Don’t worry: it will keep your profile and scrobbles.
Last.fm is an independent company again, it has announced on its platform, nearly two decades after being acquired by CBS. “Today, Last.fm begins a new chapter as an independent company,” the announcement said. “The ownership has changed, but the product you use every day hasn’t.” It also said it would retain its current team. Last.fm is a music website that can track what you listen to across platforms, apps, and streaming services, including Spotify, YouTube, and Apple Music.
The company will maintain your account and your scrobbles, which are what they call recorded plays of a song. When you play a track on a streaming service you connect to Last.fm, it “scrobbles” that song and logs it to your profile for tracking. Each play is equivalent to one Scrobble. It will keep your data and privacy settings as well as your Pro subscription and your billing information if you’re paying for its premium features.
Last.fm started as an Internet radio station in 2002, and didn’t get scrolling until a few years later when it merged with the original team that created the tracking process. It operated as an independent company until it was acquired for $280 million in 2007 by CBS Interactive, now part of the merged Paramount Skydance Corporation. In 2014, it discontinued its $3-a-month subscription radio service to focus on tracking your listening habits on other providers. The company has promised to share more details about what you can expect from the changes in the coming weeks, but for now everything will work “exactly like it did yesterday” on Last.fm.
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