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Last.fm is now independent

twistslider — Wed, 27 May 2026 15:36:09 +0000

Article URL: https://support.last.fm/t/last-fm-is-now-independent/118591

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48295892

Points: 275

# Comments: 84

New comment by twistslider in "2002: Last.fm and Audioscrobbler Herald the Social Web"

twistslider — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 13:08:48 +0000

Last.fm isn't really expanding their API unfortunately. You can however see Last.fm stats in the main artist/album/track commands.

As for spammyness, I'm aware this is an issue. For non-bot channels I recommend using .togglecommand and enabling just a few specific commands, and setting a small embed mode so .fm commands don't take up too much space in chat.

New comment by twistslider in "2002: Last.fm and Audioscrobbler Herald the Social Web"

twistslider — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 23:55:20 +0000

Yeah, this seems to be the case for a lot of people. I frequently get support tickets asking how to connect Apple Music. There are some alternative players you can use, but it's not really an accessible solution suitable for mainstream use

New comment by twistslider in "2002: Last.fm and Audioscrobbler Herald the Social Web"

twistslider — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 22:39:36 +0000

These integrations are lacking compared to Spotify. For example in Tidal you have to set it for each device where you install the app, and it doesn't work with things like casting. It's easy to forget to set it up which can cause gaps in your history.

The Plex integration gets pretty close to native, but it only scrobbles after a track is done, it doesn't have 'Now Playing' support.

As for Deezer and Quobuz I'm not sure. Afaik Spotify still stands alone by being set-and-forget, working on any device and having full feature support.

New comment by twistslider in "2002: Last.fm and Audioscrobbler Herald the Social Web"

twistslider — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 22:03:13 +0000

Last.fm is still used quite a bit, mainly as a listening history tracker rather than a radio or recommendation engine.

Spotify is still the only big streaming service with native platform-level scrobbling. For everything else it's a lot more DIY, usually with third party tools at the device level.

A big reason it’s still relevant is the ecosystem around it. The API hasn't really changed in 15 years, which makes it easy to build tools where a username alone is enough. That kind of lightweight social integration has mostly disappeared elsewhere.

Today, the social / community side is almost entirely just Discord. Nearly every music related server has a bot that displays Last.fm stats. My estimate is that abut 10% of Last.fm their users are also active in Discord music communities.

(Disclaimer: I run .fmbot, a Discord bot that integrates with Last.fm.)

New comment by twistslider in "GPT-4.1 in the API"

twistslider — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 17:36:07 +0000

The fact that they're raising the price for the mini models by 166% is pretty notable.

gpt-4o-mini for comparison:

- Input: $0.15

- Cached Input $0.075

- Output: $0.60

New comment by twistslider in "GPT-4.5"

twistslider — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 22:04:53 +0000

I played around with Claude Code today, first time I've ever really been impressed by AI for coding.

Tasked it with two different things, refactoring a huge function of around ~400 lines and creating some unit tests split into different files. The refactor was done flawlessly. The unit tests almost, only missed some imports.

All I did was open it in the root of my project and prompt it with the function names. It's a large monolithic solution with a lot of subprojects. It found the functions I was talking about without me having to clarify anything. Cost was about $2.

New comment by twistslider in "Ask HN: Microsoft SmartScreen is destroying our business"

twistslider — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 17:15:22 +0000

I've seen someone with a similar experience to you (and also a SaaS) a few days ago: https://twitter.com/xhfloz/status/1574404009288425472

Not sure if they solved it, but might be helpful asking them.

New comment by twistslider in "Anonymous Hacks Epik"

twistslider — Wed, 15 Sep 2021 07:28:23 +0000

Anyone can claim to be part of Anonymous, that's kind of the point. It's not an official group with representatives or any kind of official viewpoints. All you need to do is say you're part of Anonymous and that's it, no 'larping' required.

New comment by twistslider in "Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?"

twistslider — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 12:25:31 +0000

GitHub dropped support for IE in July 2018: https://twitter.com/michlbrmly/status/981855020948877312