Last.fm Radio to be killed off in most countries next month

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Post by revorad » Thu, Dec 13, 2012, 1:14 PM UTC

Last.fm Radio to be killed off in most countries next month
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Post by dexcs » Thu, Dec 13, 2012, 2:21 PM UTC

This makes me sad. Last.fm was for years my favorite online radio service but somehow they missed to invent apps like spotify...

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Post by Nux » Thu, Dec 13, 2012, 2:24 PM UTC

Hardly ever used the thing; still sorry to see it go.

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Post by shared4you » Thu, Dec 13, 2012, 2:31 PM UTC

So, both last.fm and Pandora are unavailable in Europe (for zero price, I mean). Anybody knows alternatives ?

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Post by buster » Thu, Dec 13, 2012, 2:38 PM UTC

shared4you wrote: post #4

So, both last.fm and Pandora are unavailable in Europe (for zero price, I mean). Anybody knows alternatives ?

Did you try spotify?

Also tehre are some other good radios/stations:

  https://ex.fm/
  http://www.earmilk.com/
  http://u2.fm/ (not sure why it's down atm?)
  http://grooveshark.com/

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Post by brackin » Thu, Dec 13, 2012, 2:45 PM UTC

shared4you wrote: post #4

So, both last.fm and Pandora are unavailable in Europe (for zero price, I mean). Anybody knows alternatives ?

http://www.bloom.fm are a London startup that launched last week with a killer app. iPhone only for now but their stations are really strong and the app is well designed.

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Post by mediocregopher » Thu, Dec 13, 2012, 2:49 PM UTC

shared4you wrote: post #4

So, both last.fm and Pandora are unavailable in Europe (for zero price, I mean). Anybody knows alternatives ?

Grooveshark is available in most European countries

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Post by quarterto » Thu, Dec 13, 2012, 2:51 PM UTC

Last.fm seems to be slowly buckling under pressure from record labels. At some point recently at the behest of the labels, they started limiting the number of skips you were allowed on each station, to something absurdly low like 5. Not even subscribers are allowed more. It's a shame to see CBS's legal team put its concerns ahead of Last.fm and its users.

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Post by xbryanx » Thu, Dec 13, 2012, 2:53 PM UTC

Is anyone else worried about their listening data? I've got music play tracking in there back to 2006. Does anyone else do what they do with tracking, and does tracking alone give last.fm a viable business model?

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Post by runarb » Thu, Dec 13, 2012, 2:54 PM UTC

Last.fm used to be one of my favorite website, but after the CBS acquired they somehow stagnated, and I drifter away...

Stagnation like this seems to happen a lot when a fat and happy industry leader buys a young an innovative startup.