Ok, what's with this last.fm shiz?

[Flik]

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?

[atmuh]

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

[Majin GeoDooD]

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.

[Chickenwarlord]

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.

[suzumebachi]

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).

[Fratto]

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.

[OverCoat]

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.

[DrumUltimA]

Flik, I noticed that too after I got my remix up--suddently DrumUltimA had a last.fm page. It's basically blank

[Less Ashamed Of Self]

Wow... I've got one too... for like PRC submissions, OLR submissions, and my Bound Together pieces.

WTF.

[Dhsu]

I guess I should consider it fortunate that there are no other music-making Dhsu's out there.

[vindkast]

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

[Flik]

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.

[suzumebachi]

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!

[Jimmy Jazz]

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?

[Dhsu]

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!

[Arek the Absolute]

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

[suzumebachi]

i dunno there's no pix

pix plz!

[Fishy]

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.

[jmr]

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.

[Arek the Absolute]

Hahahaha.

LastFM is so failing. I should put my name up there and see what random ass crap i get credited to me.

[suzumebachi]

It only fails because you guys have relatively common names.

[Fratto]

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.

[jmr]

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!

[Doulifée]

*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.

[DarkeSword]

As an artist, I don't think you can control your Last.FM artist profile. You can only control your Last.FM user profile.