some good music recommendations.

posted by MonkeyButter 20 June | 13:43

I'm not on Last.fm, but I am listening to Major Lazer's new album, which is available for free download, today only, here.

posted by Hugh Janus 20 June | 20:29

I like it for seeing what other people listen to, but I also liked it for seeing what I listened to the most over time and in that respect Last.fm is kinda useless for me. I listen to most of my music on my iPod these days or my small flash player, it can not get the info on what I listen to on the flash player and it rarely gets what I listened to on my iPod, when it does it lists them twice for some reason.

posted by weretable and the undead chairs 21 June | 15:20

I joined the group (as Magfar) and installed a plugin. So, at some point you'll be able to see the amount of complete and utter crap I listen to. VERY EXCITING FOR YOU.

And also, super excited hello to weretable!

posted by fluffy battle kitten 21 June | 20:25

I also like it for the reasons that weretable mentions. Of course, my girls bedtime playlist makes me seem WAY wussier than I really am. I should remember to take the scrobbler offline, but I just don't.

I also sometimes forget and leave something on repeat and then LEAVE town, like I did this weekend. My last.fm tweet told me I listened to over 1200 songs by Heavy Trash last week. I did not actually LISTEN to them all, I can assure you!

posted by richat 21 June | 21:29

Hooked on Pandora. Not sure how it happened. Is Lastfm really bettter?

posted by bearwife 22 June | 11:05

Hmmm...In the past few days I've listened to 9 of the Weekly 10 most played artists. At first I felt in sync with the group, but9 of my personal most played arts for the week (Naked Raygun, Spoon, Title Tracks, Pete Townshend, jason and the Scorchers, Teenage Fanclub, Hank Williams, Nada Surf, and Del Shannon) aren't on the MeCha list.

That and a dollar will get you a ride on the bus.

posted by Slack-a-gogo 22 June | 11:34

I've been minorly obsessed with Snow Patrol this month. Shut Your Eyes, from Eyes Open, is an insane song.

posted by Lipstick Thespian 22 June | 20:29

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