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Journals are still available if you use the link www.last.fm/user/yourusername/journal

 

If you get an error, refresh

 

On the forum they said they'd bring the feature back

Not always. Mine seems to be inaccessible. I am unsure if it's because they deleted them or if the server is down. I get a "502 bad gateway" when trying to view one of my journals. You can try for yourself here.

However, you can still access your journals! You must do it now before it disappears. Follow these simple steps:

 

  1. Google "last.fm journal username" with your username.
  2. Find the journal you want to save.
  3. Click "Translate this page". This brings up an old version of it.
  4. Save!

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Not always. Mine seems to be inaccessible. I am unsure if it's because they deleted them or if the server is down. I get a "502 bad gateway" when trying to view one of my journals. You can try for yourself here.

 

Refresh once or twice and it works fine.

 

Meanings:

Not AOTY Material

Possibly AOTY Material

Definitely AOTY Material

Haven't Gotten To Yet

101A - 0号室の旅人

12012 - XII

1000mods - Vultures

Agalloch - The Serpent and the Sphere

AKLO - The Arrival

Alcest - Shelter

Aldious - Other World

Aldious - Dazed and Delight

ALSDEAD - STARLESS

ALSDEAD - IDEA

Animals as Leaders - The Joy of Motion

ANTEMASQUE - ANTEMASQUE

Aphex Twin - Syro

アルルカン - ニア・イコール

avengers in sci-fi - Unknown Tokyo Blues

BABYMETAL - BABYMETAL

BADBADNOTGOOD - III

Boris - NOISE

BORN - THE STALIN -666-

Burial - Rival Dealer

Cannibal Ox - Blade of the Ronin

Casualties of Cool - Casualties of Cool

Charisma.com - DIStopping

Clockwork Indigo - Butterfly Effect

The Contortionist - Languages

D機関 - 非理法権天

DEATHGAZE - ENIGMA

Death Grips - Niggas On The Moon

dieS - VICTIM

Dir en grey - SUSTAIN THE UNTRUTH

Domo Genesis - Under the Influence 2

Electric Wizard - Time To Die

FEMME FATALE - GLADSHEIM

Fire! Orchestra - Enter

fox capture plan - Wall

GALNERYUS - VETELGYUS

the god and death stars - mary bird milk

グリーヴァ - 終焉

GRIKO - 超想都市

Hail Spirit Noir - Oi Magoi

Hiroyuki Sawano - ALDNOAH ZERO OST

HOLLOWGRAM - Qualia

Inferi - The Path of Apotheosis

I.T.G - Instigate the Grief

jizue - Shiori

Jungle by Night - The Hunt

Jupiter - Arcadia

Jupiter - 氷の中の少女

KAMIJO - Symphony of the Vampire

KAMIJO - Heart

吉澤嘉代子 - 変身少女

吉澤嘉代子 - 幻倶楽部

la la larks - ego-izm

Lament. - Beautiful Creature

Lantlos - Melting Sun

Lindsey Stirling - Shatter Me

LIPHLICH - GRATEFUL NONSENSE

LOSTAGE - Guitar

lynch. - GALLOWS

浜田マロン - マヤカシのブルース

Martyrdod - Elddop

Mechina - Xenon

Meliyas - MAJO LP

MEJIBRAY - Theatrical Blue Black

MF DOOM - NehruvianDOOM

Mono - The Last Dawn

Mono - Rays of Darkness

Mountain Mocha Kilimanjaro - 壱弐参四伍録

NEMETH - Creature

Nocturnal Bloodlust - LIBRA

NoGoD - 四季彩

NoGoD - Make A New World

THE NOVEMBERS - Rhapsody in Beauty

陰陽座- 青天の三日月

陰陽座 - 雷神創世

陰陽座 - 風神界逅

palitextdestroy - twilight

Perturbator - Dangerous Days

Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 2

Sadie - GANGSTA

Shrapnel - The Virus Conspires

SOIL&"PIMP" SESSIONS - brothers and sisters

Step Brothers - Lord Steppington

椎名林檎 - 逆輸入~港湾局~

椎名林檎 - NIPPON

椎名林檎 - 日出処

sukekiyo - IMMORTALIS

Squarepusher - Music for Robots

Tech N9ne - Strangeulation

TK from 凛として時雨 - contrast

TK from 凛として時雨 - Fantastic Magic

Trioscapes - Digital Dream Sequence

Trophy Scars - Holy Vacants

Tumbleweed Dealer - Western Horror

Vampillia - The Divine Plan

VI Seconds - Animated

和楽器バンド - ボカロ三昧

和楽器バンド - 華火

WUJA BIN BIN - INAKA JAZZ

Yoko Kanno - 残響のテロル オリジナル・サウンドトラック

Yousei Teikoku - 使徒覚醒

 

edit: These journal pages might be the last remaining relics of the 'old' last.fm layout. Cherish them while they're here. :(

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Refresh once or twice and it works fine.

