RSS Feeds for Last.fm(lfm.xiffy.nl)
97 pointsby Baljhin10 hours ago10 comments
  • TFNA6 hours ago
    As mentioned in the HN submission, Last.fm went through a redesign already over a decade ago. It stripped so much functionality that the site became useless except for merely tracking one's own listens, and there were already libre alternatives for that.

    Last.fm is one of my go-to examples of how the internet has become a lonelier place. The old Last.fm was deeply linked with real life: it would show upcoming gigs in your town along with members who might be attending, and you could easily meet people in your own location who shared your own tastes in music. Where does a person find music-related socializing now?

    • soleman3 hours ago
      > You could easily meet people in your own location who shared your own tastes in music. Where does a person find music-related socializing now

      I'd say Instagram serves the role of Last.fm you described (for better or worse). But really you can just go to the gigs and talk to people. That's guaranteed people in your area with similar interests.

      • phrotomaan hour ago
        This is true, and I hate it. All the local DJs I enjoy post their gigs on instagram and nowhere else. All the fans I know use instagram to get updates about where the shows are happening.

        In practice I just wait for my friends to tell me where the music will be, but I also hate the whole setup deeply and want instagram to die in a fire.

        • input_shan hour ago
          Be the change you want to see in the world.

          No seriously, like 18 months ago I solved this exact issue in my corner of the world by simply creating a static website and putting them there on a calendar and now I'm like a microcelebrity of my own running a "brand" that every organiser knows of.

          • 101008an hour ago
            I want to do the same but I live in a big city (millions of people). How do you recommend approaching this? There is no board/calendar that would get the attention of thousands of people and without that it's useless in a big city.
        • Mashimo42 minutes ago
          Are they not also on Resident Advisor?

          I think it's possible for 3rd parties to add to Resident Advisor.

          I also dislike Insta only events. I still have facebook where I follow up on some venues. But just a few websites with calanders would be coolio.

        • soleman26 minutes ago
          I also hate meta but unfortunately it's where many scenes live. Path of least resistance for venues, artists, to share their shows. I would disagree with the other commenter who said to "be the change". I've seen dozens of event aggregating sites and what they all lack is actual people using it. We live in Meta's hell, but everybody's there (speaking as Gen Z).

          This is avoidable if you have a specific niche though. A lot of groups online and in cities give me hope. What kind of music are we talking here?

    • wyclif27 minutes ago
      A bigger question is why Last.fm did this, and why they don't do it again now that they're independent. I've been on Last.fm. since 2005 at least.
      • dewey15 minutes ago
        That's not a Last.fm issue, that's a general trend that affects everything.

        People don't blog on their personal sites any more, blog comments don't really exist any more, MySpace / Tumblr like sites are not popular any more and people don't share everything private on social media any more as everyone realized that the internet is not always a friendly place and there's enough public cases where this fired back.

        The same also applies to the platform itself, opening yourself up to more user contributed data is often a real headache as you need to moderate it properly and that needs resources too. Ask Meta's moderator team how much fun they are having.

    • meindnoch5 hours ago
      This.

      My best friend cold-messaged me on last.fm 18 years ago: "wanna exchange music? add me on MSN: ..."

    • raffraffraff2 hours ago
      I used to love Last.FM and was a paid subscriber. Their neighbourhood radio was a great way to find music

      rateyourmusic.com is also dead to me now. And MusicBrainz is an excellent resource marred by horrible user experience and a primary focus on listing every issue of an album in every country and in every format (who the hell wants that?)

      • stuartmemoan hour ago
        I made Raygum to (hopefully) simplify what you're describing - https://raygum.com

        Please email me (<username>@gmail.com) with any feedback or to rant about music apps in general!

      • TFNA2 hours ago
        Listing every issue of an album in every country and every format is precisely what Musicbrainz was founded for (as a successor to CDDB). Any social features are just extras on top of that.
    • fragmede26 minutes ago
      Resident Advisor. Spotify also tells me when a band's in town.
    • Mashimo6 hours ago
      Is it not possible to discover new artist you might like based on your taste?
      • happymellon6 hours ago
        I don't see how this relates to anything the parent comment talked about.
        • Mashimo3 hours ago
          He said it become useless except for tracking. For me it was a place for music discovery.
  • deweyan hour ago
    For those now following the Last.fm so closely, in May of this year they became independent again (https://support.last.fm/t/last-fm-is-now-independent/118591) after being owned by CBS for a very long time, which is very exciting and I'm glad it wasn't just shut down by CBS.
  • cobertos7 hours ago
    Self-hosted Koito[0] and glad I left Last.fm.

    Not even a good first-party export, gotta use some hacked together third-party one to get your data out.

    [0]: https://github.com/gabehf/koito

    • sha-36 hours ago
      ListenBrainz[0] is a decent alternative if you don't want to self-host. You can import your Last.fm scrobbles there pretty easily.

      [0]: https://listenbrainz.org/

      • chneu5 hours ago
        A lot of people run both koito and listenbrainz
    • Godsend693 hours ago
      [dead]
  • captn3m0an hour ago
    Is the code public? I'd like to port this to https://rss-bridge.org/
  • winrid8 hours ago
    > But I also wept. How is it possible that two almost identical endpoints have the key names differ on several spots or complete absent.

    average legacy PHP backend :)

    • dewey12 minutes ago
      The PHP part is unnecessary there, any code base that's more than a hobbyist project will have these kind of issues.
  • Baljhin10 hours ago
    > "...Tell me your username and i'll give you (six) URLs..."

    > (period can be: 7day, 1month, 3month, 6month, 12month or overall)

    > Recent tracks

    > Loved tracks

    > Top tracks

    > Top Artists

    > Recommended tracks

    > Recommended tracks in JSON format

    https://github.com/xiffy/lfm

  • marcy_742 hours ago
    Yes! Been wanting something like this for my personal dashboard. So much easier than hitting their full API just for scrobbles.
  • leokennis5 hours ago
    Besides the useful product, also a very lovely site.

    Page size around 85 KB, bullshit around 0 BS, loaded in 140 ms on my end.

  • msephton7 hours ago
    Cool!

    I'm wondering why my recommended tracks are different between the two feed formats? Same uid as here.

    Also, my JSON feed doesn't seem to validate and is not served with the proper MIME type.

  • cyberjunkie8 hours ago
    Don't see any slop in the code. Good job!