[AK'z]

HOW TO BEGIN YOUR LAST.FM JOURNEY

1. Sign Up yourself a last fm account: http://www.last.fm/join
2. Download the scrobbler: http://www.last.fm/download
3. It's compatible with win-amp, itunes and windows media player (other players need a plugin).
4. Stick your account details in there and GET LISTENING! Check your music details (tags) are correct, and the scrobbler should pick it up like this: http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o...ps3c6286ba.png
5. Come back here after a week and fool around with the tools.
6. After a long while, your library will generate a radio which people can listen to, in order to get an idea of your tastes: http://www.last.fm/listen/user/Akayz7/personal (don't listen to it, it's pretty wack)

tips: The last.fm database isn't built by the people who work there, it's built by YOU. If you see a few album covers missing, help out by uploading them and voting good quality ones.

SOME INFO posted:

Using a music recommender system called "Audioscrobbler", Last.fm builds a detailed profile of each user's musical taste by recording details of the songs the user listens to, either from Internet radio stations, or the user's computer or many portable music devices. This information is transferred to Last.fm's database ("scrobbled") either via the music player itself (Rdio, Spotify, Amarok) or via a plugin installed into the user's music player. The profile data is then displayed on the user's profile page. The site offers numerous social networking features and can recommend and play artists similar to the user's favourites.

SOME NICE TOOLS:

Music Compatibility Percentage Script: http://iso5.net/lastfm/lastfm-compat...entage.user.js
Create a 3x3 image grid for your recently listened to Artists/Albums - http://tapmusic.net/lastfm/
Genderplot, a graph which plots artists that you've listened to, placing them with average age against gender that listens to them: http://playground.last.fm/demo/genderplot
SUPER ECLECTIC SCORE (how wide a variety your taste is/number of similar artists showing up in your top 50) - http://anthony.liekens.net/pub/scrip...ereclectic.php
MusicTime (neat little image about the duration you listen to music per day) - http://lastlabs.pl/musictime.php

Other Nice Tools:

*Milestone generator (sometimes works, sometimes doesn't): http://kastuvas.meganet.lt/lastfm
*Male, Female; Instrumental graph; Find out the percentage of male to female to instrumental music you listen to: http://www.gefto.com/lastfm/mafein/
*RecoNeighbs; Find artists related to the ones you listen to most: http://www.gefto.com/lastfm/reconeighbs/
*Years; Find out what era of music you listen to the most: http://www.gefto.com/lastfm/years/
*Band Logo Generator; Generate a banner with a selection of artist logos you listen to: http://bandlogos.descentrecords.com/
*Normalisr; Takes the amount of songs you have listened to of an artist and averages the song length to make an approx. estimate of how long you have listened to them: http://www.normalisr.com/
*Last.fm tools; A website with a few different last fm tools similar to the ones posted above: http://lastfm.dontdrinkandroot.net/
*Tag cloud; kind of self explanitory: http://fxdteam.com/lastcloud/
*Music Level; Shows your music level, don't cheat though: http://stas.sh/lastfm/
*Badges; Awesome customizable badges, limited to 9000 so make sure to check back often: http://lastfm.freedig.org/
*MAP OF YOUR COLLECTION - http://geomusic.owl-hollow.net/
*Listening Habits (Produces Pie Charts to show you how you listen to your music) - http://www.mymusichabits.com/
*ULTIMATE GRAPH GENERATOR - http://lastgraph.aeracode.org/
*SCROBBLE MANUALLY (GOOD FOR VINYL LOVERS) - http://universalscrobbler.invitationstation.org/
*Amazon Cloud Player with Last.fm Scrobbling for Greasemonkey and Chrome - http://www.danielslaughter.com/proje...greasemonkey//
*TOP ALBUMS GENERATOR - http://lastfm.sivy.net/
*CREATE YOUR OWN CHARTPIE - http://marwin22.unet.ws/lastfm/musicpie/create.php

SOME NEW TOOLS

Extended Last.fm Stats based on Weekly Artist Charts - http://lastfm.caldron.de/weekly.php

THE OFFICIAL FP MUSIC GROUP: http://www.last.fm/group/Facepunch+Music+Section

[Franke_R!?]

omfg you guys

[AK'z]

Yeah this thread won't last long at all at this rate. :/

[Hakita]

Can't get enough of GY!BE.

[Teto]

The links with ellipsis are broken, ellipsis ends up in the url.



Edited:

Also, would be handy to set aside the genderplot, 3x3 generator and whichever forum favourites there are in the OP.

[Systema]

AK'z posted:

Yeah this thread won't last long at all at this rate. :/

[Franke_R!?]

FrankeRosenau's super-eclectic score is 814/1000.

WOOOOOOOOOOOOO@\!@ up one point.

[AK'z]

Teto posted:

The links with ellipsis are broken, ellipsis ends up in the url.



