There was a time when last.fm recommendations were uncannily good. I haven't used the service for a very long time so I can't say much about what they're like n

There was a time when last.fm recommendations were uncannily good. I haven't used the service for a very long time so I can't say much about what they're like now or how they compare with stuff like music.youtube, Spotify or Pandora, but I recall when they were the darling "it" thing as far as music goes. "Audio-Scrobbling"! It was hot off the end of the web 2.0 craze along with flickr and delicious. Good times. We weren't expecting the evil parts yet. I dropped off probably around 2012 or earlier. As much as I enjoy good recs and an endless, mildly interesting playlist, the surveillance capitalism in the sauce is a real turn off.