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Yes, I can hear you, Clem Fandango!

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Cake day: October 24th, 2023

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  • 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.






  • 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.






  • Oh, you mean the guys who were obviously such criminals they were run out of Russia and Europe and had to settle on being headquarted in Dubai?

    Oh the guys who instead of doing something thoughtful like Mullvad and having RAM only servers with no logs, they just hide all their datacenters behind shell companies to avoid complying with legal subpoenas? That’s not completely shady at all, nope.

    I mean, it’s not like Matrix or SimpleX chat or others that actually are secure (-ish, even Matrix leaks metadata!) and thoughtfully designed and open source that you can self host or don’t need servers or are incorporated in Europe (like Telegram tried to incorporate initially before settling on Dubai).

    Oh and don’t forget France had very good reasons to arrest Pavel Durov, co-creator of Telegram. He went on Tucker Carlson to defend himself, which says it all, really.