Last.fm users: are you a "true listener"?

[koumori]

^ True, but I'd rather have 10,000 pokemon than a record of 10,000 scrobbles

Ash knew his priorities.

[Picaflor 7/4]

Originally Posted by SURREAL__RAINBOW

I don't understand what's so good about being a "true listener", is not like you are a better person or something lol

Sometimes I like to play music and sometimes I don't, other times I like leaving my music on for days, especially when I go obsessed about an artist or a new album, and there are times when I just forget to turn it off.

So I guess all this puts me into the "fake listeners" list? meh


I laugh at people who take being a "true listener" seriously though, and think they're better listeners or something, even that nobody knows what that means


So I vote "nah" XD

I know this is from a while ago but I want to say something. "true listeners" are people who listen to all the music they scrobble. They don't drag a bunch of songs into a playlist, hit play, and let them all scrobble while you go off and enjoy tv, or go to the mall with your friends or something to make it look like you have 100s of scrobbles when really you don't. it's like spamming on here. when someone spams, they just post to get their post count up and make it look like they have a lot of posts and are really active, and really care.

"untrue listeners" aren't people that like to listen to music but forget to turn off their music players because they're doing something else. They're people that play songs and intentionally don't listen to them just to get their scrobbled song count up and make it look like they're an avid music listener, but really, they're not.

So from what you said in your post, I'd say you're a true listener.

[~StarCatcher~]

Oh hell yes I am a true listener XD

I really scrobble everything I listen to.
Also the things I listen to via iPod and iPhone

That's why I often listen to my original CDs only one time @_@

[tokyoxjapanxfan]

Yes I am haha.

If I'm listening to a song, and I want to change it, I wait until it's scrobbled before I go to the next song :-\ Even if I hate the song ... haha

It's weird how easy it is to become obsessed with such a thing

[SURREAL__RAINBOW]

Originally Posted by Picaflor 7/4

I know this is from a while ago but I want to say something. "true listeners" are people who listen to all the music they scrobble. They don't drag a bunch of songs into a playlist, hit play, and let them all scrobble while you go off and enjoy tv, or go to the mall with your friends or something to make it look like you have 100s of scrobbles when really you don't. it's like spamming on here. when someone spams, they just post to get their post count up and make it look like they have a lot of posts and are really active, and really care.

"untrue listeners" aren't people that like to listen to music but forget to turn off their music players because they're doing something else. They're people that play songs and intentionally don't listen to them just to get their scrobbled song count up and make it look like they're an avid music listener, but really, they're not.

So from what you said in your post, I'd say you're a true listener.

LOL I guess I'm just traumatized 'cause I've been called a fake when I have like over 40k plays for ayu. And is not like I fake these plays, I just really, really, reaaaally play ayu a lot

Lately though I've been obsessed with Madonna, she is almost my second most listened artist, and at the same time ditched ayu a little waiting for the new album

And once, my Ipod went crazy and scrobbled 2k plays for Madonna which I was like wtf, but it wasn't like I was going to delete them since that would delete my past plays too :/



I just think that perhaps I am a fake, for people who just don't believe I can listen ayu that much, or Madonna that much, or anyone that much, when I actually can XD Specially now when I'm on holidays and stuff

Both extremes are bad I think, for example people who have like 100k plays for Lady GaGa, that's just like omg XD really? and others who have like 2 plays, which isn't a bad thing until they start judging others for having more plays than them calling them fakes

What's the point of taking scrobbles so seriously though... maybe just a little bit is alright? Not sure lol In my case, they represent how I've evolved with my music taste, and such, so I really don't want to delete or reset my account.


EDIT: I a lot

[Pieces_of_SEVEN]

I am!

[StarSUCKER]

Originally Posted by Koumori

^ True, but I'd rather have 10,000 pokemon than a record of 10,000 scrobbles

Ash knew his priorities.

Srsly. Pokemon > anything else one could conceivably collect. Mmmm, except maybe Ayu CDs.

I kinda like seeing tons and tons of scrobbles on my Last.fm page though. Not sure why...but I've also had the account since 2005, and haven't reset it once. So I can see the evolution of my taste, and which artists "prevailed" (been listening to Ayu since way before I got the account). It's pretty pointless, but I have a fascination with statistics I guess. Since I look to Last.fm for that kind of information, though, I don't want to fake any of my scrobbles (number-wise; the exception is what I said before about compensating).

[CaseNumber:825]

I'm not really a true listener, in that I listen to music while I sleep (I have Guinea Pigs in my room and they are sometimes quite loud, so the music helps me ignore them while I go to sleep.... weird logic, I know, putting one noise over a different noise apparently cancels it out )

Though apart from that I am constantly listening to music. So I'm MOSTLY a true listener..... kind of XD

[aqua_crystal]

Oh yeah. I have a last.fm account. Hmm....

[Kanzaki]

I'm kind of a music snob (which I'm just slightly ashamed about) so, yes. I never just play music while cleaning or having friends over. I always shut down the Last.fm scrobbler when I do that. I'm very picky with what I want to be shown on my Last.fm page. Which is why when my bf had had a party and had played Blümchen, Aqua and Haddaway, and it got scrobbled on my account, I was like "wtf".

[Minttulatte]

I am a true listener. I listen to everything when I listen to music. Of course there is times when I just can't feel the song I'm listening to but when I realize that, last.fm has already scrobbled the song on my account lol.

[wildconnetta]

Since there isn't a sometimes, I put a Nah.

Usually I am, but some exceptions (i.e. Spiritualized's great debut album 'Lazer Guided Memories', Prince etc.) are included on my last.fm page,

[ALfromHELLSING]

hell, yeah!

Originally Posted by Amrai-chan

Yes. If I leave the room I either turn the music up or pause it.

Me too.

[2Hurt]

I'm a true listener I guess, I don't srobble everything I listen to... and sometimes I scrobble music without listening because I'm busy somewhere else in the house but thats only a few minutes I don't see the use of scrobbling when I don't listen to the music anyway...

[MemorialAddress]

I definitely am.
I don't like it when people leave music on while they aren't around, it's cheating!!

[Chibi-Chan]

Yes, but I "compensate" for lost tracks (see below for what I mean by this)

[YUKARI]

Yes, I am a true listener. that's why I don't have many scrobbles.

[TITANIC]

I am not. I always play my music eventhough sometime I am talking on phone or showering

[relmy]

I guess I am a true listener. I play all my music from my laptop, so it all scrobbles. If a song scrobbles with the wrong title, I change my tags, but I don't rescrobble it to make up for it. Why would I bother compensating?

Also, I don't like how it scrobbles after 50% of a song. Sometimes if I'm doing something I don't notice the song that's playing and I'll change in the middle because it's a song I'm not in the mood for or something. So I didn't really listen to it.

[kendelle]

It's not a serious thing for me, so I often leave the computer playing while I go out or overnight!