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

[StarSUCKER]

Originally Posted by emiko

which I think is why they started the whole "true listener" thing...a group against the people that just want higher numbers.

True, and that's really lame.

Originally Posted by Koumori

I made a LastFM a while ago but never really got the hang of it. But lately I've been craving new music so I made a new account

I've been a 'true listener' so far but that said, I don't get what scrobbles are and why people want more of them...lol

I dunno. Personally, I just like to look at statistics about my listening habits. Not sure why. As for wanting more, I think that's an arbitrary, but common thing. Like wanting a higher post count at AHS and the like.

[emi♡]

@Jess: "scrobble" is just the word they came up with, for when you listen to a song, and last fm records it.

So basically, "scrobbles" is just, how many plays you have of whatever.

There are people who want to be like "oh look, I have this many scrobbles/plays of so-and-so, look how awesome I am"

Yeah. People are crazy lol But then, a lot of people will praise someone with a crazy amount of scrobbles. There's someone who has over 100,000 Ayumi Hamasaki plays, and his page is just filled with "omg amazing" lol

[koumori]

Sorry but that's just sad to me lol, it's like spamming to get a load of posts.

But meh, some people will always find a way to be the 'best', even on a music-listening site

Thanks for explaining guys!

[pommy48]

Originally Posted by Koumori

Sorry but that's just sad to me lol, it's like spamming to get a load of posts.

But meh, some people will always find a way to be the 'best', even on a music-listening site

Thanks for explaining guys!

Don't you remember Pokemon?! "I wanna be the very best like no one ever was!"

[koumori]

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

Ash knew his priorities.

[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).

[~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

[Pieces_of_SEVEN]

I am!

[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".

[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!