Last.fm Radio to be killed off in most countries next month • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by circa » Thu, Dec 13, 2012, 2:57 PM UTC

I've been using Last.fm since 2005 and the radio was always great because its been logging almost everything (aside from an occasional CD) I've ever listened to since then.

I have recently moved to Rdio and its great but I am sad to see this end.

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

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Post by Udo » Thu, Dec 13, 2012, 2:59 PM UTC

mediocregopher wrote: post #7

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

Not in Germany, courtesy of GEMA of course (what else).

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

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Post by agscala » Thu, Dec 13, 2012, 3:18 PM UTC

I hope there will be a way to export my listening data if they ever decide to stop offering their scrobbling service.

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

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Post by bti » Thu, Dec 13, 2012, 3:22 PM UTC

xbryanx wrote: post #9

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?

I would be interested to know too. It would be nice if there was an open way to track listening data, but I assume it would depend on whatever APIs the music player would allow?

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

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Post by Adirael » Thu, Dec 13, 2012, 3:24 PM UTC

agscala wrote: post #13

I hope there will be a way to export my listening data if they ever decide to stop offering their scrobbling service.

You can probably use their API to do so. If not, you can scrap everything without much trouble.

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

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Post by Adirael » Thu, Dec 13, 2012, 3:26 PM UTC

brackin wrote: post #6

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.

They had a Web App before (under a different name) and also dekstop clients. The team is made of amazing people.

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

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Post by hickory » Thu, Dec 13, 2012, 3:33 PM UTC

shared4you wrote: post #4

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

I believe http://www.rdio.com/ is now available in Europe. They posted earlier this past Summer that they'd be launching across Europe "soon".

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

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Post by rm999 » Thu, Dec 13, 2012, 3:36 PM UTC

xbryanx wrote: post #9

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?

I've been worried about the same thing. A few months ago I scraped all my scrobble data from last.fm with a python script I found online: http://encukou.github.com/lastscrape-gui/

You can even move all your data to libre.fm. I didn't do this because a few of my music programs (ahem spotify) only support last.fm.

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

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Post by minikomi » Thu, Dec 13, 2012, 3:38 PM UTC

shared4you wrote: post #4

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

Not very polished but I hooked the last fm API up to a YouTube search... http://fmix.heroku.com

Enter a song for similar songs, an artist for that artist's popular tracks

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

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Post by alxndr » Thu, Dec 13, 2012, 3:43 PM UTC

agscala wrote: post #13

I hope there will be a way to export my listening data if they ever decide to stop offering their scrobbling service.

Anyone tried this? http://www.easyclasspage.de/lastfm/seite-12.html