Lastfm scrobbler for itunes 117/3/2023 ![]() What's wrong with that? Nothing, save for those dark, melodramatic days when I'm feeling tragically narrow in taste and experience, and wish I had a more catholic, experimental flair. I'll confess that I sometimes disable scrobbling if I'm in, say, a helpless Paul McCartney mood, lest I look lame other days I say, Who am I kidding, McCartney's great, who cares if I get to "Maybe I'm Amazed" via "Only Love Remains"? When I've been researching and writing my books over the last several years, my lastfm playlists reflected an unhealthy obsession with garage rock, rockabilly, and AC/DC. As in an autobiographical essay, I'm in charge, confidently, shamefully. Remember listening to records, tapes, or CDs alone, with headphones, on a rocking chair in the rec room or up in your bedroom, eyes shut tight against the music and the world? Through lastfm I can now invite anyone in, friends and strangers, and say Hey this is what I'm digging now do you know it do you have anything else by them who else sounds like them?īut what if I don't want you to know what I'm listening to? The Recently Played Tracks feature is a cracked window into my life: what you think you're seeing is distorted. Provided that I've enabled scrobbling, anyone who wants to can eavesdrop on what I'm listening to now, or if he really wants to, discover what I was listening to on, say, Janu(among other songs, the New Pornographers' "It's Only Divine Right" and Shoes' "Shining." Hmm, a pop day). Is this the new autobiography? "Profile data," indeed. ![]() Lastfm and sites like it provide a profile and recommender system that together behave as a kind of digital self-portrait. I'm an autobiographical writer and essayist my persona is shaped, rendered, consumed. What interests me about lastfm beyond all of this is its conspiring role in shaping persona, that is, my persona. It's all very 21st Century, all very amazing, something that, though it's unimaginable now, will one day seem quaint or archaic, like so many lid-lifting advancements on the web. This provides a very cool and utterly accurate record of my listening habits and tendencies, allows me to see what my lastfm friends (many of whom are actual friends) are listening to, or have listened to, and gives me the opportunity to sample recommended playlists or to dip into said friends' libraries, opening up a vast array of artists and songs and albums that I otherwise wouldn't hear. The decade-old Lastfm is a music website that, among many other features, allows me to "scrobble" my iPod and iTunes, so that whatever I'm listening to is entered in my music profile under my "Recently Listened Tracks"-updated in real time, if I'm scrobbling at home while listening to iTunes or to lastfm's Internet radio, or later after plugging in my iPod. Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself, Samuel Butler-to this I add one's Lastfm music profile.
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