I've deleted my Last.fm account and am proud of it!

nobody@vox.com(あさり) — Sun, 04 May 2008 12:57:07 +0200

So yeah I've deleted my Last.fm account yesterday after about a year using it.
So many of you might ask themselves why did I do it and abandoned such a great site (which is true last.fm is an excellent site).

Well the reasons are:

1. I didn't profit too much having the account
When I activated my last.fm account it was fine, I could implement it on my sites, the scrobbling was ok and I had fun there. Pretty much positive. But soon I had to move my site to a host which didn't allow embedding flash content (recently it does, but I haven't figured out how). So no momently listening and top artist widgets, which well killed the magic of it. I also was irritated by the thing that you can only have normal RSS feeds for now listening charts but not for everything else.
I can basically do the things I want on Last.fm without an account.

2. Scrobbling
It wasn't rare that the stuff my sister was listening got scrobbled. She has got a completely different music taste than I have and yeah that often screwed my charts. Of course you could delete that but sometimes you had to wait an entire day for the songs to be available for deletion. One day she listened to Cinema Bizarre and my recently listened list had to suffer an entire day before I could remove that. BAD!
Also I never listen to music on my computer (where music is scrobbled) but over iPod. Sure they did have the function to scrobble music via iPod, but in most cases the Last.fm software said Your iPod had nothing new to scrobble (No shit! What about the hundreds of songs I listened since the last time I've uploaded my iPod?). So mostly my recently listened list was empty.

3. Radio function
Yes the radio was a cool function as well as the playlist but then again you could only embedded it through a flash widget and not rarely it had only 30 second versions of songs. Plus since I majorly listen to Visual kei artist most of them had no song previews nor complete songs. An the most interesting thing was that you couldn't embed your own radio when you were logged in, but when you were logged out yes. Nice logic.

4. Artist names and tags
Last.fm literally forced you to rename your artists correctly, which is a positive thing, but then again my iTunes software sometimes couldn't rename an artist and sometimes I got a completely different artist scrobbled because the artist I listened shares the name with 5 others. And not to mention 3 and more variations for some artist's names (example: alice nine, Alice nine, Alice Nine, alice nine., アリス九號, アリス九號.; not to mention some others). They did put voting for correct names, but still it is irritating.

5. Random friend requests and shoutbox comments
I often got friend requests from the most random people just because we share one or two artists. That is kinda annoying and not to mention that MOST of last.fm people do that. Or give comments like Great music taste! Nice bands etc.... I'm not into such stuff.

6. People forming groups
From fanatic fangirl groups to hate/anti-something/flam groups, there wasn't a group you couldn't find on last.fm. Okay some of them were interesting and entertaining (even some hate groups) but well most were pretty shallow. In a lot of groups you could see people argue about this and that. As far as I've read in Last.fm policy insulting and similar is forbidden, but Last.fm sometimes did gave the impression as the biggest battlefield on earth. Music should unite and make people tolerant and peaceful, not be a means of argument and hate. As long as that will stay so I won't even consider coming back to last.fm. I respect every person and it's musical choices whether I like it or not.

7. Honestly DO you really want people to know what are you listening?
Some may say yes, others no. Prejudice is human, and I know people (even I, though I tend not to) judge others by the music they listen. So you could basically not give a damn about somebody just because your music compatibility is low or none? Or because you listen to different artists? I consider the things I listen via iPod as my private thing, sure I share some artists I listen via reviews but that doesn't mean that that is all I listen to.

Really and I don't need so many internet services. Takes too much of my time.

Thank you Last.fm, it was nice, but I'm better off without an account.

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I've deleted my Last.fm account and am proud of it!