Users for Last.fm song length tracking

Active Discussions

arctic_hobo commented on “The best solution so far...” (18)   January 2012

csehszlovakze commented on “The longest track I've ever listened to” (70)   December 2011

Erkan-Yilmaz commented on “updating weekly: What's the music taste of this group?” July 2011

Sagehorn commented on “A website that tracks top artists by track length” (47)   May 2011

soullessmate commented on “not too long, but” (8)   December 2010

• bonvivant

  meh i dont want to see them permanently but i can imagine its fun to know anyway so now and then, here: http://www.normalisr.com/

  Sunday evening

• SAGYology

  You guys are just taking your charts way too seriously...

  11 days ago

• Echos_Myron

  My solution for this group: Stop listening to cheesy 70's prog rock with 20 minute mellotron solos.

  15 days ago

• the_Crowder

  Synchro - Javascript and Flash are run in the browser to render your web page, the server is not involved.

  22 days ago

• the_Crowder

  I don't think you realize just how much load would be created. Normalisr works, but on a smaller scale than the entire last.fm user base, and even then it's sourced from very fuzzy estimates (your play counts are multiplied by an artist's average track length, if i recall correctly).

  22 days ago

• _CaRtZ_

  Umm.. just do what I do. Pad up your prog rock and instrumental etc artists by playing them all night or whilst you're out, that way bands like Pink Floyd, King Crimson, Explosion In The Sky etc will be on your charts where they belong.

  last month

• Arked

  They could implement such functionality for premium users at least. Then they would avoid server overload and make subscription even more rewarding.

  March 2012

• hailmarduk666

  On that note, I've averaged 5:46 per track with over 190,000 scrobbles. Not too shabby :D

  February 2012

• hailmarduk666

  What I'd like is not a total time listening application, or even a total minutes per band chart, I'd just like to know what my average song length is based on my amount of scobbles, scrobbles per day, and base that on the time frame of scrobbling. That way, I can see whether or not I listen to tracks more like Monolithe with 50 minute average track lengths, or a random punk band like NOFX that probably averages 2 minutes per song... Would be interesting I think.

  February 2012

• Neue_regel_

  ELP, Yes, and Van Der Graaf Generator should be on the top-10 list !! They made some of the lengthier songs ever!!

  February 2012

• Synchro!

  you guys know what you're talking about, right? a simple addition of minutes on a weekly basis would be far from demanding compared too all the flash streaming and javascript which is going on here. but yea, you're right, it's probably never going to happen. since CBS took over this site nothing really happened featurewise but an unnecessary re-design and mobile apps.

  February 2012

• StankDank

  I agree with the guy who posted below me...

  December 2011

• the_Crowder

  I hate to be a downer, but you guys should be aware that this is probably never going to happen (at least not while last.fm is free). It's not even remotely feasible. The servers are unreliable enough as it is, and you're proposing a change that would require them to constantly perform calculations for every user on the site. Normalisr does it, but not with nearly as many users and not in real-time. If you care about the discrepancy, put the normalisr widget on your page and let it update once every few days. That's all you can do.

  December 2011

• Global_Carnage

  Kind of annoying to have grindcore artists high in my top charts after 2-3 album listens when progressive rock bands tend to stay quite low due to the generally insane songs length. Actually, very annoying, considering I now mostly listen to bands that compose quite lengthy tracks. Somebody ought to tell last.fm staff what we really need, i.e. a system based on BOTH listening time and number of tracks listened, either separated or united with some kind of mathematical formula that gives people a better idea of what they actually listen to. The current system is outdated and inaccurate and not only because of this issue.

  December 2011

• BlooodMusic

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  November 2011

• BlooodMusic

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  November 2011

• CodexManesse

  I'm surprised that this group isn't bigger. I've always been slightly annoyed with the misrepresentation my charts get due to track length differences.

  November 2011

• al-ghul

  @nick_InZoMNiAC you're absolutely right, like other options in last.fm: e.g duration time on which is based charts, it schould be also song counts or song durations. it's just obvious. i wonder why up to now there is no such options in last.fm. both options should be, and better, the third option which mixes somehow song length and song counts with some simple statistical weights.

  October 2011

• al-ghul

  you're right, it will be the best solution I think:)

  October 2011

• BitchDestroyer

  Nothing's better than count both number of tracks and their length too))

  October 2011