Category: Music

My year in music – Last.fm

Last.fm published my listening report for 2017! I like it. A few thoughts:

  • The drop occurred during my sabbatical (February–April).
  • I rarely ❤️ tracks in the Last.fm app.
  • Listening Clock — 4:00–5:00 pm might be the period of time when I’m in the groove at work. 🕓🕔
  • Biggest Day — “You listened to 225 tracks on 20 June 2017.” This…seems wrong. I’ll consider cleaning this up by hand; I can delete scrobbles, mainly ones that occur at the same time.

I also appreciated the ability to download images of the various data modules. For posterity:

I miss you, Rdio (and some Last.fm stats)

Farewell Rdio 2015-12-15.png

I forgot to post this Rdio farewell screenshot for posterity1. Still sad.

Here are my stats for albums scrobbled to Last.fm between 2012-03-23 and 2015-12-152. The top ten were:

  • Chiodos — Devil — 737 (release date: 2014-04-01)
  • Linkin Park — The Hunting Party — 688 (release date: 2014-06-13)
  • Closure in Moscow — Pink Lemonade — 521 (release date: 2014-05-09)
  • Elevate: I Am — The Ghost Eclipse Sessions — 451 (release date: 2011-06-07)
  • Finch — Back to Oblivion — 394 (release date: 2014-09-30)
  • Pennywise — All or Nothing (Deluxe Edition) — 374 (release date: 2012-04-30)
  • Story of the Year — In the Wake of Determination — 337 (release date: 2005-10-11)
  • Finch — What It Is to Burn — 336 (release date: 2002-03-12)
  • blink-182 — Enema of the State — 330 (release date: 1999-06-01)
  • Story of the Year — Page Avenue (US Non-PA Version) — 330 (release date: 2003-09-16)
  1. The Rdio farewell page is still displayed when signing into your account. ↩
  2. 2015-12-15 is the date I took the screenshot. ↩

My ticket-smashing Apple Music playlist

Using Rdio Enhancer, I saved a CSV file of my ticket-smashing Rdio playlist that has 154 songs (which I’ve shared on Cloudup), then manually recreated the playlist on Apple Music.

Four songs weren’t available on Apple Music.

  • Control by Alexisonfire (Rdio)
  • One in a Million by Bodyjar (Rdio)
  • She Broke My Heart, so I Broke His Jaw by Just Surrender (Rdio)
  • Won’t Turn Back by Our Lady Peace (Rdio)

San Dimas High School Football Rules by The Ataris was on the Rdio playlist twice, so I removed that dupe.

Enjoy! 😎

For posterity, here are the details for the playlist:

  • Name: Ticket-smashing (catchy)
  • Description: Catchy rock songs to zone into helping people in support, and everything related.
  • Song count: 151
  • Duration: 9 hours, 50 minutes

Rdio Enhancer

While there isn’t a way to automatically import my favorites from Rdio, I finally installed Rdio Enhancer — a Google Chrome extension — which adds features like Export (Favorites) to CSV1, and several playlist additions, including Remove Duplicates2 and seven sorting options.

I’ll post an Apple Music playlist of my previously posted Ticket-smashing (catchy) playlist on Rdio as soon as I can. It has 155 songs now. 🙂

  1.  I have 7,325 items in my Favorites. I say “items” because it includes stand-up comedy by Mitch Hedberg. ↩
  2. Remove Duplicates removed nine songs from my Ticket-smashing (catchy) playlist. Since the list wasn’t in any order, sifting through 164 songs to manually find duplicates would’ve been tedious. Sweet. ↩

Watching Rx Bandits live in Philadelphia

Steve Choi tweeted earlier today:

That led to: 

Despite intermittent streaming issues, I’m still really stoked to watch them again!

Rdio playlists without lyrics

My colleague, Dennis Hong, posted about his music preference while working: Add Some Urgency to Your Daily Workflow. Movie soundtracks are cool, and I wanted to share a couple Rdio playlists or stations — generally without words — that I’ve used for awhile.

Ambient by Timmii is:

Pertaining to or noting sounds that create a peaceful and relaxed atmosphere.

Concentrate by Trent Walton and 33 collaborators are:

Songs with few or no words. Maybe not too many songs from any one artist.

Occasionally, I’ll listen to the Rdio Baroque station.

Happy album release day, Finch!

Congrats, Finch! Thank you for doing the following:

Finch still follows me 2014-09-30I’ll keep this here in case this ever changes. 😉

Looking forward to seeing you on Saturday at the Observatory!1

  1. I wouldn’t be available for their West Hollywood show in November, and Amy suggested we go to this one. Brilliant! ↩