Hello music followers of FISO, just wondering if any of you have a Last.Fm music account and wish to let yourselves be known and if you don't have one, maybe you would be interested in joining this great, long living, music site/tool.

It tracks all the music you listen to on Spotify, itunes, Window's Media Player and various other listening modes and makes personal charts and recommendations based on what you listen to.

Just thought we could maybe start some sort of FISO sub-community based on this site, and highlight just what a good tool it can be to aid our listening habits.

http://www.last.fm

Running FISO User lists

http://www.last.fm/user/AlanLaidlaw - Herc6
http://www.last.fm/user/bloggie777 - Bloggie
http://www.last.fm/user/knulpuk - Knulpuk
http://www.last.fm/user/jsydave - Mystery
http://www.last.fm/user/Baloonosey - Bluenosey
http://www.last.fm/user/thehills4 - unc.si.
http://www.last.fm/user/TakeshiKovacs - Takeshi Kovacs
http://www.last.fm/user/fancy_dan - fancy dan
http://www.last.fm/user/reddrallek - Rick
http://www.last.fm/user/miles_t - miles_t

http://www.last.fm/user/AlanLaidlaw

I will begin by giving my personal last fm URL.

I haven't got a lastfm account, but I have considered signing up, but have just never got round to it. I don't really know all the ins and outs and maybe this thread will be an eye opener for me, so cheers for starting the thread!


I see by your link you've just seen Wild Nothing. I saw them (him?) at the Green Man Festival the weekend just gone (Saturday I think) and loved them. They were one of the artists I wanted to check out based on the little I'd heard, and they didn't disappoint. One of my highlights of a great festival!

http://www.last.fm/user/bloggie777
Only tracked a new order radio station I listened to once.Don't know how to make it track spotify etc.
Edit. Found it.
http://www.last.fm/forum/34905/_/482070

Nice Echo & The Bunnymen plays, that New Order station churned out some decent tracks for you.

Should use it more, if you listen to music online though Bloggie

It's really very simple MD, If you sign up I will link you the scrobbling software that tracks your music and you will get the hang of it in no time, it's terribly addictive once you started browsing for new music.

And yes, I went to see Wild Nothing, he was mindblowing. Some really pretty shoegaze sounds, that totally takes me away in a live setting.

Found the scrobbler.
http://www.last.fm/download

http://www.last.fm/download#content_ipod

Scrobbler for ipod use.

Have got last fm, but dont really use it much. Bit busy for the next few weeks, but will have a proper look when I can.

Cheers

Was a great iPod app till they crippled it by trying to charge.

My account probably has some quality scrobbles on tho
http://www.last.fm/user/jsydave

Does this work

http://www.last.fm/user/knulpuk

I imported from itunes so my wife's music is there too - vast majority mine though!

Yeah, it's picked up about 32,000 songs that you have listened to in the past. Very good library you have too.

Particularly like:

Eels
Wilco
The Lemonheads
Miles Davis
Sufjan Stevens
Tom Waits
Pavement

They have subscribed members fee that is a few pounds a month (which I pay)

but has no real advantage over the free one except that you get beta testing priority and can see who views your profile, apart from that it's basically a full free service.

Have turned on scrobbling in Spotify. However, my 2 daughters use Spotify as much as me, so the music may well be dominated by Jessie J, Tinie Tempah, Example, etc etc Will be a strange mix that's for sure

Aha - I see - I can see what I have played in decending order - Leona Lewis in at no. 2 - that is Mrs K - honest .

Eels at No.1 too.

I guess it syncs plays back from my ipods.

Nice feature - I will have a look at some other people's lists and I will also turn on scrobbling in spotify, (per unc above), once I work out what that actually means.

Have I really played The Duke & The King – Water Spider 68 times!

Bloggie - you have a deep deep Namaste habit

What's your last fm username/URL, so that I can add it to the above list of Last.fm Fisoers?

I've added you as a Last.fm friend Knulpuk, not sure if you know how to accept it

once we get a few more FISO members I will create a FISO discussion board on last.fm for us and we will be able to see what the general consensus charts are of the forum, should be interesting to see

Herc - loving Elliott Smith at no. 1

Nice to see the Shins, Nick Drake, Beirut.

Sounds like I need some Phoenix on my Ipod.

don't know tbh - will check when I get home, but might be after holidays - hectic afternoon / evening coming up!!

Yeah right

All is forgiven for having the Eels placed at number 1

Might give this a crack myself, to see what dross I listen to over the week

Aha - I have found out you can delete artists - Mrs K's best sellers are duly binned

Right, I'm up and running

Sadly, the user name bluenosey has already been taken - must be another man of great taste out there - so I've had to improvise slightly :-

http://www.last.fm/user/Baloonosey

Great idea Herc

I might well give this a go when I get back next week.

Good stuff bluenosey! Noticed you just listented to Pavement - Shady Lane and Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill...two of my favourite tracks!

Happy Scrobbling!

I'm sure with all this listening you appear to do, it would be a great tool for you Spiny!

I would expect to see Joni Mitchell and Fairport Convention high up your charts

Something tells me you might be the sort of guy who is into Robert Wyatt aswell? ...just a hunch

user name is thehills4

Cheers Herc. Was going to send a message but couldn't find the option

I like the way it shows your musical compatibility

Be interesting to see my charts 3 months down the line...

Ok I've added you to the list unc. Another Lemonheads fan I see, they seem to be rather popular on the forum so far

Got the scrobbling going

Unc > The White Stripes good choice
Bluenosey > Not many bad choices there
Mystery > Some good
Knulpuk > Bob Dylan,REM and The Jam ones of note
Herc > Sigur Ros and Radiohead ones of note
The Namaste is more a religious thing that's always on in the background seperate from when I have a music session.