Comparison Modes
This tool supports two ways to compare your listening habits:
- Community Comparison: Compare your personal play counts against the
community's unique listener rankings. Great for finding your hidden gems.
- User-to-User Comparison: Compare your scrobble history directly with
another Last.fm user. See which songs you love more than your friend—and vice versa.
⚠️ Important: In Community mode, community rankings are based on unique
listener count, while your rankings are based on play count. These are different
metrics, which may produce unexpected results. This is a limitation of the Last.fm API.
How it works
We rank the top 200 tracks by an artist and compare rankings between you and the community (or
another user). The differential is the difference between these ranks.
- Positive Differential: Your "unusual favourites" – songs you play more than
most.
- Negative Differential: Songs more popular with others than with you.
- Near Zero: Your taste aligns closely.
Limitations
- Fetching Time: Loading scrobble history may take a few minutes due to API
rate limits.
- Recency Bias: Newer releases may appear in "unusual favourites" simply
because many older accounts haven't scrobbled them.