I finally cracked 10,000 tracks on Last.fm and it took under 2 years to achieve this feat (with my Last.fm registration date being 29 August, 2006) and on this occasion I thought I should pen down a few thoughts on Last.fm.
If you are a music lover worth your weight in salt/gold or better make that music, and unless you have been hiding under a rock or have only recently returned from Mars, Last.fm – The Social Music Revolution should not have passed you by. However, on the odd chance that you have entirely missed Last.fm, well as the name and the tag suggest it is a Social Music Revolution that has burst onto the music scene and become the Social Network for music lovers all over. What this social music revolution entails is registering yourself on the Last.fm website and creating yourself a profile. Immediately thereafter you can begin by downloading scrobbling software onto your system and this will let you scrobble all the music you listen to on your system, to your profile at Last.fm. Scrobbling means the song details like the artist, name of the song, etc. are sent to Last.fm and added to your profile on Last.fm and a record of all the songs you scrobble is maintained at Last.fm and you gradually end up building a database of all the music you have heard since you began scrobbling at Last.fm. This data is available for all to see on your Last.fm profile and you can share with friends and others your Last.fm profile URL so they can keep abreast with what you are currently listening to. You can also put this data up on your personal blog and create charts of your recently listened tracks, top albums, top artists, etc.
You can also connect with other listeners at Last.fm who have similar kind of taste in music as you have and add them as friends. Last.fm in fact even recommends other users based on their musical compatibility with yours as “Neighbors” and you can add these neighbors as friends, chat with them and interact with them based on your preferences.
With millions of songs being scrobbled every day, Last.fm apart from maintaining an online database of millions of users and their musical preferences, also uses this information to create personalized radio stations for users to access and listen to as well as make personalized recommendations based on the listener’s musical history and taste.
This is one revolution, social or otherwise, that you should end up being a part of without fail. It will help you discover about yourself musically more than anything else. When I started out on Last.fm, I did so with a childhood friend and our musical compatibility rating was “Super” at that time since we listened to similar kind of music right from our childhood. Today, after nearly a couple of years on Last.fm, our musical compatibility rating is only a “Medium”. Now who would have thought that my childhood buddy and I listened to different kind of music, since without Last.fm we would state to all and sundry even now that our taste in music was the same. Thanks to Last.fm we know better now. So come on in and join the Social Music Revolution on Last.fm, it will help you discover a few things about your taste in music.
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