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57 minutes ago, AlSymerz said:

Hmmm. Once again I'm not part of the incrowd. :( I have never used lastFm

You're not missing out on anything exciting, scrobbling just counts how many times you've played things and lets you sort it by different time periods n shit. For those of us who are obsessed with numbers and enjoy playing with them for no apparent reason and have a lot of time on our hands. I just hope Cum Blood dude doesn't mind that I'm playing along at home.

 

GG top 200 most played bands countdown according to lastFM

 

196. Shadow's Mortuary - Tulen Valtakunta, Finland

 

195. Ered - Evil Sorceries, Spain

 

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Unless it was automatic and some how counted the times I played things on different sources it would be useless to me for keeping track anyway. Numbers are fun, numbers are great. I've spent the best part of four days comparing washing machine stats, comparing power companies and doing my tax but counting the number of listens an album gets would be like counting how many times I ate steak.

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17 minutes ago, AlSymerz said:

Unless it was automatic and some how counted the times I played things on different sources it would be useless to me for keeping track anyway. Numbers are fun, numbers are great. I've spent the best part of four days comparing washing machine stats, comparing power companies and doing my tax but counting the number of listens an album gets would be like counting how many times I ate steak.

There are supposedly ways to get it to scrobble from all your different devices and even youtube plays if you want but I'm a low tech kinda guy so I only scrobble what I play on the desktop computer. So whatever I play anywhere else in the car or around the house off my phone doesn't get counted. Years ago I had it scrobbling my ipod plays too, but my last ipod died a long time ago.

So when you're in the mood for a steak what do you do, just walk outside kick a cow in the nuts and then slice him up? 

(that was a joke, I know steers have been relieved of their nuts)

I have a lamb steak downstairs to cook tonight when I'm ready. With a sweet potato and some asparagus. It's 7:30 already, I should probably go do that pretty soon. 

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My problem is that I listen to a lot of things on USB media, in the cars, the tractor etc. But then I also play a lot of albums in those vehicles (especially the tractor) that I don't really hear due to getting in and out so often. I suppose I could write down all those albums and manually add them to something but I don't see it happening. I'd forget once, then again, then by the third time I'd just give up.

Two of the bulls here you'd never get close enough to kick in the nuts without loosing your own, besides they need their nuts a few times a year. Our steak comes from the same place as everyone else, a local butcher. We select the cows that aren't going to market and get the local bloke to come in and deal with them. We usually take a side for ourselves, sometimes a full beast, and sometimes we sell at a discount rate to friends, but otherwise it goes in the butcher's shop and he pays for it. Paying a butcher to deal with the animals means we get various cuts of meat, as opposed to if I did it myself where we'd get whatever the fuck came off with the knife.

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23 hours ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

I fucking love this band, is this a new release? Nothing on M-A about it yet, is it another demo or a full length? What formats does this come in, do they have a digital? Their other album (demo or whatever) L'espiar Maishant was cassette only and I loved it so much I bought it anyway.

That's their new full length, and as far as I know it's only seen the vinyl release so far, but I'm sure it will get a cd and/or tape soon. Digital is possible, but I wouldn't bet on it being any time soon. Tour de Garde isn't on Bandcamp, and he only just put the second demo up on his own Bandcamp page this year

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6 hours ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

You're not missing out on anything exciting, scrobbling just counts how many times you've played things and lets you sort it by different time periods n shit. For those of us who are obsessed with numbers and enjoy playing with them for no apparent reason and have a lot of time on our hands. I just hope Cum Blood dude doesn't mind that I'm playing along at home.

No I don't mind. I see it as positive that someone tags along. Cool stuff so far!

5 hours ago, AlSymerz said:

My problem is that I listen to a lot of things on USB media, in the cars, the tractor etc. But then I also play a lot of albums in those vehicles (especially the tractor) that I don't really hear due to getting in and out so often. I suppose I could write down all those albums and manually add them to something but I don't see it happening. I'd forget once, then again, then by the third time I'd just give up.

I listen to a lot of cd's and vinyls and it won't obviously track those down. Plus with friends and family I have to play stuff that fits to their ears aswell and it counts those scrobbles down too, so lastFM won't tell everything about the true musical taste I have, but it's still entertaining.

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195. Children of bodom - Hatebreeder

 

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GG top 200 most played bands countdown according to lastFM

 

192. Necroroots - Distorted Visions of Death, Mexico

 

191. Warfist - Metal to the Bone, Poland

 

The accessibility of that app totally sucks, but at a guess I could probably name my top 10 most played bands off the top of my head.

 

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