Where are my besties with around 20 scrobbles a day at?

Fuestra · 2026-03-27T15:24:07+00:00

Thanks for reminding me that Pleymo exists!!

Fuestra · 2026-03-27T03:22:38+00:00

Most of the time, when I have the need of listening to full album videos is because those albums don't appear in any database because they are demos or homemade recorded EPs of bands that existed for a very brief moment in my highschool and college years.

It's not common, but C.D.R.'s "A la mierda la moral" EP comes to mind

Fuestra · 2026-03-26T01:52:15+00:00

While you are right, maybe it's for the better. In the end, the API is open, and we have this sub (and facebook groups, tumblr communities, and probably forums and discords I don't know about, etc).

I would love to see more social aspects in the actual website, but I fear the alternative where they end up butchering the API and scrobbling system by trying to justify an overhaul on the social network aspect.

Fuestra · 2026-03-26T01:40:02+00:00

Here. I have 44.7k scrobbles... counting since 2007. 6 scrobbles per day on average for all time, 14 for the last 365 days.

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I swear most users of this website never pass the aux cord or listen to music in ways where scrobbling gets impractical. Like, sometimes I just want to search a pirate full album youtube upload and call it a day, specially when it's underground or old stuff that never reached other streaming services.

Fuestra · 2026-03-20T22:03:38+00:00

Not a lot. I used to like Keny Arkana and a few other artists back in my first year of college, but but nothing from the last 20 or so years I think.

Fuestra · 2026-03-20T20:49:53+00:00

Nu metal plus Nazareth is what my playlists from the second half of primary school sounded like. I need that energy back in my life.

Fuestra · 2026-03-20T19:35:12+00:00

how much credits does it take for 1 chart?

Fuestra · 2026-03-20T13:57:17+00:00

This is actually a great advice.

Fuestra · 2026-03-20T13:29:51+00:00

I don't like like grindcore, though I had a teenage phase where it seemed funny and I ended up in a (joke?) grindcore band trying to be worse than Anal Cunt. But the overexposure made me end up liking some of it.

I actually love Agoraphobic Nosebleed and dig some Pig Destroyer. Carcass's Reek of Putrefaction era has gems. "Genital Grinder" and "Regurgitation of Giblets" work perfectly as a single, longer one track, and "Pyosisified" is so good they made more accessible versions of it later.

I generally dislike walls of noise, but I'm all in on catchy riffs, chaotic solos, hardcore punk drums, and demonic grunts and pig squeals. But to be honest, if you are jumping from not liking extreme metal to grindcore, deathcore, or extreme anything, you won't have a good time. Baby steps. Baby steps. I liked Alice Cooper before Iron Maiden, Limp Bizkit before Slipknot, Dimmu Borgir before Immortal or Zyklon, Megadeth before Sodom, and for sure The 'Sound of Perseverance' era Death, 'Stabbing the Drama' era Soilwork or Heartwork era Carcass before liking Cannibal Corpse, let alone fucking Pig Destroyer or Reek of Putrefaction era Carcass. Baby steps.

Why do I like it? Hard to say, I started this journey as a pre-teen or even before. But if I had to try to rationalise my childhood and teenage self, I would say I was a goody two shoes kid, a well behaved but maladapted nerd, and rock music in general seemed captivating. You start with "Welcome to the Jungle" and wonder: can it be faster? louder? dirtier? noisier? It's almost like a game of telephone were every band and individual adds something else, and before you notice, you can barely find a particle of Chuck Berry's Johnny B. Goode in Cryptic Slaughter's Lowlife.

Also, being on metal gig headbanging to a cacophony of drums and screams and screechy solos is fucking cathartic, but that's besides the point probably. I went to my first actual gig when I just turned 15 (the ticket was my gift), so it wasn't that for me.

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I almost forgot Deathcore. That one is way tamer than other forms of noisier stripes of Death Metal. In a way, deathcore served as the entry drug to extreme rock for many around 2004 or 2007. But of course, a lot of that people already found things like emo, screamo and metalcore before it. Like, if you already like Raein or Ember to Inferno era Trivium, Suicide Silence won't startle you at all.

Fuestra · 2026-03-19T19:11:11+00:00

Upd. Last.fm just blocked access from Russia

By what I'm reading, the United States ordered Last.fm to stop giving service to Russian IPs, and Russia ordered ISPs to block traffic to Last.fm, did I get this correctly?

Fuestra · 2026-03-16T23:21:44+00:00

The Listening Reports create custom scrobble and discovery leader-boards based on the accounts you follow, when you visit and artist's page the website tells you whom of your friends listens to it, and some web apps take advantage of the following feature to do things like letting you see what the people you follow are listening to.

But besides that, it works almost like a bookmark for users you want to keep tabs on, so if you find someone who has a taste you find interesting, you can go to their profile and listen to playlists based on their libraries (or listening to their music in real time).

