[Illah]

My main listening goes like this:

Hip Hop (mostly tracks)
Various electronica (mostly mixes)

In reality I listen to those two about 50/50, but Last.fm doesn't see it that way. For example, I can listen to two or three mixes for 3+ hours, and Last.fm scrobbles two or three tracks. Then I can listen to hip hop for forty minutes and scrobble a dozen tracks.

So...Last.fm now thinks I'm a die-hard hip hop head. In terms of scrobbles, my playlist is like 80-90% hip hop, but if you were to break it down to hourly listening time it'd be far different.

Now when I listen to the 'recommendations' and 'neighborhood' stations that I was hoping would introduce me to new music, all I hear is the same rotation of indie hip hop artists that I already listen to!

Ugh.

--Illah

 

[Ingo]

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Originally Posted by Illah /img/forum/go_quote.gif My main listening goes like this: Hip Hop (mostly tracks) Various electronica (mostly mixes) In reality I listen to those two about 50/50, but Last.fm doesn't see it that way. For example, I can listen to two or three mixes for 3+ hours, and Last.fm scrobbles two or three tracks. Then I can listen to hip hop for forty minutes and scrobble a dozen tracks. So...Last.fm now thinks I'm a die-hard hip hop head. In terms of scrobbles, my playlist is like 80-90% hip hop, but if you were to break it down to hourly listening time it'd be far different. Now when I listen to the 'recommendations' and 'neighborhood' stations that I was hoping would introduce me to new music, all I hear is the same rotation of indie hip hop artists that I already listen to! Ugh. --Illah

Well there's only one solution. Just don't listen to hip-hop anymore. You probably were wanting to replace it with smooth jazz anyways, right? If it were me I would just listen to more Bluegrass.

 

[Illah]

Haha, I try and skew it as much as I can. I make it a point to mark my non hip hop listening as a 'loved' track in the hopes it'll give that stuff more weight in the algorithm, but at this point I have thousands of scrobbled tracks so I think it's too late to push back.

--Illah

 

[terrymx]

There is an option in the account to erase your entire last.fm list. Or you can remove the non-loved songs from your playlist. Leave a bunch of blue-grass music playing while you're away or something.