Today, Last.fm begins a new chapter as an independent company. Ownership has changed, but the product you use every day has not. Your account, your listening history, and your data remain exactly where they are. The team building Last.fm is the same. The service continues as normal. What stays the same Your account and scrobbles Your data and privacy settings Your Pro subscription and billing (if you're a member) The people behind the product We'll share more about what comes next in the w...
  • mote@lemmy.caEnglish
    2 months

    I see folks mentioning going back to their dormant LFM accounts. The Metabrainz Foundation has a project ListenBrainz, a more open FOSS style version; if you’re going to spin some scrobbling cycles maybe check it out:

    https://listenbrainz.org/

    (I stopped scrobbling years ago, privacy concerns)

    • Mwa@thelemmy.clubEnglish
      2 months

      Its a good thing in my opinion since:

      1. Paramount is a public company and I heard some bad stuff about them like Keeping Spongebob to make extra money even after the creator died. (i kinda dont have strong opinions on public companies but still a good thing they became independent.)
      2. Paramount will be partially state owned if they merge with WB (heard that somewhere)
      • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2 months

        If the Paramount deal goes ahead, it’ll be 49.5% foreign owned, of which some state actors ike the Saudis via their PIF having ownership.

          • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2 months

            What do you mean, no?

            https://www.top1000funds.com/asset_owner/public-investment-fund-pif/

            The Public Investment Fund (PIF) is the sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia. It is among the largest sovereign wealth funds in the world and was created in 1971 for the purpose of investing funds on behalf of the government of Saudi Arabia. The wealth fund has been controlled by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler since 2015.

            The government is going to own a large part if the merger happens.

  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    2 months

    Holy shit.

    I have been struggling with a not-quite-perfect scrobbling setup between Maloja and Multi-Scrobbler because I was trying to slowly move away from Last.fm because of lack of trust in ownership.

    If they can pull this off and truly be independent again, I will actually stop moving away from them for a while.

      • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        2 months

        I was just looking for a most self-hosty and privacy respecting solution initially. I will keep running it alongside Last.fm in case there’s a reason I need to dump Last.fm or if I decide I don’t want my listening habits on a public site.

        EDIT: To be more clear, I have no issues with Listenbrainz at all, I just wanted to self-host.

  • Turbodad@feddit.orgEnglish
    2 months

    Holy… I never disconnected my last.fm account from Spotify, now I have 20 years of history. WOW

  • merc@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2 months

    I remember using it back when it was called “Audioscrobbler”. I think the “scrobbler” part stuck around somehow?

    • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      2 months

      Yep, it’s still called scrobbling. I have very old tracks in my history that don’t have any timestamps because of the imperfect database changeover when they went from Audioscrobbler to Last.fm. I found that out when exporting my scrobbles to use elsewhere and noticed that my earliest scrobbles weren’t actually pulling timestamps at all, and it was defaulting to them all played on the same day at the same time.

    • wltr@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      2 months

      Lucky you! I forgot even the name of my account! Not to say password. Heck, I won’t recall which email is there! Almost no chance to find it, as it was long before I started using not only password manager, but even a paper notebook. All my passwords were generated funny nonsense a teenager would make up. I juggled emails too, having some ‘I don’t care about this one, and that one too.’

      • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        2 months

        I actually somehow have kept mine going strong for over 20 years now. I even have some early tracks from before they changed how the system worked that don’t have any timestamps from when they got moved from the old system to the new (which was about early/mid 2005).

        From about 2014 to 2016 I was having trouble finding listening solutions that actually consistently scrobbled to Last.fm but then got it working again by 2017. I think 2017 is when I paid for a Plex Lifetime pass (back when it was like $90 and not… $750) and that was also the year the Plexamp came out and worked with Last.fm scrobbling. I’ve used Plexamp since.

        Also, for my 20 year anniversary I successfully listened to more music in 2025 than I had listened to in one year on 20 years. Worth it, it was fun.

        • wltr@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          2 months

          Wow, that’s impressive! Does it help you find any new music by the way? I thought whether it’s viable to replace a streaming service with a locally hosted music. With some scrobbler, like lastfm or similar.

          • Snowcano@startrek.websiteEnglish
            2 months

            I’ve never used last.fm but I saw this video the other day that suggests a way to use it with listenbrainz to create your own algorithm to help ween off subscription services. I’ve been meaning to go back and take some notes but maybe it’s of use?

          • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            2 months

            Nah, I find new music via Bandcamp and piracy sites (which I used to check out music and then buy the stuff I really enjoy and will listen to a lot from Bandcamp).

  • clifmo@programming.devEnglish
    2 months

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    Well, then. I guess I’m just SOL

    • kadotux@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      2 months

      what’s your browser? my firefox and chromium both work.

      • clifmo@programming.devEnglish
        2 months

        Kiwi (chromium mobile, supports extensions) + ublock + pihole tends to break some sites. I lol’d at the modern browser message

        • kadotux@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          2 months

          I also have uBlock in Firefox and AdGuardHome running in my LAN. Guess it’s something about Kiwi (haven’t heard of it)

          • clifmo@programming.devEnglish
            2 months

            I mean, yea, sure. But it’s just chromium. And it’s just this discourse support site. They’re reading something from the UA and blocking access for falsely stated reasons. I’m not that hard up about it, it’s just dumb

    • cardfire@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2 months

      I’m on Fennec, a Mozilla derivative for Android

      “Your request was blocked. To protect our website, our security firewall has flagged this request as potentially unsafe. Please try clearing your cookies and refreshing the page. If the problem persists, try again later or on a different computer network.”

      Error 406

  • DevDave@piefed.socialEnglish
    2 months

    Trying to recover my old account but supposedly “TrustMeBroThisIsSuperSecure” is not sufficient. Fucks sake, even I would have trouble just typing that in.

  • afc@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    2 months

    As someone who has scrobbled religiously since 2014, this is great news

  • Mwa@thelemmy.clubEnglish
    2 months

    I heard of it before, well atleast they didn’t sell it to TPE.