To kick off the new year, I deleted my old Last.fm profile in favor of a new one. It’s 2012 and I can’t believe the company hasn’t given users the option to change their username, merge accounts, or have the opportunity to go back and import a listening history from apps like iTunes after the account has been created. Maybe those kids over in the UK just don’t care about that, but maybe they do…
So, as I said, I deleted my account. I said goodbye to the username I created when I was in high school (thankfully) and opted for cathcouretas, the name I use for pretty much everything else I do on the Internet. I also said goodbye to some embarrassing statistics. About a year ago, I cleared Metro Station from my account so no one would ever know how much I listened to them. Now, I’m saying goodbye to many, many more plays just like that (and you’ll never know!)
With this new account will come a boatload of new artists and a few familiar old ones. I guess my taste hasn’t changed that much, but I’ve added a lot to it. I’ve lost some music as I’ve switched from computer to computer, but I do like that Last.fm scrobbles from all of my devices, where some of that music is still hiding…somewhere.
But back to the fact that Last.fm annoys me. It’s almost like those in charge don’t want to change the system because it works how it is. I mean, it does, but I couldn’t name to you a single difference in the site’s functionality since I first signed up in 2007. Granted, there probably are a few that I just haven’t noticed, but it’s still such a basic concept and they could do so much with it. With Pandora, Spotify, and who knows what else, there’s a lot of room for Last.fm to take over in the United States, but the guys just aren’t doing it, and that will forever baffle me.
If you’ve got the opportunity, why not take it? You never know what will come of it.
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