Your ideas for new community features

Could this be implemented? As there already is an auto-correct feature, and this would save a lot of duplicate artists, such as Apples In Stereo, The, Beta Band, The and Dandy Warhols, The.

The chances of an artist actually being named "%ARTIST%, The" are pretty slim, and since "The" is probably the most used, and most suffixed, this would solve most of these issues.

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A whole new way of searching for music. I'd like to be able to search for say "slow piano" and have a list of songs that come that are slower and have piano. (Slow and Piano being two separate search words). Another search could be "happy" and a bunch of upbeat joyful songs come up. Or "sad slow" or "angry" or whatever. I think if you could search for music like this, people would discover more music from genres they may not listen to. For example, when I come to Last.fm to find new music, I find the music I know and love and browse similar artist or browse the other artists within the same genres. There has been many times where I stumble on songs that I really like that are outside of my normal searching/browsing range.

Sounds like a lot of work to me but I think it would be worth it. I know if I'm thinking of this, someone else is probably thinking the same thing. Users could help by tagging songs as they listen. Maybe a simple input on the Last.fm desktop apps to encourage input (I know I'd contribute while sit here and listen to music out of my library that scrobbles through the Last.fm app. Maybe there already is something else and (I am not counting typing a search into Google and getting some random site that has a list that some 3 people put together) lol. I have more to this idea but I'm not sure if this could be implemented so far. Can it?

How about report buttons for user profiles/shoutbox comments? It's easier (in theory), than sending a link to support or possibly harassing a moderator about it. Or even make that support link more visible on-site, instead of having to sift through the FAQs to find it (probably in the little "Join In" section?)

If i play korn radio, i wanna hear korn!!! not mexican bands that ive never heard of, and in three whole hours of listening to that station, I only heard one, ONE!! korn song. Play more of the main artist for crying out loud, Pandora all the way unless last fm gets this fixed, and also christmas songs aren't good in the summer. Yeah they played a christmas song on korn radio. Pandora has the main artist every 5 songs, why not put in the main artist every 5 songs, cause if that happened last fm would be the best around.

rwitte said:
See on http://www.last.fm/settings/website for 'christmas' settings.URL fixed ... ;-)

I really think that seeing that Spotify added a feature where plays are added to the facebook ticker API, that last.fm should do this too. Spotify does NOT scrobble local tracks, which is incredibly infuriating, seeing as all the listening I do is from my local library, not from the limited amount of songs that are on spotify.

^ it is a good idea, most often there's multiple albums that are mispelled or tons of ep/singles that are often lost in the clutter. For the most part the top played albums are on top but no way to know when they were released or whether or not it's the correct album name title. Anyways theres a topic on that: http://www.last.fm/forum/21717/_/636285/2#f15851594

Currently, the "buy track" option requires you to go to the track page, which is a bit of a faff, especially if you want to buy multiple tracks that you've discovered through last.fm

It'd be good to be able to check a number of tracks in any playlist/a dedicated "to buy" playlist/the Loved tracks list, to then buy them all in a bundle.

Currently, the track page compares from at least iTunes and Amazon MP3 - both prices (as well as free download possibilities!) could be presented in a table with songs as rows.
The default selection would pick the cheaper option for every song, and have buttons "Take me to X checkout" for each retailer.

The feature would keep track of tracks already bought through last.fm and have them automatically de-selected, though with the option of re-selecting them.

snyde1 said:
CuteCheapBoy said:
Hi, i guess this is mostly a question?

Im sure this has been discussed before but I havent found it, is there any possibility that artists forum threads will ever exist in lastfm? I mean in all music forums pretty much most members have lastfm, it would be so cool to just discuss the artist i like here but instead i have to go search for other forums.

That sounds like a group thing. Head to the artist's page you're interested in, and check the right side for groups. If they're linked to a group, that group likely has discussion about them.

If there are no groups listed, create one and add the artist to the group's connections.


Candyheart33 said:
Good luck getting anyone to post in it...


Yes the problem is almost no one posts on the groups section, Last.fm could have huge (artist) forums and the forums would make even more people join the site.

Edit: oops i just i read what a moderator said about this, i guess they wont be added. To me they would be one of the best things to come to the site for besides checking my scrobbles.

I would like to see a page with my played tracks selected by a tag. Does this page exists?

dennetik said:
Could this be implemented? As there already is an auto-correct feature, and this would save a lot of duplicate artists, such as Apples In Stereo, The, Beta Band, The and Dandy Warhols, The.

The chances of an artist actually being named "%ARTIST%, The" are pretty slim, and since "The" is probably the most used, and most suffixed, this would solve most of these issues.
On the right side of the artist page, there is a link to suggest corrections :)

Just report them :)

Customizing backgrounds would be nice:)