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With the new Spotify integration, as well as being able to play almost any track or album listed on Last.fm, you can now start a playlist from almost any tracklisting on the site.

To do so, simply play the first track in the list and it should queue up all of the matching tracks in Spotify. If you want to save this as a playlist, simply open the play queue in Spotify, highlight all of the tracks in the queue, right click and choose 'Add to… new playlist".

Here are some of my favourites:

1. Last.fm playlists

Although technically deprecated,…

This month an experimental third-party app has come our way that's really piqued my interest. It's called Scrobblr, and uses the microphone on your android / ios device to identify music and scrobble it to your profile.

The reason it's got me excited, is because it means you can potentially scrobble anything and everything you can hear – broadcast radio; TV; car stereo; games console; CD, Vinyl, Cassette; and services that don't natively scrobble like soundcloud, youtube, and xbox music. The developers even claim (though we've had mixed results ourselves) that you can scrobble music heard out and about at…

http://i.imgur.com/9h1oGRq.jpg

On my profile I have the following charts:

2013

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2012

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All time

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See more http://i.imgur.com/peGek.jpg

You can find your own scrobble charts on our hidden "explore" feature, at the following location:

http://www.last.fm/user/_/library/explore

You can explore specific years, months, and even specific days.

http://www.last.fm/user/_/library/explore/2013
http://www.last.fm/user/_/library/explore/2013/April
http://www.last.fm/user/_/library/explore/2013/04/30

They go all the way back to when you first joined last.fm; for example here's my first day of scrobbling:

http://www.last.fm/user/Maddieman/library/explore/2008/09/08

You can copy your charts into your about me section by right clicking on the chart, and opening the image in a new tab. Simply copy the url in the address…

1. Health - Max Payne 3: the Official Soundtrack (626)

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2. Somegirl - The Velvet Hour (441)

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3. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless (421)

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4. Terami Hirsch - A Broke Machine (411)

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5. Somegirl - She's Full of Secrets (384)

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6. Lana Del Rey - Born to Die (374)
7. Dragonette - Galore (229)
8. The Mummers - Tale to Tell (219)
9. Somegirl - I've Been Known to be Completely Wrong (203)
10. Mylène Farmer - Anamorphosée (159)
11. Akira Yamaoka - Silent Hill 2 OST (157)
12.…

We all like to grumble about how Christmas is getting earlier every year — at least as far as supermarkets are concerned. But is this true for people’s listening habits? This afternoon we decided to take a look at our data, which curiously suggests that perhaps the opposite is true…

Like all of the best ideas, this graph came about it after a few rounds at the pub last night, and may or may not be scientifically valid. But it is scientific, which means it’s true.

http://maddieman.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/is_christmas_getting_later.png?w=640

Christmas science

Last week Microsoft rolled out another dashboard update, and this one includes an integrated web browser for gold accounts. Unfortunately, the Last.fm web player won't run because flash isn't supported. :|

However, one thing that does work is our html5 based Discover app.

http://www.last.fm/discover

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If you've never used it before, Discover is a personalised music player that introduces you to bands from around the world by letting you browse through musical styles that you may already know or want to learn more about. Crucially, the Discover app focuses on independent music from over half a million artists and labels…

It occurred to me that the Internet would be a better place to live in if everyone cursed like Captain Haddock. After all, it's pretty hard to take someone seriously when they're calling you "a dunderheaded anthropophagus".

So, over one weekend I quickly adapted a user script to replace the most offensive comments I could find with Captain Haddock curses.

You can get it here:
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/149563

(Chrome users - to install you need to download the js file, open the Tools -> Extensions page, and then drag and drop the file onto your browser).

I used the Radiohead and Muse…

Last Saturday marked my 4th anniversary as a Last.fm member. In two months time, I will have worked for the company for 2 years.

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