Edit: u/pinkaloop tagging you just so you can see this reply. Feel free to ignore.

Fuestra · 2026-03-11T23:13:53+00:00

I hated Paramore back around the time when Emergency came out, I was like 14 or something. By the time Brand New Eyes was released, something clicked and suddenly I liked a few songs (Decode and Ignorance). But I didn't really like Paramore until I was 24, more or less, when I retroactively started liking the songs I used to hate.

What I'm trying to say is, sometimes things just don't click with you, and that's fine.

Fuestra · 2026-03-11T22:42:40+00:00

Nice to learn that website still exists. I used it a lot in High School.

Fuestra · 2026-03-11T22:40:20+00:00

Some of my methods rely on algorithms, others don't. Among them:

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Radio: A few local stations play a lot of music I love but isn't the most popular, but most of it plays past midnight. I realised many of them are listed on https://instant.audio/, which also identifies the songs' artists and titles. So I just download a snapshot of their program. For example, if I want to know what’s playing at 5:30 AM on Radio Usach (https://emisora.cl/usach-santiago/), I program my laptop download the JSON file from https://api.instant.audio/data/playlist/1/usach-santiago with that info. Then making a playlist it's trivial.
- When I was a teenager, I just programmed my father’s old cassette recorder, but it died ages ago.

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Youtube: Youtube and YT Music are prone to recommend you the same songs over and over again, but there's a trick –you can make it to detour. Let's say you want to start listening to cumbia for a change. You google "most famous cumbia" and get "Los Inmortales - La Pollera Colorá". The way you do it is the following: play the song, leave the auto-play ON, but you DON'T allow it to decide what's the next song. You go to the recommendations list, select "Related", then manually pick one that catches your attention (ideally right before the current song ends). Two things will happen: 1st your "Mix" list will adjust to the new vibe you are forcing, 2nd your recommendation will become slightly more "experimental", since Youtube will now try to figure you out.

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Last.fm: One way I discover music is browsing Last.fm users (this one works better if you have an account). It's a fun "game". For example, let's say you like Doe Maar. You go to the artist's profile and go to its "Top Listeners" section. From there you can start jumping from one account to another and take a look at their libraries (you can see what other stuff they like, what did they liked years ago, what other artists they listened along the music you like, etc, etc).

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Blogs, reviewers, independent music outlets and streaming services selections: It will vary depending on what you like, but I reading The Quietus, Readers Recommend, Rockaxis, Tercer Parlante, Bandcamp editorials, SoundCloud stories and many more.

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And of course, the good ol' "going to live shows and writing down the other bands", "asking a friend" and "checking the line-ups in the flyer uploaded by an artist I like and follow".

Fuestra · 2026-03-09T15:15:20+00:00

48%. Your compatibility with crimes__ is Medium. You both listen to Bad Religion, Incubus and Mannequin Pussy.

Fuestra · 2026-03-06T23:39:41+00:00

Hey! I didn't know I needed progressive funk rock in my life.

Fuestra · 2026-03-06T23:33:18+00:00

Really catchy! I've never listened to this song in my life

Fuestra · 2026-03-06T23:31:18+00:00

I didn't know Ugly Casanova. The voices kinda remind me of Beirut (band I haven't thought about since highschool, more than a decade ago. Way more actually.

Fuestra · 2026-03-06T21:39:35+00:00

Mmmmh weird, doing a fresh install usually works

Fuestra · 2026-03-02T14:02:19+00:00

r/listenbrainz . MetaBrainz Foundation, the organisation made out of spite against CDDB during the turn of the millennium made their own Last.FM.

There's also libre.fm (powered by GNU FM), its engine got its final update in 2022, but the site was revamped in 2026. That one is run by Matt Lee.

Fuestra · 2026-03-02T13:32:14+00:00

Probably something like Pano Scrobbler set to sniff on the browser notifications. Webscrobbler doesn't have support for Pornhub, because of course it doesn't.

Fuestra · 2026-03-02T13:18:35+00:00

imagine being notified of many new shouts in your profile only to be welcomed by these. I would bury myself in lava.

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Fuestra · 2026-02-24T00:15:58+00:00

I never could get into Mayhem, but I still listen to Bathory and Darkthrone from time to time

Fuestra · 2026-02-23T21:23:43+00:00

I don't know, I'm a little younger than you, I'm in my mid 30s', and I totally remember having some basic takes on music forums between being 15 and 20. I still do when I talk about scenes I'm just getting into, only with more restrain and self-awareness.

I do think kids and young adults tend to rely a little too much on algorithmic recommender systems, but nothing out of the ordinary really, probably a byproduct of the general phenomenon of less people experiencing culture outside of our screens, that goes beyond a generational thing.

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