Comments on: Libre.fm Is Gathering Speed

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 13:37:05 +0000

@MoLE – Hi, thanks for reading. I haven’t scrobbled in a very long time it’s true. There are many reasons for this I think. My listening of talk podcasts has gone up and I tend to do that through my phone. I’ve only recently upgraded to a HTC Desire and I hope to find a good scrobbling solution on Android. That should bring activity up. I’ve been busier than expected this year and haven’t kept up with Libre.fm development at all. That’s my own fault. Distro hopping and having to set everything up each time probably doesn’t help either. I still see a fair bit of activity on the Libre.fm mailing list but I don’t know if the overall project has advanced much. I hope so.

By: MoLE

MoLE — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 12:33:36 +0000

I noticed you haven’t scrobbled to libre.fm for a while Dan. Do you still follow development? My guess would be that your scrobbling got mucked up with all the distro hopping…

Cheers,

MoLE

By: Is Libre.fm Withering on the Vine?

Is Libre.fm Withering on the Vine? — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:48:43 +0000

[...] Last.fm and build a social network for music lovers based on free software and open data. The team made great strides at implementing this in the first few months and got a working prototype up pretty quickly. But then development stalled and although the [...]

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 13:40:04 +0000

@antonio – I think that’s the plan. They already have their main artist tag cloud only showing Free Culture artists, and there are little green icons next to all CC artists and tracks on the site.

By: Antonio

Antonio — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 11:41:54 +0000

I really hope libre.fm doesn’t just try to copy last.fm. I think it needs to focus on promoting “free” artists and music.

I’d definitely use it more if instead of recommending me commercial artists it scoured jamendo, magnatune et al for free music similar to what I’m listening to.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 29 May 2009 09:02:14 +0000

@cam – Thanks for the reminder. I’ve seen plenty of people talking about Scrobble Free on the developer mailing list but not had chance to try it yet. I’ll give it a go

By: camdecoster

camdecoster — Fri, 29 May 2009 03:29:47 +0000

FYI, there’s a Rhythmbox plugin that works for both Last.fm and Libre.fm. It’s called Scrobble Free. I’m using v0.3 and it works well. For things to work properly, you have to disable the Last.fm plugin.

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 23 May 2009 17:30:37 +0000

@Aengus – Hmm, that doesn’t look right. All my stuff should be tagged properly but lately I’ve been testing out different media players and I’ve noticed some strange things. Some of the tags have been changed to things like “unknown artist” when they were fine before. I think some of the programs have been trying to automatically update tags and messing them up. It’s gonna take ages to sort out. I hope Easytag can do most of it automatically. Thanks for pointing it out though

By: Aengus

Aengus — Sat, 23 May 2009 16:01:13 +0000

Metallica – Whiskey_In_The_Jar ?

Already polluting it with bad meta-data?

By: Rick

Rick — Sun, 10 May 2009 06:32:26 +0000

it’s always = it is, never possessive
its = possessive

Oh yeah, good article, good project!