@jonty r u sure it's just the one decade?

@jonty oh, interesting…I may consider going back to a Pro subscription in that case.

@jonty interesting!

@jonty I'm glad scrobbles will stay the same (has no idea what the fuck a scrobble is)

@jonty maybe i'm conflating several different entities, but wasnt there a CBS broadcasting that was ceasing operations recently, or is this a different CBS parent company?

@jonty streaming coming back wen? We need Norman back on the radio because the playlists were the best in the world. Shame that nostalgia is so dangerous because I would love to be in the ooops room again. Good job it was demolished I guess.

@jonty less goo

@jonty oh wow! they were my first streaming service and introduction to MusicBrainz before the platform enshitified. Here's hoping to bring back the old charm i guess 🤞

@jonty did they employees buy it out? Did the founders?

@jonty HUH? 👀 Oh wow.

@jonty Oh good, wonder if this means we'll get last.fm streaming again. I loved it when it was halfway between YouTube Music and Bandcamp.

@jonty TIL CBS owned last.fm

@jonty That can go either great or sideways, depending on who has actually bought it…🤡

@jonty 🤯 woww

@jonty I'm cautiously optimistic, depending on how they move in the next couple months I'm thinking about resubscribing to pro.

@jonty that's exciting! Hopefully they'll be able to stick around on their own

@jonty w...wow!

@jonty if it's not going fully open-sourced and decentralized, don't care anymore

@jonty not sure what last.fm does but im connected now!

@jonty That's interesting - I was an early adopter and really liked Last.fm, and then they did something (might even have been "got bought out by arseholes") that made me leave the platform. Now I'm wondering if I might move back.

@jonty shared with work people. Then realised I had to explain why Last.FM was significant. (Last.FM was, in part, responsible for the uptick in services like CDDB and MusicBrainz, which in turn gave teams like Spotify their headstart to build a recommendation engine). I decided not to invoke Libre.fm on the grounds they already think I'm a Free Software nerd 😂

@jonty hey now ... that's pretty swanky.

@jonty Wait… what?!

@jonty I had been scrobbling on Libre.fm for a long time, but it really just wasn't the same...so I stopped altogether.  Now, maybe, I'll start using last.fm again...

@jonty I just deleted my account.  They will not let you disable any trackers or any of their garbage selling your information to third parties.  F-off with that garbage.

@jonty Last.fm used to be my number one favourite place on the internet, if they just bring a tiny fraction of its former glory back, I'll sign up again.

@jonty Oh, this is nice! I used it way, way back and recently thought it would be nice to have something similar again and went with #ListenBrainz ( https://listenbrainz.org/ ) which is really nice (once you find a player that actually works with it reliably, I went with #Supersonic ( https://github.com/dweymouth/supersonic/ ) connected to my local #Navidrome instance, can recommend).

@jonty woahhhh. audioscrobblers rejoice!

@jonty Long live audioscrobbler! (My username there is ‘Kim’.)

@jonty i didn’t realize it was still alive

@jonty I hope it is good news. Could also mean more enshittification.

@jonty I don’t know if this brings me closer or farther from my fear of losing 22 years of listening data — but that’s very awesome to hear!