 

Meanings:

Not AOTY Material

Possibly AOTY Material

Definitely AOTY Material

Haven't Gotten To Yet

101A - 0号室の旅人

12012 - XII

1000mods - Vultures

Agalloch - The Serpent and the Sphere

AKLO - The Arrival

Alcest - Shelter

Aldious - Other World

Aldious - Dazed and Delight

ALSDEAD - STARLESS

ALSDEAD - IDEA

Animals as Leaders - The Joy of Motion

ANTEMASQUE - ANTEMASQUE

Aphex Twin - Syro

アルルカン - ニア・イコール

avengers in sci-fi - Unknown Tokyo Blues

BABYMETAL - BABYMETAL

BADBADNOTGOOD - III

Boris - NOISE

BORN - THE STALIN -666-

Burial - Rival Dealer

Cannibal Ox - Blade of the Ronin

Casualties of Cool - Casualties of Cool

Charisma.com - DIStopping

Clockwork Indigo - Butterfly Effect

The Contortionist - Languages

D機関 - 非理法権天

DEATHGAZE - ENIGMA

Death Grips - Niggas On The Moon

dieS - VICTIM

Dir en grey - SUSTAIN THE UNTRUTH

Domo Genesis - Under the Influence 2

Electric Wizard - Time To Die

FEMME FATALE - GLADSHEIM

Fire! Orchestra - Enter

fox capture plan - Wall

GALNERYUS - VETELGYUS

the god and death stars - mary bird milk

グリーヴァ - 終焉

GRIKO - 超想都市

Hail Spirit Noir - Oi Magoi

Hiroyuki Sawano - ALDNOAH ZERO OST

HOLLOWGRAM - Qualia

Inferi - The Path of Apotheosis

I.T.G - Instigate the Grief

jizue - Shiori

Jungle by Night - The Hunt

Jupiter - Arcadia

Jupiter - 氷の中の少女

KAMIJO - Symphony of the Vampire

KAMIJO - Heart

吉澤嘉代子 - 変身少女

吉澤嘉代子 - 幻倶楽部

la la larks - ego-izm

Lament. - Beautiful Creature

Lantlos - Melting Sun

Lindsey Stirling - Shatter Me

LIPHLICH - GRATEFUL NONSENSE

LOSTAGE - Guitar

lynch. - GALLOWS

浜田マロン - マヤカシのブルース

Martyrdod - Elddop

Mechina - Xenon

Meliyas - MAJO LP

MEJIBRAY - Theatrical Blue Black

MF DOOM - NehruvianDOOM

Mono - The Last Dawn

Mono - Rays of Darkness

Mountain Mocha Kilimanjaro - 壱弐参四伍録

NEMETH - Creature

Nocturnal Bloodlust - LIBRA

NoGoD - 四季彩

NoGoD - Make A New World

THE NOVEMBERS - Rhapsody in Beauty

陰陽座- 青天の三日月

陰陽座 - 雷神創世

陰陽座 - 風神界逅

palitextdestroy - twilight

Perturbator - Dangerous Days

Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 2

Sadie - GANGSTA

Shrapnel - The Virus Conspires

SOIL&"PIMP" SESSIONS - brothers and sisters

Step Brothers - Lord Steppington

椎名林檎 - 逆輸入~港湾局~

椎名林檎 - NIPPON

椎名林檎 - 日出処

sukekiyo - IMMORTALIS

Squarepusher - Music for Robots

Tech N9ne - Strangeulation

TK from 凛として時雨 - contrast

TK from 凛として時雨 - Fantastic Magic

Trioscapes - Digital Dream Sequence

Trophy Scars - Holy Vacants

Tumbleweed Dealer - Western Horror

Vampillia - The Divine Plan

VI Seconds - Animated

和楽器バンド - ボカロ三昧

和楽器バンド - 華火

WUJA BIN BIN - INAKA JAZZ

Yoko Kanno - 残響のテロル オリジナル・サウンドトラック

Yousei Teikoku - 使徒覚醒

I sat for five minutes and tried and still can't get through. I'll have to try later when I get home and pray the rest still work.

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Journals are still available if you use the link www.last.fm/user/yourusername/journal

 

If you get an error, refresh

 

On the forum they said they'd bring the feature back

Oh whew it came up. Saving immediately argh.

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I am getting "502 Bad Gateway" on multiple sections of the website now.

I get this in all section, even in my prof and the main page

-edit-

I finally access my prof, and just...

Also my pic is from eras ago not my currently one and comments are mixed...

