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115 points•Baljhin•about 22 hours ago•39 comments•

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39 comments

TFNAabout 17 hours ago

As mentioned in the HN submission, Last.fm went through a redesign already over a decade ago. It stripped so much functionality that the site became useless except for merely tracking one's own listens, and there were already libre alternatives for that.

Last.fm is one of my go-to examples of how the internet has become a lonelier place. The old Last.fm was deeply linked with real life: it would show upcoming gigs in your town along with members who might be attending, and you could easily meet people in your own location who shared your own tastes in music. Where does a person find music-related socializing now?

solemanabout 15 hours ago

> You could easily meet people in your own location who shared your own tastes in music. Where does a person find music-related socializing now

I'd say Instagram serves the role of Last.fm you described (for better or worse). But really you can just go to the gigs and talk to people. That's guaranteed people in your area with similar interests.

phrotomaabout 13 hours ago

This is true, and I hate it. All the local DJs I enjoy post their gigs on instagram and nowhere else. All the fans I know use instagram to get updates about where the shows are happening.

In practice I just wait for my friends to tell me where the music will be, but I also hate the whole setup deeply and want instagram to die in a fire.

meindnochabout 17 hours ago

This.

My best friend cold-messaged me on last.fm 18 years ago: "wanna exchange music? add me on MSN: ..."

wyclifabout 12 hours ago

A bigger question is why Last.fm did this, and why they don't do it again now that they're independent. I've been on Last.fm. since 2005 at least.

deweyabout 12 hours ago

That's not a Last.fm issue, that's a general trend that affects everything.

People don't blog on their personal sites any more, blog comments don't really exist any more, MySpace / Tumblr like sites are not popular any more and people don't share everything private on social media any more as everyone realized that the internet is not always a friendly place and there's enough public cases where this fired back.

The same also applies to the platform itself, opening yourself up to more user contributed data is often a real headache as you need to moderate it properly and that needs resources too. Ask Meta's moderator team how much fun they are having.

raffraffraffabout 14 hours ago

I used to love Last.FM and was a paid subscriber. Their neighbourhood radio was a great way to find music

rateyourmusic.com is also dead to me now. And MusicBrainz is an excellent resource marred by horrible user experience and a primary focus on listing every issue of an album in every country and in every format (who the hell wants that?)

TFNAabout 14 hours ago

Listing every issue of an album in every country and every format is precisely what Musicbrainz was founded for (as a successor to CDDB). Any social features are just extras on top of that.

stuartmemoabout 13 hours ago

I made Raygum to (hopefully) simplify what you're describing - https://raygum.com

Please email me (<username>@gmail.com) with any feedback or to rant about music apps in general!

Mashimoabout 17 hours ago

Is it not possible to discover new artist you might like based on your taste?

happymellonabout 17 hours ago

I don't see how this relates to anything the parent comment talked about.

deweyabout 13 hours ago

For those now following the Last.fm so closely, in May of this year they became independent again (https://support.last.fm/t/last-fm-is-now-independent/118591) after being owned by CBS for a very long time, which is very exciting and I'm glad it wasn't just shut down by CBS.

cobertosabout 18 hours ago

Self-hosted Koito[0] and glad I left Last.fm.

Not even a good first-party export, gotta use some hacked together third-party one to get your data out.

[0]: https://github.com/gabehf/koito

sha-3about 18 hours ago

ListenBrainz[0] is a decent alternative if you don't want to self-host. You can import your Last.fm scrobbles there pretty easily.

[0]: https://listenbrainz.org/

chneuabout 17 hours ago

A lot of people run both koito and listenbrainz

Baljhinabout 22 hours ago

> "...Tell me your username and i'll give you (six) URLs..."

> (period can be: 7day, 1month, 3month, 6month, 12month or overall)

> Recent tracks

> Loved tracks

> Top tracks

> Top Artists

> Recommended tracks

> Recommended tracks in JSON format

https://github.com/xiffy/lfm

winridabout 20 hours ago

> But I also wept. How is it possible that two almost identical endpoints have the key names differ on several spots or complete absent.

average legacy PHP backend :)

deweyabout 12 hours ago

The PHP part is unnecessary there, any code base that's more than a hobbyist project will have these kind of issues.

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