Oh my god, the stupidity. DDD: And no, I am not talking about the scrobblers. Even after they're told that no one has been reuploading their podfic, they're still throwing a shitfit that their usernames are on last.fm!? I mean, wtaf? It's not their real name, it's their usernames.
wasn't actually about me, despite the fact that you stuck my name in there for your example, because I didn't throw a shitfit about my username being there once I knew that the file itself wasn't uploaded. I pretty much said 'Oh thank fuck for that' and told those people who offered that it was okay, they didn't need to unscrobble the metadata, or whatever, so long as the actual files weren't being uploaded.
As to why someone not in fandom would randomly happen across podfic if it were uploaded to Last.fm: the way that I've used Last.fm in the past (on the simple free trial basis) is that you type in the name of a musician you like, eg Ella Fitzgerald, and then it creates "Ella Fitzgerald Radio" for you via some elaborate system of algorithms. PRECISELY IN ORDER to introduce you to new performers you've never heard of, and hadn't explicitly sought out.
So I would be merrily working away, whilst Last.fm created its own continuous playlist of musicians I'd never heard of, but which it thought I might like because it felt that they were measurably similar to something I'd listened to before. It worked very well at piquing my interest in new artists, and sending me off to download things from iTunes. (Since I've only used Last.fm in this capacity, using my work computer, all this scrobbling-data-from-your-iTunes business had never cropped up. That, along with the button that says "download for free" implied that there was an actual file there. Sorry that this makes me stupid in your eyes, but there we are, such is life.)
So, no, one wouldn't have to go actively looking for podfic on Last.fm; if these podfic files themselves had actually been uploaded one would simply have to have selected 'Disney Highschool Musical' in the expectation of hearing stuff that was similar to the artist one likes already, and after a long enough interval of appropriately cheesy songs, one would be entirely likely to suddenly find the computer playing an Eos Rose podfic - as Highschool Musical is currently listed as having a Very High Similarity to Eos Rose's podfics. FayJay podfics apparently have a medium similarity to Kris Allen, whoever the hell he is, according to the Last.fm elves. Go figure.
THAT'S why this was scary for me. Because if the files had been uploaded to this mainstream, non-fannish space, they wouldn't be sitting gathering dust until a fannish person sought them out; they'd be at risk of being added into somebody's playlist on the whim of the computer.
That strikes me as considerably less discreet or discrete than having one's podfic archived at a fannish website that only people in fandom are going to be seeking out.
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Oh my god, the stupidity. DDD: And no, I am not talking about the scrobblers. Even after they're told that no one has been reuploading their podfic, they're still throwing a shitfit that their usernames are on last.fm!? I mean, wtaf? It's not their real name, it's their usernames.
wasn't actually about me, despite the fact that you stuck my name in there for your example, because I didn't throw a shitfit about my username being there once I knew that the file itself wasn't uploaded. I pretty much said 'Oh thank fuck for that' and told those people who offered that it was okay, they didn't need to unscrobble the metadata, or whatever, so long as the actual files weren't being uploaded.
As to why someone not in fandom would randomly happen across podfic if it were uploaded to Last.fm: the way that I've used Last.fm in the past (on the simple free trial basis) is that you type in the name of a musician you like, eg Ella Fitzgerald, and then it creates "Ella Fitzgerald Radio" for you via some elaborate system of algorithms. PRECISELY IN ORDER to introduce you to new performers you've never heard of, and hadn't explicitly sought out.
So I would be merrily working away, whilst Last.fm created its own continuous playlist of musicians I'd never heard of, but which it thought I might like because it felt that they were measurably similar to something I'd listened to before. It worked very well at piquing my interest in new artists, and sending me off to download things from iTunes. (Since I've only used Last.fm in this capacity, using my work computer, all this scrobbling-data-from-your-iTunes business had never cropped up. That, along with the button that says "download for free" implied that there was an actual file there. Sorry that this makes me stupid in your eyes, but there we are, such is life.)
So, no, one wouldn't have to go actively looking for podfic on Last.fm; if these podfic files themselves had actually been uploaded one would simply have to have selected 'Disney Highschool Musical' in the expectation of hearing stuff that was similar to the artist one likes already, and after a long enough interval of appropriately cheesy songs, one would be entirely likely to suddenly find the computer playing an Eos Rose podfic - as Highschool Musical is currently listed as having a Very High Similarity to Eos Rose's podfics. FayJay podfics apparently have a medium similarity to Kris Allen, whoever the hell he is, according to the Last.fm elves. Go figure.
THAT'S why this was scary for me. Because if the files had been uploaded to this mainstream, non-fannish space, they wouldn't be sitting gathering dust until a fannish person sought them out; they'd be at risk of being added into somebody's playlist on the whim of the computer.
That strikes me as considerably less discreet or discrete than having one's podfic archived at a fannish website that only people in fandom are going to be seeking out.