Total mess fm

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Also, thank you to @Lestat for taking your time to sign in and post feedback and complaints from this topic on their forums.

I bet they'd get much more feedback if they didn't require people to log into other sites to post comments on last.fm support forums... seriously what is the big idea behind this? Why wouldn't a last.fm profile be enough? :unsure:

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Also, thank you to @Lestat for taking your time to sign in and post feedback and complaints from this topic on their forums.

I bet they'd get much more feedback if they didn't require people to log into other sites to post comments on last.fm support forums... seriously what is the big idea behind this? Why wouldn't a last.fm profile be enough? :unsure:

 

Tbh they probably do want to make it harder for people to complain

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Why set the site to go live today if it's basically unusable? 

 

https://getsatisfaction.com/lastfm/topics/new-site-launch-temporary-service-disruption-information

 

Can't even edit my profile? The fuck.

The new version has more ad space, and they clearly don't give a shit about usability (or anything it seems). 

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This has it's own problems. Tagging isn't uniform and even the smallest deviation in one area of the tag could throw off the hash, edge cases of two different combinations hashing to the same value, etc. However it is infinitely superior to the current method. INFINITELY. Like I don't understand why it wasn't done this way to begin with. Hire me today five years ago and I could have fixed this.

 

Now it's too late. We all have an expectation of our scrobbles being preserved through updates. Since they've mixed listening habits of many different artists together over many years into one page as well as allowed these "hacks" to move throughout the website, trying to bring together like artist pages while also separating scrobbles from Artist A from scrobbles from Artist B, while making sure A and B really don't have two tracks named the same thing, while then doing the same for each song is an exercise in futility. At this point, they'd just have to redo the system, nuke everyone's scrobbles, and start over.

Either that, or direct people to the tool that restores lost scrobbles and modify the tool to do these hashes and then reinsert? That's even more hacky though.

tl;dr - last.fm was designed badly from the ground up

 

It's definitely not a 100% effective way, sure. But it could be coupled with a wiki-like community management of content - Nothing intrusive, but something like... when you log in, a small box (NOT a popup) shows somewhere saying "Hey! You've scrobbled some tracks that we don't recognize. Mind helping us assign them to their rightful places?" that would direct them to a simple tool to select the artist, album, and track to be added.

 

Now take that and times it by the thousands of people that used their service. You'd have a pretty well established artist/album/song library with a dedicated community behind it.

 

Though in the end, it kinda boils down to Google-like AI and machine learning to truly make it smart enough to pick up on things (hell, could be coupled with using Google itself to anticipate releases for artists and pre-add them).

 

My developer brain is starting to go off the rails now, so I'm going to end it with that.

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It's definitely not a 100% effective way, sure. But it could be coupled with a wiki-like community management of content - Nothing intrusive, but something like... when you log in, a small box (NOT a popup) shows somewhere saying "Hey! You've scrobbled some tracks that we don't recognize. Mind helping us assign them to their rightful places?" that would direct them to a simple tool to select the artist, album, and track to be added.

 

Now take that and times it by the thousands of people that used their service. You'd have a pretty well established artist/album/song library with a dedicated community behind it.

 

Though in the end, it kinda boils down to Google-like AI and machine learning to truly make it smart enough to pick up on things (hell, could be coupled with using Google itself to anticipate releases for artists and pre-add them).

 

My developer brain is starting to go off the rails now, so I'm going to end it with that.

If last.fm started like that it would have been an amazing, revolutionary service. It might have actually succeeded at it's original goals if they combined the machine learning with the radio so it would try to infer things you would like Pandora-style. But now we have Pandora and Spotify so it's too late to the party to matter. This is why I said that scalable architecture and software engineering is an art form (and I'm sure you agree).

The trick now is to decouple several terabytes of artists and track data, assign them some new IDs, and then decouple songs, give those new IDs, and then assign them to the right artists. This probably falls into the category of intractable problems that are easy to describe and difficult to implement. Though if they can't get this update sorted out sooner rather than later this may not even matter...

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There is already an online petition to make last.fm revert their website to the previous design! :lol:

ETA: there are at least two petitions

Not that I have faith in petitions... or the idea that last.fm staff will actually listen to a word that other people say.

Considering the fact that the developers seem to be snubbing all of their users entirely, I'm about ready to abandon last.fm & scrobbling and go back to looking at play counts on iTunes. >.>

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not about losing tracks, but for the big mess they did with it tbh

 

the site has been in a nosedive for the past 3/4 years, really don't know why people are so distraught about this. this shouldn't be a surprise

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the site has been in a nosedive for the past 3/4 years, really don't know why people are so distraught about this. this shouldn't be a surprise

I don't use the site that much, the app is easier to me... but the point that they force me to use beta instagram copy version is bleh.

Also, they upload my first pic to be my main avi xD

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