Flik Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 So I google myself again for fun and end up finding a last.fm page for "Flik" which is also linked from here. How and who made that? It's inaccurate as I did not make everything shown there. There's even a last.fm page made for my real name. I guess it's kind of cool that those are there, but I didn't make them and really don't want inaccurate info on them (can I even control what's in there?). Can someone fill me in on what this is all about? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atmuh Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 uhhh I don't think you can figure out who did it, but I do know that pretty much anyone has the ability to edit them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Majin GeoDooD Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 It's probably somebody with the same name (unless your real name is uncommon) that made a last.fm page for themselves. I could see Flik as a semi-common online name. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chickenwarlord Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 A new last.fm page is made if any person using last fm has a song tagged with an artist. So if I tagged a song with the artist, fldsgalskd, that 'artist' would have a new page. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suzumebachi Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 there may be more than one artist using the name 'flik,' which is where the innacuracy comes from. there's only one suzumebachi, and my page is accurate (some of my stuff on there dates back 5+ years and i didn't even know people out there on the internets had that crud). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fratto Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 This is sort of like that Zelda song by System of a Down. It's not by System of a Down, but if someone with the Audio Scrobbler plugin plays a track on their computer that has it labeled as SoaD, then it will pop up as a track played on the SoaD page. Same with House of the Rising Sun and the dozen bands that it has incorrectly labeled. Between mislabeled tracks and several people using the same moniker, you're bound to have things like this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OverCoat Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 there may be more than one artist using the name 'flik,' which is where the innacuracy comes from. there's only one suzumebachi, and my page is accurate (some of my stuff on there dates back 5+ years and i didn't even know people out there on the internets had that crud). There is an album by "OverCoat" on my last.fm page that isn't mine, but all the plays are of my songs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrumUltimA Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 Flik, I noticed that too after I got my remix up--suddently DrumUltimA had a last.fm page. It's basically blank Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Less Ashamed Of Self Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 Wow... I've got one too... for like PRC submissions, OLR submissions, and my Bound Together pieces. WTF. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dhsu Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 I guess I should consider it fortunate that there are no other music-making Dhsu's out there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vindkast Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 As chicken said, http://www.last.fm/user/flik/ logs the music the person registered as flik listens to (in a player with the last.fm plugin), and http://www.last.fm/music/flik/ logs music all last.fm people listen to with the flik as the artist in the ID3 tags. So if my last.fm user profile looked like this, It will probably have auto-generated an artist page for "Chris Serani (Flik)." Yep-- http://www.last.fm/music/Chris+Serani+%28Flik%29 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flik Posted April 18, 2007 Author Share Posted April 18, 2007 Ok, so technically if the auto generated stuff is there and my username hasn't been officially signed up, I can sign up and take some control of what's there? Whoop, I actually just tried registering Flik and it looks like someone else took it. Guess I have no control at all there. Edit: Ok...so apparently I can't actually register a username with a space between words. How the crap am I supposed to register my real name when it won't allow it, yet it's shown that way in the auto generated stuff? Man that site sucks for when the real artist wants to sign up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suzumebachi Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 the username suzumebachi was also taken. by some narutard, no less. but i was able to register suzumebachi85 and at least write a profile for my music page. in order to do that though, i believe you need the proprietary software crud (the audioscrobbler). i like the stats on the site, though. like for example, currently my #1 listener is a 20 year old girl from the netherlands (and i'm currently the #1 thing she listens to). what's even more impressive is the musicbrainz stuff listed at the bottom. somehow that thing scoured the internet and came to the conclusion that i am ty guenley, and i was a member of disciplining percy and children of the washing machine. all of this is true, though how it figured that out is beyond me, especially considering both those "bands" were supposed to be secret! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimmy Jazz Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 Ok, so technically if the auto generated stuff is there and my username hasn't been officially signed up, I can sign up and take some control of what's there?Whoop, I actually just tried registering Flik and it looks like someone else took it. Guess I have no control at all there. Edit: Ok...so apparently I can't actually register a username with a space between words. How the crap am I supposed to register my real name when it won't allow it, yet it's shown that way in the auto generated stuff? Man that site sucks for when the real artist wants to sign up. Have you tried "ChrisSerani(Flik)." or "Chris_Serani(Flik)." Or something similar? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dhsu Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 I registered as Dhsu, and from what I can tell there's not really a way to link the music page to my user page. Oh well. It seems to do a decent job of maintaining itself anyway. It even has free downloadable tracks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arek the Absolute Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 the username suzumebachi was also taken. by some narutard, no less. but i was able to register suzumebachi85 and at least write a profile for my music page. in order to do that though, i believe you need the proprietary software crud (the audioscrobbler).i like the stats on the site, though. like for example, currently my #1 listener is a 20 year old girl from the netherlands (and i'm currently the #1 thing she listens to). what's even more impressive is the musicbrainz stuff listed at the bottom. somehow that thing scoured the internet and came to the conclusion that i am ty guenley, and i was a member of disciplining percy and children of the washing machine. all of this is true, though how it figured that out is beyond me, especially considering both those "bands" were supposed to be secret! is she hot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suzumebachi Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 i dunno there's no pix pix plz! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishy Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 Dhsu, you're my top listener . Of the 8 tracks attributed to Fishy, only 3 are mine, BUT the top one is mine, so I'm going to try and commandeer it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmr Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 Just out of curiosity, I looked at my last.fm page. While some of the tracks listed on that page are actually mine, the majority of them aren't. I don't really like having tracks with the name "Dip It Low" and "Got Urself A Gun" attributed to me. I think chthonic's got it the worst though; he shares his name with some Taiwanese metal band. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arek the Absolute Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 Hahahaha. LastFM is so failing. I should put my name up there and see what random ass crap i get credited to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suzumebachi Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 It only fails because you guys have relatively common names. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fratto Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 Ok, so technically if the auto generated stuff is there and my username hasn't been officially signed up, I can sign up and take some control of what's there?Whoop, I actually just tried registering Flik and it looks like someone else took it. Guess I have no control at all there. Edit: Ok...so apparently I can't actually register a username with a space between words. How the crap am I supposed to register my real name when it won't allow it, yet it's shown that way in the auto generated stuff? Man that site sucks for when the real artist wants to sign up. I think you have to create a label first, then you can add yourself to it as an artist. I don't think there is a way to control what you're credited for, though. That's completely out of your hands and only up to people who are using your name as an artist in their playlist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmr Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 i like the stats on the site, though. like for example, currently my #1 listener is a 20 year old girl from the netherlands (and i'm currently the #1 thing she listens to).Hmm, apparently I'm one of your top listeners as well. Must be because I listened to RoFL recently. ... you did 'Happy 2 Dux' too? Wow, I had no idea! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doulifée Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 *add friend from ocr like suzu and Co* tag need to be properly written in your hard drive yes. And name shared with many is still a problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkeSword Posted April 19, 2007 Share Posted April 19, 2007 As an artist, I don't think you can control your Last.FM artist profile. You can only control your Last.FM user profile. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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