Edited:

Also, would be handy to set aside the genderplot, 3x3 generator and whichever forum favourites there are in the OP.

Will fix.

[Teto]

Franke_R!? posted:

FrankeRosenau's super-eclectic score is 814/1000.

WOOOOOOOOOOOOO@\!@ up one point.

Do I rate you winner now or do I wait to see if AK'z has to beat? Questions questions.

Edited:

Will Franke prevail
Who will win this battle

Edited:

Only the winner wins winners.

[WeekendWarrior]

Ponderin' songs.

[Systema]

i...

don't think it's changed at all since i checked it about i dunno, mid 2011?

[AK'z]

Teto posted:

Do I rate you winner now or do I wait to see if AK'z has to beat? Questions questions.

Nah, my top 50 has evened out since last year.

It's kinda dumb how it only takes your top 50. But oh well.

[Teto]

YOU DIDN'T EVEN TELL ME
do you hate me

[Zenpod]

8 Metal
1 Post-Post-Lolicore
I dunno

[silverhawk79]

what do I win

[Pedro the Fuzzy]

:c

[Dori]

771/1000

only looks at the top 50 so it doesn't really mean anything

[kitteh-nator]

Is your top 50 Togawa Jun and nothing but Togawa Jun?

[Dori]

sure

[Teto]

5 of my top eight for this week are female vocalists gosh.
Should go by plays of the artists rather than just the artists.

Why can't it be more complicated and thus more accurate. I am outraged.

[Dori]

idk the API probably sucks

[silverhawk79]

Sanius posted:

idk the API probably sucks

It's not bad, but it needs to be updated. It's currently preventing me from updating tapmusic.net/lastfm to include the 1 month time period.

[vagrant]

I'm having too much fun with these last.fm tool things
780/1000


that universal scrobbler is cool too, I've been using a program like it called cogscrobbler for a while... last time i saw that thing they only let you do individual tracks, might switch to it now.

[Teto]

3 months.

[john_pelphre]

[WeekendWarrior]

[Teto]

Genderplots are no fun without friends.



Edited:

Young man!

[DesumThePanda]

Wuzzly's super-eclectic score is

700/1000

The following are the artists with the most occurences in your list
Black Sabbath (9)
Pantera (7)
Iron Maiden (7)
Judas Priest (7)
Metallica (7)
Motörhead (7)
Megadeth (7)
Anthrax (7)
Slayer (7)
AC/DC (6)
Ozzy Osbourne (6)
Led Zeppelin (6)
Foo Fighters (6)
The Who (5)
Dio (4)
Saxon (4)
Soundgarden (4)
The Rolling Stones (4)
The Beatles (4)
Deep Purple (4)

ahh the new thread smell

[silverhawk79]

Also, I apparently made $22.33 from ads alone last month, which is actually enough to pay for the month. I'M FINALLY SELF-SUSTAINING.
Th-thanks Facepunch. (´・ω・)

[AK'z]

silverhawk79 posted:

Also, I apparently made $22.33 from ads alone last month, which is actually enough to pay for the month. I'M FINALLY SELF-SUSTAINING.
Th-thanks Facepunch. (´・ω・)

nice, I'll be sure to click an ad or two next time :-)

[UberWarri0r]

[Dori]

silverhawk79 posted:

Also, I apparently made $22.33 from ads alone last month, which is actually enough to pay for the month. I'M FINALLY SELF-SUSTAINING.
Th-thanks Facepunch. (´・ω・)

I disabled adblock just for you :)

but then I realised that I have ads blocked in my hosts file as well

sorry

[Pedro the Fuzzy]

:v

[Teto]

Gregg Allman is holding you back as a human being.

Edited:

He's apparently not allman either.

[OutOfExile2]

[Eluveitie]

Last 7 days



last 3 months



last 7 days

[Nibwoddle]

:toot:

Super happy with that balance

[silverhawk79]

silverhawk79 posted:

Also, I apparently made $22.33 from ads alone last month, which is actually enough to pay for the month. I'M FINALLY SELF-SUSTAINING.
Th-thanks Facepunch. (´・ω・)

As a side note, I've already made $3.58 this month.

[Mr. Bleak]

The Super-Eclectic calculator is bugging the crap out of me.

Is it based solely on online scrobbles and also never updates or something?

It's saying Soundgarden is my most listened with 15 listens, and even with online-scrobble only I have artists with like 50+ listens. What are you doing, Liekens?

[Eluveitie]

Mr. Bleak posted:

The Super-Eclectic calculator is bugging the crap out of me.

Is it based solely on online scrobbles and also never updates or something?

It's saying Soundgarden is my most listened with 15 listens, and even with online-scrobble only I have artists with like 50+ listens. What are you doing, Liekens?

It counts the times they appear most in the "similar artists" chart thing.

I just wish they could modify it to show weekly, 3/6/12 monthly as well. I want to know how eclectic my taste is currently, not from 1.5 years ago.