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Originally Posted by rostasi
Well, that makes sense that your phone has to have something to talk to Last.Fm in order for it to “know” what you’re listening to.
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At some point, you were able to download the scrobbles when you hooked up your iphone to the computer but now that doesn't work anymore, dunno why.
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I got social with some folks there starting about 15 years ago, but after CBS bought it a few years later, it started to go downhill with extra rules and unnecessary BS. So, I started doing some subversive type stuff that I won’t go into, but let’s say that I was able to call their bluff on some things. I hated that you weren’t allowed to have more than a million “scrobbles” - that it would just seize up, so after the first million, I opened another account and did a million more. I stopped after then and didn’t come back for 2 years - then they changed the million maximum rule and I decided to use it to keep track of things I was listening to - mainly for the folks who were listening to my “Random Radio” feed. Don’t use it for much more than that these days.
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Yeah, it used to be about much more than keeping statistics, like discovering music, keeping tabs on events/concerts, getting social, hooking up with people with similar tastes etc. I'm a little surprised it's still going, I think only long term freaks are using it nowadays.
It's a shame, it had a lot of potential. Could've been Spotify actually, but they didn't manage it for some reason.