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

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

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Post by lucisferre »

ninetax wrote: post #30
lucisferre wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Last.fm was great before CBS, I used to use it all the time. It had one of the better algorithms out there for suggesting music and it introduced me to a lot of great bands after I'd been out of listening to music for a while. Then, for whatever reasons I just stopped using it.

I still think it's by far the best "here's a band, give me more like it" music suggester. Some how it understands the essence of the band I love and finds lots of bands that are just as good. And many of those bands are so obscure I don't know how I would have found them otherwise.

I'd hate to see that technology lost given how poor the alternatives for this are right now. Genius, as a comparison is just terrible. Musicbrainz is pretty much impossible to use (and terrible).

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

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Post by Keyframe »

quarterto wrote: post #8

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.

I stopped using last.fm when I found out my subscription worked on my computers, but not on my phone. Even if phone was on wifi, it was absurd. Why limit country on phone but not on computer? Since I had to be more and more outside without easy access to desktop I jus tstopped paying and using them.

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

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Post by lucian1900 »

shared4you wrote: post #26
k-mcgrady wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Try Deezer. It is available in all the countries you listed: http://developers.deezer.com/guidelines/countries

Signup only with Facebook account. No thanks.

That's not true. You can choose to make an account or use your Facebook one.

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

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Post by shared4you »

lucian1900 wrote: post #34
shared4you wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Signup only with Facebook account. No thanks.

That's not true. You can choose to make an account or use your Facebook one.

Only FB is what I'm seeing: http://s11.postimage.org/dhgy3pnvn/deezer.png

Can't create an account with my own mail id.

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

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Post by rickmb »

I abandoned Last.fm when shortly after the CBS takeover they did a 180 and became the mouthpiece of the record labels instead of a disruptive force.

I didn't mind so much that they had to compromise, but the classic recording industry PR-speak they used to justify it was just offensive. Shortly afterwards they pretty much stopped communicating and innovating altogether.

A shame, because for discovery I still haven't found anything better than Last.fm's combination of "scrobbling" and community.

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

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Post by hammock »

unemployed wrote: post #32

The only reason I use last.fm is the scrobbling, I'd love it if they'd focus on music analytics more than radio. The moody pdf report in their playground is amazing.

http://playground.last.fm/

Same. I switched to spotify (and spotify radio, which is free) a while ago. But I still scrobble everything and it's cool to look back! Not to mention you can do a lot with the data.

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

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Post by dan1234 »

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?

Libre.fm[0] have a compatible api for scrobbling but it doesn't seem to have had very much activity as a project and you'll have to add an entry to your hosts file (or otherwise alter your DNS) so that applications such as spotify talk to their servers instead of last.fm's.

http://libre.fm/

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

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Post by tomjen3 »

shared4you wrote: post #4

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

There is really only Grooveshark, all the others are crap since they assume that because you like a few songs by a particular artist then you like similar artists too -- or even other songs by that artist.

The annoying thing about that is that I tend to fall in love with a song either because its message resonates with me or because of the beat.

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