[elAhmo]

Is anyone using last.fm in 2026? This made sense when people were playing MP3s in their Windows Media Player or Winamp, but as 99% of the people just stream music now, what is the purpose of this service?

It has been maybe a decade since I met someone who actually uses the service.

[dhruvmittal]

I really enjoy having almost 2 decades of my music listening history to play with + I use a couple different streaming services as well as vinyl and local playback, so it's nice to see my overall habits.

[aembleton]

I still use it. I use the Pulsar music player on Android which has an Audioscrobbler built in. I have my entire mp3/flac collection extra compressed into opus files, so that my 120GB of music is only taking up 43GB on my phone. When I'm listening in the car or on the train I really can't tell the drop in quality.

[antinomicus]

I can’t stand streaming and wanted to get off all streaming services and now self host every single piece of my digital media. Last.fm is an important component for the music side of my services in order to use the last.fm api to track listens and provide recommendations.

[thesuitonym]

I still listen to the majority of my music as downloaded MP3s, but no, I do not use Last.FM anymore. I've become much more wary of being tracked and have no desire to give them information for free, much less pay for the privilege!

[SL61]

It's still pretty popular among younger listeners, even if the demographic doesn't overlap much with the techy people who used it in the 2000s.

[sylens]

I recently left streaming and started buying music again and in the process dusted off my 20 year old Last.fm account to begin scrobbling again

[martin-]

I don't see why it would have lost its purpose just because I'm now streaming instead of playing MP3s. It was always about the statistics for me.

[msephton]

I use it, set and forget for audioscrobbling since forever. And I still track gigs using it. Recommendations are still great.

[podgietaru]

My partner swears by it for the Data when scrobbing with Deezer (and formally spotify.) He pays for it.