MetaFilter posts tagged with lastfm

The Geographic Flow of Music

Blazecock Pileon — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 08:37:44 -0800

In The Geographic Flow of Music (arxiv), researchers Conrad Lee and Pádraig Cunningham propose a method to use data from the last.fm API to track the world's listening habits by location and time, showing where shifts in musical tastes have originated and subsequently migrated. Results show music trends originating in smaller cities and flowing outward in unexpected ways, contradicting some assumptions in social science about larger cities being more efficient engines of (cultural) invention.

Last.fm Listing History via LastGraph As Wall Decoration

misterhonk — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 10:05:13 -0800

Last.fm Listing History via LastGraph As Wall Decoration - Andy took his LastFM listening history, rendered it via LastGraph as PDF document and created some stunishing simple and yet beautiful wall decoration for his home. [original text is german - read a google translated version here]

Your Favorite City's Musical Taste Sucks

spicynuts — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:17:33 -0800

In Manchester, LadyGaGa pwns, but in New York Radiohead has her slightly beat. Does Cleveland still rock? Not so much, but Bursa, Turkey definitely does. International musical dick-waving at My City vs. Your City Data from last.fm

The Minds Behind Pandora

jefficator — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:34:40 -0800

Four years ago metafilter was introduced to Pandora. This weekend, the New York Times introduced the world to the minds behind the music genome project. The essential question guiding the project: are inherent properties of music more important than the social connections that bring music to us?

I did saw a puddy tat

Antidisestablishmentarianist — Sat, 23 May 2009 11:40:46 -0800

Apparently last.fm's parent company CBS did recently hand over last.fm user data to the RIAA. Most likely last.fm did not know until after the fact. Previously.

Big boys don't cry

klangklangston — Tue, 12 May 2009 21:03:15 -0800

10cc's I'm Not In Love and the story behind it.

In which last.fm hands over scrobble data to the RIAA. Maybe.

NoraReed — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:20:43 -0800

In which last.fm hands over listening data about leaked albums to the RIAA. Maybe.

Twones is a multi-service music tracker.

goodnewsfortheinsane — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:19:21 -0800

Twones is a music tracker that monitors Last.FM, YouTube, MySpace, iTunes, Muxtape, and a few other services. It's officially in private beta, but limited signups seem to have opened today (no guarantees as to how long that link will continue to work). It currently only works in Firefox 2.0 and up, as an add-on.

Last.fm beta. Again.

nthdegx — Wed, 21 May 2008 08:30:19 -0800

Last.fm is inviting subscribers to test the new Last.fm beta. Features include a fully visible library down to individual tracks and charts updated in real time. People seem to dislike the new visual design. There's more discussion at the Last.fm beta group.

last.fm gets major upgrade

cowbellemoo — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 08:51:06 -0800

last.fm has gotten a major upgrade. Full tracks stream on-demand without login. Easily get a peek into genre favorites. Artist coverage is hit or miss, but I was still impressed enough to want to share. Give it a try! Note: Each track may be played thrice. Tracking method likely by IP.

Ballpits as office furniture

nthdegx — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 14:09:47 -0800

The Last.fm guys really wanted a ballpit, inspired by the xkcd blog. Pictures.

Lastgraph

stavrosthewonderchicken — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 02:18:43 -0800

Lastgraph takes your username at Last.fm and generates a beautiful chart of your musical listening habits. [via] Makes me want to listen to more music (or at least fire up the Last.fm client more often)!

Your least favourite band is fucking brilliant.

goodnewsfortheinsane — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 18:53:27 -0800

Apparently, Metafilter is 73.78 % mainstream. How mainstream are you?

Last FM sold

Cobbler — Wed, 30 May 2007 04:34:58 -0800

Social networking/music discovery site Last.FM has been sold to CBS for $280 million. Much as love the service, I can't help thinking that this feels like 2000 all over again...

BBC on Last.fm

Robot Johnny — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 08:25:14 -0800

Last.fm isn't just for humans. Matt Biddulph, a systems architect for the BBC, rigged a homemade plug-in for Last.fm (Previously on MeFi) that, over the course of a year, transmitted over 50,000 songs played on BBC 6Music to a Last.fm account named Sekrit. (Oh, and wondering what MetaFilter users listen to?) (via waxy)

Compare your MP3-listening habits

oissubke — Sun, 09 Feb 2003 18:33:33 -0800

Learn and compare your MP3 listening habits (via Waxy)