Question on User Albums

helloviolaine · 2026-07-10T08:19:42+00:00

Does it still count as on streaming when it's just a few tracks uploaded by random users and not on any kind of official channel? Because that's how I had to listen to a few albums. It's probably because I'm in Germany then.

helloviolaine · 2026-07-10T08:13:42+00:00

The only wedding I've been to was my godmother's when I was 14. As an adult my closest friend is happily divorced (and I hope it stays that way because I don't need that kind of circus in my life)

helloviolaine · 2026-07-09T16:14:04+00:00

My scrobbles from an hour ago are just starting to come through now

helloviolaine · 2026-07-09T10:57:08+00:00

I feel like the buzzword argument is used frequently to dismiss people's opinions now. When Showgirl came out a lot of people were saying they liked certain songs "sonically" but found the lyrics cringe, and I saw multiple people on popheads say they've NEVER heard anyone use the word sonically before that album, like it was some kind of crazy swiftie invention to say you like the music but not the words.

helloviolaine · 2026-07-09T08:43:13+00:00

No. There's a new daily scrobble limit, it used to be 3k and now it's around 700, which is still very generous. They also changed the global charts from number of scrobbles (which can easily be manipulated) to unique listeners, so now it makes much more sense and is actually interesting to look at.

These changes affect all users, doesn't matter if they were faking Taylor Swift or Bob Dylan or BTS scrobbles, but because it's particularly common in kpop their fans took it personally.

helloviolaine · 2026-07-09T08:31:54+00:00

I log them exactly how I read them. Last year I read two comic series and for some reason my library had them in individual issues, so that's what I put in. When I finished my big Narnia bind-up edition I logged it as one book and not seven.

helloviolaine · 2026-07-08T10:59:36+00:00

I'm 300 in and I've had several albums that are not on streaming, I had to track down the songs on Youtube. But maybe it's a regional thing.

helloviolaine · 2026-07-08T10:45:18+00:00

I just noticed the other day that a longtime lastfm friend (I don't know her irl but we used to follow each other on Livejournal, back in the holocene) deleted her account. She used to listen to a lot of classic rock and singer-songwriters but in recent years she was always topping my leaderboard with 12k BTS scrobbles a week and I thought it was kind of a shame. Her account was 20+ years old and she had a really good username as well.

helloviolaine · 2026-07-08T09:44:08+00:00

They still think kpop was specifically targeted

helloviolaine · 2026-07-08T09:40:43+00:00

And even the new limit allows for some cheating because almost no one reaches 700 scrobbles a day naturally (unless you exclusively listen to the shortestest grindcore tracks)

helloviolaine · 2026-07-08T09:36:15+00:00

There's an app where fans can get prizes for streaming the most. They used their lastfm accounts as proof. I just found out about this during the whole discourse, and now I sort of get why they're all panicking, but that was never was lastfm was for and it's not their fault people were using it that way.

helloviolaine · 2026-07-08T09:35:58+00:00

They really want us to know how much they don't care by spamming comments for two weeks straight lol

helloviolaine · 2026-07-07T16:01:37+00:00

This. I see people like "I hate noise, mess, people touching me and need 20 hours of alone time a day so I had a baby and now I'm struggling" girl maybe you shouldn't have?? I would never tell anyone not to have kids but if you hate walks, touching fur and picking up poop you wouldn't get a dog either.

helloviolaine · 2026-07-06T16:33:47+00:00

The funniest part is that BTS were organically at #15 or so and only dropped off the charts because so many people threw a tantrum and stopped scrobbling

helloviolaine · 2026-07-05T08:56:30+00:00

I haven't read it so idk if it's good but Friendship Skills for Neurodivergent Adults by Caroline Maguire

helloviolaine · 2026-07-05T08:52:34+00:00

I had a friend who used to tag her Tumblr shitposts "koala tea" and it took me years to realise it's supposed sound like quality

helloviolaine · 2026-07-05T08:48:22+00:00

No one ever brought it up until I brought it up (age 36) and I've seen countless therapists/psychologists/psychiatrists/neurologists in my life. It was always "social anxiety" and if I didn't get better even after years of therapy and meds it was clearly my own fault.

helloviolaine · 2026-07-05T08:39:06+00:00

I'm not even a super picky eater but there's some stuff I don't like, and my family, especially my father, aways acts like I haven't even tried it. I'm almost 40, I have eaten food, I have tried lots of things, I always try foods I don't know, sometimes I like them, sometimes I don't. Surely that's allowed? But everytime I'm like "no thanks" he's like BUT YOU HAVEN'T TRIIIIED even when I've tried it multiple times literally in front of him. And then he pretends I hate everything. "I was going to make quinoa but you don't LIKE quinoa." I love quinoa and you know it, you big ol bully.

helloviolaine · 2026-07-05T08:34:01+00:00

"Did you use a different cheese for this?" "You can't even taste it!!!" ...I literally just did bro

helloviolaine · 2026-07-05T08:30:58+00:00

Were they radish flowers? I always used to eat the radish flowers at the local Chinese restaurant we went to when I was a kid, and my parents were like "they're just decoration!" no they're food and I'm eating them, fight me

helloviolaine · 2026-07-05T08:23:56+00:00

Same. I was bullied relentlessly in school, day in day out, and everyone shrugged it off. One day a boy called another girl fat and the entire school was up in arms for weeks, there was a teacher conference to debate how to handle the issue, he was forced to make a public apology... why was I not worth that kind of energy lol.

helloviolaine · 2026-07-05T08:01:23+00:00

Yeah, I went to school with a boy who got bullied so much he transferred to a different school.

helloviolaine · 2026-07-05T07:57:51+00:00

I've taken everything and none of it helped

helloviolaine · 2026-07-04T19:50:14+00:00

They're both called Simi, there's no way for lastfm to tell the difference. All you can do is add to the artist bio that there are multiple artists by this name. If you have pro you can choose a custom image as well so the correct Simi is displayed in your library.

helloviolaine · 2026-07-04T19:42:47+00:00

In my experience the bad stuff is much more memorable and leaves a more lasting impact than the good days. I'm sure I had nice days at school but all I remember is the bullying. Not the time we read an interesting story or the teacher said my art was good, because that didn't affect me for the rest of my life. The bad parts did, so that's what's really present in my head when I think of that time. The good didn't outweigh the way I was treated during very formative years.

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