LAST.fm

Okay so everyone knows about LAST.fm right?

Well maybe not. It's kind of this annoying little program that opens everytime i open itunes and asks me to login or something. Well that's what i thought for the past six months. I've had it installed that long and have just forced myself to click it and exit it everytime it starts. I don't know how i could have been so lazy to not just disable the auto-start thing, but i only just realized that the password i had in there was wrong and thats why it wasn't working or scrobbling or whatever it is it does.

What it does? It scrobbles your music.

What's it for? Oh wait you don't know what scrobbling is, huh? Well it's like it goes through your music and reads all that "useless" information that itunes stores. Like song ratings, times song has been played, etcetera etcetera etcetera (a la King & I: classic *hint* movie). After invading the privacy of your entire music collection it reads the data to it's own little program LAST.fm dock or something and compares it against user statistics it collects/scrobbles from it's own site. So the more users, the more accurate information they can obtain, etc. SO Definitely check it out. Even if you don't use it to listen to new music (kind of it's main purpose) it'll still help other people find good music based off what you're listening to. So it's a win win situation right?

What's it for? It scrobbles your music. You get that right. The idea is that by scrobbling your tunes, it can make accurate reccomendations. It's not totally on yet though, but neither is Pandora's box. I type in Fade to Black by Metallica on Pandora and it plays me other shiesty/shayesty/shisty? shytie metallica songs. Fade To Black has like an orchestra in the background its a sick song. Every rock song with an orchestra in the background is pretty cool in my book. (continue to part B, whilst i rant about the music industry)

ASIDE:The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony. (I'm sure it was bittersweet seeing how they didn't make a dime off that song). Oh well, that's what you get for inadvertently sampling 3 fucking chords from a song. I mean personally I love the Last Time song and i cannot for the life of me hear anything that sounds the same, but the one market that should be totally free. Isn't. Music. L'aissez Faire should apply to the music industry, in that we SHOULD let artists sample and reuse and expand on everything. Everytime i'm listeing to the radio, at least for my generation we hear the start of Ice Ice Baby and it's just a huge let down for it to be some 70s r&b rock song. It should be: "Girls were hot wearing less than bikinis...if you got a problem yo i'll solve it, check out the hook while my dj revolves it. Vanilla ice ice baby, nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh!" Okay that was a rant.

B) So yeah in Pandora I get music I don't like because I like a few metallica songs. It's the same way in LAST.fm. It's not perfect, but it's cool enough that i'll keep coming back.

Options: Love, Ban, & Skip. Pretty simple don't like a song ban it. Don't think it's too bad than skip it. Like it than, hit Love it. There's enough out there that you probably won't here it again for a long ass time. But you can hit Recently Played, Recently Banned, Recently Loved and find everything again. And if you don't want to ban love or skip, just listen to it like a normal radio and not a soul will think any different of you. You'll still be perfect, sweet, lil ol you!

Selection: Last has a huge selection. There's groups I've never even heard of on there. Obviously I've started this blog with a chronicle of Indie Alt Rock stuff, but LAST.fm has dance, electronic, rap, folk, classical. Whatever your interests it'll have new and unusual recommendations for you.

check it out

http://www.last.fm

Enjoy!

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