AdriaNnLA

About Me

Wow, there is a nifty little radio and recommendation thing going on over at www.thesixtyone.com -- the kicker is that you can set it to scrobble to your Last.fm account, should you so desire!

If you check out the site and decide to sign up (don't worry, its free) do me a favor and drop my username in the box when prompted for how you discovered the site, and drop me a note here or there to let me know how you like it -- thanks!

alas, Last.fm becomes less fun and less useful now with each passing day -- mostly it would seem due to a horrible implementation of auto-correction.

I deliberately have auto-correction disabled on my profile, yet wrong track version, in fact completely wrong tracks continue to play when scrobbling. Listening to my tag sets, especially my custom discovery tags has become more of a chore than something to enjoy -- why? auto-correction causes things I have not tagged, to play in place of things that I have tagged. And quite a few of these things I have tagged, yet again due to auto-correction, I can no longer change or remove the original tag.

In addition, the client has reverted to a previous problem, where tags deleted from a track don't get removed even though the client reports all is well. This was blamed on slow cache when it was happening many months ago. It is REALLY slow cache if indeed slow cache is the issue -- I just verified that tags were still applied to a track even though I'd deleted them more than 12hrs ago!

You can add tags through the client -- they take effect immediately, you just cannot remove tags with the client -- for that, you have to remember to poke through the site.

How utterly frustrating!

And that's not what I was here for -- to be frustrated.

So if this keeps up, I'll not be here much longer. Me & my subscriber dollars & links & recommendations of the site etc. will go elsewhere... or at least be gone from here.

I've enjoyed the ride on Last. I will hate having to leave, but hate this miserable experience of late even more. Later.fm

p.s. I hope they get things fixed, but I doubt that will happen -- Last always seems to plow ahead once they've made a change or decision, without room for admission of possible error. Like perhaps how it wasn't genius after all to piss off two/thirds of their users right about the same time that auto-correct user moderations were coming into place...



I suffer from the malady of music mania. (with apologies to Thomas Jefferson)

I'm in it for the music and the pretty pictures. (with apologies to no one)

Jump over to the UnderKnown Artists group to find some incredible artists which seem amazingly to be unheard of here on Last.fm



And remember kids, just because you can animate a gif, doesn't mean you should.


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Recent Activity

• AdriaNnLA left meikola a shout. last week
• AdriaNnLA tagged Belleruche – Alice with ‘heard on last-fm 09’. last week
• AdriaNnLA tagged Belleruche and Belleruche – Turntable soul music with my own discovery mode. last week
• AdriaNnLA tagged Belleruche – Alice with trip-hop, most4tune8sound and jazz-hop. last week
• AdriaNnLA added Belleruche – Alice to his Loved Tracks. last week
• AdriaNnLA tagged Mark Barrios – Spanish Morning with instrumental and heard on last-fm 09. 16 days ago
• AdriaNnLA tagged calculator – Void Eternity with ‘heard on last-fm 09’. 16 days ago
• AdriaNnLA tagged MBF – In The Land Of The Sun with instrumental and heard on last-fm 09. 16 days ago
• AdriaNnLA tagged Sezen Aksu – Ikili Delilik with heard on last-fm 09 and my own discovery mode. 16 days ago
• AdriaNnLA tagged Alain Caron – Options with instrumental and heard on last-fm 09. 16 days ago