Recently active ideas in Last.fm

Can we get the sound levels of the last.fm radio normalized? It's very annoying to have to adjust the volume every other song.

What about a "friends radio"? Seeing all my friends as a virtual group it should be possible to create a "unique friends radio" on the friends page analog a group radio if all these friends were members of a specific group! How about such an idea?

Could there be a listening count for me on very artist page and on every track page. Maybe in a box with other personal information such as: "last.fm thinks this artist fits you 85%"

I get sent to pages by my friends and then I wonder whether I've ever listened to that artist. And when coming across an artist name on the internet, I usually look him up on last.fm. I then miss the above described information. But furthermore I'd like an estimation how good he fits with my profile.

I know I can get the listening count via my all time artist charts and via my all time track charts. And I regularly do. .. But it's three clicks + a search in the site, every time I come across an artist I don't know.

And I really miss this "fits ...% well in your library". I suppose that's hard to calculate for every artist - user pair. But you are already doing it for every user-user pair.

It would be nice if the favicon colour was dependent upon theme selected, ie. 'Paint it black', 'Simply Red'. Defaults to 'Simply Red' if not logged in.

Since the redesign, I never seem to know what my friends are listening to. My friends' recent tracks are buried on the right sidebar of the homepage, and since it's not "above the fold" I am rarely compelled to scroll down there. Seeing what they're up to is one of the things that keeps me at Last.fm: writing on their walls about what they're listening to, looking into artists I don't recognize, etc.

I think the fix is an easy one, actually: The huge amount of screen real estate taken up by the "Recently Added to Your Library" section would be better spent on recent activity by me and all my friends. I think I know what "My Library" is, and its prominent place must be geared towards the aim of making last.fm a hub for music, but as someone surgically attached to iTunes who uses Last.fm for community and statistical features, I'd love to see those back in prominence. At first I thought perhaps preferences would be in order, but it could be even more transparent -- if I'm doing lots of offsite Scrobbling and barely any browsing through My Library or Stations, the site could notice that and shift to more adequately meet the way I use it (i.e., putting stats and community features front and center on the homepage).

Some constructive criticism, I hope! Overall, I love the redesign, and I've been with you guys since the AudioScrobbler days. Keep up the great work. Thanks!

I'd like to see more emphasis put on the Journal. On the new beta, it's still kinda tacked on as an afterthought, and I'd like the option of putting it more front and center in my profile. I'd also like to see it more front and center on other pages to encourage it's use more.

Beyond that, I'd love to see some kind of integration between the last.fm Journal and any blogs I may have lying around. It would be a great way to extend my last.fm experience out into the rest of my internet social experience if Journal posts also posted to my blogs embedded content and all!

Currently the overheard is catching a lot of twits about people sending the last song they played. Not very useful and it spams the stream which means that people (like me) monitoring for people twitting for help, cannot find it (I won't even register to last.fm overheard when 95% is last song played spam)

This can be fixed by excluding the keyword www.last.fm. Since most automated scripts send the full url of the artist (which is what is being caught), by removing this keyword, only twits actually wiring "last.fm" will be shown

See the difference for yourself

I'm sitting around the office with my co-workers, and we are listening to Last.fm. It's a blazing hot day in San Francisco, and we don't have air conditioning. So, I made a radio station that uses the tag "hot". What I'd really like, though, is to have a group mode. I'd ask each of my co-workers (five in the room right now) to name an artist, and I'd enter their responses into Last.fm. That way, we'd create a custom radio station just for our office, and we'd undoubtedly all find new, previously unforeseen intersections of our musical interests. Everyone's happy!

Is this already possible? I may simply not know about such a feature (or a similar feature).

I'd really _love_ l.o.v.e. l/o/v/e to get last.fm included in the radio stations.

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